Book 3 of Frost Zone Stories - Ten tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strangeStories by: Jay McKenzie, Andrew Humphrey, Thomas Nicholson, Damir Salkovic, E.F. Ritter, Rex Burows Mike A. Rhodes, Alistair Rey,Isabelle Nygren, and SJ Townend

Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella!John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, an...

An exceptional third book in the horror anthology series which Publishers Weekly highlighted as “Beautifully written pieces that lean into the intuitive and fantastic.”Close to Midnight is the third volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have been com...

18 ghost stories will chill you to the bone in this horror anthology featuring original short stories by Joe Hill, Paul Tremblay, and more!“I’m incredibly impressed. It’s beautifully crafted, elegant work.” —Clive Barker, author of The Hellbound Heart and Books of BloodThe brightest names in horror fiction showcase a ghastly collection of 18 ghost stories that will have you watching over your shoulder, heart racing at ever...

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...

'She turns her head and smiles. Something is wrong with her face. The bones have been recarved. Her lips are thin and her nose is a dark blade. Teeth small and yellow. The lashes of her hazel eyes have thickened and her brows are drawn together, an expression he has never seen, a look that is almost craven.'Mrs Fox is the story of a husband who is shocked out of his complacency when his wife undergoes a remarkable transformation."The poetic use of language, the dexterity an...

SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES…There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short amount of time, or spend an afternoon trolling through blood-soaked stories from all over the world, including Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Sta...

Romance is candlelight on cheekbones, blurring gazes and the press of heels on strange sheets. But what happens a year later? You’re sharing bath towels and bickering over who forgot to buy a light bulb. There is beauty in a familiar hand on the nape of your neck. There is love in waking up under a shared blanket. In Our House by the Sea is about the romance of domesticity.   “Kirsty is one of the best and brightest . . . when I read her stuff I feel...

Featuring:Sarah Hall, Lucy Wood, Lisa Blower, Lavinia Greenlaw and Lionel Shriver.Edgar Allan Poe once claimed the greatest literary works were those that could be read ’in one sitting’. ‘Brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect,’ he argued, once the effect has been established, of course.The stories shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2013 all use brevity with striking results, whether presenting a comp...

The Canterbury Nightmares is a collection of stories from the edge of the abyss. Combining the essence of Chaucer’s pilgrims on their journey to a shrine, with what appeared to be the end of a global pandemic, these tales were born in a time when personal connections were few, breathing the air in a grocery store felt unsafe, and the country was dissolving into seemingly irreparable divisions.Eleven travelers heading out to visit The Grand Canyon. All of them have their re...

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.Walking ahead of him on the heath, his wife turns to look at him over her shoulder, 'Topaz eyes glinting. Scorched face. Vixen.'In language harvested from nature, Sarah Hall tells a story of metamorphosis, of wildness and fecundity, and of a man reaching for reason, who cannot let go of the creature he loves.

A pocketbook of horror short stories and flash fiction.A gang of young women are not what they seem. A creature waits on a beach. A ceremony in a small community turns into a nightmare. The everyday spaces of cricket grounds and train stations become places where inhabitants unravel into themselves.Susan Earlam’s obsession with bodies and their potential for metamorphosis is unveiled in this haunting collection.Dark Is The Water will make you questi...