Strange Angels
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| Author | Lisa Tuttle |
| ISBN | 0440212014 |
Clare has made choices. She has known loss, disappointment, and the tragedy of her brother's death. But now Clare is about to know the unknowable: her own roads not taken, the lives that could have been hers--and are...
Suddenly Clare's ordinary life has exploded into a journey into other existences:...
Included in this collection are 21 short stories by the award-winning author of Silk. Caitlin R. Kiernan has added a new voice to the world of horror and supernatural writing. Her stories consistently make it into The Years Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Her writing is...
Enter the mind of a serial killer who believes he is the rightful son and heir to an ancient dynasty of flesh-eating monsters. Follow the frantic journey of a mother whose daughter is infected with the stuff of nightmare, and look through the eyes of Bo Mulvey, a man upon whom the fate and survival of the...
| Author | Charles L. Grant |
| ISBN | 0812518489 |
Teenagers are being slaughtered by the Howler, a serial killer who stops in small towns just long enough to kill, just long enough to tear apart a family and a community. When he strikes in Ashford, the town reacts-setting limits on teens' activities, monitoring who goes where-and parents become paranoid.
Seventeen-year-old...
| Author | Rex Miller |
| ISBN | 1585861553 |
Stephen King hails Rex Miller as terrifying and original. Slob is his debut novel, the story of a man who thinks of himself as Death. A man wholikes to feast on human hearts, spilling blood wherever he goes. Jack Eichord is the detective who must hunt this human monster and genius killer. Years of working...
| Author | Joe R. Lansdale |
| ISBN | 0929480120 |
WARNING: THIS BOOK MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR MENTAL HEALTH.
But if you've got a taste for bone-chilling, gut-wrenching terror that brilliantly tests the limits of human endurance, then Joe R. Lansdale is your man. In his first collection of short stories, the gruseome and outrageous cult classic...
| Author | Nicole Blackman |
| ISBN | 1888451343 |
Never liked poetry. Actually, I despised it. Ignored it. Then a few things happened in my life, I started to really listen to music and it`s lyrics and discovered Charles Bukowski and Nicole Blackman. They touched me. She touched me in places that I am afraid to reveal. Her hand penetrated my skull and...
| Author | Pam Keesey |
| ISBN | 1573440140 |
This anthology has a collection of eleven stories that push graphic edges and dare the reader to look away. Each story delves into the lore and mystery surrounding vampires with a wide range of style and voice. This anthology is not for anyone faint of heart or easily offended, although the best stories...
| Author | Shanna Germain |
| ISBN | 1938757033 |
Dangerous women aren’t always the ones who carry guns and take down the bad guys. Sometimes, the most dangerous women are the ones we don’t even notice -- the sultry siren crooning in a smoky bar, the innocent young girl twirling in her summer dress, the soft-shoed nurse who helps the comatose.
In...
Short but powerful, this neo-gothic novel, which is illustrated by Harry O. Morris, uses the crisp immediacy of the present tense to lead the reader on a hallucinatory journey from humanity to inhuman transcendence. After a miraculous recovery from near death, a young man known only as the Divinity...
Revised and expanded, the startling debut of Simon Strantzas resurfaces with tales of dark gods and monsters of the flesh, emissaries from a world beneath our own, a world from where nightmares are born. Here, a man searches for truth in a universe that has forsaken him and pays the price for that knowledge,...
| Author | Peter Haining |
| ISBN | 0760703795 |
From legends retold around the peat fire to modern stories of psychological terror, the Irish have always had a fascination with fear. Drawn from 200 years of short story writing, this book includes 24 powerful Irish tales with more than enough material to set pulses racing: satanic figures, ghosts,...
| Author | Gwendolyn Kiste |
| ISBN | 1945373555 |
A murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed...
| Author | John Claude Smith |
| ISBN | 1945373938 |
The forest is alive.
While visiting fellow writer, Frank Harlan Marshall, Derek Gray senses a palpable dread within Frank's house and the forest that surrounds it; a subtle, malignant sentience. What should be a joyous event, as they await the surprise arrival of a long-lost friend, comedian...
| Author | Brian Evenson |
| ISBN | 1573661139 |
Brian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it. In...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0312187785 |
This book in the long-running series of best of the year anthologies showcases the authors favorite stories from 1997. There are some really good stories in here.
My favorite by far was Safe by Gary A Braunbeck. This story was about a shooting and its ramifications and it actually made me cry...
| Author | S.P. Miskowski |
| ISBN | 1945373784 |
"First rule. Never open your story with a corpse. It's a cliché. If you do it to be ironic, I'll throw your manuscript in your face."
Greta didn't set out to solve a murder. But if the first thing you see when you come home after a long day at a lousy job is your own dead body, it can make even the most...
Big fan of queer characters in books that aren’t just about coming out and don’t read like romance comics. Honest to God bi characters are hard to find to. Just like in life. Here its two boys and a girl in love and one of them is maybe a monster.
scary and smart and intense story. You really want...
| Author | Ramsey Campbell |
| ISBN | 0765355256 |
You're an underpaid civil servant who dreams of chucking it all to become a famous author. You live with your overbearing mother who always seems to interrupt when you're writing a key scene. Your imagination is dark, your inspiration the terrible things that happen to can happen to a young woman...
This was a spooky and bloody romp all the way to the end of the book! The cover of the book shows blood and that is definitely what is within these pages!
Castle House has been abandoned for a long time as it use to be a mental asylum and now it is opened once again. Doctor Rockford is the only doctor on...
