Throughout history, the ideas of magic, sorcery, and witchcraft have never been as fixed or universal as many assume. Instead, they are fluid concepts—shaped, reshaped, and continually reinterpreted by the societies that use them. This book explores how these terms have evolved across time and culture, arguing that our understanding of magical practices is inseparable from the social environments in which we live. Folklore, religion, politics, and collective memory all play a role in deter...

In May 1940, as Hitler's armies tear through France, two battalions of Guards are rushed to Boulogne in a desperate attempt to hold back the German advance.Lieutenant Jimmy Gale never expected to join them. Yet within hours he is leading a hastily assembled force of young sailors into a city already descending into chaos. Poorly trained for land warfare and armed with little more than rifles, they must face tanks, machine guns, mortar fire and relentless attacks from the air. Their...

"Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence--including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion--that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore horror fans." --Publishers WeeklyExcerpt from the Introduction:Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of...

All things broken may be made whole again…Sivino Spallic has always believed this to be so, but when his once idyllic world is suddenly torn apart, he will question everything he once thought to be true.The breaking begins with the arrival of the Nylacci - foul creatures of myth that descend on the villages of the Three Realms, razing and ravaging all they encounter. Their arrival is the doing of Cehron Cen Kohr, a...

From the editors of Lost Signals comes the new volume in technological horror. Nineteen authors, both respected and new to the genre, team up to deliver a collection of terrifying, eclectic stories guaranteed to unsettle its readers. In Lost Films, a deranged group of lunatics hold an annual film festival, the lost series finale of The Simpsons corrupts a young boy’s sanity, and a VCR threatens to destroy reality. All of that and much more, with fiction from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Kel...

Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason a...

“A CULT CLASSIC WAITING ON ITS CULT.”—William Boyle, author of City of MarginsRecently fired from his job, Dave sets out on a manic, misguided quest for answers up the food chain of law enforcement corruption and down the increasingly bizarre Florida coastline. Battling cops, biker gangs, backwoods Bigfoot hunters, and getting tangled in tourist traps (both figurative and literal), he eventually stumbles onto a conspiracy involving body cameras, love locks, ...

From Evil Dead to The Ring , there's just something trapped in dead media that keeps drawing us back: a combination of horror and nostalgia that's irresistible. In The Black Tapes , Libby Cudmore and Nick Mamatas bring you haunting tales of lost media, real and imagined, from the best writers working today.It's a promise and a threat—...

A collection of horror fiction that’s both a love letter and a middle finger to the zombie saturation of our culture. It’s the backlash to the backlash, as zombies are finally unfashionable enough to be cool again. Inside, you will rehearse end-of-the-world scenarios with the staff of a tourist trap, follow an undead love triangle struggling to survive a tipping point of post-modern, pop-culture references, and enjoy one small apocalypse after another as the living continue to adapt to a n...

Make your Christmas complete by reading four short stories from author David James. Oh Glorious Tree, Gifts of Faith, Witness the birth of a King and Time for His Word. You will enjoy the gospel message throughout each book and will also learn the true meaning of the glorious holiday. A must have to enjoy the Spirit of Christmas for you and your family.

Poems That Shouldn’t Exist is a book for readers who suspect that reality has been taking itself far too seriously. This is a collection of poetic misbehaviour—verses that slipped past the editors of existence, dodged the censors of common sense, and now gather here in gleeful defiance. Inside these pages you’ll find sock sonnets, spoon elegies, existential laundry chants, and other lyrical anomalies that refuse to obey genre, logic, or good taste. These poems were never invited, never exp...

When Germany invades Holland in May 1940, 13-year-old Samuel De Souza is given a forged passport, put on a ship in the care of two elderly strangers and smuggled out from under the nose of the Nazis. Arriving in England, the young Jewish boy has the prospect of seeing out the war in relative safety, surrounded by newfound friends and with the love of Jannie, one of the older men who has become Sam's mentor and guide. When Sam meets and falls in love with Annie, it would seem his life is fi...