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The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual (2026)

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The Monarch Files:
A Monsterverse Manual
Cover of The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual
Author(s) Greg Keyes (adapted)
Written by Barnaby Legg, George Tew,
Josh Parker, Chris Robinson
(original mythology bible)
Publisher
Publish date
Pages 160[1]
Dimensions 9.9 x 11.6 x 1.2 inches[1]
ISBN United States:
ISBN-13: 979-8886636321
United Kingdom:
ISBN-13: 978-1835415788
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The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual is a field guide book for the Monsterverse adapted by Greg Keyes from the original franchise mythology bible by Barnaby Legg, George Tew, Josh Parker, and Chris Robinson.[1][2] Insight Editions published it in the United States on June 23, 2026,[1] and Titan Books published it in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2026.[2]

Description

ATTN: MONARCH AGENTS AND RESEARCHERS

Attached for immediate review are The Monarch Files: A comprehensive, vital, and highly sensitive dossier on notable monsters, Titans, and Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organisms (MUTOs). You will find up-to-date behavioral profiles, physiological analyses, and capability assessments.

Also contained within are field reports detailing operatives' encounters with MUTOs. It is expected that every Monarch employee study these recounts with diligence.

Note: High-resolution photographs are included where possible, but artist approximations have been substituted in for cases when mission photographers did not return from their field surveys.

All information contained herein on employees, technology, and geographical locations is confidential, for Monarch employees with B-grade clearance or greater. DO NOT DISSEMINATE.
[1][2]

Contents

Additional material

Although not listed in the table of contents, the book concludes with brief profiles on Titan X (p. 152) and the Scarabs (p. 154), followed by a full-page photo of Kong, a full-page photo of Godzilla, and a two-page spread of the two Titans facing off in Hong Kong. Several additional documents are included with the book, either affixed directly to the pages or placed inside pouches: four photos each of Godzilla and Kong, one photo of Mothra, and a booklet with information on Apex Cybernetics and a Mechagodzilla profile.

Gallery

Trivia

  • The book was initially scheduled for release on September 9, 2025,[3] but was delayed to April 21, 2026,[4] and then June 2026.
  • The passage from the description, "for Monarch employees with B-grade clearance or greater" originally read, "for Monarch employees with Clearance Level 3 and above".[3]

References

This is a list of references for The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual". Barnes & Noble. Archived from the original on 29 June 2026. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual". Titan Books. Archived from the original on 29 June 2026. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual". Titan Books. Archived from the original on 18 April 2025. Retrieved 5 July 2026.
  4. "The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual". Titan Books. Archived from the original on 10 October 2025. Retrieved 5 June 2026.

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