Halloween horror, dark fiction and suspense short stories.Carve your pumpkins and turn on the porch light, Halloween frights begin with the sound of…Doorbells at Dusk.Doorbells at Dusk is a treasury of brand-new Halloween tales from both modern masters and rising stars of dark fiction, horror and suspense.Halloween has always gone hand-in-hand with horror. The holiday gives many children their firs...

Predatory eyes flicker in darkness, a legion of abominations seeking human destruction.Slashing claws and gnashing teeth, hungry for flesh, eager to kill.Clutch onto hope and pray for dawn. Creatures rule the night.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror— shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madnes...

Buckle up for a journey into Halloween eternal. OVER 700 PAGES OF HORROR!"Brutal, humorous and utterly terrifying." —Allan Leverone, NY Times and USA Today bestselling authorThis special collection contains all three volumes of the highly rated Bad Apples: Halloween Horror anthologies. Features eighteen novellas and short stories by: Kealan Patrick Burke, Adam Light, Evans Light, Edward Lorn, John McNee, Mark Matthews, Jas...

Love can rip your heart out."...well-written across the board...provides a glimpse into the singular imaginations of five of today's most talented writers of horror."- Horror Novel ReviewsFrom the creators of the BAD APPLES: HALLOWEEN HORROR series.Novellas and short stories include:ELEANOR, by Jason ParentWhen Father Stuar...

Frank makes a startling discovery in the shower. He finds six strange circles of skin gone completely numb—three neatly spaced down the center of his chest and abdomen, and three more down his spine. His doctor takes sadistic pleasure in carving out bits of Frank's flesh and a perverse childlike glee flipping through hundreds of pictures of his interior. But when the tests come back, he's unable to make a diagnosis and refers Frank to a psychiatrist. Under guided hypnosis, Frank uncovers c...

Thanks to his big ugly mug, Ben Coburn always played the heavy in Hollywood. Yeah, his name was in the credits of a bunch of low-budget B-movie horror shows, but at least he could say he was in the movies.That was a long time ago.Now Ben sits alone in a trailer park listening to an old married couple across the way argue about money, just nursing a beer, waiting for something to happen.But nothing ever happens. That pisses him off.No, Big Ben Coburn isn't go...

Midnight strikes like an invocation, clock hands joining in prayer to the darkness. After the twelfth chime, there's no escaping the nightmare.Fear reigns supreme.In Darkness, Delight is an original anthology series revealing the many faces of modern horror- shocking and quiet, pulp and literary, cold-hearted and heart-felt, weird tales of spiraling madness alongside full-throttle thrillers. Open these pages and unleash all-new terr...

The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, " one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts).These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of "one of Canada's most promising new horror writers" ( Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation be...

The Gulp (Tales From The Gulp #1)Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it.The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don't even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone who lives there calls it The Gulp. The place has a habit of swallowing people.A truck driver thinks the stories about The Gulp are made up to scare him. Until he gets there.Teenage...

2020 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, Best Story Collection2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Story Collection"From heartbreaking character studies to exercises in Grand Guignol excess, from scalpel-sharp poetry to sledgehammers of blood-soaked prose, Mike Allen displays not only his own considerable range, but the range of the horror genre as well. Aftermath of an Industrial Accident will surprise and delight you at...

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 fourth of five volumes collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales.Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more pop...