The first publication by Demiurge Press is a nifty 10 page pdf, full-color monster book: 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial and ToC, 1 page SRD.

That leaves us with 7 pages of monsters.

The first is the classic Dweller in Darkness (Mi-Go) CR 2 – Nice take on the Mi-Go, although I prefer the KQ-version from the phantom fungus article, if only because I like my Lovecraftian critters stronger than CR 2. Other than that – Nice work!

After that, we get 1 page with a beautiful artwork of the next creature, the CR 8 Mi-Go Guardian as well as stats for two iconic Mi-Go devices, the mist projector and the brain canister. The stats of the Guardian take up another page – I like the take on it.

Then, we get the CR 4 Fetch with a corresponding artwork. This creature felt rather uninspired when compared to the rest, albeit the note on fetch-shields was a nice touch.

After that, we a creepy picture as well as the statblock of the CR3-Knocker – creepy, cool and has a nice little special ability.

The CR6-Nightgaunt that follows up is another nice addition to one’s bestiary, albeit it somehow lacks a certain je-ne-sais-quoi of alienness in its abilities.

The final creature is the CR4-Twilight Unicon, probably the least favorite creature I have read in this book, as the evil unicorn has been done numerous times and I was missing a paragraph on what to do with e.g. the horn of the creature.

Conclusion:
It’s very hard to beat free stuff, especially if it is presented in such a professional way. The artwork by Heather Frazier is beautiful and especially the Knockers and the Mi-Go-Guardian are awesome pieces. The presentation, formatting and editing of the little book are great and I look forward to seeing follow-ups. For now, I’ll settle with 4.5 stars, rounded down, mainly because I was really missing some unique signature abilities on the monsters side…apart from the Mi-Go-Guardian, that is. I love it. Congratulations to Nick Herold – I’m hoping to see more horror/gritty books for PFRPG soon.

This product is 10 pages long. It starts with a cover and ToC. (2 pages)

Next it jumps right into the new monsters.
Dweller in Darkness – alien aberrations like bug creatures that study people. CR 2 or 8, 2 kinds of them and 2 magic items (3 pages) I did notice one odd phrase on the magic item. It says “a body returned to it's brain may be brought back to life” just seems a odd phrase, seems like body and brain should be switched.

Fetch – outsider shadow creatures. CR 4. (1 page)

Knocker – fey that are the dryads of rich metals. CR 3 (1 page)

Nightgaunt – outsider, another shadow creature from the plane of shadow, CR 6 (1 page)

Twilight Unicorn – magical beast, a evil unicorn. CR 4 (1 page)

It ends with a OGL (1 page)

Closing thoughts. I have said in the past I am not a huge monster book person. I am not, I have nothing against them. I just find most of them have monsters that are either to much like existing ones or are just way to strange or just feel like they was added for the sake of adding them. Luckly this book I can happily say is not like that.

The Dweller in the Darkness is a neat and creepy idea. The Fetch while not filling a needed roll per say was done interesting. Knocker makes sense even if it was my least fav of the lot. Nightgaunt is the one that closest feels of just being added for the sake of being added. Which brings us to the Twilight Unicorn, which is hands down my fav of the book though the Dwellers are a close second.

My only critic with the Twilight Unicorn is it doesn't say where they come from or how they came into being. I suppose they just always existed but with what is said about them a cool paragraph on how they first came about would have been very nice and fitting. I just felt one or two more paragraphs would have made a good monster into a great monster.

The artwork is fair and the layout is good, the color and borders are nice. Giving a dark morbid gothic look. Which while pretty and I really liked, also brings me to my next critic. It would be brutal on a printer to print this. Now I can't really complain, hence why I said critics. I mean this is a free product after all. But in the interest of providing the publisher with feedback I am listing them. With it being free I highly recommend picking it up, I mean what do you have to lose? Now IF this had be a pay product, what would I have rated it? Well depends on price but if it was around the 3 buck range I would have given it a 4 star. Good but could have been better.

From the guy who brought us the book of Slaadi, the 3E Dire Corby that isn't lame, monsters of Beowolf, the Seedroach tree, and the Springheel, it is no surprise that Monsters of Twilight doesn't disappoint. It's excellent (Especially since I've got a soft spot for Mi-Go) and I recommend checking out the other work he has done.