The Monarch Files: A Monsterverse Manual

MOTHRA YEAR: This book will have a large focus on Mothra, as 2026 marks both the 65th anniversary of the character and the 30th anniversary of the Heisei-era Mothra trilogy.

BOX OFFICE PERFORMANCE: Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) became an instant hit with fans across the globe, grossing $100.9M in the US and Canada and an additional $369.1M in the international market. Earlier films in the Monsterverse similarly wowed fans, with Godzilla (2014) grossing $529M, Kong: Skull Island (2017) grossing $566.7M, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) grossing $386.6M.

FIRST TO MARKET: This book will be the first official compendium of creature art spanning almost the entire Monsterverse.

"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 (M.U.T.O.s). You will find up-to-date behavioral profiles, physiological analyses, and capability assessments.

Also contained within are field reports detailing operatives' encounters with M.U.T.O.s. It is expected that every Monarch employee study these accounts 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."

FROM THE MONARCH VAULT: The first, and only, official guide on the Titans of the Monsterverse!

GORGEOUS ART: Hi-res imagery and gorgeous artwork make this a must-have coffee table book.

COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION: This book joins Insight's Monsterverse line, which includes The Art of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Godzilla vs. Kong: One Will Fall, and Godzilla: The Art of Destruction.

Author: Insight Editions,J. Gregory Keyes
Publisher: Insight Editions
Published: 06/23/2026
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.25lbs
Size: 11.30h x 9.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9798886636321

About the Author
Greg Keyes has published more than thirty books, including original series and stand-alone books, and has had the great fortune to contribute to other universes, writing books for Babylon 5, Star Wars, Planet of the Apes, Pacific Rim, The Elder Scrolls, XCOM, and Marvel's AVENGERS and the novelizations of the films Interstellar, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Godzilla vs. Kong. He recently scripted his first graphic novel Godzilla vs. Kong: Dominion and is currently finishing the third book in his newest trilogy, The High and Faraway.

Insight Editions is a pop-culture publisher based in San Rafael, CA.