A chilling thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious final days.When Edgar Allan Poe is found, delirious and wearing a stranger's clothes, Dr. Joseph Snodgrass rushes to his friend's aid. But what begins as an act of kindness plunges Snodgrass into a sinister world of demons and darkness.Poe has vanished for five days. Now hunters are gathering—violent souls who believe Poe possesses something they crave. As they converge on Baltimore and New York C...

Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned horror and dark fantasy authors. Included are:DAGON, by H.P. LovecraftTHE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT, by Robert E. HowardMOTHER OF PEARL, by Fitz-James O'BrienTHE WALKING DEAD, by E. Hoffmann PriceSOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SHOUT ABOUT IT, by Darrell SchweitzerTHE STORY OF MING-Y, by Lafcadio HearnBY MOONLIGHT, by John Gregory BetancourtTHE GATEWAY OF THE MO...

The terrifyingly surreal universe of horror master H. P. Lovecraft bleeds into the logical world of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s champion of rational deduction, in these stories by twenty top horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writers.Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to p...

Sent by the spy master of Neverwinter to investigate a group of rebels, Rucas Sarfael finds a worthy adversary in the beautiful fencing master Elyne. Matching wits and blades with the rebel leader, Rucas strives to prove himself and rise in the rebel ranks in part 1 of this four-part novella set in the renowned city of Neverwinter.

Hansel and Gretel is the classic tale of a brother and sister who get lost in the forest with some surprising results. After being abandoned by their wicked stepmother in the forest, the two children try to find their way home. Suddenly they stumble upon every child's dream: a cottage made of candy! But inside lives a wicked witch who she is not as nice as she at first pretends to be and has an evil plan! Can Hansel and Gretel escape from the dastardly witch and find their way home? Packed...

Occult societies, murder, brothels, London – and a young debauched Victorian on the loose. From Bram Stoker Award winner Douglas Clegg comes a gaslamp horror gothic right out of "the Marquis de Sade and Charles Dickens...Scintillatingly brilliant."* For fans of Victorian debauchery, Lovecraftian occultism plus a twist of degeneracy among the upper classes. Not for the faint of heart! 196 pages in its print edition.Takes place prior to the creation ...

“Way will open." She is Artifice. A resurrected criminal and agent of HRH Prince Albert’s Secret Commission. An artificial ghost. A Quaker. He is Jim Dastard. The oldest surviving agent of the Secret Commission. An animated skull. A mentor to newly resurrected agents. It is 1880 in a mechanical and supernatural London. Agents of Prince Albert’s Secret Commission, their criminal pasts wiped from their memories, are re...

In a world where elite couriers called Riders hurl themselves into summoned vortexes to carry messages and parcels across vast distances, David Ridersson lives for the peril of the Ride. But when a fellow Rider dies on a disastrous consignment, David takes up the fallen man’s satchel and the obligation that comes with it: the Debt must be paid, no matter the cost. What begins as a deadly delivery run soon becomes something far larger, as David and the injured Rider Alyth are hunted by host...

She fears she’s apprenticed to a monster. But one way or another, this young witch won’t let the world fall into darkness.18th-Century Boston. It’s only a matter of time before Kate Finch’s magical secrets are public knowledge. And with the new governor determined to chase her from Salem, she’s worried she won’t be around to deal with her mentor’s increasingly disturbing signs of demonic possession. But the rifts between worlds are shifting so dangerously that unle...

Controlled by an aristocracy whose depraved whims bow to neither law nor god, the kingdom of Antyre is under siege from the only man who can save it. He is Janus Ixion, the new Earl of Last, a man whose matchless fighting abilities and leadership strike terror in Antyre’s powerful noble houses.For Janus is the illegitimate son who has returned from the brutal slums to reclaim his birthright, and will go to any lengths to become king and reverse his country’s decline. But with a con...

A Sherlock Holmes novelette of 10,000 words, set in the universe of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, narrated by Dr. Watson. Holmes and Watson start out investigating the mysterious behavior of the inhabitants of the sinister Depewatch Priory - and then find themselves up against forces more monstrous than they'd originally bargained for.