Whether you’re in the mood for a Chicago-style deep dish of darkness, or prefer a New York wide slice of thin-crusted carnage, or if you just have a hankering for the cheap, cheesy charms of cardboard-crusted, delivered-to-your-door devilry; we have just the slice for you.Bring your most monstrous of appetites, because we’re serving suspense and horrors both chillingly cosmic and morbidly mundane from acclaimed horror authors such as Brian Evenson, Jessica McHugh, and Cody Goodfell...

Forty-one enthralling stories from the most talented new science fiction, fantasy, and horror writers.MetaStellar is an online publication focusing on science fiction, fantasy, and horror launched in September 2020, founded by a dozen speculative fiction writers, editors, and artists from around the world.Since then, it's published hundreds of short stories by hundreds of writers, both original fiction, reprints, and excerpts. The proceeds from this antholo...

WHAT IS YOUR STATE OF HORROR?The State of Horror series heads down the mighty Mississippi to the river delta on its tour of the United States with the first of two stops in the Bayou State—Louisiana. Come with us as we explore tales of vengeance rooted deep within the past delivered up on the living of the present. There have always been shady political characters, but what happens when political aspirations and voter expectations do not meet? What evil hides within the horrors of M...

Plunge into the concealed realms with Shallow Waters Vol. 8—where every shadow whispers tales and every silence has its stories.Curating 20 tales of Dark Fiction & Horror, this anthology unfolds the secrets lying beneath life and death, weaving tales surrounding the mysteries that flutter in the unseen. Shallow Waters is the celebrated monthly flash fiction contest by the multiple award-winning Crystal Lake Entertainment, winner of the HWA's Specialty Press Award. Every month intro...

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author DIANE CAPRI Does It Again! NEW Hunt for Jack Reacher book!For fans of John Grisham, Lee Child, Jack Reacher and Michael Connelly"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character—I love her." Lee Child, #1 World Wide Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher ThrillersJack Reacher: Friend or Enemy?It’s been a while since we first met ...

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 50,000,000 views. Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Andrea Gibson, author of Lo...

The trouble starts when Apollo introduces Percy and his friend Grover the satyr to the Chryseae Celedones. Three golden women--living statues--appear in front of them, and sing one blissful chord. Apollo has a concert tonight at Mount Olympus, and he needs the Celedones as his backup singers. But there should be a quartet, not a trio--one of the singers has gone rogue. It's up to Percy and Grover to find the missing Celedon somewhere in New York City before she causes any problems. Capturi...

First he lied to me.Then he seduced me.Now he’s broken me.I knew him as a boy, but now the boy is back—a hardened criminal.Big as hell. Blindingly beautiful. Sexy as sin.Dripping with attitude. Covered in ink.And carrying a colossal chip on his shoulder.I want to keep my distance.Needing to protect myself and my virginity.He’s awakening parts of me that I never knew were dormant.Ruining me for any othe...

The Hugo Award is one of the most prestigious speculative fiction literary awards. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom.But there are more stories loved by the Hugo v...

Survival Songs is a collection of poetry by author Meggie C. Royer. The poems and prose in Survival Songs are clear and concise. Grounded through experiences, Royer's evocative poems cast a knowing eye on the wider world, telling us what it’s like to be displaced and replaced, used and abused. Her poems are suffused with a graceful, mysterious pathos and longing. Survival Songs is a remarkable debut.

2017 Goodreads Choice Awards - Best Poetry Book Runner-Up One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut book, New American Best Friend. Gatwood's poems deftly deconstruct traditional stereotypes. The focus shifts from childhood to adulthood, gender to sexuality, violence to joy. And always and inexorably, the book moves toward celebration, culminating in a series of odes: odes to the body, to tou...

2019 Ohioana Book Award - Readers' Choice Winner Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these topics into a punching critique of culture and a celebration of self. A fat positive activist, Wiley's work soars and challenges the bounds ...