2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection 2014 This Is Horror Award finalist for best collection 2015 Chesley Award finalist for best cover
Mike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and dark fantasy. Unseaming burns bright as hell among its peers. --Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
Everyone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its...
2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection 2014 This Is Horror Award finalist for best collection
Esoteric Introduction by Mark Booth All new Fiction by: Laird Barron, Donald Tyson, John Shirley, Simon R. Green, Simon Strantzas, Glen Hirshberg Interviews with: Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon, Glen Hirshberg, Donald Tyson, Noelle Leon Articles on: "The Secret History of King Arthur" by Mark Booth, "Through the Darkest Lens: Conspiracy Theory in Fiction and Culture" by K. H. Vaughan, "An Unreading: Notes on a Narrative of Failure" by D. Harlan Wilson Jade Sky Comic by: Joe McKinney and Patrick Freivald with artwork from B. MacKay. Columns from Gary Braunbeck, Yvonne Navarro, Richard...
Esoteric Introduction by Mark Booth All new Fiction by: Laird Barron, Donald Tyson, John Shirley, Simon R. Green, Simon Strantzas, Glen Hirshberg Inte...
Before The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan By the twentieth century, the exorcism had all but vanished, wiped out by modern science and psychology. But Ray Russell--praised by Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro as a sophisticated practitioner of Gothic fiction--resurrected the ritual with his classic 1962 horror novel, The Case Against Satan, giving new rise to the exorcism on page, screen, and even in real life. Teenager Susan Garth was "a clean-talking sweet little girl" of high school age before she started having...
Before The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, there was The Case Against Satan By the twentieth century, the exorcism had a...
Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you're child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corporation that has enshrined Machiavelli's The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, would be a swell company logo. Consider also those long, cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas, or that Dad may be a supervillain, while an uncle...
Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life...
Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks to become a dreaded enforcer. His latest task? He and an entourage of expert killers are commanded to kidnap Muzaki, a retired world-renowned wrestler under protection of the rival Dragon Syndicate. It should be business as bloody usual for Nanashi and his ruthless brothers in arms, except for the detail that Muzaki possesses a terrifying secret. A secret that will spawn a no-holds barred gang war and send Nanashi on a...
Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly asce...