June 25th, 1760Jean-Baptiste,Before I begin, I want to assure you that I am fine—in fact, you could say I am in quite good spirits considering recent events!I’m afraid I found myself in quite the predicament—but it’s been sorted out now. My ship was boarded by a group of what I soon learned were pirates…After Wilford Bowen is denied entry into the Royal Society of London, he sets off on a mission to discover natural marvels and earn his place in the scientif...

Sliced Up Press proudly presents twenty-one horror stories and poems where queer meets fear.With all-new fiction & poetry from Avi Ben-Zeev, Elizabeth Lynn Blackson, Amanda Nevada DeMel, Minh-Anh Vo Dinh, Phillip E. Dixon, Dex Drury, Mason Hawthorne, Lor Gislason, Anastasia Jill, Bitter Karella, Lindsay King-Miller, Norah Lovelock, Avra Margariti, Marisca Pichette, Eric Raglin, Xan van Rooyen, Eva Roslin, Marc Ruvolo, Alan Mark Tong, Ezra Wu and Jamie Zaccaria

Welcome to the astounding world of Mortal Engines! London is hunting again. Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon, London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage--and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world. Beloved storyteller Philip Reeve creates a bri...

”...glutted with graphic scenes of torture, dismemberment, evisceration...” — PUBLISHERS WEEKLYYEAR'S BEST HARDCORE HORROR VOLUME 2.Includes author story notes and bonus content, The Mosh Pit, a humongous list of reader-recommended hardcore and extreme books.Comet Press is extremely proud to present its second annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2016 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos.

The penultimate book in Garth Nix's masterpiece series! The secret of his own identity. The identity of The Architect. The complete Will of the House. The fulfillment of his fate. Arthur Penhaligon is getting closer and closer to these things... but not without risks, conflict, and adventure.

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...

In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly strange and interesting group was prepar...

The Saga book of all contain the line “What the @#&% is That?”—is often humorous, sometimes terrifying, but always incredibly entertaining.Ranging from irreverent humor to straight out horror, What the @#&% Is That? grew from a meme on Twitter when iconic comic book artist Mike Mignola painted a monster. Nobody knew what the F it was, but they loved it.Renowned editors John Joseph Adams and Doug Cohen then asked some of the best writers in the fant...

I've always had a thing for monsters.That's why I started my costume shop. And I know what you're thinking: Geez, Bee, some rich dude just giving you a whole building in the middle of LA is obviously going to have a major catch. You know what I expected? Maybe some skeevy pick-up lines, a rotting pile of garbage, bad neighbors… a few ghosts.I didn't expect a portal to a monster-god prison would be in the basement. Or that I'd be seduced by shadows.And after they bri...

Sometimes the truth comes at a cost...Teenage Witch Angela Tanner is learning to control her powers, but it's not as easy as it looks. Especially when everything points to her being a Fire Witch. Is her awesome power a gift or a curse? That's something she must find out. At least she's not alone. She has the help of her own personal Guardian, Jody Nieves. Together, they set out on a journey to discover the truth behind her powers.Can she learn control in ti...

An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility.Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.

Of all the shit-hole bars in all the world, she was drinking at mine. I would've never guessed she was a time traveler.I am Gavin Thorn--a drunk, a lost soul, and a slob. I sit in my bar in the Arizona desert, withering away. But today is July 13, 2014, and everything is about to change.**ADULT CONTENT WARNING: THIS SHORT STORY CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE AND BIZARRE SEXUAL CONTENT.A NOTE ON LENGTH: This is a 20 page short story.**