Transubstantiate
10 best books like Transubstantiate (Richard Thomas): Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology, Deadstock, The Guardener's Tale, Dr. Identity, Morning Is Dead, Archelon Ranch, Stay Go d, Hell's Half Acre, The Maze of the Enchanter, Haggopian and Other Stories
From the heart of The Velvet a writing community built around the fervent love of neo-noir fiction comes an original anthology. Stacked with brilliant emerging writers alongside some of the strongest established voices in contemporary literature, WARMED AND BOUND crosses literary boundaries...
| Author | Jeffrey Thomas |
| ISBN | 1844164470 |
A bizarre mashup of science fiction, Cthulhu mythos, and hardboiled detective noir, Deadstock almost seems like it was written specifically for me. As a fan of all of those genres, to find them all embodied in one novel was an unexpected treat. If Neal Asher and H.P. Lovecraft had collaborated on a novel,...
| Author | Bruce Boston |
| ISBN | 1933556781 |
Richard Thorne is the Citizen of a highly technological future City State. Sol Thatcher is a Guardener, a seasoned member of the psych police, trained to track down aberrants who present a danger to the State and recondition them as stable productive citizens. When Richard Thorne becomes involved...
| Author | D. Harlan Wilson |
| ISBN | 1933293322 |
For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic doppleganger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your doppleganger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo (Dr. Blah Blah Blah and his robot Dr. Identity)...
| Author | Andersen Prunty |
| ISBN | 0982628102 |
Things went wrong for Alvin and April Blue. In a hospital at night, April sits next to Alvin, bandages covering his burned skin, listening to his heart beat on a monitor, and wonders how they ended up here. But she can never imagine the world of insanity, drugs, and crime that Alvin has fallen into. A place...
| Author | Garrett Cook |
| ISBN | 0980593824 |
Je ne suis pas un chapeau. Je suis un homme... In an overgrown, primeval, jungle-city state, Bernard is a test subject for science experiments. His father and Professor Sagramour have been injecting him with hallucinogenic mud and reality affirming drugs so that one day man will be immune to the insanity...
| Author | Nik Korpon |
| ISBN | 0982649428 |
Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn't really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend's murder, a scarlet...
| Author | Will Christopher Baer |
| ISBN | 1931561826 |
Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks and a requiem of lost love.Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious...
The Maze of the Enchanter
| Author | Clark Ashton Smith |
| ISBN | 1597800317 |
This series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive...
Haggopian and Other Stories
| Author | Brian Lumley |
| ISBN | 1596061650 |
Prior to the first American publication of Brian Lumley's ground-breaking, dead-waking, best-selling Necroscope in 1988 -- the first novel in a long-lived, much-loved series -- this British author had for twenty years been earning himself something of a reputation writing short stories, novellas,...
| Author | Aubrey Coletti |
| ISBN | 0615650929 |
When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families - and respective problems - behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake's blood, teachers with a penchant for physical punishment, and four other...
| Author | Brian Evenson |
| ISBN | 0971248524 |
A woman carries a dying baby across a desert waste, moving toward a fortress harboring a mysterious resurrection cult. Menaced by scavengers, she nevertheless begins to suspect that the reality within the fortress may be even more unsettling than the blasted environment outside. As she slips unobtrusively...
Global pandemic is raging.
Olivya Wright-Ono's once loving home has been converted to a hospice for the dying. Her ability to see auras forces her to witness, with agonizing detail, the vibrant colors of life consumed by malignancy.
The beautiful and troubled Mikah is an elite Empath...
| Author | Abel Keogh |
| ISBN | 1599554941 |
In this stark and haunting look at the not-so-distant future, an environmentally minded society elects to limit the number of children couples can have, enforcing dire consequences for lawbreakers. But when his wife gets pregnant with their third, and therefore illegal, child, Ransom Lawe is forced...
| Author | Caleb J. Ross |
| ISBN | 1780998066 |
William Lowson has two months to start believing in the world again.
William works as a human remains removal specialist, removing stains left by the dead. Whether by a bloody crime scene or a quiet domestic death, William is reminded each day of the frailty of human life. As his fiancée, Julie,...
| Author | Stephen Graham Jones |
| ISBN | 1936500019 |
There are borders and then there are borders. Between right and wrong. Between Texas and Mexico. The first is a joke to Dodd Raines, the second a payday. Then there's the borders he's made. Between himself and his estranged daughter, the border patrol agent. Between himself and his one-time employers....
| Author | Gabrielle Faust |
| ISBN | 1904853536 |
After a century of Sleep, Tynan Llywelyn has awoken to find the world he once knew utterly obliterated by a brutal war of epic proportions. In a new apocalyptic society, bitterly divided by magic and technology, the Tyst Empire has found that a hundred years of global domination is not enough to sate their...
It begins, “Don’t read The Book.” All information, past and present, is controlled by The Book, a handheld digital reading device that exists in a paperless, sustainable, dystopian future that looks shockingly similar to our own. Among the multitude of Book lovers, we find Holden Clifford,...
| Author | Xiaolu Guo |
| ISBN | 0701183357 |
Silver Hill Village, 2012. On the twentieth day of the seventh moon Kwok Yun is making her way across the rice fields on her Flying Pigeon bicycle. Her world is turned upside down when she sights a UFThing - a spinning plate in the sky - and helps the Westerner in distress whom she discovers in the shadow of...
| Author | Jason Starr |
| ISBN | 1401212867 |
This is one of those comics that puts the ‘graphic’ in ‘graphic novel.
This hybrid of a crime and horror story features an Irish lass who uses sex to lead men to their doom. As a NYPD detective tries to make sense of the pile of body parts being found around the city, an old boyfriend of the Irish...
| Author | Evan Lavender-Smith |
| ISBN | 1935402854 |
From Old Notebooks is a memoir, a novel, a poem, an essay — a self-styled memoivel — which exemplifies how love of language and literature enriches our lives, and explores, often with great humor, the many pitfalls confronting a young writer and father on his journey to maturity. Each entry in From...
