The Apocalypse Is Coming…As a mysterious figure plots to end the world, a young woman finds herself contending with an unusual personal problem. Demonic possession. While Brooklyn struggles for control of herself and the strange powers growing within, she runs afoul of both police and the leaders of a supernatural community she never knew existed.Trapped in the tangled politics of this new world, where the good guys want her executed and the very worst woul...

The Apocalypse is Here…As famine threatens to ignite war, a young boy’s night terrors launch Brooklyn Evers on a quest to find the boy’s mother, her own missing sister. A task complicated by Brooklyn’s fugitive status and the strange powers growing inside her. Hounded by supernatural bounty hunters, she forms an uneasy alliance with the demon Belial. But as the barrier between the worlds weakens, a path to Earth opens for Belial’s father, Prosidris. The demon that ...

Storyteller Tony Bonning brings together stories from one of the most enigmatic regions of Scotland: a land hemmed in by rivers and mountains; a land that vigorously maintained its independence, and by doing so, has many unique tales and legends. Here you will meet strange beasts, creatures and even stranger folk; here you will meet men and women capable of tricking even the Devil himself, and here you will find the very tale that inspired Robert Burns's most famous poem, ...

Love, in some of the infinite ways we may know it, is the shared concern of these stories, which have been chosen from among the hundreds that have appeared in the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction series.More than seventy volumes, which include approximately eight hundred stories, have won the Flannery O’Connor Award. This stunning trove of always engaging, often groundbreaking short fiction is the common source for this anthology on love—and for planned anthol...

The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its sixth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the b...

Award-winning writer Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different aspects of his life'Creative, surprising - and unique' The TelegraphIf you Google 'Lemn Sissay', all the results will be about him - he's the only person in the world with that name. But that's not the only thing that makes him unique. In this fascinating series, he mixes stand-up, poetry and interviews to explore four more situations in his ...