In this haunting anthology, readers are invited into a world where familiar fairy tales and dark folklore are twisted into chilling narratives. Featuring works by Susen James, Christi R. Suzzanne, Merle Kinney, and more, the collection offers dark retellings of Red Riding Hood, where wolves aren't the only danger lurking in the woods. Vengeful crones unleash long-held grudges, while once-enchanting dream lovers turn into waking nightmares. As creeping insects and blooming flowers ...

Welcome to Pumpernickel House, a bi-annual journal of contemporary fairy tale, fabulism, magical realism, the strangely beautiful and the beautifully strange. Behind this door you'll find women who are birds, girls who love golems, beastly babies washed ashore by the tide, and a batch of Baba Yaga's special cookies. Get lost in the woods and stumble upon the intersection of past and future in the poetry of Jennifer Lynn Krohn, or step across our threshold and end up wandering the margins b...

Tales From The Grave is a ghostly collection of short stories brought to you by Zimbell House Publishing, showcasing thirty-six new voices to tempt you.Some of these stories are sure to have you looking over your shoulder...Others will have you hiding under the covers...Some will simply haunt you to your grave.

What lengths would you go to in order to achieve your dreams? Adam has a simple dream, to be with the love of his life who recently died. In this dark fantasy book, he will have to risk his life and more to do this in The Passageway of the Seven Deadly Sins or else he will become Dreamless, a mortal who has failed this test with their corrupted dreams and must wander this forest for an eternity. Combining older tales of fantasy and wonder with a darker side that is hidden underneath the su...

Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today:Ellen HopkinsAmanda HockingJulie KagawaClaudia GrayRachel HawkinsKimberly DertingMyra McEntireMalinda LoSarah Rees-BrennanJackson PearceChristine JohnsonJeri Smith ReadyShaun David HutchinsonSaundra Mitchell...

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.“One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, stirring.” —The Millions**Featuring...

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of notable works from hundreds of anthologie...

it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing urban Indigenous diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to break down years of silence...

Twenty-five years after Jesus’ Son, a haunting new collection of short stories on mortality and transcendence, from National Book Award winner and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Denis Johnson**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times; Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air; Chicago Tribune; Newsday; New York;

Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets.These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life. The time before sleep acts as an invitation to reflect on the world's quieter movements—from gardens heavy after a fi...

Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones close to you. Any second could be your last.Howls From the Wreckage will push you to the edge of imminent disaster—and drown you in the heartbreak of its fallout.HOWL Society Press presents its thrilling anthology of disaster horror, fittingly introduced by Nick Cutter, acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep."Don't Play in the Closet...

A memoir of Melena, five times married, mother, burlesque dancer, and “the hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.”This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and “the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails.” Located in history and memory, the real and the imagined, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an American, immigrant, woman’s experience. You Animal Machine