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. ...

An alien invasion comes to one man’s doorstep in the form of a story-creature, followed by death and rebirth in a transformed Earth, in this Tor.com Original science fiction tale from Jeff VanderMeer, the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Reach trilogy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In this striking novel-in-stories, a series of strange apocalypses have hit America. Entire neighborhoods drown in mud, glass rains from the sky, birds speak gibberish, and parents of young children disappear. Millions starve while others grow coats of mold. But a few are able to survive and find a light in the aftermath, illuminating what we’ve become. In The Disappeared,” a father is arrested for missing free throws, leaving his son to search alone for his lost mother. A boy swells to f...

SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES…There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short amount of time, or spend an afternoon trolling through blood-soaked stories from all over the world, including Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Sta...

Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Western Canadian FictionSometimes it’s the little things in life that make all the difference, like chromosomes, sperm, bugs or an endangered seabird that nests in old-growth forests. But, what’s big or what’s little depends entirely on your perspective. Faye Pearson is a three-and-a-half-foot tall female scientist doing entomological research in the tallest trees on Vancouver Island, who is pit with a ragtag group...

Two ex-military nurses, one human and one alien, share a friendship in a city following an alien invasion.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Pollution. Extinction. Warming. Sea level rise... Mother Nature heard our crimes and found us guilty.Field Notes from a Nightmare is an anthology of ecological horror, containing 18 stories from some of the strongest voices in indie horror.Edited by Alex Ebenstein; with a Foreword from New York Times-Bestselling author Tim LebbonCover art and interior illustrations by David BowmanStories from:A.K. DennisAlexis DuBon

A dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).A collection by the much praised poet whose second book The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

"A triumph... two masters of the genre!" -- PhobophileIn their first book-length collaboration, World Horror Grandmaster Award winner and Bram Stoker Award nominee Mary SanGiovanni take readers on a road trip across horror fiction's vast and disturbing landscape, incorporating the quiet, the cosmic, the supernatural, the surreal, and the splatter. From a basement in Baltimore were a writer uncovers a gruesome secret that threatens to rip his world apart, to a small town where trees...

Beth is a feral teenager, one of the few survivors of a catastrophic, man-made extinction event.She does not know what happened, or why. At night, her dreams bring to life memories she has tried to forget, and every day she faces the harsh realities of gathering food and finding shelter, knowing that she is prey in a world reclaimed by hunters.Existing in a perilous no-man's land, a strip of urban ruin that exists between the City, with its sealed environment and paranoid i...

Finalist for Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, given by The Publishing Triangle, 2022This collection of love poems draws us into the sacred liminal space that surrounds death. With her beloved gravely ill, poet and activist Minnie Bruce Pratt turns to daily walks and writing to find a way to go on in a world where injustice brings so much loss and death. Each poem is a pocket lens "to swivel out and magnify" the beauty in "the little glints, insignific...

Praise for Jamaal May:"Linguistically acrobatic [and] beautifully crafted. . . . [Jamaal May's] poems, exquisitely balanced by a sharp intelligence mixed with earnestness, makes his debut a marvel."—Publishers WeeklyFollowing Jamaal May's award-winning debut collection, Hum (2013), these new poems explore parallel landscapes of the poet's interior and an insidious American condition. Using dark humor that helps illuminate the pains of maturity and loss of ...