I wanted to inspire others with my book. It is for the people who are still in the dark and who may think there is no way out of their very own darkness. I am a survivor and I am a fighter. If I didn’t have Jesus in my heart I’d probably be in jail, still on drugs, or maybe even dead. Jesus is my light and you are not alone. You are not the only one who has suffered from pain, heartaches and disappointments. Jesus himself suffered in this world. Out of all the people, he was and still is a...

California is more than beaches, sunshine, and vineyards.Two dozen horror authors are about to drag you into their nightmares, taking you on a wild tour behind the sun-soaked glamour, promising chills and thrills that linger long after the last page. With stories ranging from cosmic to body horror, to the comedic and the strange, Dread Coast: SoCal Horror Tales is a descent into the darkest corners of Southern California. These pages carry the whispers of ...

Never in a million dog days of summer would I have guessed my breaking Mudville’s pooper scooper law would lead me to the town’s bad boy. But that’s exactly what happened.He was the guy who went directly from graduation to gunfire and didn’t look back…until now.Twenty years later, he’s home. A little bit broken, but back for good. And with the help of man’s—or rather woman’s—best friend, I intend to make him mine.Can a former geek win the star of the football team? ...

What's that sound? Do you feel it? The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance. A tome of horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers stations, rogue transmissions, and other unimaginable sounds you only wish were fiction. Forget about what's hiding in the shadows, and start worrying about what's hiding in the dead air.With stories by Matthew M. Bartlett, T.E. Grau, Joseph Bouthiette Jr., Josh Malerman, David James Keaton, Tony Burgess, Michael Paul Gonzalez, ...

A sinister puppet finally makes a new friend.A man learns about his bleak future.A killer has another painful lesson to teach.From the author of LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES comes this terrifying and amusing follow-up. 30 100-word shorts about horrible ghouls, monsters and deranged, bloodthirsty lunatics. In these drabbles, you'll run into kid-hungry goblins, sadistic dolls, zombies and psychopaths who believe that violence can solve just about anything.D...

New York Times best-selling author of ten genre-bending novels Jonathan Lethem helms this collection of the year’s best mystery short fiction.For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that “they’re fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning of tables.” The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 has its full sha...

The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of the past, the more we've come to love Halloween—the one time each year when the mundane is overturned in favor of the bizarre, the “other side” is closest, and everyone can become anyone (or anything) they wish . . . and sometimes what they don’t. Introducing nineteen original stories from mistresses and masters of the dark celebrate the most fantastic, enchanting, spooky, and supernatural of holidays.

A collection of monologues for young adults from their teens to their twenties, organized by age group and gender, and including both comic and dramatic pieces. Monologues from this very popular collection have been included in three other anthologies. This second edition includes revised versions of two monologues as well as three additional monologues.

Women. Crime. Justice. At least the search for it. On the mean streets, the back allies, the dark corners.These are stories of tough women in hard places. The nights are long, the women are fast, and danger is always a short block or quick minute away. Edited by award winning author/editors J.M. Redmann and Greg Herren, Women of the Mean Streets is an anthology of some of the top, tough women crime writers today, noir stories with a lesbian twist.

Shortlisted for the Booker? Unlikely.Pulitzer prize-winning? No.A damn good read filled with thrills and chills? You bet!Forget all those books you feel you ought to be reading and rediscover the pure joy of down-to-earth fiction with Trash Tales: An Anthology of Trashy Fiction.These 29 short stories are guaranteed to put a smile on your face, send a shiver down your spine and put some lead in your pencil. Personally selected by YouTube's champion of trashy li...

Everyone loves their grandma but these three are just a little...different. They have certain skills in war and strategy developed over forty years through military training and discipline. They are the definition of "never judge a book by its cover." They now work as contractors for the extra money. Follow the hapless Clem as he is hired to drive the three on their latest mission of destruction.

"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...