What happens when a megalomaniac TV star slings his conscious mind into the mass subconscious of humanity? Generally speaking, nothing good.Unfortunately for everyone, it's only unassuming middle manager Ralph Prate who can hope to save the world. Can Ralph defeat twisted superstar Dregg Dormann before he wins the struggle against the Archetypes of the Unconscious and ushers in the Last Age of Man? Ralph must find Dormann's off button before it's too late, or see everything he love...

Seven short fantasy and science fiction stories previously published in magazines and journals around the world. From a mysterious treatment centre which takes your traumatic memories and turns them into chocolate bars, to a counterfeit bank note which leads a disgruntled customer to an unexpected hellish fate, the stories in Candy Moments are by turns poignant, humorous and chilling.

What are the motivations for murder? Revenge, self-preservation, greed, desire, psychopathy, religious belief? Here are seven taut and frightening stories about killers and the inner workings of their minds, including the unique SHOPPING, a short story told as a series of shopping lists.

Six short crime and mystery stories, including the award-winning Taking Care of Frank, which won the UK Crime Writers Short Story Dagger in 1999.

The collected Donner & Bulkowkovich stories, including the previously unpublished novella Gategate. The broadsheet hacks with the tabloid hearts solve mysteries, hang out with aliens and demons and generally irritate and confuse a lot of people, including themselves, but really all they want from life is to find a decent cup of coffee.

Dissatisfied with his lot, Stephen Davison drifts disconsolately through his life in Oxford as a poorly paid tour guide. Then, walking one day in the woods outside the town, he meets Sarah Middelton, a slender, ethereal woman who tells him she is a local artist. She shows him the face of a man in an oak tree, and Davison gathers that she has carved it into the bark. Davison is soon beguiled by Sarah, and sees her as possible way out of his dismal existence. But there is more to Sarah than ...

Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts, and Tom Cox's loud and excitable dad, this book is full of the folklore of several counties the ancient kind and the everyday variety as well as wild places, mystical spots and curious objects. Emerging from this focus on the detail are themes that are broader and bigger and more important than ever.Tom's writing treads a new path, one that has a lot in common with a rambling country walk; it's bewitched ...

Paul Tremblay, Ramsey Campbell, and other modern masters of horror explore just how scary it is to be alone in this horror anthology featuring 20 horror short stories.Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the dark moments, the challenges that we must face alone: survivors in a wo...

** Winner of the 2008 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology**** Featuring 'POSSUM', now a major motion picture starring Sean Harris**Featuring:A.S. Byatt, Christopher Priest, Ramsey Campbell, Etgar Keret, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Maitland, Alison MacLeod, Jane Rogers, Gerard Woodward, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Nicholas Royle, Ian Duhig, Matthew Holness, and Adam Marek.In 1919 Sigmund Freud published an essay that ...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.' Times Literary Supplement'The first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that he will attain the sort of proverbial status Larkin now occup...

Hugo Williams is rightly cherished for his inimitable fusion of autobiography and irony, and a technical glide that allows his writing to 'slip back to the past as effortlessly as a dreamer' ( The Times).I Knew the Bride is Williams' eleventh collection of poems, and his first since West End Final was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Forward prizes for poetry in 2009. This new volume bears - and lays bare - those qualities that have become so char...