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Eternal Lies
Eternal LiesThe world is yours to save or lose.A decade ago, a band of occult investigators battled against the summoning of an ancient and monstrous evil.They failed.Now, you must piece together what went wrong. The campaign begins wherever the PCs hail from, and then quickly moves on to an asylum and an overgrown plantation estate in Savannah, Georgia. Their investigation then takes them to the sordid streets of Los Angeles, and from there to Bangkok, Malta, Mexico City, the Yucatn jungle, and Ethiopia, which the PCs may visit in any order, as they hunt down clues and try to destroy the avatars of a terrible god-thing.Investigate ancient crypts, abandoned estates, and festering slums. Explore choked jungles and the crushed psyches of your predecessors. Follow in their footprints, and make new ones of your own. This time, there wont be another chance.Eternal Lies is a massive new campaign for Trail of Cthulhu by Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball with Jeremy Keller. It is now available as a hardback book or PDF, or you can get a reduced-price digital bundle from the store with the soundtrack album.
Carrie
CarrieUnpopular at school and subjected to her mother's religious fanaticism at home, Carrie White does not have it easy. But while she may be picked on by her classmates, she has a gift she's kept secret since she was a little girl: she can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. Her ability has been both a power and a problem. And when she finds herself the recipient of a sudden act of kindness, Carrie feels like she's finally been given a chance to be normal. She hopes that the nightmare of her classmates' vicious taunts is over . . . but an unexpected and cruel prank turns her gift into a weapon of horror so destructive that the town may never recover.
Os Condenados
Os CondenadosDanny Orchard conseguiu enganar a morte e ganhou uma segunda chance para viver. Só que ele não voltou do inferno sozinho. Em Os Condenados, Andrew Pyper, autor do fenômeno O Demonologista, explora as conexões de amor e ódio entre irmãos gêmeos, numa história sobrenatural digna de pesadelos. Danny passou por uma experiência de quase-morte em um incêndio há mais de vinte anos. Sua irmã gêmea, Ashleigh, não teve a mesma sorte. Danny conseguiu transformar sua tragédia pessoal em um livro que se tornaria um grande best-seller. Ainda que isso não signifique que ele tenha conseguido superar a morte da irmã. Claro, ela nunca mais o deixaria em paz. Mesmo depois de morta, Ash continua sendo uma garota vingativa e egoísta, como sempre. Mas agora que seu irmão finalmente tenta levar uma vida normal, ela se torna cada vez mais possessiva. Danny parece condenado à solidão. Qualquer chance de felicidade é destruída pelo fantasma de seu passado, e se aproximar de outras pessoas significa colocá-las em risco. Os Condenados é o segundo lançamento de Andrew Pyper pela DarkSide® Books. O autor, presente em diversas listas de mais vendidos em todo o mundo, foi consagrado por uma nova geração de leitores brasileiros, que fizeram O Demonologista ser uma das melhores surpresas em 2015. E agora Pyper promete incendiar novamente o mercado com este asfixiante thriller psicológico.
Fifteen Eyes
Fifteen EyesSolomon Northcutt enjoys the simple things in life: a nice sweater vest, trivia night with co-workers, and using the eyeballs of the deceased to transcribe horrific deaths for his bosses' reading pleasure. Tag along with our happy-go-lucky tour guide, Solomon, during a typical day in the office as he cracks open a fresh batch of 15 sordid tales. There’ll be all sorts of fun stuff inside… Astrology cults. Bodily theft. Cowboys. A whole ton of ants. Cosmic gods the size of skyscrapers. Religious pilgrimages. Arsonists. A traveling guitarist who grants wishes. Desert cannibals. People floating away on balloons. A trip to Heaven. Mental hellscapes. The end of the world. A puppet made from decaying body parts and household appliances. Oh, and maybe a werewolf. Dress code: Business casual. Just try to keep the murder to a minimum.
The Song of Her People
The Song of Her PeopleTen years after the end of the world, only Manhattan stands. The last human city is an island fortress surrounded by a great wall. No one goes in. No one goes out. Until tonight... When Salem, a trained killer of werewolves and dutiful soldier of Manhattan, is bitten in a devastating wolf attack on the city, her whole life is forever changed. Cursed to become the very enemy she was raised to hate, Salem must escape the city before the full moon. She faces execution if she's discovered, but if she stays she will become an almost-unkillable wolf and slaughter everyone she has ever known. Salem's only hope lies with Eira, the enigmatic wolf who bit her. He offers her a way out, but it means crossing the Great Wall of Manhattan for the first time and entering the wild, lawless world of the werewolves. As the full moon approaches, Salem must decide if she is to die as a human or live as a monster.
The D'Ark: The Beast Rises
The D'Ark: The Beast RisesOn a glorious summer morning, four university students head off for a leisurely day of fishing. Aboard their pint-sized vessel sweet, intuitive Hiroko; tough, argumentative Liv; the fiercely truth-seeking Ajay; and big, gentle Nick. As they break from the idyllic Australian coastline, they have no idea they’re sailing straight into the jaws of hell. In the tradition of Orwell, Lewis, Goethe and Dante, this truth-bomb novel explores the nature of evil at all its levels, from the spiritual, to the psychological, to the sociological, to the geopolitical. And how, as it imposes itself on this current era, it could conspire to tear our world apart. Unless Hiroko, Liv, Ajay and Nick can, somehow, stop it. This is urban fantasy at its most thrilling, its most provocative, and its most profound.
Strange Buildings
Strange BuildingsFrom the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery—eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. After receiving multiple tips from his devoted readership, a writer fascinated by the occult put together eleven case files, each featuring its very own strange building. Each of the eleven structures in this book has a floor plan that conceals a disturbing architectural quirk: from disappearing rooms to apartments with no means of escape. Each buildings tells its own chilling story. And each is part of a grander puzzle. Look closely . . . and you'll see that everything is connected. All leading to a revelation so horrifying you won't want to believe it. Millions of readers have become addicted to solving Uketsu's dark mysteries. Strange Buildings is the strangest, and darkest, of them all.
Krzywda
KrzywdaRok 1632. Przez kraj czekający co przyniesie kolejne bezkrólewie podąża dwóch wędrowców: ślepy szlachcic i jego olbrzymi, wiecznie milczący towarzysz. Nie wiadomo skąd i dokąd zmierzają, ale wiadomo, że niosą ze sobą tajemnice wspólnej drogi. W karczmach i zajazdach, na weselu i w kolasie, wszędzie ślepy szlachcic dzieli się opowieściami o Stanisławie Wróblewskim herbu Krzywda. Wróblewski przemierza Rzeczpospolitą, stając się raz bohaterem, raz mimowolnym świadkiem wydarzeń budzących grozę. Świat w opowieściach bezimiennego szlachcica jest pełen demonów i diabłów – zaludniają go monstra rodem z przedchrześcijańskich wierzeń. Każda z historii opowiada o innym wydarzeniu z życia Stanisława Wróblewskiego: sejmiku, który zakończył się krwawą łaźnią, spokojnym świętowaniu, które przerodziło się w tragedię, czy nieszczęśliwej miłości gdzieś w górach na granicy z Siedmiogrodem. Każda pozwala lepiej zrozumieć, kim jest Stanisław Wróblewski. Wszystko zaś prowadzi do epilogu w karczmie na zamarzniętym Bałtyku, w którym bezimienny ślepiec spotyka swoją nemezis. „Krzywda” jest powieścią szkatułkową o losach człowieka bez domu, rzucanego z miejsca na miejsce od puszczy na Żmudzi, przez daleki ukraiński step i Prusy, po Karpaty.
Pirate Borg
Pirate Borg"PIRATE BORG is a scurvy-ridden, rules light, art heavy tabletop RPG. Inspired by history, fantasy, horror and rum. Your cutlass & flintlock won't save you from the hordes of skeletons, the Kraken, or even your own crew. PIRATE BORG is a complete game based on and compatible with the award winning doom art-punk RPG MÖRK BORG using their incredible 3rd party license. But it's also a tool kit. Most of the tables can be hacked and used with any tabletop RPG. This game is about being a greedy, filthy, scoundrel. Find a ship. Recruit some crew. Raid, pillage, plunder, and otherwise pilfer your weasley black guts out. Get a bigger ship. Kill some things. Upgrade your ship. Sneak into a fort. Raid a port. Acquire treasure. Bury said treasure. Become infamous. Search for someone else's treasure. Flee in terror from unfathomable creatures from the deep. Drink all of the rum. Die on the high seas. Roll a new character and do it all again. Included in the 166 page book are 8 character classes, easy-to-learn naval combat rules, stats for 18 vessels, 80+ NPCs & monsters, 90+ system agnostic tables, and "The Curse of Skeleton Point", a sandbox style adventure with 11 pirate-themed locations. The game is written and illustrated by Luke Stratton, also known as Limithron, who is known for his pirate-themed battle maps. The game will be printed and distributed by Free League Publishing (Mörk Borg, ALIEN RPG, Tales from the Loop RPG, The One Ring RPG) under the Free League Workshop sub-label for independently designed games."--Från utgivaren.
The End
The EndWhen Eli’s beloved Selene dies under mysterious circumstances, his world fractures. Consumed by grief, Eli stumbles into a clandestine cult that promises proof of life beyond death, a chance, however impossible, to see Selene again. The cult’s teachings are seductive, its rituals unsettling, but hidden within their devotion lies the truth about Selene’s final days. Was her death a tragic accident… or the fulfillment of a sinister prophecy? A harrowing descent into the blurred edges of faith, madness, and the afterlife, The End will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the world—and what comes after.
Bed Rot Baby
Bed Rot BabyBeing a sugar baby isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. After a failed art career and a failed relationship, Baby has lost her way. She’s adrift in the post-Y2K, pre-Facebook world and stuck in her Florida hometown, selling stolen goods online and working as a sugar baby. Even though she’s hustling hard, there’s still never enough money to pay the bills, and her long-suffering roommate is ready to put her out on the streets. One night after a bad date with her sugar daddy, Baby is assaulted by a mysterious woman in a parking lot. The attack leaves her disoriented and exhausted, so Baby takes to her bed to lie there and rot, like, for real. With every passing day, Baby’s looks and health decline in strange and horrific ways. Soon, it becomes apparent that the strange woman who assaulted her had something to do with her declining state. Baby needs to find her attacker, reclaim her life and her beauty, and get her shit together once and for all. But at what cost? Bed Rot Baby is a pink horror meditation of self-discovery through self-destruction, and the real cost of self-image, self-esteem, and beauty.
Anterior Skies, Vol. 1
Anterior Skies, Vol. 1Anterior Skies — paying homage to such pioneers as H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Thomas Ligotti, as well as other associated writers — is an anthology of the weird and cosmic. You'll find horror, science fiction, and fantasy; uncategorizable, genre-bending abominations; poetry; and other, stranger hybrid works. <b>Contents:</b> Introduction - C.F. Page Little Mother - Heath Mensher Adrift Ebon Tides - Pedro Íñiguez The Singing Of Old House - Godwyn Spire - Marcus Hawke Prodigal Derek - Austin Johnson If Anyone Could Catch The Moon - Chelsea Pumpkins Shipbreaker - Aaron Beardsell The Blood Act - Andy Gehlsen The Wardrobe In Apartment Six - Samuel M. Hallam In The Jaws Of The Blackfish - J.A. Sullivan A Return To The Land of Sunshine And Bullets - A.W. Mason Candy For The Mountain Deity - L. Acadia The Architecture Of Dreams - Kay Hanifen Aurora - Solomon Forse The Town Line - Kurt Newton If Thine Eye Offend Thee - M. Halstead How To Have A Lucid Dream - W. Oliver Hunt The Seven Mysterious Drownings of The Crew Of The SS Neptune - Aleco Julius The Secret Is In The Mountains - Jasmine De La Paz Until The Night Turns Over - Kyle Stück The Middle - Elaine Pascale Okra - H. W. Taylor Bethel - W. Oliver Hunt Tree Of Metal And Diamond - Nathaniel Weber Moonstruck - Alice Austin Hāʻole - Luciano Marano Do Not Be Afraid - Richard Beauchamp The First Book Of The Shadow Under Cromledge - Godwyn Unconventional Methods - Maria Barnes The Universe’s Edge - Katherine Quevedo
Books of Horror Indie Brawl Anthology
Books of Horror Indie Brawl AnthologyDing, Ding. Let's Get Ready To Brawl! Welcome to the Books of Horror Indie Brawl Anthology, where a group of the best indie horror authors come together to deliver a knockout punch of spine-chilling terror. This anthology is a fierce battleground of macabre imagination, featuring stories from this year’s contenders. Some of these stories will delve you back into the beloved world of their brawl books, while others offer glimpses of new tales to fuel your nightmares. Books of Horror has become the largest community of horror readers and authors on the internet. The indie brawl is their annual competition where 32 books battle it out and readers vote to find the best of indie horror. This anthology features authors from the 2024 tournament, providing a diverse range of horrors—from psychological terrors to supernatural creatures. Join Books of Horror on Facebook today and get ready to vote your favorites into the winner’s circle. Are you ready to face the competition?
Screams From Beyond The Veil: A Horror Anthology
Screams From Beyond The Veil: A Horror AnthologyStep into the realm of the dead with <i>Screams From Beyond The Veil</i>, a grim anthology of terrors from the afterlife that will haunt your darkest nightmares. Included are 14 stories that peel away the boundary between life and death with an introduction by Josh Malerman. Each story in this collection takes you deeper into a world where the dead don’t rest and the living may not get out alive. From haunted houses and arcane rituals to demonic possession and vengeful spirts, these souls are ready to tell their tales. But beware. Once you cross the veil, there’s no turning back.
Hunting Snipe: and Other Notes on the East Texas Cattle Mutilations
Hunting Snipe: and Other Notes on the East Texas Cattle MutilationsA series of strange cattle deaths forever change the lives of a private investigator, a married paranormal podcast duo, and a struggling father on a path to redemption. Hunting Snipe uses news articles, podcast transcripts, text message threads, a private investigator’s burned journal, and more to tell the story of true events that occurred across multiple East Texas counties in 2023. But don’t go hunting for the truth if you ain’t ready to find it.
Last Tour at Sulphur Creek
Last Tour at Sulphur CreekThe Sulphur Creek Manor holds lots of secrets. Since it was built back in 1927 by a ruthless entrepreneur, the building has been a witness to countless crimes, controversies, and deaths, landing it with the reputation of one of the most haunted locations in the state of Oklahoma. When paranormal investigators Andrea and Wes embark on the ghost tour led by the manor's obsessive owner and reluctant employee, they soon learn that something much darker than its history lurks behind the manor's walls.
Usher of the Fallen
Usher of the FallenYears after escaping the grip of a sinister cult, Rachel Miller thought she had left the past behind. But when a strange man with a faded photograph shows up asking questions, old nightmares return—visions of blood-soaked ceremonies, cryptic symbols, and an ancient presence buried deep underground. A familiar voice whispers in the back of her mind, urging her to return to her brothers and sisters to finish the ritual they began so many years ago. Each day, Rachel’s visions grow stronger, putting her new life in jeopardy and the same question gnaws at is she finally losing her mind, or are these compulsions the work of something far more sinister? <i>Usher of the Fallen</i> is an occult psychological horror that erodes the boundary between nightmare and reality, where one woman’s attempt to escape her demons leads to disastrous consequences.
Push! An Anthology of Childbirth Horror
Push! An Anthology of Childbirth HorrorIn all of human experience, there is very little that holds more intimate horror than childbirth. Bodies are ravaged, minds are torn, and lives are caught in a precarious balance of hope and fear. In this anthology of seventeen authors, the horrors of childbirth are knife-sharp and womb-deep. The stories in this anthology are painful and dark. A surprising parasite deeply planted in its mother's womb. A harrowing choice made by a mother with no options. Demon babies. Post-partum madness. Lifeblood lost. Check your triggers (found at ruthannaevansdotcom), gird your loins, and dive in to this delightful, strange, and horrifying selection of childbirth horror.
Urban Legends: Three New Tales of Terror
Urban Legends: Three New Tales of TerrorEnter the world of terrifying urban legends where the lines between myth and reality blur into a nightmare of unexplainable horrors. In this spine-chilling volume, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and familiar fears are taken to unimaginable heights. Features a foreword by Adam Cesare, the author of Clown in a Cornfield (now a feature film). “Nesting” by Dan Franklin: Amanda can’t shake the idea that her newborn baby isn’t hers…and maybe isn’t a baby at all. Not even one full day postpartum, and Amanda can’t shake the certainty that the baby isn’t hers. The charts say he is, the nurses and doctor all agree, but in her heart she can’t help but know better. His hair is wrong. He doesn’t quite smell right…and he has a tooth. “Knock on Wood” by Leigh If he knocks, it’s too late. He’s already inside. The house on Hawthorne Avenue has an unfortunate past. The adults think it's just bad luck. The kids believe it's something worse. Sometimes truth is scarier than legend. “Poltergeist Password” by Nick “Have you heard of Poltergeist Password?” A reporter presents the unedited transcript of the final episode of the Broadcasts from the Grave podcast in which three hosts test an urban legend known as “Poltergeist Password.” Whether it’s real or an elaborate hoax, three people remain missing. You be the judge. Dark Tide 20 takes you on a terrifying journey through some of the most unsettling myths and folklore, where terror lurks in the shadows and urban legends come alive in the most horrific ways. Prepare for twists, fear, and truths you may not want to know.
What Swallows the Light: Alien Horror Novellas
What Swallows the Light: Alien Horror NovellasThree stories. One terrifying truth: we are not alone! <b>Suffocating Skies - John Durgin</b> Working Thanksgiving was supposed to be an escape for Carrie Richardson—a shift at Sinclair Pharmaceuticals meant avoiding her abusive boyfriend. But when the sky darkens and the office goes silent, escape becomes a trap. Whispers slither through the air, colleagues freeze in eerie trances, and something hungry moves unseen in the halls. As reality unravels and terror closes in, Carrie must uncover the truth hidden within Sinclair’s walls—before it suffocates her. <b>We Were Who We Were - Gage Greenwood</b> Sometimes it looks like an accident, until you discover who is really pulling the strings. When Tess visits the man who killed her brother in a drunk driving accident, she discovers the facts were not as they appeared to be, and someone else may have been involved. Her investigation brings her down a path of horror, lies, secrets, and a mysterious figure who haunted her brother for years. <b>Dark Matter Dreams - Andrew Van Wey</b> An alien vessel powered by dreams. A human nightmare on board. For millennia, the Grays have visited earth, seeing humans as simple and safe. They were wrong. Aboard their living, star-spanning vessel, a forgotten horror awakens. Born of primal fear, stalking humanity since the dawn of time. Watching and waiting. Hungry to twist our desires against us. As reality warps and crew members succumb, researcher Jin’qua-33 must forge an unlikely alliance with those he once abducted. Because there is something worse in the darkness than the aliens looking down. There is an unrelenting nightmare that will fill the cosmos with screams.
The Vessel: A Novel
The Vessel: A NovelAs a child, Josh Finley is abducted by pedophile Michael Traynor. After 19 days of unimaginable horror, he manages to escape, but in the aftermath, he has amnesia from the trauma. The last thing he remembers of his time in captivity is seeing the dead body of another of Traynor's young victims. Ten years later, FBI Special Agent John Rodriguez asks for Josh's help to try and identify the murdered boy and find where Traynor buried the remains. Rodriguez says Traynor is willing to cooperate, but on one condition: He'll only talk to Josh. In coming face-to-face with the man who has haunted him for so many years, Josh uncovers darker secrets than he ever imagined possible, and a horrifying fate that this time, he cannot hope to escape.
The Girl in the Attic
The Girl in the Attic<b>“When I close my eyes to sleep at night, I can feel the devil watching me.”</b> Paranoid from experience and haunted by grief, a widowed mother devotes her life to protecting the one person she has left in the world: her young daughter, Emma. But something is trying to worm its way into their lives. Something that lives in the attic—and desperately wants out. It pretends like it’s her daughter, too. At times, it’s almost convincing. If she ever fails to see through the mask of innocence it wears, there will be hell to pay.
Edward: A Reels Prequel
Edward: A Reels PrequelFrom the scorched trailer parks of the late 1970s to the blood-soaked carpets of suburbia, Edward’s childhood is a grotesque symphony of violence, necrophilia, and depraved creativity. His victims are young, old, and always unlucky. His methods are brutal, and his motivations? Pure, undiluted evil — with a splash of existential curiosity. Stuffed with dark philosophy, black comedy, and stomach-turning gore, ‘EDWARD’ is the origin story of a child monster raised on roadkill, porn, and the rotting whispers of the dead. A macabre portrait of innocence lost and humanity discarded, this prequel to “REELS” carves out the heart of horror and pisses on the grave.
Steel Machines
Steel MachinesPrague, 1945 Eight year old Otto Braum is the sole survivor of the massacre that claimed his parents and left him sustaining himself as best he can in the ruined attic hideout above his childhood home. But Otto is not alone. His father had a secret—a creation, unfinished, that he left behind. A secret that is pitiless in nature, relentless in design. A secret with the heart of a steel machine. From the Amazon best selling author of Down Into the Sea and These Things Linger comes a horrifying reimagining of the story of the golem. Part I Am Legend and part Caging Skies, <b>Steel Machines</b> is an unrelentingly tense tale of haunting, of vengeance... and of survival at any cost.
Pressing Matters
Pressing MattersFrom the public's perception, Luckenbach Presses is one of the top vinyl record pressing plants in the country, with the employees constantly working against tight deadlines set by some of the industry’s top musicians and music labels to deliver the highest quality vinyl records. However, soon after Ruston Kilgore suffers a preventable workplace accident, he rises with an insatiable lust for brutal workplace bloodshed. And being the hard worker that he is, he won't stop ‘til his work is done. From the Haunted Minds Book Club Award Nominated Author Paul Avery Tindol (<i>This House Will Never Be Warm</i>, <i>Hunting Snipe</i>) comes <b>PRESSING MATTERS</b>, a gruesome workplace slasher.
When Angels Bleed
When Angels BleedJason Baker is wanted for murder – and when they inevitably find the other bodies, he’ll be wanted for seven of them. On the run with nowhere good to hide, he comes across a strange dirt road on the side of the highway with a farmhouse at its end. Strange not because it looks any different than it should, but because it calls to him like his soul’s lost love. Over the three decades he’s been trapped there, Benjamin Parker has seen a lot of monsters show up at his farm, each one guilty of the same unthinkable sin. The farm attracts them like flies to rot from all different places, all different periods of time. And it never lets them leave. <i><b>Warning:</b> When Angels Bleed is an extreme horror novel that explores heinous examples of human evil across both modern and historical times. It contains graphic scenes and emotionally challenging themes that some readers may find upsetting. Specific content warnings can be found at the beginning of the book.</i>
The Midnight Muse
The Midnight Muse<b>When a metal band’s lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they’re letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan.</b> <i>The dead collect in low places.</i> That’s what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while staying at a cabin in Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest. A year later, on the anniversary of her disappearance, the rest of her bandmates visit the cabin to remember her and find a way to move on. But tensions arise over who should be their new singer and who is responsible for Brynn’s disappearance — tensions that boil over as they realize not all is as it seems at Trail Creek Cabin. Strange entries in the guestbook write about visions of a pale form that moves through the trees, figures wearing gas masks lurk in the distance, and there’s a strange fungus growing from the wall of a tunnel in the cabin’s basement. Then they hear Brynn’s voice echo impossibly through the forest — and the pale form that emerges from the trees is her perfect likeness. Is it her ghost… or something else? Brynn knew there was a secret in these woods. It’s why she chased her muse here to finish her masterpiece. <i>The Midnight Muse</i> is an alluring and grotesque dissection of self and fungus. Kaplan delivers an ominous spiral of psychological torment as the members of Queen Carrion slip into a more <i>natural</i> skin.
Extinction Dream
Extinction DreamDeployed in orbit to what he first believed to be a simple research station, a soldier named Markus is a member of a squad defending Earth on the front line of a secret war against an alien enemy that attacks telepathically, using our nightmares as weapons. They don’t know what the enemy looks like or even why they are attacking. What they do know is that Earth is losing. As they sink further into their deepest terrors, they believe they may finally have the chance to take the fight to their enemy – if the hell they’re living in doesn’t cause them to tear each other apart first.
The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale
The Essential Horror of Joe R. LansdaleJoe R. Lansdale is known for his gritty mysteries (the Hap and Leonard series) and his eccentric horror (Bubba Ho-tep), for which he has won ten Bram Stoker Awards. He is also cited by many of horror's most acclaimed writers as a huge influence upon them: Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman, Gabino Iglesias, Brian Keene, and Joe Hill, who contributes an original introduction to this collection. Lansdale's horror stories mash up crime, Southern Gothic, fantasy, and science fiction, filtered through a raw, violent world of dark humor and unique characters. He was one of the first horror writers to portray American racism not as abstract or impersonal, but as realistic, intimate, in-your-face, and impossible to ignore. In Lansdale's nightmarish visions, discover psychotic demon nuns, a god fueled by hatred, a psychopathic preacher, a weed-eater wielding blind man, cannibals, 80-year-old Elvis, undead strippers, flying ghost fish, elder gods, possessed cars, and the worst evil of all: man.
The Other Shore: Stories
The Other Shore: StoriesFrom the winner of the 2023 Ursula K Le Guin Prize for Fiction comes a short story collection that radiates from the dark forests of the Pacific northwest. In ten tales, Rebecca Campbell’s exquisite prose channels ancient forest spirits, the lost ghosts of unknown fates, biological and technological transformations, and challenges the ways that colonization and extraction have shaped not only landscapes but how we imagine the future. Campbell zeros in on horrors and hopes, readying readers for the world to come. About Campbell’s interconnected short stories in her novella Arboreality, the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize selection committee said, “In her masterful and profoundly ethical stories, Campbell asks us what might be saved, what must be saved, and what it will take to do so.” Continuing in this tradition, <i>The Other Shore</i> delves deep into what transformations we need to survive and thrive. <u>Table of Contents</u> Thuja plicata: An Introduction – 5 The High Lonesome Frontier – 13 A Hole Cut in the Wall of the World – 29 Lares Familiares 1981 – 47 On Highway 18 – 67 The Other Shore – 83 Thank You For Your Patience – 99 The Bletted Woman – 117 Such Thoughts are Unproductive – 139 Wider than the Sky, Deeper than the Sea – 163 Conclusion: An Incomplete Catalogue of Miraculous Births, or, Secrets of the Uterus Abscondita – 193
Hinterland
HinterlandKestrel awakes in the woods without a real name or his memories. Before him are twelve strangers, an altar on fire, and bones hanging from the trees like wind chimes. He’s to be initiated into their group so they may fulfill their purpose: head to the mountain of the so-called gods, have a feast, and bring about the end of the world. Kestrel is willing to risk it all to escape, but without any memories, he knows he must play along until he finds a way out. It won’t be easy. Winter is on their heels, hunters are searching for them, and the strange rituals they perform will rip his humanity from his flesh. But Kestrel isn’t alone. One of the strangers claims to be his friend from before, and there are others willing to join his side and leave the wilderness... if the gods let them.
The Gods in Small Doses: Stories
The Gods in Small Doses: StoriesThe magical and mundane twist together in this collection of surreal stories In this collection of stories set in an uncanny American suburbia and haunted by a lurking unease, the peculiar feeling of ephemeral youth finds its voice. The stories in The Gods in Small Doses depict childhood through a funhouse mirror, as a time of myth and damage, of tenderness and terror. Anything ― except what should happen ― can happen next. A retired witch traps a goat-killing feral child, a girl becomes obsessed with the regenerative properties of her younger brother’s body, Armageddon is fought between the forces of good (those who like to go to bed early) and evil (those who prefer to stay up late), a supernatural orphan insinuates his way into an all-American family, the god Poseidon wrecks a high-school house party, and the women of a fabulated island city all mysteriously disappear overnight. In these fast, comic, and troubling tales, sweetness and violence vie to become synonymous. This is a universe of both realism and surrealism, of magic and the mundane, where strong but deeply flawed characters fight to exert control over things ― time, death, themselves ― that can’t be controlled. Dreamlike moments of body horror, catastrophe, and absurdity challenge the reader to embrace the taboo and to expect ― always ― the unexpected. Bell’s stories offer a twisted, unique, and utterly fascinating take on what it means to “grow up,” and all of the questions that the notion inspires.
Honeysuckle
Honeysuckle<b><i>The Bear and the Nightingale</i> meets <i>Weyward</i> in this enchanting, deeply compelling debut about love and power, autonomy and consent.</b> Once upon a time, on the edge between meadow and forest, there was a lonely child with only his older sister for company. In exchange for being left in peace, his sister made him a playmate-Daye, a girl woven from flowers and words. And for the first time, this boy, Rory, had a friend. Rory couldn't be happier, until he learns that Daye is a short-lived creature. At the end of each season, she must be woven back together or fall gruesomely apart. And every time Daye falls apart might be her last. As Rory and Daye grow older and the line between friendship and romance begins to blur, Rory becomes desperate to break this cycle of bloom and decay. But the farther Rory pushes his research and experiments to lengthen Daye's existence, the more Daye begins to wonder just how much control she really has over her own life. As a loose reimagining of the story of Blodeuwedd from Welsh mythology, <i>Honeysuckle</i> is an entrancing, inventive, and unsettling debut.
The Fovea Experiments
The Fovea ExperimentsOstracized by her friends, Nala finds solace creating true crime content for her YouTube channel. When she breaks into her mother's private investigator files and finds evidence of multiple teen deaths during a sleep experiment in the 2000s, she's shocked to see the sole survivor is her schoolteacher. She creates a sensationalist video, outing him as a suspect. Josh is tormented by what happened during The Fovea Experiments. He gets through the days by throwing himself into his job as a teacher, and survives the nights with a little liquid courage. Nala's video puts him under suspicion once more, and the trauma he experienced as a teen takes him to breaking point. As he fights to clear his name, he discovers his worst nightmare is unfolding. Because The Fovea Experiments are happening again. And, this time, the people behind it are determined to see it through to the end. Some say the eyes are the window to the soul. Or are they a doorway to something far worse?
Vampires in Chicago: A Subversive, Satirical Gothic Fantasy Action Thriller
Vampires in Chicago: A Subversive, Satirical Gothic Fantasy Action ThrillerThere's been some confusion about the vampires in Chicago. This book sets the record straight. Forget fangs, allergies, and arbitrary rules. In 2023, something older than myth awoke in the city, and the last four vampires there had to deal with it. Be careful what you pick up after dark, because it may not be pretty. You want the truth. But can you survive it? "Writer of books that are toxic to your mental health." "Not recommended for the mentally weak." "Pure agony from start to finish." "Scream, cry and laugh because once you start reading there's no putting it down." "From the twisted mind of Wynneth E. Cymry comes a dark tale of gothic proportions." "Blasphemous, sacrilegious and perverse, Ms Cymry will torture your mind the way she tortures her characters." "This book crushed my will to live."
A Spell for Saints and Sinners
A Spell for Saints and Sinners<b>Like a gender-flipped <i>Saltburn</i> set amidst the moss-draped, haunted beauty of Savannah, this intoxicating blend of Southern suspense and modern witchcraft from bestselling author Emily Carpenter casts a spell of class, power, and possession.</b> <i>In a city where ghosts linger in the moss and money buys salvation, a struggling psychic is drawn into Savannah’s glittering elite, as obsession and need curdle the lines between magic and madness, seduction and salvation, pirates and protectors…</i> In front of an elegantly shabby townhouse on a Savannah side street sits a hand-painted sign: <i>Miss Edie, Psychic</i>. Ingrid White inherited the house and business from her beloved grandmother, a local celebrity in town. But unless Ingrid can find a way to pay for crushing property taxes and mounting repairs, she’s going to lose them both. Ingrid has faith in the homespun witchcraft Edie passed down to her, yet hope and clients are dwindling.... Until Sailor Loeffler’s bachelorette party changes everything. Sailor is local royalty — part of the vast “Savannah Sauce” empire, beautiful and wealthy beyond imagining — and Ingrid’s reading is so accurate that she becomes the bride-to-be’s confidante. To keep that access and all the privileges it brings, Ingrid relies more and more on hexes and dark spells — using the baneful magic Edie always warned her against. As Ingrid works even riskier spells, she is drawn further into the Loefflers’ inner circle and the obstacles in her path melt away. But is it witchcraft or other, more earthbound forces? Ingrid can feel the lines blurring even as her powers seem to grow, until she must confront the truth about just how far some people, including herself, will go to keep the life they’ve always wanted...
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