And you thought Hell was weird . . .Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba HoTep) and China Miéville (King Rat), crossgenre sensation Barbara Hambly (The Windrose Chronicles), celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen (The Dramatist), bestselling science fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams (Otherland), and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin a tale or two about the world\'s greatest paranormal detective, as some of the biggest names in horror, mystery, and fantasy come together to pay homage to Mike Mignola\'s Hellboy! Views: 444
Mathew is out of his comfort zone, he has to work out how to take the space station closer to the sun. It needs all his attention, but he can’t get the Russian woman out of his mind, or that the commander has accused him of plotting to take over Earthrise. He was sure a murderer was aboard, but it’s possible that everyone is just losing their memory, and now there’s the green glow.Melba has always wanted to play the slide trombone, but she's too small. Her grandmother wants Melba to play a musical instrument more suitable for a girl -- like a flute or violin -- but Melba loves the way a trombone looks and sounds. Tired of waiting around until she's big enough to play a trombone on her own, Melba finally decides to take matters into her own hands with humorous and unexpected results. Views: 444
Conman Arthur Broker has finally become a resident on easy street while posing as a paranormal investigator, separating superstitious suckers from their money. This cozy lifestyle shatters after the beautiful and possibly unstable Fiona Ambrose turns to him for help against the Daughters of All, a mysterious cult that has a knack for drug peddling, kidnapping and murder.Conman Arthur Broker believes he has finally become a permanent resident on easy street while posing as a paranormal investigator to separate superstitious suckers from their money. Unfortunately this cozy lifestyle shatters after the beautiful and possibly unstable Fiona Ambrose shows up on his doorstep. In her quest to find her sister and prove her sanity, Fiona accidentally throws Broker headfirst into a conspiracy orchestrated by the Daughters of All, a mysterious cult with a knack for drug peddling, kidnapping and murder. With both mundane and arcane assassins on his trail, Broker uses his despicable talents, underhanded expertise and plenty of dumb luck to topple the cult and defeat the ravenous devil they worship…all while making a profit. Views: 444
Mourning the death of his wife, John Corwin now needs help pulling himself out of the depths of his darkness. While he is dealing with multiple issues, a new darkness stalks him. This new evil forces John to go deeper into the Mist than he ever intentioned. It also brings him back into contacty with an old girlfriend who just might hold the key to mending his broken heart.Lucessa, Doella’s daughter, is obsessed by her scientific work, so much so her family worry about her preoccupation and lack of social graces. They ask their matriarch Doella to intervene and she agrees to take her Varan to meet her family. Doella of course knows what her daughter is struggling to achieve, and why, and why it is for her to find. The wondrous Black Ship, freed from time and space, takes them to Varan and Doella’s family. Here she sees why the Varan rejects her mother and family, The Varan race have followed similar inflexible patterns for many millennia. This is different from her home planet Astras, where no one sees one race as superior. Lucessa meets, the poet Ralse, someone at first glance so unlike her, for on Astras there is little time for art. They find love as she tells him why she must complete her dreams… Views: 443
Three short stories, showing that different kinds of love can still shine through, even when the world is about to end.Three short stories, showing that different kinds of love can still shine through, even when the world is about to endIn "Angel wars" Ariel leads a group of angels against her former lover Michael, who wants to destroy humanity. "The Wiccan tree" tells of Tia's quest to save the world from darkness and black magic, and she faces a difficult decision in the process."Bite me" tells of what happens when the government messes with things they shouldn't, resulting in a vampire outbreak and humans who survive the experiments, developing special abilities. All three stories prove that the world is only worth saving it we have someone to fight for, but that doesn't mean we're all guaranteed a happy ever after. Views: 443
From Goosebumps author R.L. Stine comes an eerie tale of two teens whose parents disappear under mysterious circumstances.Mark and Cara Burroughs have been home alone before and don't think anything of it when their parents don't come home one night. But as time passes with no word, the siblings start to worry. Where could they be? And why don't the police seem interested in tracking their parents down? Strange occurrences start to pile up as Mark's girlfriend vanishes and Mark and Cara's strange cousin seems to be watching their every move. But the true terror is only beginning. Someone wants Mark and Cara to disappear, too! But why? The answer lies deep in the Fear Street woods—if they live long enough to find it. Views: 443
The Blair Witch Project meets Imaginary Girls in this story of sisterhood turned toxic, imaginary monsters brought to life, and secrets that won't stay buried. Sixteen-year-old Skye is done playing the knight in shining armor for her insufferable younger sister, Deirdre. And moving across the country seems like the perfect chance to start over as someone different. In their isolated new neighborhood, Skye manages to fit in, but Deirdre withdraws from everyone, becoming fixated on the swampy woods behind their house and building monstrous sculptures out of sticks and bones. Then Deirdre disappears.And when something awful comes scratching at Skye's window in the middle of the night, claiming Skye's the only one who can save Deirdre, Skye knows she will stop at nothing to bring her sister home. Views: 443
In this short story by Brian Parker, a few words uttered by a lunch companion bring back a flood of memories from another lifetime.In The Fourth Man, Brian Parker explores one of the most powerful mental health issues we can all face - repressed trauma. Four men go to lunch, but for one of them, a benign conversation resurrects an inner turmoil for which he has never forgiven himself. It raises the question of how do we move on? How do we let go of the past, and our guilt, yet still remember someone with the warmth and respect we had for them while they were still alive? Views: 443
Included herein are two journals recovered from the Apocalypse of the Undead caused by the single celled parasite known as Toxoplasmosa Mondus Omni.The first journal is written by a teen as she desperately tries to survive the hordes of the hungering dead.The second journal in this collection details the experiences of a former cab driver and his fight to survive the Apocalypse.When the genetically engineered single celled parasite Toxoplasmosa Mondus Omni is released upon the world, nothing will ever be the same again. It starts by moving like wild fire through the animal kingdom, killing them by the billions and driving them insane. Then it mutates and sweeps through the human race who have no immunity to this man made horror. As if this new plague isn't bad enough, sickening and killing people after driving them mad as it had in the beasts, it brings with it something truly terrible... It raises the dead , with a cannibalistic hunger, to hunt down the immune. These are the journals of two desperate survivors that have been recovered from the time of the Apocalypse. Views: 442
SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, JOE HILL! A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Latham. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. "Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump. . . and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails--splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. "Rain" explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world. In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning. Masterfully exploring classic literary themes through the prism of the supernatural, Strange Weather is a stellar collection from an artist who is "quite simply the best horror writer of our generation" (Michael Kortya). Views: 442
(N.B. this new edition has corrected the formatting issues that has been voiced by some Lovecraft fans...) CONTENTS: The Nameless CityThe FestivalThe Colour out of SpaceThe Call of CthulhuThe Dunwich HorrorThe Whisperer in DarknessDreams in the Witch-houseThe Haunter of the DarkThe Shadow over InnsmouthThe Shadow out of TimeAt the Mountain of MadnessThe Case of Charles Dexter WardAzathothBeyond the Wall of SleepCelephaisCool AirDagonEx OblivioneFacts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyFrom BeyondHeHerbert West: ReanimatorHypnosImprisoned with the PharaohsIn the VaultMedusa's CoilMemoryNyarlathotepPickman's ModelPoetry of the GodsThe AlchemistThe Beast in the CaveThe BookThe Cats of UltharThe Crawling ChaosThe DescendantThe Doom That Came to SarnathThe Dream Quest of Unknown KadathThe Evil ClergymanThe Horror at Martin's BeachThe Horror at Red HookThe HoundThe Lurking FearThe Moon BogThe Music of Erich ZannThe Other GodsThe OutsiderThe Picture in the HouseThe Quest of IranonThe Rats in the WallsThe Shunned HouseThe Silver KeyThe Statement of Randolph CarterThe Strange High House in the MistThe StreetThe TempleThe Terrible Old ManThe Thing on the DoorstepThe TombThe Transition of Juan RomeroThe TreeThe UnnamableThe White ShipThrough the Gates of the Silver KeyWhat the Moon BringsPolarisThe Very Old Folk Views: 442
Jibreel's curse is the story of a how the zombie apocalypse began in the Byzantium Infected universe. Also include is a Scourge of Byzantium preview and the first episode of the Nasir and Maarika Chronicles. Jibreel's curse was created at the request of readers just like you that were curious how the infection started.Jibreel, 6th Century Arabian nomad, family man, and trader. His unremarkable life would have passed completely un-noticed by the world except for this, his final chapter.Drawn to a gift from the heavens Jibreel's life will take a turn that endangers everything he has ever loved and ultimately the world itself.Created at the request of readers just like you this is the story of how Jibreel's life led to events that would threaten the world in the novel Scourge of Byzantium.Also included is the first three chapters of Book 1 in the Byzantium infected series, Scourge of Byzantium.The third chapter is a new chapter not featured in the original edition of Scourge of Byzantium. It is the first episode in a series of short stories I will be writing called the Nasir and Maarika chronicles. Nasir and Maarika are of one people but two worlds. One grew up inside Byzantium's Arabia Province, the other the open desert of Arabia. They will meet on the eve tragedy that will forever change both of their lives. Views: 442
Being a vampire isn't all it's cracked up to be- in fact, it kind of sucks.
After surviving his duel with Lilith, Mathias thought that he could relax. That is until he discovers that, Nossy, the new king, has been kidnapped.
When the investigating vampires seem to have no clue how to rescue Nosferatu, Mathias must step in. Everything is peachy until Mathias is named the next new king in order to stop the man behind Nossy’s kidnapping from taking over the throne.
Suddenly, his life is not his own again, and Mathias must make a choice: risk his life to find his friend, or sit back and watch disaster unfold. Views: 442
From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts, and a daughter is forced to dance every night to the reenactment of her father's murder. These tales invite you to spend time with people who, in the maddest of circumstances, chew their way forward. With elements of psychological horror, sly humor, and the fantastic, these stories will burrow under your skin, haunt your dreams, and make you wonder what worlds lie just beyond that tiny hole in the wall. Views: 442
