Monsters in Love, the back-up feature from Tiny Onion and Dark Horse’s The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, is getting a special one-shot for Pride Month in June, simply titled Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology. The book will feature ten new queer romantic horror stories by creators like James Tynion IV and Jadzia Axelrod, as well as a framing device by the Christopher Chaos creative team of Tynion, Tate Brombal, Isaac Goodhart, Miquel Muerto, and Aditya Bidikar.
Introduced in last year’s installment of Christopher Chaos, Children of the Night, Monsters in Love is an EC-inspired series of in-universe comics consumed by the protagonist. The ten featured stories’ creatives will also include Brombal, Vita Ayala, Zoe Tunnell, Josh Trujillo, Lee Knox Ostertag, Kenny Wroten (Everyone Sux But You, Eden II), Jacoby Salcedo (This Land is Our Land: A Blue Beetle Story), Lilah Sturges, and Vash Taylor (Galaxy: The Prettiest Star).
Tynion states, “Love takes many shapes, and so do monsters. I’m thrilled that Tiny Onion can present Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology this June for Pride Month with Dark Horse. These ten stories represent some of the most exciting creators in the industry as well as the love and hope we need now more than ever.”
Brombal adds, “Christopher Chaos has always been a book about outsiders finding each other in friendship, in found family, and in love. It has often been inspired by the very real friendship and love of our entire creative team, so when we first introduced the Monsters in Love backup comics… it just made sense. It was a chance for our family to grow and evolve and spotlight such incredible talent. Now Christopher is taking the backseat as Monsters in Love officially grows up and becomes its fully formed self. I feel so honored to play even a minor role in this collection of love.”
Goodhart says, “I am so unbelievably honored to share a comic with some of the most unique and talented voices I have ever seen in comics. Monsters in Love was always meant to showcase and elevate new voices and I’m grateful to be a part of it. The past few years working on Christopher Chaos with my friends has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. We poured everything we’ve got into these pages.”
Jadzia Axelrod, Lilah Sturges, and Lee Knox Ostertag also had something to share about their stories in the press release. Axelrod says, “My story, ‘Every Witch Way,’ is illustrated by Bailie Rosenlund, takes the classic trans person fear of ‘what if I transition and nobody likes me anymore?’ and turns it on its head. What if you transitioned and were such an incredible smoke show that you started to give your best friend feelings she didn’t know she had? So often we see witches in fiction using magic to make themselves hot as a sign of their descent into evil, but what if that is just self-care? Better living through sorcery. And if it gets you a gay make-out in the bargain, so much the better!”
Sturges comments, “I am, of course, thrilled to be working with Tiny Onion and the Monsters in Love one-shot is a perfect showcase for the kind of story I like to tell. It’s fun and dark and tongue-in-cheek, but it also says a little something about the way that queer communities can form as pearls from the sand grains of heteronormativity. Honestly, though, the main attraction for me is getting to work with Vash Taylor, whose elegant, distinctive style is a real gift to comics!”
Ostertag simply adds, “‘Monsters in Love’ is a theme I could make comics about until the heat death of the universe. I’m really excited to be a part of this project!”
Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology will be released on June 3, 2026 and retail for $9.99. V. Gagnon, Bradley Clayton, and Rian Sygh will each provide a cover, while Goodhart and Muerto will illustrate the back art (which hasn’t been released at the time of writing.) In the meantime, the trade paperback of Children of the Night (which marks the third volume of the series) is available in bookstores from today, and the first library edition, reprinting the first two arcs, will be released on March 10.
