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 ...

In the Florida Everglades, gator-park Swamplandia! is in trouble. Its star performer, the great beauty and champion alligator-wrestler Hilola Bigtree, has succumbed to cancer, and Ava, her resourceful but terrified 13-year-old daughter, is left in charge with her two siblings. But Ava's sister has embarked on a romantic relationship with a ghost, her brother has defected to a rival theme park, and her father is AWOL. And then a mysterious figure called Bird Man guides Ava into a perilous p...

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...

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...

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...

It could only happen in New Jersey. Call it a miracle. Call it the Second Coming. Call it a mishap at the sperm bank. But somehow, a baby daughter was born to the virgin Murray Katz, and her name is Julie. She can heal the blind, raise the dead, and generate lots of publicity. In fact, the poor girl needs a break, even if it means a vacation in Hell (which is unseasonably warm). So what did you expect? It ain't easy being the Daughter of God...

Buy five short stories for the price of three!A variety pack of short stories from S. E. Lee spanning a range of moods and genres from horror, literary fiction, to science fiction and the supernatural: a teen's disgruntled bunker tale. A lost Roman legion in space revealed. Fate and three women, a cursed inheritance and two men...and seeking justice after death.Stories Included:One Last Look - Why did Johnny have to have a paranoid freak for a dad? While other kids