The Midnight Meat Train

10 best books like The Midnight Meat Train (Clive Barker): Hardboiled: An Anthology of American Crime Stories, Nightmare Magazine 37: October 2015. Queers Destroy Horror! Special Issue, Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay, The Nameless Dark: A Collection, Hasty for the Dark, Vermin, Fabulous Beasts, I Am Legend / Hell House, The Box, Starve Better: Surviving the Endless Horror of the Writing Life

AuthorBill Pronzini
Compellingly and compulsively readable, "Hard-bolied: An Anthology of American Crime Stories" is a page-turner no mystery lover will want to be without. Included are thirty-six superbly suspenseful stories that chronicle the evolution of this quintessentially American art form, from its earliest...
AuthorWendy N. Wagner
NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.

Funded as a stretch goal of our sister-magazine LIGHTSPEED's Queers Destroy Science...
Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay
AuthorAnnie Proulx
ISBN0743298152
Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary literature, and for many readers and reviewers, "Brokeback Mountain" is her masterpiece. Now the major motion picture "Brokeback Mountain" is being hailed as equally masterful, with performances that...
AuthorT.E. Grau
ISBN1590214633
The Nameless Dark: A Collection is the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated debut of a major new voice in contemporary Weird fiction. Within these pages, you’ll find whispers of the familiar ghosts of the classic pulps - Lovecraft, Bradbury, Smith - blended with Grau’s uniquely macabre, witty storytelling,...
AuthorAdam Nevill
ISBN1999724208
These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman and Ramsey Campbell.

Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely...
Vermin
AuthorAllison M. Dickson
Creepy short story that makes your skin crawl. Confession time, I really, REALLY hate bugs. I am rather peaceful and only kill five bugs on sight (cockroaches, mosquitos, house flies, lice and ticks. Yes, the least two are arachnids, but you know what I mean.) The rest get a piece of paper under them and...
AuthorPriya Sharma
Snakes are easy. It’s people that I don’t know how to charm.

this tor short is equal parts beautiful and disturbing.

it also comes with a warning: Please be warned that this story deals with difficult content and themes, including child abuse, incest, and rape.

and also...
AuthorRichard Matheson
ISBN1582882339
I Am Legend tells the story of Robert Neville, the last living man on earth after every other human being has been transformed into a vampire by a terrible plague ... and now they are all thirsty for his blood. Following this short novel are ten more unforgettable tales.

The New York Times called...
The Box
AuthorJack Ketchum
Ten pages. You never know with a short story though because the length doesn't often matter, and Ketchum wastes no time. The box is before the reader on the first page, a red present sitting on the lap of a stranger, nondescript, but closely guarded. Therefore I was apprehensive, and yet I was inquisitive,...
AuthorNick Mamatas
ISBN0984553584
Starve Better makes no promises of making you a bestselling author. It won't feed aspiring writers' dreams of fame and fortune. This book is about survival: how to generate ideas when you needed them yesterday, dialogue and plot on the quick, and what your manuscript is up against in the slush piles of...
Smog City
AuthorRebecca McNutt
"Syndrome E meets Marianne Dreams, but Smog City incorporates Cape Breton's industrial past with super 8 found footage which puts it in a class all its own." ~Google Blogs

Smog City is a Canadian noir novel written by teenage author Rebecca McNutt in 2011 and published in 2015. It tells the story...
AuthorJohn Saul
ISBN0517084775
New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries...
AuthorMatt Madden
ISBN1596090782
99 Ways to Tell a Story is a series of engrossing one page comics that tell the same story ninety nine different ways Inspired by Raymond Queneau s 1947 Exercises in Style a mainstay of creative writing courses Madden s project demonstrates the expansive range of possibilities available to all storytellers...
AuthorJoe Hill
This short story was originally published in Joe Hill's collection 20TH CENTURY GHOSTS.

Eddie Carroll is sick to death of editing the collection America's Best New Horror, sick of reading through second-rate stories in order to find the few "best new." But one afternoon he stumbles across...
AuthorJoyce Carol Oates
ISBN0802128106
In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing...
The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers
AuthorRichard Thomas
ISBN1625579152
Edited by Richard Thomas. Foreword by Alissa Nutting.

There are women writing short stories today that take chances, risks—you might even call their work provocative. The Lineup is a collection of twenty of the most compelling, powerful, and honest stories that have been published in...
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN1597808539
A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on Halloween brings back memories better left forgotten; one misstep changes the balance of survival during the apocalypse; a group of seemingly typical travelers are stranded in an airport; a widower’s holiday...
The Little Men
AuthorMegan Abbott
ISBN1504019113
In 1953, Penny is just another washed-up, wannabe Hollywood actress who is past her prime. She has settled in to a quiet lifestyle, and when she finds a low-rent bungalow in Canyon Arms, it’s a dream come true; Penny takes to the place instantly. But the dream cottage with its French doors and tiled courtyard...
AuthorDavid C. Taylor
ISBN0765374838
Night Life first of a transporting historical crime fiction series from David C. Taylor.

New York City in 1954. The Cold War is heating up. Senator Joe McCarthy is running a witch hunt for Communists in America. The newly formed CIA is fighting a turf battle with the FBI to see who will be the primary...
AuthorThéophile Gautier
ISBN1419128914
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the pain it caused me by reason of its coincidence with the...
AuthorGordon Van Gelder
Volume 126, No. 5&6, #713, May/June 2014
Edited by Gordon Van Gelder
Cover art by Cory & Katska Ench

CONTENT:

Novella
"Bartleby The Scavenger" by Katie Boyer

Novelets
"The End Of The Silk Road" by David D. Levine
"Rooksnight" by Marc Laidlaw
"Containment...
AuthorNathan Ballingrud
ISBN0957548192
When Will discovers a cell phone after a violent brawl his life descends into a nightmare.

Affable, charismatic and a little shallow, he’s been skating across the surface of life in a state of carefully maintained contentment. He decides to keep the cell phone just until the owner returns...
Deadman's Road
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
Deadwood meets Cthulhu in this wild and profane Western romp featuring zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and one pissed-off gun-slinging preacher.

The Wild West has never seen the likes of Reverend Jebediah Mercer, a hard man wielding a burning Bible in the battle between God and the Devil,...
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