A mountainous pile of living trash, a neurotic monster hound, several hundred golem-like creatures and one misanthropic sniper all walk into a small town...
Set in the years following a lengthy war between mankind and a race of giant monsters, "Strange Beasts in a Small Town" tells the story of Agnes Stegall, an ex-monster hunter who is asked by the residents of a tiny, dried-up Alabama town named Verbena Fields to kill a giant garbage monster believed to be threatening the town.
Basically, she says “no,” but with more profanity.
There are reasons for this, of course. It’s been years since Agnes helped destroy most of the giant monsters and being of a generally disagreeable nature, she is reluctant to get involved. But then the townspeople call on King Vislor — a monster with such an obsessive reverence for humankind he helped kill his peers in its defense — for aid instead. Because Agnes believes his presence will have disastrous consequences for everyone involved, she attempts to undo the chain of events her reluctance has caused.
But King Vislor is coming, and soon Agnes must battle the destructive lengths both he and the townsfolk are willing to undertake to keep Verbena Fields safe while simultaneously confronting some monsters of her own.