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When Jennifer receives a message from Scott Dwyer after twenty years without contact, her first reaction is one of excitement. Scott was her first love. Now in her forties and in the middle of a divorce, nostalgia for her youth gets the better of her. Scott invites Jennifer to his house in Redford, the town she grew up in. It's a place she's tried to put behind her, for not all childhood memories are sunny. When she accepts Scott's invite, she struggles with mixed feelings, especially when she learns of the death of Steven Winters, one of her childhood friends. Scott invites three people from their past to honor Steven's memory-Corey, Traci, and Mark. But the group is more than old friends. They share a dark secret that has troubled them for decades. Now it's time to face their traumatic pasts. Together, they must unravel the mystery of what happened in the patch of forest behind Scott's house, a place once known as Suicide Woods. From the author of Gone to See the River Man comes a chilling novel that reminds us that old ghosts are the ones that haunt us most.Kristopher Triana is a Splatterpunk Award winning author. His works include Full Brutal (Awarded Best Novel at the 2019 Splatterpunk Awards), Toxic Love, Shepherd of the Black Sheep, The Ruin Season, Body Art, The Detained and Growing Dark. His fiction has appeared in many magazines, anthologies, audio books and on websites, and has been translated to multiple languages. His fiction has drawn praise from Publisher's Weekly, Rue Morgue Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Scream Magazine and such prominent authors as Brian Keene, Jack Ketchum, Bryan Smith and Ryan Harding. While primarily a horror writer, he also writes crime fiction, literary fiction, noir and westerns. He also is a columnist with Backwoods Survival Guide Magazine.He also has a very strong love of animals-especially dogs.He lives in Connecticut."Kristopher Triana is without question one of the very best of the new breed of horror writers." - Bryan Smith, author of 68 Kill

"Serial killer Michael Leonard Robinson murdered thirteen college coeds in 2019, impaling them on poles, and leaving them dangling there on highway construction sites ready for the dawn rush hour. Police called him "The Scarecrow Killer," until he revealed that he thought of his "dolls" as "sculptures." In 2020, it was believed that he was killed in a massive explosion at the Mount Airy Forge in North Philadelphia. Newsflash, he lived. He is blind, deformed, crippled, and pissed. Forced now to be the voyeur instead of the leading participant, he is in search of puppets, his first target the familial structure itself in terms of its fault lines, contradictions, and hypocrisies. He wants to turn fathers into cannibals and daughters to demons. Professor Brad Winslow is the new mark along with his three daughters: Sage, the artsy tenth-grader, Jody, the eighth-grade tomboy, and Esther, the spoiled first-grader. They seem to be the perfect American family. The Sculptor plans to lift off the veil."--Goodreads.

When Alex Wilson's estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own.He'd even reach out to the dead.But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle's broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair Hill just beyond. Things that can devour the living and the dead alike, and are all too ready to answer his call.Some parts of our past never really leave us. There are things that don't know how to die.These things linger.From the author of the acclaimed The Eater of Gods, These Things Linger is a twisting and unforgiving novel of desperation, depression, heritage, and of other hungry, vicious things."This grimy but energetic horror novel from Franklin (The Eater of Gods) follows Alex Wilson as he deals with supernatural horrors in the small town of Fair Hill, Md. Readers seeking a ghoulish ghost story should take a look." - Publishers WeeklyDan Franklin wrote his first attempt at a horror novel when he was seven. It was terrible. He has, since, improved. The winner of several local awards for short stories and an occasional poem, Dan Franklin lives in Maryland with his extremely understanding wife, his cosmically radiant daughter, and a socially crippling obsession with things that creep. These Things Linger is his second published novel. He can be contacted at DanFranklinAuthor.com

Fifteen-year-old Will Burgess is used to rough times. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will's dreams, is dating his worst enemy, the cruelest upperclassman at Shadeland High. Will's troubles, however, are just beginning.Because one of the nation's most notorious criminals-the Moonlight Killer-has escaped from prison and is headed straight toward Will's hometown. And something else is lurking in Savage Hollow, the forest surrounding Will's rundown house. Something ancient and infinitely evil. When the worst storm of the decade descends on Shadeland, Will and his friends must confront unfathomable horrors. Everyone Will loves-his mother, his little sister, Mia, and his friends-will be threatened. And very few of them will escape with their lives."One of the best writers in modern horror to come along in the last decade. Janz is one of my new favorites." -Brian Keene

When the soul has been thoroughly poisoned, the body must abandon it. Everything feels unreal afterwards, but plastic heads shed no tears. Bram Stoker Award(R) winning author Nicole Cushing offers an excursion into the Weird, a quiet novella of a madwoman in a mad town, as an Episcopal priest grapples with the meaning of faith, reality, and if there is anything real to either of them, at the end of it all."An intense and uncompromising literary voice." - Rue Morgue "I've never read anything quite like The Plastic Priest, and I'm delighted I have. A witty and incisive portrait of a priest beset by doubts, it mutates into a comedy of uncanny paranoia before exploding into weirdness that's as disturbing as it's liberating. Nicole Cushing's tale is a stimulating challenge, and her spare precise prose is a constant pleasure." - Ramsey Campbell Nicole Cushing is a Bram Stoker Award(R) winning novelist and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Various reviewers have described her work as "cerebral", "brutal", "transgressive", "wickedly funny", "taboo", "groundbreaking" and "mind-bending".Her second novel, A Sick Gray Laugh (2019) was named to LitReactor's Best Horror Novels of the Last Decade list and the Locus Recommended Reading List. Her third novel, Mothwoman was released in late 2022. Nicole lives in Indiana.

It is 1872.Annie Miller and the valiant members of the Peregrine Estate did all they could in Chicago to try and stop the Society of Prometheus from unleashing their terrible gods-The Nine-into our world. While they managed to save Carson Ptolemy from the occult society's ritualistic sacrifice, they failed to stop the ritual entirely. And thus, the ritual half-completed, an unknowable celestial body has set itself over the Sun, casting it into perpetual eclipse, throwing the world deeper into the shuddering cold and blackness of an unending, pestilential winter.The sunless world brings to bear the great and terrible armies of The Red Kingdom, the hidden body of vampires who have decided that the eclipse is heralding their time to rise in full force and conqueror. The kingdom's sovereign monarch, and master of all vampires, Kristian, brings all his strength to bear out of the Astolat Mountain range in Colorado, beginning a war between humanity and vampires.Annie and Carson, their lives now fully knotted together as members of the Peregrine Society and dear friends, work together with their allies to strike back against the vampiric horde, all while striving to set the world right in an epic conclusion of C.S. Humble's That Light Sublime trilogy. "Humble writes with rare passion in the tradition of Robert E. Howard and a young Stephen King." - Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All"Humble's storytelling is a master class in characterization and atmosphere--a refreshing voice in the horror genre." Chad Lutzke, author of How the Skin Sheds "C.S. Humble digs deep into West Texas dirt to uncover cosmic terrors, secret occult orders, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again. The Massacre at Yellow Hill is a bloody, violent book about hard choices, with hints of greater perils on the horizon. I loved it!" - Josh Rountree, author of The Legend of Charlie Fish "If you enjoy your horror weird and Western, but also full of heart, then this is the book for you." - Catherine McCarthy, author of Moonlit Path of Madness C.S. Humble is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the Black Wells series (Dark Hart Books) and the That Light Sublime western horror trilogy (Cemetery Dance). He lives in East Texas and can be found @cshumble(twitter) or at his website www.cshumble.com.

In a hotel room on Cape Cod, a troubled young prostitute brutally takes her own life, leaving cryptic clues as to why written in blood on the walls. When head of hotel security and former cop Chris Tallo finds her savaged body, he sets out to discover why the woman committed suicide in such a vicious manner. Saddled with a drinking problem, and already emotionally destroyed and grieving the loss of his daughter, killed in Iraq five years earlier, his search lures him into a disturbing underworld populated by those who trade in black magic, pain and death.The closer Chris gets to the truth, and its ties to a secret occult ritual that took place more than 100 years ago that ended in madness and rumors of demonic possession, the more he struggles with his own history and sanity. And as the forces haunting and manipulating not only him, but reality as he knows it, rise in a tempest of blood and fire, a horrific evil awakens...The Machine lives."The best writer of horror novels and supernatural thrillers at work today." - Christopher RiceGreg F. Gifune is a best-selling, internationally-published author of several acclaimed novels, novellas and two short story collections. He has been described as "The best writer of horror and thrillers at work today" by author Christopher Rice, "Among the finest dark suspense writers of our time" by author Ed Gorman, and "One of the best writers of his generation" by author Brian Keene. Working predominantly in the horror and crime genres, Gifune's work has been translated into several languages, received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and others, and is consistently praised by readers and critics alike.A feature film based on his novel LONG AFTER DARK is set to go into production in 2022/23. His novel THE BLEEDING SEASON, originally published in 2003, is still popular and in print in several languages, has been hailed as a classic in the horror/suspense genres, and is considered by many, including Famous Monsters of Filmland, to be one of the best horror novels of its kind ever written. Greg resides in Massachusetts with his wife Carol and two English Labrador Retrievers, Dozer and Dudley. He can be reached online at gfgauthor@verizon.net or on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Steeped in classic horror, this chilling contemporary tale deals with secrets long buried, festering guilt, and haunting loneliness. Jack Trent, the most effective criminal investigation officer in the history of the department, is having bad dreams of a child's murder in a forest at the hands of something indescribable. But these are more than nightmares-they are visions of the future that Jack has tried for years to suppress. Something happened to Jack in his childhood- something that means he cannot touch another living person and something that killed his mother-and this something has returned to inspire his visions. In a final race against time, Jack attempts to save a boy's life in the clearing of Redgrave Forest. Can he face the long-dead Dr. Mendicant and the ancient Darkness of Crowman? Can he face the evil living inside himself? And what will he make of the Doctor's final, devastating revelation?"Horrific, haunting, and humane, Hussey's novel is a disturbing journey into the darkest of minds."Tim Lebbon, author of The Last Storm "Packed with atmosphere and beautiful writing. Hussey delivers an absorbing, creepy read." - Peter Law, author of The Frighteners and The Matt Hunter Series About the Author:William Hussey is an award-winning author of over a dozen novels. From thrillers for Young Adults to gripping whodunnits for grown-ups, he has written in almost every genre of fiction. His latest books include the highly-anticipated KILLING JERICHO (April 2023), the first in a brand new series featuring crime fiction's first Traveller detective, and the acclaimed political thriller for teens, THE OUTRAGE.His other titles for children and Young Adults include Hideous Beauty, Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide, Witchfinder: Gallows at Twilight; Witchfinder: The Last Nightfall; Haunted; The Nightmare Eater; and Turn Her Face To The Wall.

The town of Carruthers, Texas, has seen its share of drifters and lowlifes. But never anyone like Steven and Earl. They move from town to town, hustling the pool halls. Raising a little hell. Drinking a little blood. They sleep by day and hunt by night - the ultimate predators The perfect life. Until now. A barroom brawl ends in disaster. The soil from Steven's grave has been stolen. A young boy's death sparks an all-out war between vampires and mortals that will turn the lcoal Frontier Day celebration into a bloodbath ... It's time to paint the town red.Gary Raisor is an American horror author best known for the novels Less Than Human, Graven Images, Sinister Purposes, and his extensive short fiction work. He was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for Less Than Human in 1992. He also edited the anthology Obsessions with stories from Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson, F. Paul Wilson, Dan Simmons, Joe R. Lansdale, and featured the story Lady Madonna by Nancy Holder, which won the Bram Stoker Award for Short Fiction in 1991.Raisor has written numerous short stories, beginning in the 1980s in Night Cry Magazine and The Horror Show, working his way into a lot of "Best Of" anthologies. Today, Raisor concentrates primarily on screenplays and comics.

S T E P H E N K I N G has inspired millions of readers with his writing for more than four decades now, and this special volume of essays gathers together some of his high-pro­ le fans to discuss why they love reading Stephen King.Many of these fans are acclaimed authors of ­ ction in their own right. Some of them have written insightful books about Stephen King's work, exploring how King's natural storytelling gift has allowed him to create stories that reach people in every language around the world. A few of them have even written, produced, and directed movie adaptations of King's most acclaimed works.Inside this book you will join Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, Richard Chizmar, Frank Darabont, Stephen Spignesi, Justin Brooks, Tony Magistrale, Michael R. Collings, Rocky Wood, Robin Furth, Kevin Quigley, Hans-Åke Lilja, Billy Chizmar, Jack Ketchum, Bev Vincent, Mick Garris, and Jay Franco as they discuss their love of reading Stephen King... BRIAN JAMES FREEMAN is the author of The Painted Darkness, Black Fire, Blue November Storms, More Than Midnight, Weak and Wounded, Dreamlike States, Lost and Lonely, The Halloween Children (with Norman Prentiss), Darkness Whispers (with Richard Chizmar), and Walking With Ghosts.With Richard Chizmar, he is co-editor of the acclaimed Dark Screams ten volume horror anthology series published by Random House imprint Hydra. He also edited the Halloween Carnival anthology series for Hydra.Brian is the general manager of Cemetery Dance Publications and the publisher of Lonely Road Books. He is also the founder and publisher of Books to Benefit, a small press specializing in special Limited Edition books to raise funds for good causes.Visit him on the web at BrianJamesFreeman.com

"Haunted by his dark past and an array of addictions that destroyed his life, Deacon is a man adrift, a lost soul trying to piece back together all that's been lost. One of his darkest addictions was his relationship with the sexy, enigmatic and seductive Fay Dillon. But their time together ended in horror and sorrow, so when Deacon receives a call informing him Fay's gone missing, he returns to the small beach town where he grew up, and the cottage on the dunes Deacon and Fay once shared years before. A place of drunken, drug and sex-fueled binges, it summons all the madness of his time there, and drags Deacon back into the tempest that is Fay Dillon. And this time there may be no escape, because Deacon knows who Fay really is. What she is. What he is. What they both may still be. To find the answers, Deacon must not only return to the cottage, but to the bleakest, darkest parts of nearby Boston, and the depraved underground circles they ran in years earlier, where drugs, alcohol and sex were far from their only compulsions. And now, amidst a whirlwind of black magic, unthinkable violence and the demonic horrors of their past, Deacon must confront both the blood on Fay's hands, and his own. He's about to realize Fay's not missing at all, but waiting. Elusive as smoke, she waits for him, for those who awaken and watch from the shadows, and for the flow of blood that forever binds the past to the present and the present to the future. Love hurts...when it's to the death. "The best writer of horror novels and supernatural thrillers at work today." - Christopher Rice Greg F. Gifune is a best-selling, internationally-published author of several acclaimed novels, novellas and two short story collections. He has been described as "The best writer of horror and thrillers at work today" by author Christopher Rice, "Among the finest dark suspense writers of our time" by author Ed Gorman, and "One of the best writers of his generation" by author Brian Keene. Working predominantly in the horror and crime genres, Gifune's work has been translated into several languages, received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly, Library Journal and others, and is consistently praised by readers and critics alike.

In his newest collection of short fiction, award-winning author Jack Dann offers twenty tales of the fantastic which will take readers on flights of fancy, plumb the depths of the human imagination, and examine the human experience through the lens of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Islands of Time is a collection which offers the best and worst of humanity, across time, space, and other dimensions. "Jack Dann is the kind of inspired madman who comes along all too rarely. He is an exacting craftsman and a fevered visionary; his prose sings, his people live and breathe and bleed, and his imaginary landscapes are vivid, surreal, and throb with a singular intensity..." -GEORGE R. R. MARTIN JACK DANN has written or edited over seventy-five books, including the international bestseller The Memory Cathedral, The Rebel, The Silent, Junction, and The Man Who Melted. He is a recipient of the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australian Aurealis Award (three times), the Ditmar Award (five times), the Peter McNamara Achievement Award and also the Peter McNamara Convenors' Award for Excellence, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Premios Gilgames de Narrativa Fantastica award. He has also been honoured by the Mark Twain Society (Esteemed Knight

After leaving an abusive relationship, Abby visits an old friend on her way to her mother's in Florida. Hayden's Uncle Jack is renovating a building into high-end apartments in town, and with the lure of living rent-free in a beautiful loft, Abby becomes the caretaker with the entire building all to herself. Abby hears strange sounds in the building. Shadows move as if they're alive. Led to believe the structure was previously a school, Abby is told by the last living employee of Harper's Grove that the building used to be a home for the infirm and unwanted children, the Dead Pennies of society, unfit for circulation.Abby and Hayden search for the cause of the strange events at Harper's Grove, and find out why the spirits of the dead children won't sleep until they get vengeance.But there's also another evil at play-this one of a human nature. Abby's ex-boyfriend, Nick, finds out where she has run off to. He won't stop for anything until she's back in his clutches, but Nick doesn't expect to come up against the raging spirits of the Dead Pennies."Plainly stated, Robert Ford's most recent novel (Burner) ranks up there with Jack Ketchum's THE GIRL NEXT DOOR." - Pete Kahle"Ford's writing here is next level. His prose is smooth, eloquent and often times beautiful even while describing the most vile and despicable acts." - Ron Davis"(Burner is) One of the most binge-worthy books I've ever read. Could not set it down. A+ horror all the way." - "Mother Horror" Sadie HartmannRobert Ford has written the novels The Dead Pennies, Larva Me Tender, Burner, Blood Roses, The Compound, No Lipstick in Avalon, Inner Demons, a collection of novellas, and The God Beneath my Garden, his collected short fiction. He has co-authored the novella Rattlesnake Kisses, and Cattywampus, and Black Salve with John Boden.He can confirm the grass actually is greener on the other side, but it's only because of the bodies buried there. You can find out more about what he's up to by visiting robertfordauthor.com

God Can Touch You Too!¿The year is 1989, and in suburban Chicago, the worldwide religious movement known as Universal Ministries is carefully tending its flock. They come by the thousands, young people looking for happiness, searching for peace, drawn by a message of hope and the opportunity to change the world. They come from far and wide to follow their heroes - Reverend Steve, Reverend Bob, and the man they worship most of all, the powerful Reverend Arthur Bach. But Curt Potter has come to Universal Ministries for another reason. He is on a quest for the truth about his life, about the past. But he could never have imagined what he would find. A place where the shadows come alive at night. A horrific secret at the heart of the church. An unspeakable evil more terrible than his darkest nightmares. Now, with the odds against him and time running out, Curt must convince his friends to join him, stand against the darkness, and fight for their lives, their souls, and their very salvation. "Clear, direct, at times lyrical and powerful. The Night Prophets satisfies. It recalls a different time and subtly blends it into our own ... reminding readers of a time when Evil was forced to face Good, and Good triumphed. A fun, layered read." -- Michael R. Collings, Hellnotes "If you are looking for an action packed, blood soaked, character driven tale that just happens to be a vampire story, you need look no further than The Night Prophets. Enjoyed every minute of it." -- Literary Mayhem

Down here in the dark lies a vast and twisted landscape where the wicked, wistful, and profane coalesce. This is where the lonely and lost face their demons, where anxious paranoias are made manifest, and where mundane evil wears a human face. For readers, the sixteen stories found within Cold, Black, & Infinite serve as a harrowing glimpse into the nightmarish imagination of Todd Keisling, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Devil's Creek and Scanlines.Visit a town where the residents are slowly being replaced by mannequins in "We've All Gone to the Magic Show." Go for a drive and discover your favorite radio host is still transmitting from beyond the grave in "Midnight in the Southland." Laugh at Karen's misfortune when she learns necromancy isn't the best way to raise a child in "Afterbirth." And uncover the truemotivation behind one man's historical betrayal in "Gethsemane."Featuring three previously unpublished stories and an introduction by Bram Stoker Award- winner John Langan, Cold, Black, & Infinite establishes Keisling as a leading voice in contemporary indie horror.Cast your doubts aside and take the plunge. Touch the abyss. It's waiting.

In this eclectic assortment of flash fiction, Bram Stoker Award-winner Norman Prentiss concocts a different end-of-the-world scenario for each calendar day. The stories range from humorous to bizarre to unsettling, commemorating holiday and observance days (New Year's or Valentine's Day, National Pig Day), famous birthdays (Robert Frost, Charles Dickens), or notable historical events (the first computer...and the first computer virus; the sinking of the Titanic or the Great Chicago Fire). Other daily entries include a riff on the first (and only) golf game on the moon; "The Milking of Elm Farm Ollie," which reinvigorates an in-flight publicity stunt by adding apocalyptic results; and occasional letters from the sardonic "Dear Apocalypse" advice column. A handful of longer, serialized stories include: "The Hell of Food That Looks Like Other Food," "The Exterminator's Visit," and "The Child Who Ended the World."This massive collection includes all 365 entries from an ambitious yearlong project: more than 170,000 words of bleak or humorous vignettes, stories, serials, poems, and a few unclassifiable oddities-ready to be sampled in small doses just like the pages of those desk calendars you buy for 50%-off inFebruary...or available all at once for your immediate binge-reading pleasure!

In Gravesend, Brooklyn, sixteen-year-old Elodia is an outcast at school, at odds with her father, and longing for her mysteriously absent mother. Lonely and isolated, Elodia knows that something unspeakably terrible has happened to her-she just can't remember what. Miles away in upstate New York, a young man named Gabriel occupies his time by killing sparrows and searching for his birth parents. Gabriel wants to show them what a good son he can be, well-behaved and helpful and no trouble at all-until a savage betrayal plants an ever-growing seed of revenge within him. Desperate for the promise of their past lives and future dreams, both Elodia and Gabriel are broken and scarred, their lives shattered. Their wounds run deep-and that kind of damage is irrevocable. Unchangeable. Irreversible. ... Isn't it? Born and raised in New York City, Luisa began her career as a journalist and content producer at New York magazine in the late 90s. Over the past 20+ years, her work has appeared in numerous print and online publications including the New York Times, New York, Parents, Family Circle, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Latina, USA Today, Elle, and many more.

These 23 tales (plus a bonus weird Western story with Harley Allen!)-including the cult favorite, "Slow Mary"-take you along dark, unlined roads and into dark minds less traveled. Held together by themes of isolation and loneliness, existentialism and hope, and choice versus fate, and at turns both disturbing and darkly comical (while often tinged with sadness), this collection explores both speculative fiction and realism: horror and dark fantasy, road stories and crime, dark drama and soft sci-fi, and surrealism and magical realism.". . . conjures from the dust and dirt of Americana both the horror and pathos of life on the edges. Each story spins out a heightening dread, the prose swinging from brutal to beautiful and back again." -John Hornor Jacobs, author of This Dark Earth, Southern Gods, and The Twelve-Fingered Boy". . . demonstrates an astonishing breadth of imagination in this collection, along with memorable characters and a style that's as clear and crisp as it is hard-hitting. Back Roads & Frontal Lobes is a master class in fiction writing, wildly entertaining and highly recommended!" - Tim Waggoner, author of Writing in the Dark and We Will RiseAbout the Author (s): Brady Allen grew up in a small rural town in southern Ohio and now resides in Dayton, Ohio. He has two daughters and a dog, and he taught writing at a local public college for twenty-five years. Besides reading, writing, and spending time with family, he loves listening to Reds baseball on the transistor radio and Waylon Jennings. He is at work on a second collection of short stories, Outliers & Inner Urges, and a dystopian horror/sci-fi series, still untitled.

Jenny Schultz wakes trapped in a pitch-black basement with no recollection of how she got there. With no outside stimuli, Jenny naturally turns inward and revisits her guilt-ridden past, desperate to figure out which wronged person would be angry enough, evil enough, to do this to her.She must survive her own demons, and then time itself when she finds remnants of previous captives-a plate, a tooth, a bone. Scratched hashmarks in the stone walls around her, leave her to wonder what happens next.What happens after six days?Kelli Owen is a member of both the Horror Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers, and has spoken at the CIA Headquarters in Langley, VA regarding both her writing and the field in general. The author of over a dozen books, including THE HEADLESS BOY, TEETH, and the Wilted Lily YA series, her short fiction has appeared in Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthologies alongside Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Robert McCammon, F. Paul Wilson, and Josh Malerman, among others. Born and raised in Wisconsin, she now lives in the dark woods of Pennsylvania. For more information or social media links, please visit her website at kelliowen.com"Kelli Owen has pulled off a kind of dark magic with this book... She's made us care deeply about a flawed character completely alone in the dark, a scary one-character play peopled with everyone she's close to...which is no mean feat for any magician. And the ending packs a hell of a wallop." ~ Jack Ketchum, author "This is one HELL of macabre, psychological mystery. One of the most suspenseful books I've read in long time, and a stellar debut." ~ Edward Lee, author

Featuring Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Robert McCammon, Tananarive Due, Lisa Morton, Heather Graham, Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar, and many others... Plus a BRAND NEW novella by Josh Malerman!About the Book:Venture inside Midnight Under the Big Top, where your wide eyes and pounding heart will discover: ¿ the world's grandest tales of murder, madness, and magic set in and around the circus by renowned storytellers such as Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Robert McCammon, Tananarive Due, Lisa Morton, Heather Graham, Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar, Amanda C. Davis, Nayad Monroe, Jeff Strand, Amanda Downum, Robert Brouhard, and Dominick Cancilla!¿ the World's First-Ever Poetry Intermission featuring Norman Prentiss, G.O. Clark, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Robert Payne Cabeen, David E. Cowen, Alessandro Manzetti, Christina Sng, Stephanie M. Wytovich, K.A. Opperman, Ashley Dioses, and Terri Adamczyk!¿ and for the grand finale, Josh Malerman, author of the New York Times bestseller Bird Box, will introduce you to Dandelion Andrews, a very unusual man who hasn't seen daylight in three months because he's digging a hole destined to become a most unusual carnival house of horrors!These death-defying tales aren't for the faint of heart, but they are perfect for the long lost child deep inside of you who instinctively understands you should never trust a circus clown.Table of Contents:ACT ONE:"The Night of the Tiger" by Stephen King"Twittering from the Circus of the Dead" by Joe Hill"The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch" by Neil Gaiman"The Girl in the Carnival Gown" by Kelley Armstrong"Herd Immunity" by Tananarive Due"Pickled Punks and the Summer of Love" by Lisa Morton"Courting the Queen of Sheba" by Amanda C. Davis"The Circus Reborn" by Nayad Monroe"The Black Ferris" by Ray BradburyPOETRY INTERMISSION FEATURING:Norman PrentissG.O. ClarkMarge SimonBruce BostonRobert Payne CabeenDavid E. Cowen Alessandro ManzettiChristina SngStephanie M. WytovichK.A. OppermanAshley DiosesTerri AdamczykACT TWO:"The Great White Way" by Robert McCammon"Buried Talents" by Richard Matheson"The Carnival" by Richard Chizmar"Mr. Bones' Wild Ride" by Billy Chizmar"Fair Treats" by Jeff Strand"Smoke & Mirrors" by Amanda Downum"Circus Maximus" by Robert Brouhard"Laughable" by Dominick Cancilla"Count Zardov's Circus and Museum of Terrifying Grotesques" by Heather GrahamTHE GRAND FINALE:Dandy, a short novel by Josh Malerman

12 years ago Janet Martlee's infant son died under mysterious circumstances. Consumed with grief and anger, she ran away to start again...Yesterday, a12-year old boy with dead eyes appeared in her classroom, begging for help. But Janet doesn't believe in ghosts...Today, her psychiatrist tells her she must return home to confront her past and uncover the mystery of what happened...Only some questions don't want to be answered. And some answers hide in the shadows...In the COFFIN SHADOWS"A chilling tale of loss and discovery. COFFIN SHADOWS ramps up the suspense from the first page until the last. Krischand Steensland are definitely authors to watch!" --Michael McBride, author of Subhuman and Mutation "Krisch and Steensland's COFFIN SHADOWS is sleek, mysterious and disturbing, a fast-ball right over the plate that readers of traditional horror are sure to enjoy. Nicely done and lots of fun." --Greg F. Gifune, author of Savages and The Bleeding Season "In COFFIN SHADOWS, Glen and Mark have created a very Gothic modern horror tale, filled with stern headmistresses, gaslighting and secret cults. Deftly handled, chilling and atmospheric in all the right ways and places. Definitely recommended!" --John F.D. Taff, Multi Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Fearing and The End in All Beginnings "COFFIN SHADOWS is a quick, intense read. The reader is never allowed the comfort of a predictable scenario, but is instead tossed from one unsettling chapter to the next. A wonderful story steeped in mystery, suspense, betrayal, and horrifying secrets." --Somer Canon, author of The Hag Witch of Tripp Creek and A Fresh Start

Robert and Janet Patterson and their young daughter, Krissy, went looking for the perfect getaway vacation spot. They found it in a backwoods Florida town. Far away from civilization. Quiet and peaceful. And terribly isolated.Robert and Janet should have listened to the local legends. They should have heeded the warnings about the black water lagoons. And they should have listened to their daughter when she told them about the whispers in the woods. Because now, it's too late. Krissy's disappeared, and whatever took their little girl is coming back for more....Blurb:"Owl Goingback is a hell of a writer." --Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods and Sandman"Owl Goingback is a writer of great skill. I love his work."--George A. Romero, legendary horror director, Night of the Living Dead"Evil Whispers is a fun, entertaining novel. Goingback is considered one of today's biggest talents in the field of horror." --Painted Rock Reviews"Owl Goingback does not disappoint. He delivers some very tight writing, great characters and a genuinely gripping story. Evil Whispers is on the money." --Horror World"Owl Goingback has woven yet another masterful tale of suspense and Native American lore.":--Orlando LeisureOwl Goingback has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous novels, children's book, screenplays, magazine articles, comics, and short stories. He is a three-time Bram Stoker Award Winner, receiving the award for lifetime achievement, best novel, and best first novel. He is also a Nebula Award Nominee, and a Storytelling World Awards Honor recipient. His books include Crota, Darker Than Night, Evil Whispers, Breed, Shaman Moon, Coyote Rage, Eagle Feathers, Tribal Screams, and The Gift. In addition to writing under his own name, Owl has ghostwritten books for Hollywood celebrities.

The giant metal man has stood for hundreds of years, head tilted back, mouth open. All the dead of the town are disposed of this way, carried up the long, staircase that winds around him and tipped in. At his toe emerges the Bitters, the lifeblood of the town, keeping them healthy and prosperous as the sick and needy come to buy and drink. McNubbin is a happy man with all he wants in life. He's carried the bodies up since he was 14, a worthwhile, respected job. But when he notices broken girl after broken girl, he can't stay quiet, and speaking up will change his perfect life. Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Fiji and Canberra. She has five novels in print, including the The Grief Hole, Slights and Tide of Stone, and seven short story collections, including Cemetery Dance Selects, an eBook. She is a past Guest of Honor at Stokercon and the World Fantasy Convention.

Like a vinyl record from days gone by, author Daniel Braum spins a unique blend of speculative fiction that effortlessly blends fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mysticism. Braum's multi-dimensional characters are drawn into dark worlds and investigate the unexplainable at the edges of civilization. In The Night Marchers, the debut collection from Daniel Braum, readers will encounter: * A song that might herald the end of the world.* A young girl possessed by a hurricane.* A Native American Death Metal singer who might be the reincarnation of Crazy Horse.* A cat and mouse chase with demons through the jungles of Central America.* A has-been rock star haunted by the pet fish of his failed relationship.* An erotically charged night in the desert that might end with redemption, or entwined in the thorns of a cactus monster.* A beautiful alabaster Sphinx lumbering not towards Bethlehem but the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn... Appearing for the first time here is the title story "The Night Marchers," and "The Sphinx of Cropsey Avenue," alongside three classic stories from the pages of Cemetery Dance magazine and many more!"Daniel Braum is a true storyteller. By that I mean he spins tales of wonder that grasp at ideas and themes that human beings have been pondering since our brains become up to the task. These stories will also make you laugh, cringe, and damn near weep. This is such a big-hearted and wide ranging book and Daniel Braum is the real deal, a writer to treasure." -Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black TomDaniel Braum's fiction has been classified as fantasy, science fiction, and horror but he prefers the good old fashioned term of just "fiction", which when he was growing up simply meant a story were anything could happen. His stories frequently defy category and reside in the fuzzy areas between genres, utilizing and combining genre elements to produce tales that are wholly unique.

When George Miller is killed in the mines of Yellow Hill, his wife and children are left to try and piece their lives back together. Tabitha Miller, George's widow, is thrown into deeper chaos when she discovers that George's death had nothing to do with the cave's collapse, but was caused by some terrible predator deep within the earth. His death covered up by the mine's Proprietor-Jeremiah Hart.In nearby Big Spring, freed slave-turned-occult bounty hunter Gilbert Ptolemy arrives with his adopted son in search of a murderous vampire. New revelations in Yellow Hill draw the duo toward the struggling Miller family, the strange mine, and the horrors lurking within.The Miller and Ptolemy families are pitted against mundane and supernatural forces in this Weird West adventure. Family struggles, heart-stopping gunfights, and nightmare creatures from dark realms abound in this award-winning novel from C.S. Humble."Humble writes with rare passion in the tradition of Robert E. Howard and a young Stephen King." - Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us AllC.S. Humble is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the Black Wells series (Dark Hart Books) and the That Light Sublime western horror trilogy (Cemetery Dance). He lives in East Texas and can be found @cshumble(twitter) or at his website www.cshumble.com.

After an absence of twenty-two years, childhood friends Connor, Miguel, and Jelica agree to meet at Sunny Pines, the mobile home park where they grew up. Sunny Pines had always been a violent place, where drugs and crime were prevalent and visits from the police commonplace. Some say it had been built on bad ground, a spoiled, cursed land. Nothing positive ever came from Sunny Pines, and those who managed to escape it carried the traumas from that environment wherever they wound up. For the three friends, this is a solemn gathering and, hopefully, a way to put the past to rest. A recent fire destroyed the neighborhood, killing six and leaving many more injured. But their return does little to quiet their childhood memories. Instead, their arrival stirs every vile remnant of dysfunction into waking, and they must face their demons if they are to truly leave the mobile home park for good.Bios:A native of the Chicago suburbs, Glen Krisch hopes to add to his list of ghosts he's witnessed (two), as well as develop his rather pedestrian telekinetic and precognitive skills. His novels include Amazon Bestseller Where Darkness Dwells, The Nightmare Within, Nothing Lasting, Arkadium Rising, Echoes of Violence, and Little Whispers.Ray Garton is the author of several books, including horror novels such as Live Girls (which has a movie in the works), Crucifax, E4 Autumn, and The Folks; thrillers like Trade Secrets and Shackled; and numerous short stories and novellas. He's also written a number of movie and television tie-ins for young readers. He lives with his wife, Dawn, in California.Bev Vincent is the author of The Dark Tower Companion, The Road to the Dark Tower, the Bram Stoker Award nominated companion to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, and The Stephen King Illustrated Companion, which was nominated for a 2010 Edgar® Award and a 2009 Bram Stoker Award. In 2018, he co-edited the anthology Flight or Fright with Stephen King.His short fiction has appeared in places like Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Borderlands 5, Ice Cold, and The Blue Religion. Four stories were collected in When the Night Comes Down and another four in a CD Select eBook. His story "The Bank Job" won the Al Blanchard Award. "The Honey Trap" from Ice Cold was nominated for an ITW Thriller Award in 2015 and "Zombies On A Plane" was nominated for an Ignotus Award in 2020.

In this haunting, suspenseful debut novel, John Mantooth takes readers to a town in rural Alabama where secrets are buried deep, reality is relative, and salvation requires a desperate act of faith. When Danny was fourteen, his mother and sister disappeared during a violent storm. The police were baffled. There were no clues, and most people figured they were dead. Only Danny still holds out hope that they'll return. Months later, a disheveled Vietnam vet named Walter Pike shows up at Danny's front door, claiming to know their whereabouts. The story he tells is so incredible that Danny knows he shouldn't believe him. Others warn him about Walter Pike's dark past, his shameful flight from town years ago, and the suspicious timing of his return. But he's Danny's last hope, and Danny needs to believe..."Powerful, dark, and heartfelt. The Year of the Storm is a wonderful coming of age novel by a very talented new writer. An astounding debut."-John Rector, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of Already Gone, The Grove, and The Cold Kiss"A dark and mysterious southern-gothic story with hints of Tom Franklin's Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and Stephen King's novella The Body, John Mantooth's voice is masculine and powerful, flavoring the pages with the Alabama wilderness, the turmoil of family and how all of these elements work to shape and nurture teenage boys into men."-Frank Bill, author of Crimes in Southern Indiana and Donnybrook "As strong a debut novel as any I've read in a long time. It's frightening and sad, vicious and unforgiving, quiet and contemplative. It's a helluva start to what's surely going to be a career worth watching."-fearnet.com"The Year of the Storm by John Mantooth is the very definition of "attention grabber." It is a flat out page turner. It is a rare thriller which combines elements of rural noir, supernatural horror, and is an intense dual coming of age story that is as spellbinding as anything from horror masters such as Stephen King and Laird Barron."-litreactor.com"Masterful foreshadowing... A tough and violent book, but also one with prose that aches with loss."-Booklist¿JOHN MANTOOTH is the award winning author of two novels and a short story collection. His first novel, The Year of the Storm, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. He has also published three crime novels under the pseudonym Hank Early. Heaven's Crooked Finger (written as Hank Early) was a Next Generation Indie Book award winner and 2017 Foreword Indies Award Finalist. He lives in Alabama with his wife and two children.

From the award-winning author of Our Lady of the Inferno comes another tale of New York in the Bad Old Days: A saga of murder, bloodshed, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Times Square at the height of its decadence and depravity.In the kingdom of the damned that is 42nd Street, there's no lowlier subject than Andy Lew. An unrepentant junkie, voyeur, and degenerate, he's only tolerated by the more dangerous men around him because he keeps the projectors at the Colossus theater running on time, entertaining them with the most extreme horror cinema money can buy.There's something unique about Andy, though. He owns a movie. It's the only one of its kind. No one knows who made it. Only he knows where it came from. The woman it stars is beautiful beyond imagination-and the images it depicts are more nightmarish than the darkest depths of Hell. The beasts of 42nd Street will do anything to possess it, but there's something they don't understand. Andy loves the woman in the movie-and he'll go to any lengths to protect her...A savage love letter to 70s exploitation cinema and a biting satire of toxic fan culture, Beasts of 42nd Street makes horror dangerous again as it ventures into the mind of a psychopath like no other- one that will have readers recoiling even as they keep coming back for more."Preston Fassel has proven himself as one of our most powerful upcoming voices in horror literature with Beasts of 42nd Street. Fassel simultaneously winks at past horror sub-genres while delving into new and innovative territory, creating both a love letter to 70s exploitation cinema while weaving a tight, contemporary, psychological horror tale." -Rebekah McKendry, PhD"Like the bastard lovechild of Paul Schrader and Abel Ferrera, Preston Fassel's Beasts of 42nd Street is a sleazy, audacious, razor-sharp slice of bloody exploitation...You may be able to wipe away the grime after reading this book, but the smile will stay for days." -Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram StokerAward-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy"You could sit around and moan about how they don't write 'em like they used to, or you could get acquainted with Preston Fassel. Beasts of 42nd Street is more reflective than you might expect from a book whose main character is a junkie projectionist...but it's as vividly drawn and engrossingly readable as any dog-eared paperback from the heyday of pulp fiction." -Katie Rife; The aV Club, Rolling Stone"...one of the best detective novels to come down the pike in a long while. A rogues' gallery of great characters and a killer story mixed with New York City in all its 1970s sleazy glory. What's not to love?" -Harry Hunsicker, author of The Devil's Country; former executive vice president of the Mystery Writers of America"Fassel impressively grafts a grimy, thrilling horror story onto the richly rendered true grindhouse setting of 42nd Street, using actual events and places to flesh out this exploitation nightmare. Demonstrating expansive research and knowledge of the era, Fassel's latest impresses on every level."-Meagan Navarro, Bloody Disgusting"You don't just read this book, you live it. A desperate love story of obsession and madness that could've only happened on 42nd street." -Matt Serafini, author of Rites of Extinction and under The Blade"...a work of gritty, haunting storytelling. You won't be able to forget Andy Lew's descent into forbidden cinema." -John Palisano; President, HWA

Nothing really dies if it's remembered, his wife had told him.In the dying village of Al Tarfuk, lost among the war-stained dunes of eastern Libya, professor Norman Haas learns the location of the tomb that had been his wife's life pursuit. The final resting place of Kiya, the lost queen of Akhenaten, whose history had been etched from the stone analogues of history for her heresies against the long absent pantheon of Egyptian gods.He never expected to discover that the tomb was the final resting place to more than the dead. And as his team of researchers find themselves trapped inside the ancient tomb, Norman realizes all too soon that his wife was right-Nothing really dies if it's remembered...But some things are best forgotten.Dan Franklin's debut supernatural thriller is a tale of grief, of loneliness, and of an ageless, hungry fury that waits with ready tooth and claw beneath the sand. "This neat little book, Franklin's debut, is much fresher than its B-movie premise might suggest. Franklin is a horror writer to watch." - Publishers Weekly"Franklin's slowly advancing sense of dread, claustrophobia and menace in "The Eater of the Gods" is calibrated with a bomb maker's precision, and the atmospheric descriptions are stunningly done." - The Day Dan Franklin wrote his first attempt at a horror novel when he was seven. It was terrible. He has, since, improved. The winner of several local awards for short stories and an occasional poem, Dan Franklin lives in Maryland with his extremely understanding wife, his cosmically radiant daughter, and a socially crippling obsession with things that creep. The Eater of Gods is his first published novel. He can be contacted at DanFranklinAuthor.com