From the award-winning author, "the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream" (Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence).Winner of the This Is Horror AwardFinalist for the Shirley Jackson AwardFinalist for the Bram Stoker AwardThis is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevere...

In the postapocalypse, you take what you can get: "A must-read story and essential addition to the zombie canon" from the New York Times–bestselling author ( LitReactor).It's been nearly a decade since Z Day, when a plague turned humans into the voracious undead. Once a high school biology teacher, Jory Gray now works on an assembly line, making genetically modified "handlers"—the only beings who can control the zombies. There's not much to live fo...

"[The] tale of a zombie horde reigning terror on the few humans left inside a building . . . a refreshing nod to the George Romero movies of old." — Mourning GoatsThere's not much rumbling during the Recipe Days show at the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum—except for stomachs, that is—until the professional wrestlers arrive early for their Saturday night matches. Chaos ensues when the home cooks are overrun by Xombie, the Hellbillies, and Jersey Devil Jill....

Fourteen original stories inspired by the influential horror writer, including tales by Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Gemma Files, and Brian Evenson.Compiled by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these original stories of the supernatural employ H. P. Lovecraft's trademark terror of the cosmic unknown. A fresh generation of writers have been set free to play in his playground, exploring new themes and new horrors.In "Oblivion Mode" by...

"Jones crosses into the noir badlands of No Country for Old Men—bloody and throwing sparks but cool as a killer angel—and by sundown he owns the joint." —Will Christopher Baer, author of Kiss Me, JudasSmuggler Dodd Raines just got the job of a lifetime. He'll finally earn enough money to secure a decent future for his young daughter and start over on the right side of the law. There's just one catch: his cargo is made up of moon rocks—with mass-cas...

This novel "masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective" ( Publishers Weekly).For more than eight years, a serial killer has been stalking the country, visiting towns with biblical names and leaving pairs of victims behind—one female and one male, their bodies broken and twisted to create the same gruesome scene over and over again.In rura...

Thirteen stories of monsters, murder, and mayhem from a master of horror, the New York Times–bestselling author of I Was a Teenage Slasher.Stephen Graham Jones takes familiar horror tropes—zombies, camping mishaps, damaged children—and intertwines them with the dark forces of human nature to create unique and unforgettable short fiction. These thirteen tales run the gamut, immersing you in worlds you think you've seen before, but with outcomes you'...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Indian Lake trilogy: Three stories that uncover what's lurking just beyond your headlights . . .Take a road trip into your darkest nightmares with three stories from the modern master of horror and "one of the best writers working today" (NPR). Here, Bram Stoker Award–winning author Stephen Graham Jones gives evil an all-too-familiar face, whether it's the man from the dog shelter, a colleague at a work conv...

The New York Times–bestselling author "shows how a serial killer's paradise and a serial killer's hell are really the same place" (Brian Evenson, O. Henry Award–winning author).When a serial killer hits the top of his game, where does he go from there? William Colton Hughes finds out. Not interested in notoriety, Hughes just wants to do what he's good at: torture and murder. It never occurs to him that he could make a living at it . . . until the yoga instr...

When a Martian moon explodes, what follows in rural Texas will take your breath away, in this haunting short novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.When Lee's wife of fifteen years leaves him on the same night a Martian moon is destroyed, the fields of his farm still need to be irrigated and the cotton planted. The space accident is too far away to concern Lee more than boll weevils and rain forecasts—but then a giant caterpillar is found on his ...

The New York Times–bestselling author "has created the tales here with experimental glee, yielding an astonishing assortment of mutated manuscripts" (Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of The Loop).Take a deep dive into the delightfully twisted mind of bestselling horror author Stephen Graham Jones with the more than twenty short stories in Zombie Sharks with Metal Teeth. Experience a day in the life of superhero Vigilante Man and his alter ego...

Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People is an anthology of urban weird fiction. These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore the genre of weird fiction, tales not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the strange ways the city affects us.And there's an amazing cast of authors:...