Scott A. Cupp and Jess Nevins have turned in their essays on apes in comics and literature. The fascinating pieces promise surprising insights about primates in pop culture.

A survey of ape literature, The Apes of Wrath delivers 17 classic short stories, along with four original essays on various aspects of apes in pop culture. The book’s stellar lineup includes Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, Robert E. Howard, Karen Joy Fowler, Joe R. Lansdale, Howard Waldrop, Steven Utley, Mary Robinette Kowal, Pat Murphy, Leigh Kennedy, James P. Blaylock, Clark Ashton Smith, Aesop, Hugh B. Cave, Jess Nevins, Scott Cupp, Mark Finn, and Rupert Wyatt.

The fun comes your way in March 2013 from Tachyon Publications.