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.

Wastelands 2 - More Stories of the Apocalypse is a new anthology of post-apocalyptic literature from some of the most renowned science fiction and fantasy authors in the field today including George R.R. Martin, Hugh Howey, Junot Diaz, David Brin and many more. It is an eclectic mix of tales that explores famine, death, war, pestilence, and harbingers of the biblical apocalypse.

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...

Teacher Nathan Brookes leaves four pupils alone during a field trip in a national park. Within minutes, they have disappeared. A girl called Liv returns, but she has no memory of where she's been. When a body is found years later, it is first believed to be one of the children, but is identified as a Bronze Age man. Yet Nathan starts to have horrific visions of the missing students. Then Liv reappears, desperate that the man be reburied. For he is the only thing keeping a terrible evil at ...

“These wittily illustrated stories of mishaps, hurt feelings, fondness and friendship have a transporting quality.” Guardian on Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other StoriesBear and Bird are best friends! And while they don’t always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. So, when neither of them can remember why they've circled today in red in the calendar, they each think they've missed the other's birthda...

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...

The Soldier is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In The Soldier, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a chilling story about the dark side of life. Here, a man unable to feel pain slowly loses his bearings and mind . . .The Soldier is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stories, featuring the wife who serves a...

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...