Dr. Annika Vahle is on the verge of a discovery that will rock the world of anthropology. She's about to uncover proof of an ancient hominid species still alive on the Indonesian island of Flores.The only things that stand in her way are cartel assassins, venomous lizards, a primitive clan that possesses unimaginable powers, and a volcano that is ready to erupt. Oh, and the appearance of her ex-boyfriend.Her expedition quickly turns into a deadly nightmare. With only hours ...

Twenty-five years ago, Officer Robert Navarro vanished without a trace when he followed a bloodthirsty demon through a supernatural portal.Now he's back.When former police chief Bill Furman shoots the Boogeyman in a child's closet, he expects to find a body. Instead, the monster disappears and a man long believed dead steps out of the darkness with an impossible story.Robert has spent more than two decades trapped in a nightmare world, hunting the creature that stol...

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...

Medusa was cursed by Athena with the power to turn people to stone, and by Hera with immortality. After Athena no longer needed Medusa's head, it was buried with her body and lay there for millenia, until She awakens in Greece in 1915 when her head and body are reunited.She is insane, having suffered through centuries of being trapped between life and death, in a semi-aware state. As she regains her sanity and her memories, she adapts to the world and spends the next hundred years ...

A dark speculative fiction anthology of ecological delights and nightmares. In each piece, Nature prevails, it triumphs, one way or another, with teeth, claws, vines, tentacles, or more over human exploitation. Prose and poetry are equals here, giving you decadent, violent, and elegant delights. Dark humor and dark tales for dreams of a better tomorrow. All speculative subgenres are included, from literary horror, extreme horror, psychological horror to dark science fiction and new weird. ...

The end is coming. But how will you survive? Find out in Equilibrium Overturned from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors of acclaimed indie horror anthologies Peel Back the Skin and Dark Visions, Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson.From alien civilizations bent on human destruction, to demonic incursions from beyond the event horizon, to the dangerous malevolence that lives within us all, Equilibrium Overturned drags you into the heart of darkness to explore...

Immerse yourself in the unnerving world of the paranormal with these tales of horror curated by Bram Stoker Award-nominated Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, editors of the #1 bestseller Peel Back the Skin and the critically acclaimed Dark Visions series.It's here in Death's Realm where the spirits of the dead and monstrosities that should never exist torment the souls of the living they've left behind in sixteen disquieting tales of the supernatural from horror's...

There are some nightmares from which you can never wake.Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, from the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editoral team of Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson, is Volume One in the Best of Grey Matter Press series. Selected by readers and horror fans, the twenty short stories contained within the pages of Dread include some of the darkest hallucinatory revelations from the minds of the most accomplished award-winning authors of our time.T...

The end is coming. But how will it arrive?From alien civilizations bent on human destruction, to demonic incursions from beyond the event horizon, to the dangerous malevolence that lives within us all, Equilibrium Overturned drags you into the heart of darkness to explore brutal personal and worldwide apocalypses and the lives wavering on the brink.Survive destroyed worlds and terrifying dystopian societies. Experience a prison of the future and the whitewashing of a horrif...

The Legend Continues…Twenty-four heart-rending tales with elements of terror, mystery, and a nightmarish darkness that knows no end.Welcome to my lake. Welcome to where dreams and hope are illusions…and pain is God.This anthology begins with Joe R. Lansdale's The Folding Man, one of his darkest stories ever written.Kealan Patrick Burke's Go Warily After Dark pulls us into a desolate...

As a young boy in Japan, Kenji is left home alone and plays Hitori Kakurenbo, a game of hide-and-seek with a demon, an Oni. His family comes home and the demon kills them all. A traumatized Kenji ends up in the foster system, with no memory of what happened that night. The doctors convince him he witnessed a human murder his family. Several years later he's adopted by a US family. His adoptive father, Rob, also witnessed the demon when he was young, and still has nightmares about El Cuco, ...

SONGS IN THEY KEY OF DEATH, a collection of poetic horror, by JG Faherty"Songs in the Key of Death is a collection of edgy, stirring poems from the author of such well-known books as Ragman and The Wakening. I was delighted to learn that JG Faherty is expanding his horizons into poetry, and the result is a fascinating compilation of dark enchantments. Highly recommended!" —Jeani Rector, Editor of The Horror Zine"I love the way JG Faherty's extraordinary poetry coll...