Aliens¸ Dystopias¸ & Monster Ecologies: Worldbuilding Essays for Writers and GMs
Aliens¸ Dystopias¸ & Monster Ecologies is a series of worldbuilding essays on alien psychologies and ethical systems¸ functional dystopias¸ recreating vampires and werewolves¸ original elemental systems¸ and figuring out just how many human-eating monsters your setting can support.
This content previously appeared on Seventh Sanctum¸ The Oak Wheel¸ Sanitarium Magazine¸ and elsewhere¸ but has been revised for a second edition (and¸ in some cases¸ simply can't be found without buying back copies).
Check the full-size preview to read the entirety of the first essay¸ "The Bare Bones of the Vampire Myth."
If you liked this book¸ then check out the The Salt Cyclopedia of Comparative Mythology ¸ another useful worldbuilding resource.