"Nothing stays dead. Not the dogs. Not the voices. Not me." Seven Dark Stars is a new collection of horror fiction from the author of The Darkest Touch that looks to explore the glowing truth that burns hidden amidst the darkness in our lives. Inspired by the great horror authors of the past and present such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Harlan Ellison, this collection features the dark novella Grim: the story of Blake MacTire, a detective in the slums of Birmingham who's confronted by a killer that believes his dead mother is alive again at the bottom of a lake. Blake's sure it's...

The legendary singer Vainamoinen has been gone for fifteen years and people have lost all hope of him coming back, save for a few. Lemminkainen was once friends with the singer and they fought together in an old war - a war in which Lemminkainen was killed. Lemminkainen came back, though not without a price. Each day he loses feeling and parts of his mind. He has to find the old singer again before he turns hollow. The warlord Kaleria has grown bold in the singer's absence and started to take over Kaleva one district at a time. But when he imprisons Lemminkainen in the Giant's Keep, a smith,...

"Nothing stays dead. Not the dogs. Not the voices. Not me." Seven Dark Stars: Blackness Absolute is a special hardback edition of the classic collection of dark fiction from the author of The Darkest Touch. This chilling work looks to explore the glowing truth that burns hidden amidst the darkness in our lives. Inspired by the great horror authors of the past and present such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Harlan Ellison, this revised edition includes ten short stories alongside the novella Grim: the six original and acclaimed stories in the collection, three disturbing new stories from...

Pilot 93 has been cut off from New Babylon, lost through a wormhole. Communications have stopped. He is alone at the edge of the universe in a one man ship. With rapidly dwindling oxygen, food and fuel, he must find a way to survive, but what will prove even harder is finding a reason to. Haunted by visitations from an infamous serial killer and with only a black box of recordings and his ship's personality upload to draw strength from, Pilot 93's journey will challenge what it means to be lonely, what it means to be human, what it means to even be alive. In this sci-fi novella, Joseph Sale...