Award-winning anthology. 15 horror stories and 5 poems about women, written by 5 women, facing down the grim tipping point of humanity and offering a glimpse of the hope to come.Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Horror stories about women, written by women. This anthology focuses on the strength of women faced with adversity. It explores many ways in which societal structures and personal action – including m...

Hounds of the Underworld blends mystery, near-future noir and horror. Set in New Zealand it’s the product of a collaboration by two Kiwi authors, one with Chinese heritage and the other Māori. This debut book in The Path of Ra series offers compelling new voices and an exotic perspective on the detective drama.On the verge of losing her laboratory, her savings, and all respect for herself, Pandora (Penny) Yee lands her first contract as scientific consult to the police department. ...

Brought in to secure a lockdown at the Geyserland Hotel, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his men are plagued by an ancient evil.

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLERA chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix as well as many more.**Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those w...

Taking some R&R at the site of the historic Lake Tarawera eruption, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and Private Eddie ‘Lefty’ Wright are plunged into a labyrinthine hell beneath the lake’s surface.

Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a k...

In New Zealand's Tongariro National Park, ancestral Māori mountain warriors, the legendary Kāhui Tupua, awaken, unleashing their unfathomable rage on army sergeant Taine McKenna.As the ground splits and chaos erupts, McKenna undertakes a desperate evacuation mission, that is until he encounters a busload of equally desperate prison escapees. It’s going to take everything McKenna has to get the civilians out alive. Yet the true horror lies deeper still in this heart...

Join New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna and his comrades as they battle legendary creatures and ancient evil in a land where even the terrain conspires against them in this thrilling collection of dark short stories by multiple Bram Stoker Award-winner Lee Murray.“There are monsters; there are lands that should remain untouched; and there are secrets that should not be investigated…” —World Horror Master, Michael R. Collings“...the author’s greatest strengths lie in he...

Taking the train home on Christmas eve, McKenna’s mentor, the Māori prophet Rawiri Temera, is plunged headlong into a ghostly adventure.

Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush.Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand.Laced with intrigue, suspense, horror, and even a touch of humour, this anthology brings together stories and poems by some of the best homegrown and Kiwi-at-heart voices working in dark fiction today.Curated by m...

Daily Star war correspondent Cassius Smythe is off to the Dardanelles to report on the Allied campaign. That is, if only the War Office will let him tell the truth. But after months in the trenches at Anzac Cove, Smythe learns that it isn't just the Ottoman who wish to claim back the land, and the truth is as slippery as a serpent…

While paying his respects to a departed friend, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna receives a ghostly portent that thrusts him into desperate search for a lost treasure.While paying his respects to a departed friend, New Zealand army sergeant Taine McKenna receives a ghostly portent that thrusts him into desperate search for a lost treasure.