Do you know someone who was an addict, and now, they are sober? Do you know someone who was an addict and couldn't beat their addiction in time? Do you know someone who is currently struggling with addiction? Show them you care by purchasing this anthology. Help raise awareness so your best friend, brother, parent, or anyone in your life isn't taken by the drug epidemic in America. The education for addiction post rehab/sobriety isn't pushed as much as the need to get sober. Many people fe...

A studio executive leaves his family and travels the world giving free reign to the bipolar disorder he's been forced to hide for 20 years."Juliann Garey writes with stark, lucid power about the tumbling journey into madness and the agonizing climb back out."--Brian Yorkey, book and lyrics for Next to NormalIn her tour-de-force first novel, Juliann Garey takes us inside the restless mind, ravaged heart, and anguished soul ...

Family dysfunction at its most compelling from the New York Times –bestselling author and creator of the Fargo TV series, "one of our great young writers" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize–winning author).Joe Henry was the glue that held his family together. Now he is dead, and his wife and sons are coming together for one final journey to scatter his ashes. First, however, hi...

Red Room Press is extremely proud to present its fourth annual anthology featuring this year's hardcore corps of authors with the best extreme horror fiction of 2018 that breaks boundaries and trashes taboos.First up is “Vigil” by Chad Lutzke. Chad takes us into a neighborhood where a steady stream of decayed corpses are exhumed from a neighbor’s cellar. Extreme olfactory horror at its best.Deborah Sheldon went under the knife for the inspiration of “Hair And Teeth,” and th...

"A triumph... two masters of the genre!" -- PhobophileIn their first book-length collaboration, World Horror Grandmaster Award winner and Bram Stoker Award nominee Mary SanGiovanni take readers on a road trip across horror fiction's vast and disturbing landscape, incorporating the quiet, the cosmic, the supernatural, the surreal, and the splatter. From a basement in Baltimore were a writer uncovers a gruesome secret that threatens to rip his world apart, to a small town where trees...

A wide range of bestselling and acclaimed writers—from masters of noir to literary lights—explore the milieu of drug culture in this "eye-opening series" ( New York Journal of Books).From Lee Child to William T. Vollmann, Joyce Carol Oates to Sherman Alexie, Eric Bogosian to actor James Franco, many of the finest contemporary writers of fiction weigh in on the lure and destruction of drug use, society's ambiguous relationship to drug culture, and criminal ...

This story is Episode One of a Miniseries Novel. Each story leads into the next one, but is complete by itself.Johnny wants to be a hero, but it isn't all its cracked up to be for him. He runs into a burning building to save a child in danger and finds out he was carrying a ghost. Later on he rescues a teen from a truck accident only to find out she's invisible. What's going on?To make matters worse his favorite cartoon character, a beautiful blonde, is speaking to him from...

I grew up in the 1980s in the idyllic suburban town of Amherst, New York, adjacent to the city of Buffalo. It was Middle America. The main cultural phenomena were Little League games and block parties.But we had legends.There were horrors that lurked in undeveloped plots of wooded land. There were stories born from the looming scare of chemical plants in nearby Niagara Falls, where a residential development called Love Canal made national news."Mike's Pond" is a ver...

Edgy and ironic, Clint Catalyst exposes the underside of all his many subjects - gay relationships, backwater adolescence, and spiraling addiction. Whether he's writing about a chance sexual encounter at a Goth club called Lilith ("Some New Kind of Kick") or revealing the inner thoughts of young hustlers in Hollywood ("Metaphor, and Remorse"), Catalyst reveals his characters' innermost longings.

As an acclaimed gossip columnist for the cheapest of rags, Soapie makes a living out of injuring reputations and ruining lives. The internal deadness that it has left her with is only an asset in her work. However, when a mysterious figure offers her a new career spreading disinformation for the United States government, Soapie begins questioning her own ethics and doing battle for the freedom of humanity.

One Dead Crow, Personal Accounts of the Paranormal is part autobiography, part journalism, part mystery, part history and a peek into real-life supernatural events that occurred in the life of the author.These stories occur within the span of about thirty years and has been written to share something the author feels is something we as a society do not often speak of and frown upon with one another. They are things that cannot be explained and perhaps avoided because it is not, at l...

The idea was simple: tell the scariest story you can, in less than 1,000 words. It sounds easy, but it isn't. A thousand words sounds like a lot until you start writing. In this collection, a wide variety of writers—some professional, many previously unpublished—try their hand at the tricky balance of suspense and brevity. Including stories by: Patricia Abbott • Joel Allegretti • Anthony Ambrogio • Chuck Augello • A.J. Barry • Jenny Bulmanski • Beth Lynn Clegg • Michael R. Colangelo • Alys...