SPLATTER THE NORMALFor this book, weird horror isn’t weird enough, and the extreme needs to be more extreme: the nineteen stories in Extremely Weird Splatter take the “quiet” respectability that characterizes a lot of weird fiction these days and fuses it with the elsewhere typically grounded—but very loud—transgressions of the extreme and splatterpunk. The results are messy, fantastic, and nineteen kinds of bizarre and disturbing.Join three Lifeti...

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the renowned psychologist Kevin Dutton reveals that there is a scale of "madness" along which we all sit. Incorporating the latest advances in brain scanning and neuroscience, Dutton demonstrates that the brilliant neurosurgeon who lacks empathy has more in common with a Ted Bundy who kills for pleasure than we may wish to admit, and that a mugger in a dimly lit parking lot may well, in fact, ha...

A Lit Hub Best Book of 2016 • One of Electric Literature's Best Novels of 2016 • An Entropy Best Book of 2016“The duchess herself would be delighted at her resurrection in Margaret the First...Dutton expertly captures the pathos of a woman whose happiness is furrowed with the anxiety of underacknowledgment.” —Katharine Grant, The New York Times Book ReviewMargaret the First dramatizes the life of Margaret Cavendish, the sh...

When almost-strangers take a road trip through America’s national parks, love may be the final destination.Maggie Matthews is desperate. What self-respecting accomplished suspense author has a two-year creative slump? Her, apparently.Following the only seed of inspiration she has, she’s set to embark on a van-life road trip. Only she’s never so much as driven out of state. Out of her comfort zone and hopelessly unprepared, she needs her agent's sister and ...

Lyra Thornvale has spent her whole life carrying a disgraced name, surviving at the edge of her pack while everyone around her treats her like a stain they cannot wash away. Then the Alpha King arrives, and the impossible happens. The mate bond between them ignites with a force neither of them can deny. But in front of the realm, the king rejects her, shattering more than her heart and leaving her humiliated, wounded, and marked all over again by a past she never created.Dragged in...

Rejected. Marked. Cast out beneath the old moon.Wren was never meant to stand at the Packstone.An omega born to a low den, she knew her place—until fate bound her to the Lycan King himself. One claim should have changed everything. Instead, she was publicly rejected, branded as an outcast, and driven beyond the pine-line with nothing but scars and rage to keep her alive.The pack believed she would vanish.They were wrong.Years later, ...

She ran from the Alpha King once. This time, she's not running alone.Five years ago, Mikayla Edwards fled the fog-drenched hills outside San Francisco with blood on her skin and a silence in her chest where a mate bond should've been. Adrian Duarte—the ruthless Alpha King who awakened something fierce inside her—rejected her with a single, final verdict: human… and not his.Now Mikayla is back, older, sharper, and determined to stay invisible. She h...

2026 Catholic Media Association Second Place Award, Spirituality ClassicalThese spiritual reflections guide their readers toward God’s embrace.In Embracing God, Marsha L. Dutton surveys the interwoven structures and themes of five treatises, showing how Aelred guides his readers to cling forever to God through memory, which is one of the three faculties of God’s image placed in humankind at creation (alongside reason and will). Ind...

Let your imagination take flight with the sixth volume of this groundbreaking graphic novel fantasy anthology series, featuring short stories from some of today’s most legendary artists, including the series editor, Amulet creator Kazu Kibuishi!“Stunning artwork . . . ranges from the thoughtfully subtle to the vividly lush.”—Booklist, on the Flight seriesFrom the world-changing love of intergalactic travelers to the ghostl...

Book Description – D2D PlatformShe was never meant to return.She was never meant to survive.Hidden from the pack since birth, the Lycan King's daughter grew up as a secret buried in shame and blood. Her existence was denied to protect the throne, to protect power, to protect lies. But secrets never stay buried forever.When fate drags her back to the kingdom that cast her out, she returns as a stranger wearing her father's face—and carrying hi...