Every Halloween, an elderly woman hands out candy to a young trick-or-treater who's dressed as a witch each time, looking exactly the same age. With each passing year, the woman grows more attached to the little witch and her odd nature. But she is no ordinary child, and an uncanny relationship develops between the two of them that may prove dangerous and deadly.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lucky Girl, How I Became A Horror Writer is a story told across Christmases, rooted in loneliness, horror, and the ever-lurking presence of Krampus written by World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson Award-winning author M. Rickert.“Smooth and ruthless, Lucky Girl is M. Rickert at her ice-cold best.”—Laird BarronRo, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets f...

Meet Quark, a giant of a man carrying scars literally and figuratively, on his return to Bellfairie, as he searches for his father and clues to his mother's mysterious death. But no one goes to Bellfairie on purpose, it's always a wrong turn in someone's life. As Quark will soon learn.Like Frankenstein's monster, "The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie" is a vibrant, emotional and humane amalgam.A fantastical crime mystery with a soupçon of magic that brings to mind not only Shelley...

Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award!"Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series." - Peter StraubThe acclaimed literary anthology Shadows & Tall Trees has featured authors short-listed for the Man Booker A...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.We have original fiction from Weston Ochse ("House of Small Spiders") and M. Rickert ("True Crime"), along with reprints by Barbara Roden ("The Brink of Eternity") and Conrad Williams ("The Pike"). In the latest installment of our column on horro...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from A. Merc Rustad ("Mr. Try Again") and Lilliam Rivera ("Crave"), along with reprints by M. Rickert ("What She Wicked? Was She Good?") and Stephen Bacon ("Apports"). In the latest installment of our column o...

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020.Includes stories by:Charlie Jane AndersG. V. AndersonGregory Norman BossertJeremy Packert BurkeKatharine DuckettBrian EvensonCarolyn Ives GilmanMaria Dahvana HeadleyStephen Graham JonesJustin C. KeyNaomi KritzerRich LarsonYoon Ha LeeS. Qiouyi LuUsman ...

“Absolutely recommended for readers of the cosmic and gloriously horrific.” ―Seanan McGuire, New York TImes bestselling authorSister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder.A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightm...

By turns ravishing and riveting, Lara Elena Donnelly’s trilogy The Amberlough Dossier contains three glam vintage spy thrillers set in a tumultuous, Art Deco-inspired secondary fantasy world, where sex, spies, and scandals define the geopolitical fate of nations.This discounted ebundle includes: Amberlough, Armistice, and Amnesty.“Exploring the roots of hatred, nationalism, and fascism, while at the same time celebrating ...

In the vein of Naomi Novik’s New York Times bestseller Spinning Silver and Katherine Arden’s national bestseller The Bear and the Nightingale, this unforgettable historical fantasy debut—a story inspired by Hungarian folklore and Jewish mythology—follows a young pagan woman with hidden powers and a one-eyed captain of the Woodsmen as they form an unlikely alliance to thwart a tyrant.In her forest-veiled pagan village, Évike is the only wo...

**Winner of the 2020 World Fantasy Award!From Astounding Award winner and Crawford Award finalist Emily Tesh****An ALA RUSA Reading List Selection"A true story of the woods, of the fae, and of the heart. Deep and green and wonderful.”—New York Times bestselling author Naomi Novik**There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, tethered to the forest, does not dwell on his past life, but he lives a...

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST YA OF THE DECADE • NEW YORK TIMES bestsellerBrand new edition of Victoria Schwab's long out-of-print, stunning debutThe Near Witch is only an old story told to frighten children.If the wind calls at night, you must not listen. The wind is lonely, and always looking for company.There are no strangers in the town of Near.These are the truths that Lexi has heard all her life.But when an actual...