Here There Be Dragons edited by H. David Blalock (Hiraeth Publishing, June 2024)

Creatures of mystery, fascination, and imagination — dragons! Within this volume are tales to astonish, captivate, even frighten. Dragon furnaces, stage dragons, captured dragons, dragon combat… Just about anything can be told about dragons, but all of it appeals to our sense of adventure. Here there be dragons. Mind the flames.

My review:

This slender anthology offers seven short stories with dragons meeting humans in an array of settings and styles, plus poetry and artwork. The stories present dragons as monsters, protectors, heat sources, research subjects, dramatic characters, migratory creatures, and cosmic beings. I enjoyed all of these imaginative takes on dragons, especially “Dragon’s Lament” by Michael P. Coglan, “Gladys Tuttle and the Iguana Incident” by David Hankins, and “Snowborn” by Andrew Knighton.

Full disclosure, the anthology includes my first and to date only dragon story, “Stage Magic”.