Over the course of two award-winning collections and a
critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one
of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark
fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a
scientific backbone, Barron's stories have garnered critical acclaim and have
been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple
awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson,
Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.
Barron returns with his third collection, The
Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All. Collecting interlinking tales of sublime
cosmic horror, The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All delivers enough
spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader. Views: 24
Harry Keogh is moving on. Though the search for his missing wife and child continues, his heart now lies in Edinburgh with Bonnie Jean--a beautiful Scottish werewolf whose friendly pack and flourishing pub have given him a place he can almost call home. Views: 24
Audrina wanted to be as
good as her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead.
Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret
that everyone knows. Everyone except... Sweet Audrina. Views: 24
Manna is the life-blood of the world. It flows through everything, touches all, infusing life with its azure glow. Demons, and evil in the hearts of men, can cause this energy to become twisted, corrupted, and drain the life of the world itself. The power of the raw manna, whether pure or corrupted, is toxic to the touch. It causes normal men to go insane, or die screaming. Only the Arbiters may interact with the manna without fear, for they are protected from its deadly light by ancient, near-forgotten sorceries, and intense training which begins at birth. When Arbiter D’Arden Tal is assigned to investigate the city of Calessa, he finds that it has been nearly overrun by the horrors of the corrupted manna. Wielding his crystalline sword, D’Arden must find the root of the city’s deadly spiritual disease before it consumes more innocent life. D’Arden must cleanse the dying city before the evil overwhelms him, and consumes the meager remains of innocent life within Calessa’s walls... Views: 24
When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner's family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly Ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions she saw as her sanity began to slip, the victim of cabin fever; and most of all, the memories of the boy she has been secretly meeting with as a distraction from her pain. The boy whose baby she now carries. When the Verners arrive at their new home, a large cabin abandoned by its previous owners, they discover the inside covered in blood. And as the days pass, it is obvious to Amanda that something isn't right on the prairie. She's heard stories of lands being tainted by evil, of men losing their minds and killing their families, and there is something strange about the doctor and his son who live in the woods on the edge of the prairie. But with the guilt and shame... Views: 24
Two sisters, lost in one of the world's busiest and most dangerous cities... After running away from home, Katie arrives in London and immediately tries to find her sister Rachel. Unfortunately, she soon finds herself in trouble, and a stranger's helping hand might just make things worse. Meanwhile, her sister Rachel keeps dying over and over again, while a mysterious man named Robinson tries to work out why the River Thames has suddenly been drained of all its water. This is the first book in a new series. The sequel, Archangel, will be released in late 2014. Views: 24
