A SAFARI INTO DANGER!There are remote corners of the British Empire where the supernatural lurks and the shadows linger, where few dare go and fewer return.A TIME FOR HEROES!This is the world of the little-known Department of Antiquities -- the so-called "Strange Brigade" -- tasked with confronting ancient and terrible evils that threaten us all. But who are these mysterious adventurers?EIGHT RIP-ROARING NEW ADVENTUR...

"Vibrant, explosive, deliciously dangerous, and impossibly fun." —Tasha Suri"A brilliant alchemical recipe!" —Olivia Atwater"I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." —Shannon ChakrabortyA wickedly entertaining fantasy debut bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist.Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging ...

" The Brothers Cabal is smart, funny, and dark in all the right places. Imagine Mycroft and Sherlock-if one were a polite vampire and the other were a surly necromancer-up against an army of monsters and magicians. Like Pratchett and Fforde, Jonathan L. Howard puts it all together and makes it look effortless." -Christopher Farnsworth, author of Blood OathHorst Cabal has risen from the dead. Again. Horst, the most affable vampire one is ever likely...

From the editor of The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, this anthology of steam-powered short stories, dirigibles aloft, retro-tech wonders, and astounding adventure will set clockwork-loving hearts hammering with delight. Longtime steampunk fans: prepare to gleefully grab your goggles to read these remarkable stories! Newcomers: prepare to become fans of this popular genre involving both the past and present—entertainingly and provocatively re-thought, re-invented, and re-evaluated. With storie...

A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games'? You'll love this.A Game of War so far:Ally flies and dad shoots. She’s got a gift for flying, always has, even before she joined the Game.The Game?A weekly contest between slaves, winner takes all, losers get to walk home, assuming they survive that i...

The third utterly compelling fantasy adventure in the ARGOSI trilogy, exploring the origins of the SPELLSLINGER series to enrapture devotees as well as newcomers alike.While liberating a notorious thief from prison, Ferius Parfax encounters an inmate named Chedran, one of the last living members of her people, the Mahdek. Chedran is leading a group of young Mahdek who are determined to make a future for their people and Ferius agrees to help them find a place where...

The Ghosts of Autumn Manor is a timeless supernatural thriller, exposing a great house shattered by murder, yet reconciled by revenge. This gothic epic is sure to enlighten you to the true essence of classic horror.

Fleeing war and the death of her family, Eve has carefully constructed a new life for herself in London. Yet she is troubled by vivid, disturbing dreams, symptoms of her traumatic past, which intrude increasingly on her daily life. As she is drawn further into her dream world, she finds herself caught up in a fresh battle for survival. A dark, lyrical fantasy about healing and reconnecting with the full richness of the self.

A crippled boy plays with his puppets and dreams of gloryuntil the female cobra he disturbs by his show rushes at him.The life-and-death struggle that follows has but a predictable end– or has it?This tale has been translated into seven European languages,not to mention Braille, has been turned into a play in Paris,and has brought immediate recognition to its author,Saneh Sangsuk, born 1957, as a ‘great contemporary writer’.

The second collection of a witch's dozen of weird or horrific tales from Brian Lumley, author of the internationally bestselling Necroscope and Vampire World series.Remember: in the field of no-holds-barred terror fiction, there's Brian Lumley and then there's the rest…Stories included in this collection:Dagon’s BellNo Sharks in the MedIn the Glow-ZoneThe Caller of the BlackThe PicnickersThe Fairground HorrorProblem Child

In a bid to escape their dying world the Cad a Hoi send out dreaming stones across the galaxy. Some are found by the Taff-Taff while out in space dredging for materials with which to build new realms around their sun. But something goes wrong, bringing terrible consequences. The Realm of Agryen para Noranach becomes infected by ghouls and is ruled by fear and superstition. The Taff-Taff, unlike the Cad a Hoi, do not dream except for some children who, considered possessed, are doomed to a ...

Garry Kilworth's first collection shows him to be one of the most original and enjoyable writers in the field. The thirteen stories in The Songbirds of Pain mix science fiction and fantasy, with a dash of unclassifiable strangeness. Kilworth is particularly adept at evoking colourful and exotic locales in distant parts of the world, as in 'The Dissemblers', a story set in the Arabian deserts, about a man resorting to bizarre self-torture in his attempts to see beyond the veil of d...