**"**Big Lizard is a wild, weird, darkly comic, gory, occasionally terrifying, and consistently entertaining romp through the world of the occult, chicken restaurants, and Biblical theme parks. You really get a representation of all Lansdale's genres here. Crime, horror, humor, it's all in there. I literally cannot recommend this book highly enough."—Jeremy Baker, author of Drawing in the Dark...

While others have been working and studying hard for the coming semester at Sirrus, a college where students learn to master the mystical powers of sorce, Charlie has neglected his two best-friends and spent most of his time with his girlfriend, Laurie.Now, two years later, in the midst of trying to reconnect with old friends and make new ones, Charlie finds there's a growing shadow that follows him, a voice in his head that isn't his own, something sinister by nature that wants to...

For decades, the work of mystery writer Peter Paige (Morton Wolson) sat unseen in private files. Now, for the first time, these lost stories are finally in print.This collection gathers nine twisted noir tales-including "To Be, or Be to Not," "The Deal," "Shock Performances," "The Facks of Life," "She Loved to Kill," "Play with Fire," "The Big Bust," "Ape," and "Alas, Mystery!" Each story opens a different trapdoor: from a tense lunchtime encounter to a deadly bargain, a lover's de...

Splatter Flicks is your crash course in making killer low-budget horror—from script to streamer. Learn to write lean, shoot smart, and spill blood safely, with insights from working pros in FX, directing, stunts, design, and more. Turn your micro-budget nightmare into a real scream.

From serial killers lurking in the shadows, to ghostly legends stalking lonely highways, to grief that twists into horror, award-winning author Paul Kane has been terrifying readers for over two decades. But his dark imagination hasn't been confined to the page.In Short, Sharp, Shocks, Kane collects the stories, scripts, and behind-the-scenes journeys of his most chilling short films, including The Opportunity, The Weeping Woman, Wind Chimes, The Torturer, and more. Each entry brin...

Writing the Cozy Mystery is a concise writing guide that describes step-by-step how to write a winning whodunit.Do you want to write a cozy mystery but don’t have a clue where to start? Or perhaps you’re already writing a series, and you need tips on how to keep your material fresh. Writing the Cozy Mystery is a handy reference guide that will help you develop your characters, establish the setting, plot the story, add suspense, plant clues, and solve the ...

While landscaping his backyard, ever-conscientious Paul Prentice discovers an iron door buried in the soil. His childhood friend and perpetual source of mischief, Jay Lightsey, pushes them to explore what's beneath. When the door slams shut above them, Paul and Jay are trapped in a between-worlds place of Escher-like rooms and horror story monsters, all with a mysterious connection to a command-line, dungeon explorer computer game from the early '80s called The Between.Paul and Jay ...

A story about being your truest self—and trusting your truest friends—from bestselling author Terri Libenson. Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Shannon Hale.Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school!Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don’t think she’s cool enough. Maybe it’s time for a total reinvention. . . .Ever since Tyler started gettin...

Best-selling Marvel Comics writer Brian Michael Bendis reveals the comic book writing secrets behind his work on The Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man, All-New X-Men, and more.Arguably the most popular writer in modern comics, Brian Michael Bendis shares the tools and techniques he uses to create some of the most popular comic book and graphic novel stories of all time. Words for Pictures provides a fantastic opportunity for readers to learn from a cr...

WITH THE POWER OF THE GODS AT HER FINGERTIPSCat Fisa's destiny has finally caught up with her. But fully accepting her fate means taking a final, terrifying step—reuniting all three realms and embracing her place as Queen with warlord-turned-king Griffin at her side. Yet forging their kingdom can only mean going to war with Fisa and its violent Alpha—Cat's own mother, Andromeda.Although Cat used to be Andromeda's sole weakness, that's no longer true. And wh...

Anyone can make a short film, right? Just grab some friends and your handheld and you can do it in a weekend or two before being accepted to a slew of film festivals, right?Wrong.Roberta Munroe screened short film submissions at Sundance for five years, and is an award-winning short filmmaker in her own right. So she knows a thing or two about how not to make a short film. From the first draft of your script to casting, production, editing, and distribution, this is ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel from the author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. . . .It’s 2 A.M. on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar in New York’s East Village, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonde...