Covering all aspects of the syllabus, Crash Course offers students a fast way to recap on what they need to know to get through the exams with ease. Styled in an easy-to-follow, readily accessible format, each book is prepared by senior medical students or junior doctors - under faculty supervision - to give them the correct level of information perfectly tailored to current curricula requirements. The series now includes improved pedagogic features and a fully revised self-assessment sect...

A woman finds herself alone in a pitch-black room without doors or windows, completely cut off from human contact…A man wakes one morning certain that today is the day he must commit and unspeakable atrocity…A gifted jazz musician runs from her past—but even she has no idea how lethal that past really is.The Oblivion Room: Stories of Violation collects six of Christopher Conlon's most nightmarish works, tales in which the horrific can come from anywhere—or from everywhere at once.

"An impressive collection" of original short stories by Stephen King, Joe Hill, Nancy A. Collins and others—honoring the renowned author of I Am Legend ( Locus).Richard Matheson has inspired a generation of storytellers with his ingeniously weird yet frighteningly realistic tales. Now an outstanding cast of top writers pays tribute to his legacy with an all-new collection of stories set in Matheson's own fictional universes, including sequels, preq...

Mona Straw has it all—beautiful daughter, caring husband, lovely home, fulfilling job as a middle-school teacher. But one day a new man enters Mona’s life and turns it upside-down, their passionate affair tilting her mind to the edge of madness—and murder.Her lover’s name is Connor. He’s got blonde hair, green eyes…and he’s eleven years old.“One of the 50 Best Horror Novels of All Time” —Paste Magazine“Top Ten Horror: 2015” —Booklist (starred review)

Reed Waters is the sort of middle-aged man few people notice. He's quiet, polite, solitary. He doesn't call attention to himself. Ever.Reed Waters has a secret.Mauri Dyson is a teenaged runaway, impetuous and explosive. She lies, she steals, she prostitutes herself. Whatever it takes to survive.Mauri Dyson, too, has a secret.When Mauri bursts into Reed's life one rain-soaked night she sets in motion a series of events that will spiral out of control, taking ...

Mona Straw has it all—beautiful daughter, caring husband, lovely home, fulfilling job as a middle-school teacher. But one day a new man enters Mona's life and turns it upside-down, their passionate affair tilting her mind to the edge of madness—and murder.Her lover's name is Connor. He's got blonde hair, green eyes…and he's eleven years old.***"One of the 50 Best Horror Novels of All Time" —Paste Magazine"Top Ten Horror: 2015" —Booklist (starred review)

In January 1958, nineteen-year-old garbage collector named Charles Starkweather and his fourteen-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, embarked on a brutal nine-day murder spree across Nebraska that left eleven people dead and shocked a nation.In Starkweather Dreams, acclaimed poet and novelist Christopher Conlon (Midnight on Mourn Street, Mary Falls) turns his singular literary eye to these short, violent lives. Forgoing simple sensationalism, Conlon we...

Everybody knows Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee"—but who was she really? In this haunting and evocative novel, Christopher Conlon ("one of the preeminent names in contemporary literary horror"—Booklist) imagines a life for one of literature's most renowned characters. Hers is a chronicle even more thrilling, doom-haunted, and tragic than Poe himself could have conceived, for here Annabel Lee tells her own story in her own words…for the first time.

Reed Waters is a quiet man. He has to be, because he is a man with secrets. One rain-drenched night a stranger steps into his life-Mauri Dyson, a teenage runaway who is as explosive and unpredictable as Reed is cautious and discreet. And yet she holds secrets, too. Secrets that will change both their lives forever. Adapted from the acclaimed novel, MOURN STREET is a searing theatrical experience.

A woman finds herself alone in a pitch-black room without doors or windows, completely cut off from human contact…A man wakes one morning certain that today is the day he must commit and unspeakable atrocity…A gifted jazz musician runs from her past—but even she has no idea how lethal that past really is.The Oblivion Room: Stories of Violation collects six of Christopher Conlon’s most nightmarish works, tales in which the horrific can come from anywhere—or from everywhere at once.

Everybody knows Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee”—but who was she really? In this haunting and evocative novel, Christopher Conlon (“one of the preeminent names in contemporary literary horror”—Booklist) imagines a life for one of literature’s most renowned characters. Hers is a chronicle even more thrilling, doom-haunted, and tragic than Poe himself could have conceived, for here Annabel Lee tells her own story in her own words…for the first time.

On the surface, Frances Pastan is a successful, celebrated, award-winning creator of children's books. But beneath the accolades, she is drowning in alcoholism, alienated from her daughter, and completely paralyzed by decades of repressed trauma. Desperate for closure, Frances steps off her promotional tour and returns to Quiet, California, the small town she left thirty years ago. There, alternating between the fragile present and the memories of her past, she must confront the ghost that...