Where do you go when your past won't stay buried-andthe sea keeps calling your name?Haunted by a mysterious night at the Marshall Point Lighthouse and scarred by a tragedy that stole his parents to the waves, Henry Strong wrestles with ghosts, both real and imagined. Now, decades later, tethered to a secret room and a wall of unraveling threads, he seeks answers amid bourbon bottles, dusty typewriter keys, and a whispering fan that ...

The international bestselling series with over 5 million copies sold in the U.S. alone!They have always scared him in the past—the Rangers, with their dark cloaksand shadowy ways. The villagers believe the Rangers practice magic that makes them invisible to ordinary people. And now 15-year-old Will, always small for his age, has been chosen as a Ranger's apprentice. What he doesn't yet realize is that the Rangers are the protectors of the kingdom. Highly t...

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—*about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family."Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times**Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island h...

The best gets better and bigger. The two-time Nebula Award winning author and recently named editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has compiled an awesome collection of science fiction from 1985.It includes eleven current Nebula Award Finalists, and works by such best-selling and award-winning authors as Orson Scott Card, John Crowley, Avram Davidson, William Gibson, Joe Haldeman, R.A. Lafferty, George R.R. Martin, Frederik Pohl, Kim Stanley Ro...

Once the world was normal. The day after the change, there were new creatures galore and nearly every human had vanished. The survivors gathered together to make a new society and Sophie, a seventeen-year-old from Oregon, does her best to fit in. Desperate to find a reason for living, she travels east to Washington, D.C. to meet with the new President of the U.S.A. and finds that existing and living are two very different things. The old world hasn't really been left behind and human treac...

On the planet of Elsewhere, the Council had always enforced the governing of each province in the manner the people had chosen, so long as each respected its neighbors' local customs--and so long as the people remained within their homelands. Generations later, inhabitants have begun to question this tradition. The Council has received mysterious messages and reports of strange manifestations across the planet. Now, Enforcer Fringe Owldark has been sent with a small crew of seven, each pos...

Hailed as "one of the literary giants of science fiction" by The Denver Post, Gene Wolfe is universally acknowledged as one of the most brilliant writers the field has ever produced. Winner of the World Fantasy Award for best fiction collection, Storeys from the Old Hotel contains thirty-one remarkable gems of Wolfe's short fiction from the past two decades, most unavailable in any other form.Storeys from the Old Hotel includes many of Gene Wolfe's most a...

A collection of six of Edward W. Robertson's sci-fi and horror stories:In "Death Among the Grasseaters," a biologist is sent to a western backwater to track down the source of a new plague."The Inspiration of Philocrates," a steampunk-hued work of alternative history, follows a motley team of Greek soldiers and philosophers on a mission to kidnap a key scientist from the rival Egyptians.And in "The Battle for Moscow, Idaho," a small crew of American guerrillas tries...

Following Like You’d Understand, Anyway—awarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award—Jim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experience—from its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below average—with brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, deprav...

Darkness gathers in haunted corners. Nineteen stories of monsters, ghosts and madmen, and finding hope in unlikely heroesWhat unimaginable evil hunts a war-weary lighthouse keeper? Will an exiled dressmaker's bargain with her brother's executioner free her from his ghost? Can an airship crew bring a madman to justice at the bottom of the world? Will teenage ghost hunters be destroyed by the dark secrets they've unearthed?Mnemo's Memory ...

Welcome to the third short work of the Aftermath Zombie Series. This series is a short work series of eBooks set a few months after the collapse of society due to a zombie apocalypse. The intrinsic nature of the events that brought on the apocalypse leave the survivors in doubt and still attempting to understand the nature of the zombies they are fighting to survive. The series is set to cover five short works which become incrementally longer as the series continues. A final book will com...

Weirdbook #32 presents a selection of great fantasy and horror tales by current and upcoming masters of the genre. Included are:Childhood's Dread, by Taye CarrolThe Other Neighbors, by Daniel DavisRare Air, by Mark SladeThe Children, by J.E. ÁlamoThe Radiant Boy, by Kevin WetmoreThe Whisperer in the Woods, by Peter SchranzSweet Oblivion, by Andrew DarlingtonAn Unsolicited Lucidity, by Lee Clark ZumpeBlack Carnival, by Bobby Cr...