Eleven Dark Tales of the Unexpected, the Chilling, the Dreadful, and the StrangeBook 2 of Frost Zone Stories features short fiction by:Jenny Hart, Diane Dooley, Malcolm Timperley, Camden Rose, Nick Young, MIchael Penncavage, Kay Hanifen, D.Thomas Minton, Ken Foxe, Ann Wuehler, and Maureen O'Leary.Edited by M.M. MacLeodDesign and Illustration by Lene MacLeod

Frost Bites Ghostly Drabbles is a mini-anthology of bite-sized stories and poems in the tradition of telling a ghost story for Christmas.These pieces are not necessarily set on Christmas, but each 100-word drabble or 200-word double-drabble does feature a ghost of one kind or another.

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT...For decades, the apocalypse and its aftermath have yielded some of the most exciting short stories of all time. From David Brin's seminal The Postman to Hugh Howey's Deep Blood Kettle and Tananarive Due's prescient Patient Zero, the end of the world continues to thrill.This companion volume to the critically acclaimed WASTELANDS offers thirty of the finest examples of post-apocalyptic short fiction, with works by:Ann Aguirre

This lovely book is perfect for sharing with little ones, aged 2 to 7, who will delight in helping to tell these best-loved fairy tales themselves. In Goldilocks and the Three Bears, a naughty little girl helps herself to porridge when a family of bears go out for a walk, but she gets a surprise when they return! Little Red Riding Hood meets a wolf, and later that day notices what big teeth her grandmother has…No one can catch the Gingerbread Man when he decides to run away that is, until ...

A week's visit to the remote Harob Lake cabin couldn't have come at a better time for Sam.She's battling artist's block ahead of a major gallery exhibition. Staying at the lake house is her final, desperate attempt to paint the collection that could save her floundering career. It seems perfect: no neighbors, no phone, no distractions.But the dream retreat disintegrates into a nightmare when Sam sees a stranger by the lake.A tall, mysterious man stands on the edge o...

Darkness surrounds us.We can find darkness anywhere: in a strange green stone etched with mysterious symbols; at a small town's annual picnic; in a ghostly house that is easy to enter but not so easy to leave; behind the dumpster in the alley where a harpy lives; in The Nowhere, a place where car keys, toys, people disappear to; among Polar explorers; and, most definitely, within ourselves. Darkness flies from mysterious crates; surrounds children whose nightlights have vanished; a...

Peteyboo was just a hungry bug with 18 legs and 37 eyes, but he was very sad, because while he had a lot of legs, he had no friends. But then one day, when he finds a strawberry to eat, he also finds a hungry worm. And before you know it, both of their lives are changed forever! Peteyboo and the Worm is a heartwarming story of sharing and friendship for 5- to 8-year-olds. Bram Stoker Award-winning novelist John Everson wrote this short fantasy tale to read to his s...

An ancient evil lurks just beneath the surface of our world in this “fast-paced and terrifying” horror novel inspired by folklore and mythology (Booklist).Four children disappeared. Only one returned.A decade ago, teacher Nathan Brookes saw four of his students walk up a hill and vanish. Only one returned—Olivia—starved, terrified, and with no memory of where she’d been. Questioned by the police but released for lack of ev...

Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron’s stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror...

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while invent...

Celebrities take refuge in a white-walled mansion as plague and fever sweep into Cannes; a killer finds that the living dead have no appetite for him; a television presenter stumbles upon the chilling connection between a forgotten animal act and the Whitechapel Murders; a nude man unexpectedly appears in the backgrounds of film after film; mysterious lights menace the crew of a small plane; a little girl awakens to discover her nightlight--and more--missing; two sisters hunt vampire dogs ...

The Adventures of Hope is a story about a dog and her love for her family. Hope is a very fierce and loyal dog who has taken it upon herself to be the protector of the children as they venture into the world full of unforeseen dangers; Hope is there to protect them and keep them safe, at all costs.