This award-winning horror anthology is the "yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured"—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varie...

In this third volume of collected short work, Jack Cady shows his mastery of narrative and uniqueness. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the Nebula Award, and many others, Cady captures the feelings and fleeting moments that seem far beyond the reach of mortals who don't have the patience to look.Ephemera delivers stories that demonstrate Cady's Western spiritual paradigm. These include "The Priest," written after a study of the journal of George Fox, and "The Sons of Noah,...

The dream always started the same...Psychologist Meredith Morgan understands the how and why of dreams. She understands that dreams are how our subconscious mind tells us things we are too busy to notice.It was a nearly senseless dream...She understands that some see dreams as prophetic, as the future reaching back and giving us a clue as to what is to come. Some see dreams as open doors through which the past can claw its way into the present. Dreams are where time...

In the coastal town of Surfbreak, Molly Snow explores mysterious stories that whirl around a brave explorer who ventured here long ago.Why did the maps Alfred Aowl drew of the region depict places that don't exist? And how did he die?Soon her interest in Aowl and his feud with the Indians resurrects dark forces only a shaman can understand.

"[A] superior example of horror fiction ... a vision out of hell ... an original and awesome adventure that should be read in broad daylight, when one is not alone." - Publishers Weekly"It takes no special critical powers to recognize in Cady an exceptional writer, who is not just promising but has already achieved some remarkable feats." - Joyce Carol Oates"[A] haunted house story ... intelligently written both in terms of concept and style ... Cady develops his horrors wi...

Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested in reading.Cady traces with insight and passion the threads of sin and original good in American literature, examines the thorny question of race, and explores the fantastic in modern fiction. He looks anew at familiar writers like...

THE CLOTTED BLOOD OF A BROKEN WORLD. Dr. O'Connell and Padre Sandoval join the away team as they investigate the hulking wreck of Isla Lodo's petroleum plant and oil derricks. But biohazards and tormented spirits aren't the only horrors waiting in rusting ruins; one crewmember with ulterior motives may be enough to spell disaster for them all.

The Pacific Northwest is no stranger to serial killers, and when bodies start to pile up in Seattle and the police have no clue, it falls to the denizens of the streets of Seattle to bring this new murderer to justice. Working out of an abandoned church they call "Sanctuary," an unlikely group of five craft an unusual plan. Led by an unnamed actor with the mystical ability to assume any role he requires, these ragtag characters engage in a deadly game of "Catch the Killer."In Stree...

From Award-winner Jack Cady comes a novel that is part murder-mystery, part classical tragedy, and part spiritual journey. Set among the Cherokee of North Carolina in the 1950s, Inagehi is the story of a young woman who inherits a mountain and the mystery of her father's death. With themes as ancient as the existence of God and as modern as post-traumatic stress disorder, Inagehi answers that voice inside us all that asks how "it" all fits together. A work of uncommon power from a...

A novel of transcendental horror and vengeance from the author of The Well and The Jonah Watch. In the heart of the deep south, where memories of a war long over still simmer, Dan McDowell is pursued by a chilling apparition—the spectral image of his great-grandfather... a family horror almost too awful to comprehend. Destined to learn the secret of his family's past, McDowell is constrained to repeat—in the name of honor and Southern chivalry—the heinous crime of his ancestor, an act requ...

What if you could make things vanish, purely with a simple effort of your mind? What would you do? Who would want to control that power?Jack Cady, in The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish, releases a long pent-up everyman rage against a system that is designed to terrorize, inhumanize, and degrade the human experience. The secret organization behind this villainy is given a name here—Mobilier—and the only thing that can stop it from complete world domination is one man.Cady,...

Master storyteller Jack Cady's final novel, Rules of '48, is a stirring semi-autobiographical examination of changing social conventions, and the development of the American conscience in the aftermath of the greatest war in history. In a city with roots deep in the Confederacy, five men endure seven deadly weeks that forever alter their perceptions of the world.