Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain.Kathe Koja’s books include The Mercury Waltz, Under the Poppy, The Cipher and Skin; her young adult novels include Buddha Boy, Talk and Kissing the Bee. Her work has been honored by the ALA, the ASPCA and with the Bram Stoker Award. Her books have been publishe...

Enter a world of strange and unsettling beauty with Kathe Koja's electrifying collection of short fiction.In Velocities, award-winning author Kathe Koja plunges readers into thirteen tales that explore the darker aspects of the human condition. From urban landscapes to rural nightmares, these stories delve into themes of art, identity, and transformation with a unique blend of horror and literary prose.Experience mounting tension and dangerous desi...

Kathe Koja's classic, award-winning horror novel is finally available as an ebook.Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota...

This award-winning horror anthology is the "yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured"—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varie...

Tess welds metal. Bibi molds flesh. Together, they make art that moves,dances, burns, and bleeds, and the Surgeons of the Demolition become thehottest ticket in town. But Bibi wants more, always more, no matter who getshurt. And Tess needs to burn, no matter what.Thirty years ago, SKIN changed the landscape of dark fiction forever. And now the girls are back in town."A dark and frightening work by a major talent whose prose reads like acollaborat...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...

Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People is an anthology of urban weird fiction. These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore the genre of weird fiction, tales not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the strange ways the city affects us.And there's an amazing cast of authors:...

In her mesmerizing novel, Kink, Kathe Koja explores the many dazzling facets of obsession - intellectual, emotional, and sexual - created and refracted by the ever-changing dynamics of a three-way relationship between a man and two women. Set in a gritty downtown urban milieu of late-night clubs and a decadent art scene where all past ties seem severed, Kink is at once spellbindingly erotic and determined - in brilliant studies of character, motivation, manipulation, and spiritual unease -...

When the world ends, chaos begins––for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bit––for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world––and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends.

A collection of "mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next" that go beyond the traditional vampire myths ( Library Journal).When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary horror, who co...

Enter a world where reality is customizable, and the dance floor is a battleground.Welcome to Dark Factory, a dance club like no other. Three floors pulse with DJ beats, intoxicating drinks, and customizable reality. Ari Regon, the club's enigmatic floor manager, and Max Caspar, a fiercely independent DIY artist, both seek a vision of true reality within its walls.But when a rooftop rave unleashes a fathomless energy, Ari and Max find themselves spiraling t...

Drawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up "a tasty treat for fantasy fans" ( Booklist).There are some "genuine gems" in this "enticing collection" of fifteen stories and three poems, all featuring "diverse takes on mythical beings associated with the protection of the natural world," most involving a teen's coming-of-age. Delia Sherman "takes readers into New York City's Central Park, wh...