Who is this Mark McLaughlin person, and why should you read him?Mark—whom I’ve had the pleasure of publishing for nearly 20 years now—is one of those unique voices in the horror field. He doesn’t tread the safe (or even sane!) path, but goes off in quirky directions, and he’s happy to have company along the way. And while he’s poking around the oddest places, he finds humor in the outrageous and the unsettling. Vampires? Of course. Zombies? Definitely. But these are never quite the...

Organized ski racing in America started near Lake Tahoe in the 1860s when gold miners rode 15-foot boards that reached speeds near 100 miles per hour. By 1895, residents of Truckee had started the nation�s first winter carnival west of the Rocky Mountains and soon built the largest ski jump in California. Today�s Lake Tahoe, with significant annual snowfall, has become home to the largest concentration of ski resorts on the continent. Places like Mount Rose, Squaw Valley (home of the 1960 ...

From the early 1900s through the 1950s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this 'golden age' can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of local children only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across...

Welcome to the Best Little Witch-House in Arkham! In this midnight den of dread and desire, you will find twenty-five rooms, each with a story of its own to tell. Here you will enjoy a delectable variety of otherworldly horrors and delights...enough to satisfy even your most eldritch desires. You will find evil pop-stars longing to devour their fans. You will find a sophisticated secret agent in search of supernatural super-villains. You will find a futuristic restaurant for alien connoiss...

Zombies are relentless, ravenous creatures, and their insatiable appetite for living flesh has given author Mark McLaughlin plenty of food for thought. In BEACH BLANKET ZOMBIE, you will sit down to a feast of zombie stories -- seventeen in all.Zombies can rise from the dead for countless reasons. Any horror-movie enthusiastic can tell you that. Sure, a zombie's bite can turn its victim into one of the living dead. But that's not all. In films, corpses have been turned into zombies ...

The darkness holds many surprises. In this collection of thirty stories of horror and the bizarre, we shall explore some of those surprises. Even though I’ve been extolling the virtues of darkness, I do encourage you to read this book with the lights on. Light does have its practical applications, you know. You have to see the words.

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the seductive allure of vampires. We read about them in books, watch stories about them on television and in movies -- but do we know all there is to know about them? Of course not. These creatures of the shadows have kept their most shocking secrets hidden . . . until now."Dracula Transformed & Other Bloodthirsty Tales" features eleven vampire stories by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Mark McLaughlin and Bram Stoker Award finali...

A haunted history of this Midwestern region filled with supernatural lore . . . Includes photos!Divided by state lines and the Mississippi River, the Quad Cities share a common haunted heritage. If anything, the seam that runs through the region is especially rife with spirits, from the Black Angel of Moline's Riverside Cemetery to the spectral Confederate POWs of Arsenal Island.Of course, the city centers have their own illustrious supernatural residents—t...

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that are central to the ongoing evolution of the environmental movement while reappraising the history and character of late twentieth and early twenty-first environmentalism in Canada, the United States, and beyond. This collection considers the different ways ...

Warning: Haunted Book.Contained within are over 50 stories, or traps, for as many different ghosts. Most of them are not very friendly.A distinct possibility exists that one or more of these traps could fail, granted the reader (redacted).Weird Fiction Quarterly is not responsible if any number of these spirits happen to break out of the page and follow the reader home.You have, after all, been warned.Read at your o...

DREAMING KANDRESPHAR, by Darrell SchweitzerEYE OF WISDOM, EYE OF PAIN, by John R. FultzTHE THING THAT ISN’T HIS MOTHER, by Lorenzo CrescentiniTHE SIRENS SING AT SUNSET, by Allan RozinskiZOLTÁN, by Cynthia WardCHARMED, I’M SURE, by Franklyn SearightPANDEMONIUM, by Thomas VaughnWHISPERS, by Ashley DiosesTRYING TO FIND IT IN MY CITY, by Chad HensleyA WITNESS OF THE LAST DAYS OF EN-FANULK, by Adrian SimmonsTHE ACQUISITION OF...

Now in FULL COLOR!Weird Fiction Quarterly returns for its fourth installment, rounding out the seasonal cycle with a special double-sized volume featuring two themes: Fall and Halloween!Within these pages, you will harvest twice as many 500-word stories from your favorite authors while gazing terrified upon morbid illustrations by Sarah Walker, Nora Peevy, and Andy Joynes. The bewitching cover painting by Robert H. Knox makes this issue a cherishable autumnal keepsake....