Devil’s Oak: Waking the Feminine Wound is a short story collection that features strong female characters against a backdrop of ghosts, fairy tales, and urban legends. The thirteen stories subvert the historical narrative of women in fairy tales, positioning them as bold and willing to step into the face of danger. “The Braided Veil” features a young orphan in Victorian New Orleans who seeks revenge upon her mother’s abuser. “Devil’s Oak” addresses the horrors of slavery through the eyes o...

In shadowy back alleys, crumbling brownstones, and gleaming skyscrapers, cities harbor unique forms of terror. Here lie malicious ghosts, cursed buildings, malignant deities, and personal demons of every kind. Twenty of today's most talented writers bend their skills toward the darkness, creating brand new tales guaranteed to keep you awake at night. Especially if you live in the dark cities. Far worse than mythical creatures such as vampires and werewolves, these are horrors that lurk in ...

GROW AMAZING LIVE SEA SERPENTS!It’s fun! It’s easy! They only cost a measly dollar. Just clip out the ad in your comic book. Then ask Mom to mail it in. A few weeks later, receive a packet of instant Sea Serpent dust. Then:Just add water . . . and watch them grow!WHAT COULD GO WRONG?Just ask David and Patrick. Their “instant pets” are instant duds. They don’t hatch, they don’t grow, they don’t do anything. So they d...

Sometimes a surprise from the past changes the future forever…Meredith Snowden — who by some strange twist of fate has the nickname Merry — avoids everything to do with the holidays. Everything.Except…This year she’s in charge of the holiday bake sale. Not the best way to avoid Christmas.Then Austin Sullivan returns to town and literally runs into Merry sprawled on the sidewalk among boxes of smashed cookies.Austin is all about Chris...

The bestselling author "offers up lean, deftly composed short-shorts that seem effortless but inflict a surprising amount of mayhem considering their size" (Brian Evenson, O. Henry Award–winning author).Like a gut punch, like a lightning strike, nearly seventy pieces of flash fiction in this expanded edition—featuring twenty previously uncollected tales, including ten original stories—from Stephen Graham Jones showcase the visceral bite of his prose and scope of hi...

A unique collection of 24 fun campfire style stories. Unlike most ghost stories that end in a scary way, these stories are designed to have relief endings. Endings that have a fun or silly twist that relieves the suspenseful build so even the youngest will beg for more and still sleep soundly at night. These stories will bring a lot of fun and are perfect for any story telling session.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch: the reputation-making debut short story collection that paved the way for a new generation of writers. • “Brilliant … Phillips is a virtuoso.” —The Chicago TribuneJayne Anne Phillips's reputation-making debut collection paved the way for a new generation of writers. Raved about by reviewers and embraced by the likes of Raymond Carver, Frank Conroy, Annie Dillard, and Nadine Gordimer, B...

Imagine driving home alone at night. You roll your window down, stop at a red light, and fiddle with the radio.Then you die.That's just the beginning of award-winning writer Annie Reed's story THEY LIE, the harrowing tale of one young woman's savage death and rebirth as a vampire."The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked." -- Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE, forthcoming from WestSide Press"A friend recomm...

Lena's not your typical animal trainer. And when she and her unicorn partner, Steve, decide to enter a fight, it's definitely not your typical fight…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A troubled young man's bright future takes a strange turn when his mother commits murder in this "riveting and disturbing novel" of 1990s Washington State ( The Guardian).A Guardian and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2016.Joseph March, a twenty-one-year-old working-class kid from Seattle, is on top of the world. He has just graduated college and his limitless future beckons. But Joe's life suddenly implodes wh...

What flutters under the cover of darkness? What lurks in the darkest corners of the imagination? Venture deep into these 26 short stories and you will find out. From a puddle that holds a deadly secret, to a country that will not die, you will soon see what the night holds. So sit back, relax and begin your journey. Just be sure you leave the lights on.

A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women’s grief—offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world.Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in...