As you can see from the cover image above, it's entitled Giant Monster Movies: 100 Years of Big-Screen Behemoths. It will be published by McFarland.
The book reviews the entirety of the giant monster movie genre, from 1925's The Lost World, the climax of which established a basic template that all giant monster movies followed, to 2024's Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the latest in the Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures string of "Monsterverse" blockbusters.
That's 92 films total, including the King Kong, Godzilla, Gamera and Mothra franchises, 1950s giant bug movies (Tarantula!, The Deadly Mantis, The Black Scorpion), international attempts by countries trying to create their very own Godzilla (Yongary, Reptilicus, Gorgo), some oft-overlooked oddball movies (The Giant Claw, The X From Outer Space, Gappa: The Triphibian Monster, Space Amoeba) and many more.
If you enjoy reading my reviews of things—and, given the fact that you are reading this post on my comics review blog, I suspect you might—then you should enjoy my reviewing my way through the history of the giant monster movie genre.
I will be happy to share more details when they become available—chances are, you will be quite sick of me talking about the book before too long—but for now, here's what McFarland has on their site at the moment. If you haven't yet followed me on Bluesky, please do so, as that's probably the best place to keep up to date on various Caleb-related goings-on.
And if you guys have any questions in the meantime, feel free to ask in the comments below or via email. Thank you, as always, for reading.
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