Ana and Arthur have a simple plan: Escape Ireland for the forests of Southern Poland to wait out a global pandemic. But, deep in the Suedete forests, their own ghosts await them – drawing them into a dilemma that could cost them everything.Crossing continents, cultures, and time zones, Life During Wartime tells the story of Mother and Daughter at war with each other, of a country deep in a culture war, of a writer at war with himself after a bereavement, and the struggles of a coup...

Although written in first person, this fourth volume of Haunted is a recounting of ghostly encounters from several of my friends. As with the other volumes, all stories are believed to be 100% true. Each story teller has been carefully questioned about any and all details pertaining to the story they had to tell. Unlike the other three volumes, there are no sweet little blue girls, or protective entities to be found among these frightening tales of diabolical occurrences. This is an adult ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LAST DAYS OF JACK SPARKS:Experience horror like never before in A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home, a bone-chilling short story set in the home of whoever reads it.That's right: a ghost story that takes place in your home and takes the form of an anonymous letter sent to your address. It details the terrifying events which happened in your home and which continue to this day.You have inherited a curse and...

A beautiful story about Art; a living, breathing boy in all respects - who happens to be made of inflatable plastic. POP ART is an exceptional, must-read of a short story.Joe Hill is the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2, Horns, and Heart-Shaped Box, and the prize-winning story collection 20th Century Ghosts. He is also the co-author, with Stephen King, of In the Tall Grass.

The Sound Machine is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking tale.In The Sound Machine, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a curious invention reveals a horrifying truth about plants . . .The Sound Machine is taken from the short story collection Someone Like You, which includes seventeen other devious and shocking stor...

My brother Peter killed himself on May 13th, 2010 sometime between noon and 5pm. My world lurched on its axis and will never recover.There is nothing I can do to bring Peter back home to us, but I can tell you that if you are worried about a loved one or a friend, you need to intervene and help lead your loved one to some relief. Do not worry about "butting in" or being "nosey". Get them to a doctor for a diagnosis. Walk with them. Call them. Follow up on whether they are taking th...

Addicted to buying clothes, Alison shops until she steals, pulls a scarf around her neck and, quite literally, drops . . .Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was previously published in the collection Blood Lines.

True Tales of Demons, Ghosts, Evil, and Things That Go Bump in the Night...If you enjoy creepy true tales of the paranormal then this book is for you. This is just the book you were looking for, but never found, at Halloween.An excerpt – To my utter amazement, the windows behind me suddenly rattled and with a loud cracking noise, blew wide open. A rush of air entered the flat, blowing her hair back and scattering the pile of poems all around the room. Her eyes, probably lik...

A missing son. A 1950s retirement home. And a mechanical nightmare that thins the wall between realities.When Thomas Alan Davies purchased the sun-bleached ranch house at 3489 West Crest Way in Youngtown, Arizona, he expected nothing more than an engineering project. The property—priced forty percent below market value, carried a strange history and a long record of brief, unsettled owners. It was also the very house from which his maternal grandmother, Evelyn Bloc...

Ian Watson is one of the finest writers of SF and fantasy stories, and Butterflies of Memory is his 10th collection, a selection of stories that are by turns serious and playful, and always wildly imaginative...In the title story, what if mobile phones were to become truly mobile, flying about like butterflies? 'An Appeal to Adolf' tells of gay sailors on a Nazi battleship many kilometres long during a Second World War unfamiliar to us; 'Lover of Statues' of an enigmatic alien visi...

In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fusing memoir with a meditation on creative block and a cultural history of limbo, Dan Fox considers the role that fallow periods and states of inbetween play in art and life. Limbo is an essay about getting by when you can't get along, employing a cast of artists, ghosts and sailors – including the author's older brother who, in...

'A delight . . . a glorious, witty and life-affirming ragbag of autobiography, cultural commentary and hard-won wisdom.' ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The Shadows of London'Perceptive, wise and illuminating . . . an unmissable farewell.' Barry Forshaw, FINANCIAL TIMES'The most hilarious, life-affirming book you’ll read this year.' SAGA magazine'Wit and wisdom that make every page turn ....