"Daddy's coming home."That's the promise Hank, a widowed ambulance driver finishing up his shift in San Francisco, makes to his two kids who are trapped in the ruins of their destroyed apartment building across the Bay in Oakland, after the mother of all earthquakes-the fabled "Big One"-hits California.Hank and two of his fellow EMTs commandeer the rescue vehicle, racing through the decimated streets in search of a way across the water to save his kids. But as the journey t...

A collection of weird, dark stories and millennial anxieties.In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in both the long- and short-term.A young couple's reunited with their lost son whose favorite fuzzy bear suit connects him to the ghost of a vengeful mama bear while he's alone in the forest....

Celebrate the Strangeness of Being Anything at AllSpotlighting the bizarrely beautiful and beautifully bizarre music and lyrics of indie folk rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, And One Day We Will Die features 22 short stories from the realms of weird, phantasmagoric, and speculative fiction, all inspired by the cult classic songs written and performed by Jeff Mangum and company. From alternate histories where happy endings are allowed and mythological re-imagi...

Ted Hideman is a family man and a renowned tech start up guru.He's also the notorious impossible-to-track online troll JK-LOL.When his online persona spills over into the real world, attacking those he's virtually harassed and leaving a trail of bodies from California to Mississippi, the disgraced Silicon Valley wünderkind must abandon the protective anonymity of the online sphere and desperately search for answers in the real world.As the authorities close in on hi...

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The third volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: So Quiet, So White – Patrick Barb Roger Grimsby, a small-town curmudgeon known for his ' 80s horror paperback cover art, believes an ancient, bloodthirsty entity with ties to his family may have reemerged. But how does this connect to his wayward grandson, who prying police detectives and grieving parents blame for a recent knife attack ma...

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured scribe will bring you face to face with ancient horrors lurking in cursed castles, wild woodlands, haunted hamlets, and mysterious monasteries.Including a lineup of authors both established and emerging, HOWL Society Press presents the first-ever anthology of historical horror from the medieval period, fittingly introduced by the writer who arguably started it all: Christopher Buehlman...

In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in both the long- and short-term. -A young couple is reunited with their lost son whose favorite fuzzy bear suit connects him to the ghost of a vengeful mama bear while he's alone in the forest. -A jaded screenwriter can’t escape the haunted screenplay that’s ruined his career. -A man returns to his ...

Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive.When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable tragedy strikes, the pair find themselve...

"A new tough guy to root for . . . a hero who is as sharp with his wits, and his tongue, as he is with his fists." —Matt Hilton, bestselling author of the Joe Hunter novelsAfter a family of four is crucified and burned alive, Jake Boulder is determined to help out his best friend and sometime-employer, a private detective related to the victims. But as Boulder tries to track the heinous killer, a young woman is abducted and found dead—and Boulder realizes these murd...

2022 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist * 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry FinalistA brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory.By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake’s poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain ...

Through November, the complete season of The Cutting Room is just $0.99: http://store.kobobooks.com/ebook/the-cutting-room-5~In the future, there are many parallel Earths--but only one of them has time travel. Its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police.Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. But on a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he steps into ...

"In lines that remind me of the way William Carlos Williams insisted that only the imagination gives us access to reality, Lasky's poems evoke a practice of living, as bloody and awful and lovely as living can ever be."-Julia Bloch, Bitch"The beautiful thing about Lasky, in all her work, but particularly here, is her ability to create that same sense of earnestness, the sense that she is telling you a secret."-InDigest Magazine, InDigest PicksGo, brave and gentle r...