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Mason Dixon Monster Hunter Season One by Eric R. Asher
- Mason Dixon, Monster Hunter
- Mason Dixon & the Wampus of Reed Springs
- Mason Dixon & the Ghost Dinosaur
- Mason Dixon & the Gowrow’s Last Stand
BOOK BLURB ON AMAZON for SEASON ONE
He’s a YouTube sensation, making hilarious videos about hunting down monsters in the wilds of Missouri that are too outlandish to be real. Besides, everybody knows things like gowrows, Momo, and jimplicutes are just tall tales told to scare children.
Aren’t they?
Follow Mason Dixon, his sidekick Emma, and their tech guru Himari as they wander the woods of the Midwest looking for the monster that killed Mason’s brother, and working hard to protect the other cryptids from encroaching humans. And sometimes protecting the encroaching humans from the cryptids, too! This hilarious horror comedy series is part of the expanded Bubba the Monster Hunter Universe created by John G. Hartness and populated by Hunters like Mark Wojcik, Jess Friedman, and Caitlin Kelley.
MY REVIEW for SEASON ONE
Mason Dixon Monster Hunter: Season One combines four previously published novellas – Mason Dixon; Mason Dixon and the Wampus of Reeds Spring; Mason Dixon and the Ghost Dinosaur; and Mason Dixon and the Gowrow’s Last Stand.
Mason Dixon is my second favorite Monster Hunter of the Bubbaverse, right behind the Monster Hunter Mom. His gimmick to pay the bills is run a video channel of Monster Hunting cryptics – only do the video so bad, it is all clearly fake. He and his team have to work really hard to make their very real monster investigation and relocation (they don’t kill the monsters, but move the creatures to a better place where they don’t harm the environment or humans) look fake.
And moving monsters around is NOT easy or safe, but they try and save lives of all kinds whenever they can. From Wampus to Invisible Dinosaurs.
I find the series (or collection – depending on which way you are reading it) charming, delightful, action-packed, and funny.
(Read through Kindle Unlimited)
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BOOK BLURB ON AMAZON for MASON DIXON MONSTER HUNTER (Novella One)
The best-selling author of The Vesik series flexes his comedy muscles in a hilarious new comedy urban fantasy series!
They are the first line of defense against the things that go bump in the night. They are the keepers of a centuries-old legacy of The Church defending the world against the forces of darkness. They are a bunch of highly armed rednecks, internet video celebrities, soccer moms, and assorted broken nutjobs. They are the new Templars, and things are about to get weird. From the pages of Bubba the Monster Hunter comes a new series featuring the Hunters from around the United States hunting down monsters, fighting off supernatural baddies, and making life really, really bad for the things that hunt people.
He’s Mason Dixon, and he’s a bona fide internet celebrity. He has his own video series, a pistol that deserves its own area code, and a high definition video camera, and he’s not afraid to use any of them.
In this introductory urban fantasy novella, we meet Mason, his right hand Emma, his “handler” Noah, his anime-styled hacker friend Himari, and more monsters than you can shake a stick at. Unless it’s a really big stick.
With Mason, it’s always a big stick. This first novella in the series follows Mason through the wilds of Missouri as he hunts down monsters that hunt men, monsters that eat chewing tobacco, and monsters that make pancakes. And there’s moonshine.
And then Bubba the Monster Hunter shows up.
MY REVIEW for MASON DIXON MONSTER HUNTER (Novella One)
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some Bubba the Monster Hunter by John Hartness. But I’m more of a subtle humor kind-of gal instead of Bubba’s overt funny, and Eric Asher’s take on the Bubba sandbox with a crypo-hunter creating a faux youtube show about real hunts he goes on is LOL funny to me.
The new Monster Hunter series by Falstaff is still comedic, and monsters, and rural-sassiness. But subtler, smoother. Like finely aged apple shine. One left in the barn the entire winter before drinking.
The first part of the book introduces us to Mason Dixon and the second part of the book, after the major action is done, ties the series into the larger Bubba world.
Mason Dixon, the internet superstar and cryptid hunter from the woods of Missouri, is back with a new adventure, new monsters to hunt, new video to shoot, and new mysteries to unravel! Mason and his much more sensible sidekick Emma are investigating a series of monster attacks when, as usual, they find much more than they bargained for.
Can Mason figure out how to build the easy-up tree stand?
Can they survive the fearsome Wampus?
Will they get enough cool footage to keep Himari happy?
How much gear can they destroy on one expense account?
The answer to all these questions and at least one more are hidden with The Wampus of Reeds Springs!
He brings new meaning to tree-hugging eco-warrior: hugging on the tree and hoping not to fall out on top of the rock-throwing bingduffer, while still getting good footage for his webshow.
Like, dino-sized!
The sasquatch is on his side, the zigmals are cute, and the gowrows are downright adorable, but when Mason Dixon and his sidekick Emma run afoul of not only a dinosaur, but also MoMo the Missouri Monster, he’s in for the fight of his life!
And when Mason runs across GHOST DINOSAURS, push really comes to shove.
Awesome book. I mean – Dinosaurs!
With Sasquatches, and side-hill hoofers, and zigmals, …. everything a cryptid lover can love!
If it had just been the jackalope, that would have been simple. But nothing’s ever simple for Mason, and when super-secret government agency DEMON finds out that he’s created a cryptid sanctuary in the wilds of Missouri, things go from sideways to downright corkscrewed. Now Mason has to navigate an uneasy truce between multiple species of monsters that are typically…not friendly, evacuate a crowd of unruly cryptids before the government shows up and kidnaps them or worse, and negotiate with MoMo, the Missouri Monster himself, to create a new safe haven for the creatures he’s spent years trying to save.
It’s a lot to ask of a YouTube star that most of the world thinks is a complete hoax. But it’s safer to pretend to be a fake than to let the world know the truth. Because monsters are real, and this time it’s Mason’s job to save them.
Not a wrong note in this conclusion of the first season of Mason Dixon. Action packed and environmentally sound, the mix of humor, horror, hope, and have-at perfects this read. Highly recommend.
If you can, read the first three volumes first. The whole series builds nicely. If you want to purchase it as one item, I expect the Season will be collected soon (it is 2/20/2021 when this review was written). In the meantime, check it out through Kindle Unlimited (I did).