A darkly comic suburban Gothic about a malevolent force that targets a group of Ohio misfits, harnessing their angst for its sinister designs."A work of evil genius that put me in a literal trance and didn't relinquish me until the final page. I loved every insidious second." —Mona Awad, author of BunnySomething strange is happening to the teens in Adena, Ohio.A mysterious force is seeking inroads: vulnerabilities to exploit, friendships to hi...

The Monkey's Paw is a classic horror short story written by author W. W. Jacobs, published in England in 1902. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price.

I have nothing left.One moment of weakness seven years ago, and I lost my job, my art, and my only friend. Now I’m working nights at a gas station to scrape together a living and a way to care for my sister, and I’m completely alone.And then I see him on the front page of the newspaper, my former college student and the man who ruined my life seven years ago.Ryan Bell.So I carve a statue of the devil and I give the devil Bel...

We are told that God will punish the wicked. That sinful men will reap what they sow. We are told to scourge our souls with prayer and pain to become clean once again.Well, here I am. Wicked and sinful. Desperate to become clean…even though it feels so good to be dirty. But even I never expected what came next. Even I never expected my punishment to come so soon.Midnight Mass is a novella and a sequel to Priest.

I think it’s important that you know this about me, that you understand this: I’m not sorry.I’d do it again.After my husband died eight years ago, I made vengeance my only purpose, my religion, my destiny. But to get to my enemy, I had to make myself like him. He had a kingdom of secrets? Then I would make an empire. He had blood on his hands? Then I would bathe in it.But Tristan and Isolde changed everything. I hadn’t counted on wa...

There are many rules a priest can't break. A priest cannot marry. A priest cannot abandon his flock. A priest cannot forsake his God.I've always been good at following rules.Until she came. Then I learned new rules.My name is Tyler Anselm Bell. I'm twenty-nine years old. Six months ago, I broke my vow of celibacy on the altar of my own church, and God help me, I would do it again.I am a priest and this is my confession.

I can’t have Elijah Iverson.I can’t have him because he’s my older brother’s best friend. I can’t have him because I broke his heart five years ago; because he’s now engaged to someone else—someone kind and dependable who deserves his whiskey eyes, his soft mouth, his fierce intellect.I can’t have Elijah because I’ve chosen God instead.The Bell brothers, though . . . well, we don't exactly have the greatest track record with vows. But I’m determined...

I’m not a good man, and I’ve never pretended to be. I don’t believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn’t paid for in advance.What do I believe in? Money. Sex. Macallan 18.They have words for men like me—playboy. Womanizer. Skirt chaser.My brother used to be a priest, and he only has one word for me.Sinner.***Sinner is a standalone companion to Priest about Father Bell's brother Sean. You do not have to read Priest or Mid...

“An absolute weird original. It’s a frantic, funny tumbling of culture into the abyss—or maybe just a catastrophic date in an Olive Garden. Either way, read it at your peril and pleasure.”—Amber Sparks, author of The Unfinished WorldFrom the author of String Follow and Palaces, a ollection of short fiction about identity, undergrounds (symbolic and literal), art reenactment, and unexamined possibilities. Masterworks will beguile, amuse, frustrate, frighten, and in the end, connect....

David Bowie looks at a painting in a gallery. As he watches, the face in the portrait seems to shift, to take on his own aspects: the silhouette spills into the Ziggy Stardust mullet, then contracts into the fascist-chic pompadour of the Thin White Duke, then goes curly. An astral jewel blooms on the forehead; the left pupil dilates.Standing before it, David Bowie sees every mask he has ever worn, every shapeshifting phase of an iconic, fifty-year career even the most jaded critic ...

John and Joey are a young couple immersed in their local midwestern punk scene, who after graduating college sever all ties and move to a perverse and nameless northeastern coastal city. They drift in and out of art museums, basement shows, and derelict squats seemingly unfazed as the city slowly slides into chaos around them.Late one night, forced out of their living space, John and Joey are driven to take shelter in a chain pharmacy before emerging to a city in full-scale riot. T...

Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining was released in 1980 and has been fascinating viewers ever since. It is a psychological thriller about a writer with writer’s block (along with his wife and their young son) who takes a job as caretaker of an isolated hotel in the Colorado mountains during the winter off-season. The boy, Danny, is gifted with a “sixth sense” and soon begins receiving disturbing messages about the hotel’s mysterious past, and thus begins a cinematic descent into m...