Caught Between Fear and Desire.Recently divorced Vivian Loughty, once an inspiring painter, finds herself and her world falling apart. Haunted by visions of her ex-wife, Vivian believes she has not only lost her spark, but also her mind. She leaves the city in search of a new muse, and finds one in someone, or rather something, stranger and more dangerous than she can even comprehend.How far will Vivian go to find her spark?

In a radical departure from her urban life, Ann Turner buys a piece of remote Vermont land and sets up a tent home in deep forest. She’s trying to escape an unending string of personal disasters in Boston; more, she desperately wants to leave behind a world she sees as increasingly defined by consumerism, hypocrisy, and division.As she writes in her journal, “There’s got to be a more honest, less divided way to live.”She soon learns she was mistaken in thinking a kindly Mot...

Nick Cutter, author of #HorrorBookTok sensation The Troop, returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity's been missing for over a month. Most people in town - even the police - think ...

“A powerful allegory of our civilization’s many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation.” —New York Times Book ReviewAn intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City of Glass that is at once a missing-person mystery, an exorcism of modern culture, and a wholly singular vision of contemporary womanhood from a ...

Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel.“Bad Nature shows we’re getting selfishness all wrong. As uproariously funny as a takedown of our deadly society can be, the novel is also an urgent call to exchange possession for belonging.”**—Alissa Nutting, The New York Times...

Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.What Emmett thinks about is the subject of this wise and closely observed novel, which covers vast distances while moving no further than Emmett’s hearth and home. Nicholson Baker’s extraordinary ability to describe and celebrate life in all its rich ordinariness has never...

A violent home invasion shatters Eileen’s tranquil country life, forcing her to confront her deepest fears.This short story takes place in the world of the Elements of the Undead, but is not part of the series.

'Unusual, finely judged and wrought work… has reminded us of the beauty that can be discovered in the ordinary and in ordinary speech.' -- Lydia Davis on AUG 9—FOG A collection of innovative and ambitious short stories from a visionary young writer In The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan's adventurous, unsettling debut collection – compression is key. Sentences have been relentlessly trimmed, tuned and teased for maximum impact. A ferocious attention to rhythm and sound results in a palpa...

***Get 6 FREE ebooks @http://www.DavidMarkBrownWrites.com as part of the FREE DMB PRIMER LIBRARY!***Before Aliens there was Hell's Womb"I tried cutting the tension in this story with a knife before eventually resorting to a rusty chainsaw.""Put on your worst pair of underpants. Hell's Womb is just that scary."WARNING:This digital short is not recommended for anyone suffering from cl...

"A bizarre and darkly funny world . . . There are fables, horror stories, absurd stories, and more serious stories about love." —Ramona Ausubel, The New York Times Book ReviewA woman creeps through the ductwork of a quiet home. A medical procedure reveals an object of worship. A carnivorous reptile divides and cauterizes a town. Amelia Gray's curio cabinet expands in Gutshot, where isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark and outrageous edg...

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...

"Butler is an original force who is fearless with form. . . . [an] inventive and deeply promising young author." — Time Out New York"[Butler's] sentences. . . twist and evolve, and there's a perverse joy that comes from watching just how his paragraphs are shaped, of tracing their contractions and rhythms." — FlavorpillWith echoes of Justin Taylor, Tony O'Neill, and Dennis Cooper, breakout novelist Blake Butler delivers a wildly inventive, impressionistic ...