BEHOLD! THE EYES OF THE NIGHTMARE AGE!Gather here for the story of Arcana! It is told that long ago the web of her shadow brought about pure darkness and, in her death, she hid her eight eyes throughout the world, sought after by the Unbroken Weave and their band of silk addicts.Look within and gaze upon her eyes: A boy whose words will shock and awe any ears who dare to listen! A junkie on a mission to smuggle the unthinkable for the Unbroken Weave! Girls ...

It's the 1950s. There's always something good on the radio, cherry red Cadillacs cruise the streets and everything is always perfect. Marilyn is still alive and the War is over. America goes to bed, nuclear annihilation postponed another day.Welcome to the American Nightmare.Nuclear families dabbling in the occult. Little League games in the summer, old blood spilled in the dust. Unspeakable things hiss and crawl, unseen along the 38th parallel, camouflaged under muzzle fla...

Look at this picture. Tell me what you see…The American South is rife with stories of a haunted past—especially its houses. In this eclectic and impressive collection, thirteen novelists were asked to build their tales around the photo of a dilapidated mansion. They were given two requirements—the house must appear in the story, and it should be a Southern Gothic tale. And they delivered.From childish demons to a mad novelist, from the Mississippi delta to ...

World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Story CollectionLocus Award finalist for Best Story Collection"Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget … If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one."—Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland"Cooney's lush follow-up to Desdemona and the Deep offers five stories...

This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is "certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Includes "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short StoryHere are six of Joyce Carol Oates's most "frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's dol...

Is anyone ever really alone?When a young man’s wife goes away for the weekend, he lies awake all night wondering what the otherworldly sound in the attic is and why only he can hear it.After her husband’s death, a mother who interacts with her son exclusively through stationery notes grapples with the strange ways her lost love seems to be haunting them both.And inch by inch, room by room, a young girl’s home is overtaken by a savage jungle, even while her ...

From celebrated comic artist Mike Mignola and award-winning novelist Christopher Golden comes a work of gothic storytelling like no other. Reminiscent of the illustrated tales of old, here is a lyrical, atmospheric novel of the paranormal—and a chilling allegory for the nature of war.“Why do dead men rise up to torment the living?” Captain Henry Baltimore asks the malevolent winged creature. The vampire shakes its head. “It was you called us. All of you, with your war. The roar...

One of the seven will die. There's nothing they can do to stop it.“You definitely will not want to miss this one!”“Exceeded every single one of my expectations.”“The way the story unravels and weaves through the lives of the family was remarkable.”“These characters are so complex yet so relatable that you will fall in love with them all.”"I absolutely love this entire series."The Seventies. New Orleans. The seven Deschan...

Three and a half years after a bizarre incident nearly derailed his life, Benjamin Oris is back on track as a second-year orthopedic surgery resident. With a son he adores, a circle of supportive family and friends, and a great shot at winning the Conley Research Grant, his future looks bright. But when the severed limbs of his former patients start turning up in Philadelphia parks, everything he's worked for threatens to collapse.Covered in bite marks and bearing recent surgical i...

The Antiques Roadshow, if Stephen King was the host...When art appraiser Anita Cassatt is sent to catalogue the extensive collection of reclusive artist Leo Kubin, it isn't the chill of the secluded house making her shiver, it's the silent audience of portraits clustered on every wall, watching her.The lawyer didn't share the dead artist's instructions for handling his art, and Anita and her team start work ignorant of the instructions designed to keep them...

"She's Always Watching."Having found the perfect flat, Matthew and Aimee settle into their new home with all the hopes of a young couple in love.But something hideous resides within its walls.Before long, curious incidents turn violent, and it becomes increasingly difficult for the sceptic Matthew to deny that an unholy ghost has descended upon his happy home.Tormented by the wrath of this angry spirit, Matthew and Aimee's relations...

Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn.Quinn's short stories were ...