It was a collection of short stories I would have read in the nineties. One of the stories was a chapter from a book where a man returned to find his home burned and while walking through the ashes identifying his family members he kept describing the monsters dead eyes and terrible smell and leathery skin. The chapter ended with him headed to the land of the monsters to rescue his gf or sister or something like that.
There was a specific name he called the monsters but I can't remember it.