«Tooth and Claw» by Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Bloodthirsty reindeer, velociraptors on a red-eye flight to Houston, a demonic house-cat, bat creatures from the clouds of Jupiter, a town besieged by carnosaurs, an inhuman defender, a ring of unimaginable power, a mother and her son on the run from prehistoric terror, a murdered thing whose memory will not die–these are just some of the forces you'll encounter in this compendium of the monstrous. But beware: The natural (and the supernatural) world are red in tooth in claw …