When Gizelle returns to Wickshaw, a small, windswept village on the rocky coast of northern Maine, it feels like a reluctant homecoming. Wickshaw is the place of her childhood, a town full of rough shores, sea-weathered houses, and fog-laden mornings. For Gizelle, it's also where her story began: a girl scraping by, digging for clams with her mother, dreaming of escape. She got her wish—trading hardship for opulence, a life of wealth and prestige—but it came at a cost.Now older and...

What does it mean to be free? To make a choice without consequence? To exist without obligation?In We Rang the Sanctus Bells, a man believes he has untethered himself from the burdens of identity, responsibility, and fate. When he wins the lottery, he tells himself that wealth has liberated him, that he is no longer beholden to family, country, or morality. But the more he embraces this illusion, the more he becomes trapped—by his own nature, by the weight of his choices, ...

Bob is the voice of the unrepresented, the uneducated, and the spurned. He boasts no history, no philosophy, or ancestery. This is a quiet, forgetful story that longs to laugh at itself (and the reader), but somehow cannot muster the strength. Bob is Bob, and Bob is you too.

Miguel Syjuco's debut novel, Ilustrado, opens with Crispin Salvador, lion of Philippine letters, dead in the Hudson River. His young student, Miguel, sets out to investigate the author's fatal departure from his encroaching obscurity and the suspicious disappearance of an unfinished manuscript—a work that had been planned to not just return the once-great author to fame, but to expose the corruption behind rich families who have ruled the Philippines for generations. To understand the deat...

Winner of the British Fantasy Society Award for “Best Anthology”An electrifying horror anthology featuring 19 stories by award-winning heavyweights of the genre—including Bird Box author Josh Malerman and Ramsey CampbellThe horror genre’s greatest living practitioners drag our darkest fears, kicking and screaming, into the light . . . In “The Boggle Hole” by Alison Littlewood, an ancient folk tale leads to irrevocable loss. In Josh...

The author of Winter's Bone delivers "a terrifying journey into the heart of darkness" with this suspenseful coming of age tale set in the Ozarks ( The New York Times Book Review).Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him—she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported father, Red, is a brutal man with a short f...

NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARDA VANITY FAIR HOT TYPE BOOK FOR APRIL 2018A VULTURE MUST-READ TRANSLATED BOOK FROM THE PAST 5 YEARSA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018A LIT HUB FAVOURITE BOOK OF THE YEARA WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE TRANSLATION OF 2018In a crumbling apartment bloc...

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life—and Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth in this hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels.As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vas...

After a harrowing voyage from Italy, during which his mother died, seven-year-old Vittorio arrives in Canada with his newborn half-sister, and is reunited with his estranged father, a dark, isolated, and angry figure he hardly knows. The story that follows spans two decades of Vittorio’s life within an immigrant Italian farming community in Southwestern Ontario, through his university years, and then into Africa where he goes to teach. At the centre of Vittorio’s existence is his strained ...

More than twenty-five years ago, Lucius Shepard introduced us to a remarkable fictional world, a world separated from our own “by the thinnest margin of possibility.” There, in the mythical Carbonales Valley, Shepard found the setting for “The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule,” the classic account of an artist—Meric Cattanay—and his decades long effort to paint—and kill—a dormant, not quite dead dragon measuring 6,000 feet from end to end. The story was nominated for multiple awards and ...

A novella and twelve stories from a master of supernatural horrorFather John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman’s touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changed the day that Debra Rocks entered his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Fa...

"Brilliant . . . Larry Brown has slapped his own fresh tattoo on the big right arm of Southern Lit." — The Washington Post Book WorldNow a major motion picture starring Nicolas Cage, directed by David Gordon Green.Joe Ransom is a hard-drinking ex-con pushing fifty who just won't slow down--not in his pickup, not with a gun, and certainly not with women. Gary Jones estimates his own age to be about fifteen. Born luckless, he is the son of a hopeless,...