The Build-A-Monster Workshop

Coming May 7th • Preorder for a $3 discount

Bram Stoker and Elgin Award-winning poet Pedro Iniguez invites you to attend The Build-A-Monster Workshop — sneak into an eldritch, abandoned building filled with rusty antique tools, mad scientist’s contraptions and all manner of bloody body parts. Let your imagination run wild as you examine the horrors assembled and documented so far. Try your hand at creation and see what new and terrifying beasts emerge.

The Build-A-Monster Workshop explores themes of the monstrous in all forms, from creatures that lurk in the shadows to the demons living within ourselves. Lessons are broken into four sections: Mad Science, Revenants, Ghosts and Monsters. Iniguez applies his unique perspective to the question of why evil exists and how we live and cope with it in our daily lives.

Steeped in both the American tradition of Hollywood monsters and the Mexican folklore of witchcraft these poems look back to the roots of our cryptid stories as well as forward to the ways, and the reasons why, our society births new and twisted abominations to fear.

What They’re Saying

“From swarms of parasitic tourists to vampiric venture capitalists, from the agony and callousness left in the wake of mass shootings to the walking dead lost to portable phones, Iniguez dissects contemporary beasts and fuses their anatomy with monsters of yore. Lucky for us, he’s a hell of a taxidermist. Horrific, wry, haunting, absurd, strange, yet tragically familiar, this is a menagerie of creatures not to be missed.” —Jamie Flanagan, Bram Stoker Award winner, screenwriter of Netflix’s Midnight Mass, The Fall of the House of Usher

“Delivered with a smile, a side-eye and a measure of self-deprecation, Pedro Iniguez’s latest poetry collection, The Build a Monster Workshop, the follow-up to his multi-award-winning debut Mexicans on the Moon, is a Saturday Night Live of horror poetry, and a delightful cinematic roasting of everyday monstrosities. Darkly funny and full of uncanny truths, The Build A Monster Workshop is uncomfortably good.”—Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories