After forging a contract with Berial, the king of Hell, young Illya obtains an incredible education in the art of magic. Her skills grow by leaps and bounds, catching the attention of the royal court and qualifying her for an elite apprenticeship. But court life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Illya quickly grows tired of the manipulative machinations of nobles and the scheming of the high court wizard. Her only choice? To quit! Leaving her post and the entire country, Illya now searches ...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

An Aurora Award FinalistSix contestants. One haunted house. And a whole lot of bloody murder.B-grade horror masters the Gowan brothers have devised a new reality TV show with a killer hook. Six contestants compete for the chance to star in an upcoming slasher movie. All they have to do is survive one night in a “haunted” house and be voted Scream Queen.The setting is perfect: a crumbling Victorian mansion with a gruesome history an...

An Aurora Award Finalist250 years ago, French Jesuits erected a mission deep in the uncharted Canadian wilderness, where they lived until they were brutally tortured and murdered by a band of Iroquois.Or so the legends say.Today Ste-Claire College stands near the legendary massacre site, the mission's memory now more folklore than fact. Then Ste-Claire professor, Karl Desbiens, a Regent in the Order of Jesus, and his band of students set of...

Winner of the prestigious Aurora Award and Silver Birch Award, WOLF PACK is the inspiration for the hit show on Paramount+Nothing gets between a wolf and its pack…Most of the time, Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora are like any other teenagers. Prowling the halls of their high school in search of new crushes and true friendships, all while trying to keep up their grades. Except these teens are anything but ordinary…Discovered as wolf c...

"I expect it to knock people's socks off, the way Stephen King's Carrie did . . . Teeth will haunt you for the rest of your life" (Robert J. Sawyer, Nebula Award-winning author of Calculating God).They think they're getting lucky.They're dead wrong.Det. Joe Williams has seen all kinds of murder scenes. Some brutal, some gory, all disturbing and horrific in their way. Nothing could have prepared him for what's waiting in Apa...

Keep one eye on the road ahead and another on the rearview mirror.Because, like the legendary phantom semi of this book's titular story, these stories will creep up on you and overtake you without warning.Edo van Belkom twists his unique perspective and droll, black sense of humor into twisted observations of the sad, violent, and ironic sides of life in this special 25th anniversary release of a compilation of his most beloved horror stories.With a...

What do Parisian buttons, nesting spiders, and men from Venus have in common? They are all part of Tesseracts Ten - the sparkling new addition to the Tesseracts Collection.Tesseracts Ten joins volumes One through Nine, and Tesseracts Q - forming an eleven volume anthology of Canada's best Science Fiction, Fantasy and Speculative Literature.Following the Tesseracts tradition of having different editors for each collection, Tesseracts Ten was compiled by two of the world's fi...

Not all vampires are tall, dark, and handsome.Some are short, fat, and ugly.Amanda Peck is stuck in a dead-enbd job, lives with a deadbeat boyfriend, and is dead set on changing her life. With no thought about what tomorrow might bring, she packs up and runs. She hitchhikes west, accepting rides from truckers, but what she know is that prowling the enedless miles of asphalt on eighteen wheels is a vampire who’s already claimed the lives of five women, leaving their...

This Aurora Award and Silver Birch Award-winning series is the inspiration for the hit show on Paramount+When the woods become a trap, where does a wolf pack run?Everyone at Redstone High is talking about the strange Brock kids. How they keep to themselves at school—and spend way too much time in the woods. But Noble, Argus, Harlan and Tora aren't normal teens—they were born with the power to become wolves. And the more the siblings try to hide the...

Don't miss this Aurora Award finalist and the thrilling sequel to the Aurora Award and Silver Birch Award-winning novel Wolf Pack, the inspiration for the hit show on Paramount+Caught between the human world—and the world of the wolf pack…High school is hard enough for most teens but for Noble, Harlan, Argus and Tora, some days can be a real howl. Born wolves, the shape-shifting siblings have spent most of their lives in human form, taking...

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE: Mark Dalton isn't sure if he finds trouble or if trouble finds him. But ever since his wife traded him in for a prettier model, and he traded in his Private Eye business for a Peterbilt, it seems to be everywhere he goes. In this collection of loosely interwoven who-dunnits, Edo van Belkom introduces Mark Dalton, Trucker Detective. Whether he’s scooping up pretty hitchhikers with secrets, getting back goods stolen right out from under his nose, making a shady repair sh...