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Where Monsters Are Born: Volume I: Medusa
Paperback
Series: Where Monsters Are Born, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 9 2026
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A NOVEL OF MYTHOLOGICAL HORROR AND DARK FANTASY
Everyone knows the face that turned men to stone. No one heard the girl condemned to bear it.
Before the snakes, Medusa was a daughter, a sister, and a novice of Athena. She believed a goddess's temple would protect her. She was wrong.
Poseidon defiled the sanctuary. Athena did not punish the god; she punished Medusa. Her body ceased to belong to her, and her gaze became a sentence.
Exiled with her sisters, Medusa must survive a transformation she did not choose, while Perseus receives from the gods the weapons with which to behead her.
Narrated by Medusa, this novel reveals the part of the myth buried beneath the glory of gods and heroes. This is not the story of a hero who killed a Gorgon. It is the story of how an innocent and devout young woman who never wished to harm anyone was condemned by the gods and remembered as a monster.
ABOUT THE SERIES: Where Monsters Are Born is a mythological horror and dark fantasy series devoted to figures whom ancient tradition transformed into monsters, villains, or symbols of punishment. Each standalone novel combines tragedy, mythology, and body horror to examine what lay behind the legends before the world decided how to remember them.
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