Anthologies
Three masters of horror unite in this collection of interconnected novellas that each start with someone walking into a workplace with a gun, launching an odyssey into a nightmarish world of fear and madness. Original.
A powerful collection of fourteen terrifyingly sensual tales that explore the dark side of lust and love features selections by some of today's most notable horror writers. Reissue.
A tantalizing mix of sex and horror in fourteen stories from masters of the macabre, including Max Allan Collins, Jack Ketchum, Lucy Taylor, and Edward Lee. Deadly After Dark , fourth in the genre-defining Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series, pushes the envelope the furthest yet. Two Bram Stoker Award–nominated stories—Lucy Taylor’s searing “Thing of Which We Do Not Speak” and Edward Lee’s brilliantly grisly “Mr. Torso”—demonstrate the depth and range of the best erotic horror, and highlight a fourteen-story collection that will both arouse your senses and make your blood run cold. Other contributors include award-winning and bestselling mystery author Max Allan Collins, making an all-too-rare foray into the dark side of suspense, as well as pioneering work from contemporary horror master Jack Ketchum and new fiction by both Graham Watkins and Graham Masterton. It’s no surprise Fangoria said “ Deadly After Dark is a worthy continuation of a series that has yet to reach its climax.” Praise for the Hot Blood series “Read Hot Blood late at night when the wind is blowing hard and the moon is full.” — Playboy “Outstanding . . . A daring combination of sex and terror.” — Cemetery Dance “Will appeal to your every kink.” — Locus “Seek out this one (or its predecessors) for some naughty fun.” — Booklovers
Fear the Fever, the seventh of the provocative Hot Blood anthology series, is the hottest yet. Your blood will boil as you peruse P.J. Cacek’s Bram Stoker award-winning story “Metalica” and Graham Masterton’s Stoker- nominated story “The Secret Shih Tan.” Emmy and Nebula Award winning writer Alan Brennert brings “Fantasies” to the Hot Blood series, while Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee join forces for the unforgettable “Love Letters from the Rain Forest.” Lucy Taylor and Bruce Jones are among the other contributors. 17 steaming, sizzling, brilliant pieces of original erotic horror fiction.
Premier Issue! Cover by Erik Wilson LATE SUMMER SHADOWS by Rick Hautala art by Glenn Chadbourne COMES THE NIGHT WIND, COLD AND HUNGRY adapted by Edward Lee from the original story by Gene Michael Higney art by Erik Wilson STICKMAN by Richard Laymon adapted by Erik Wilson and Will Renfro
Skull Full of Spurs: A Roundup of Weird Westerns is a gorgeously produced limited numbered edition (1000 copies), with cover art by Allen G. Douglas and an introduction by Norman Partridge. Following each story is a complete bibliography of the author, including books and short stories -- an indispensable reference for the genre collector.
Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce a second printing of SHIVERS, our award nominated anthology of terror, containing almost two dozen short stories from today's hottest writers including Bentley Little, Jack Ketchum, Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee, Simon Clark, Ray Garton, David B. Silva, Graham Masterton, Jay Bonansinga, and many others! Featuring both original dark fiction and rare reprints, SHIVERS is available only as a beautiful perfect-bound trade paperback! Table of Contents: Fodder - Brian Keene & Tim Lebbon Ice Box - Jay Bonansinga The Hand of Glory - Simon Clark Hermanoes De El Noche - Bentley Little Walking With the Ghosts of Pier 13 - Brian Freeman 265 and Heaven - Douglas Clegg The Sailor Home from the Sea - John Pelan This Is the End; My Only Friend, The End - David B. Silva White-Out - Peter Crowther & Simon Conway The Holding Cell - Jack Ketchum The Wager - Thomas F. Monteleone Always Traveling, Never Arriving - Robert Morrish That Extra Mile - David Niall Wilson & Brian A. Hopkins Bleed With Me: A Brackard's Point Story - Geoff Cooper The Green Face - Al Sarrantonio Tender Tigers - Nancy A. Collins Spin Cycle - David G. Barnett Throwing Caution to the Wind... - Kelly Laymon Portrait of a Sociopath - Edward Lee The Sympathy Society - Graham Masterton
Cemetery Dance Publications is proud to announce SHIVERS II, the sequel to last year's award nominated and bestselling anthology! SHIVERS II is a brand new anthology of terror, containing almost two dozen short stories from today's hottest writers, including Bentley Little, Douglas Clegg, Edward Lee, Ray Garton, Graham Masterton, Tom Piccirilli, Thomas Tessier, F. Paul Wilson, Rick Hautala, and many others! Featuring original dark fiction with a handful of rare reprints, SHIVERS II is available only as a beautiful perfect-bound trade paperback! Table of Contents: Item Anna -- F. Paul Wilson Item MO3:16 -- Geoff Cooper Item The Machinery of Night -- Douglas Clegg Item Will You Tell Them I Died Quietly? -- Kealan Patrick Burke Item Marking the Passage of Time -- Brian Freeman Item Schoolhouse -- Rick Hautala Item Weakness -- Tom Piccirilli Item When Worlds Collide -- David Niall Wilson Item Slouching in Bethlehem -- Brian Keene Item Riding the Storm Out -- J.F. Gonzalez Item Fine Until You Called -- Thomas Tessier The Box Man -- Gary A. Braunbeck Something in Store -- Bev Vincent Can You Dig It? -- Garrett Peck The New Kid -- Al Sarrantonio Xipe -- Edward Lee A Better Man -- David G. Barnett A Night Out With the Boys -- Ray Garton Living in the Cemetery, Dancing the Dance -- Kelly Laymon The House of Dust -- Thomas F. Monteleone & Elizabeth E. Monteleone How Dead Is That Doggie In The Window? -- Patricia Lee Macomber Junkyard of the Damned -- Robert Morrish Last Wish -- Bentley Little The Burgers of Calais -- Graham Masterton
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TERRIBLE BEAUTY, FEARFUL SYMMETRY Edited by Wendy Brewer Beauty can seduce you. Beauty can deceive you. Beauty can also be cruel, otherworldly and downright deadly. Explore the fearful symmetry of beauty's dark side with the genre's most-terrifying storytellers. Contributors: James A. Moore Edward Lee Angeline Hawkes Wendy Brewer Weston Oches Harrison Howe Marcy Italiano John Everson Corrine de Winter Gord Rollo Everette Bell Scott T. Goudsward Matthew Warner J.L. Comeau T. Rex Arms A.M. Muffaz Charles Colyott Sphera Girn Ron Clinton Gregory L. Norris April Grey R.E. Gofstein Jason Palmer Dennis M. Cummins David Simms Matthew Fryer Jeffrey Rice Peter N. Dudar
An All New Anthology Based on Edward Lee's Vision of Hell. Edited and Illustrated by Gak With an all new short novel, The Senary , by Edward Lee And featuring all original short fiction from: John Shirley John Everson Brian Keene Charlee Jacob Maynard and Sims Gerard Houarner Bryan Smith
Plant yourself under the covers and get ready for Seeds of Fear, fifth in the ground- breaking Hot Blood erotic horror anthology series. Pinup queen Brinke Stevens delivers the Introduction, and 19 original stories cultivated by editors Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett follow. Terror and titillation reach full, florid bloom as Bentley Little invites you to “See Marilyn Monroe’s Panties!,” Ronald Kelly introduces a “Scream Queen” you won’t soon forget, Edward Lee follows his Stoker-nominated “Mr. Torso” (HB4) with “Grub-Girl” and award-winning author P. D. Cacek (Stoker, World Fantasy) welcomes her “Devil With a Blue Dress.”
Spanning over twenty years, 20 masters and modern authors of hardcore horror share their most bad-ass stories in this special edition from Red Room Press. Many hard to find and out of print, some that were banned, Necro Files covers every imaginable mode of mayhem with stories that dial into the dark side of human nature. EDITORIAL REVIEWS "Necro Files is practically perfect. Every story is an absolute hit...and why not? We’re talking John Everson, Bentley Little, Edward Lee, Joe Lansdale and George R.R. Martin, to name a few. All of the stories are dark and disturbing in their own ways, and, well, extreme. This is one anthology that horror fans, not just of the extreme variety, should have in their collections. Highly recommended." --Monster Librarian TABLE OF CONTENTS: George R.R. Martin - Meathouse Man Joe R. Lansdale - Night They Missed the Horror Show Ronald Kelly - Diary Elizabeth Massie - Abed Randy Chandler & t. Winter-Damon - I am He that Liveth and was Dead ... & Have the Keys of Hell & Death Edward Lee - Xipe Ray Garton - Bait Gerard Houarner - Painfreak Wayne Allen Sallee - Lover Doll Charlee Jacob - The Spirit Wolves Brian Hodge - Godflesh John Everson - Every Last Drop Mehitobel Wilson - Blind in the House of the Headsman Monica J. O'Rourke - An Experiment in Human Nature Graham Masterton - The Burgers of Calais Nancy Kilpatrick - Ecstasy Bentley Little - Pop Star in the Ugly Bar Wrath James White - The Sooner They Learn J.F. Gonzalez - Addict
It’s too late! The living dead have already taken over the world. Your brains have been devoured. Nothing is left but spasms of ravenous need—an obscene hunger for even more zombie fiction. Forget the metaphors and the mildly scary. You want shock, you want grue, you want disturbing, gut-wrenching, skull-crunching zombie stories that take you over the edge and go splat. You want the bloody best of the ultimate undead. You have no choice . . . you . . . must . . . have . . . Extreme Zombies!
What starts like a haunted house novel as written by the Marquis de Sade develops into a meta-deconstruction of hardcore horror and why we love sex and violence. There is something seriously wrong with the house at Sixty-Five Stirrup Iron Road. Its history is awash with sadistic violence and fiendish sex. For generations the house has corrupted its inhabitants. Now Arrianne and Chuck have moved in, and the house is ready to hunt once more. But this time the house's occupants won't be the only targets. No one is safe-not the reader, not the authors, and not the horror genre itself... Nine of the biggest names in horror fiction collaborate on a gore-and-sex-soaked novel with all proceeds benefiting modern master of crime and terror, Tom Piccirilli.
Crystal Lake Publishing (Tales from the Darkest Depths) proudly presents this Bram Stoker Award-nominated non-fiction anthology, Horror 101: The Way Forward. Horror 101: The Way Forward – a comprehensive overview of the Horror fiction genre and career opportunities available to established and aspiring authors. Ever wanted to be a writer? Make money online? Perhaps you’ve already realized that dream and you’re looking to expand your repertoire. Writing comic books sounds nice, right? Or how about screenplays? Covering aspects such as movies, comics, short stories, ghost-writing, audiobooks, editing, publishing, self-publishing, blogging, writer’s block, YA horror, dark poetry, networking, collaborations, eBooks, podcasts, conventions, formatting, web serials, artwork, social media, agents, and career advice from seasoned professionals and up-and-coming talents, Horror 101 is just what you need to kick your career into high gear . Horror 101, although written by horror authors, is a must read for any person interested in becoming a writer , be it writing for a hobby or a career. Horror 101 is not your average On Writing guide. Horror 101 focuses on the career of an author. It covers not only insights into the horror genre, but the people who successfully make a living from it. Horror 101: The Way Forward is perfect for people who: are starting their writing careers are planning on infiltrating a different field in horror writing are looking to pay more bills with their art are trying to establish a name brand are looking to get published are looking for motivation and/or inspiration Here are just a few of the great articles and essays you can expect: Making Contact by Jack Ketchum What is Horror by Graham Masterton Avoiding What’s Been Done to Death by Ramsey Campbell What a Short Story Editor Does by Ellen Datlow Bitten by the Horror Bug by Edward Lee 12 Tips on Making a Career of It by Steve Rasnic Tem Screamplays! Writing the Horror Film by Lisa Morton Balancing Art and Commerce by Taylor Grant From Prose to Scripts by Shane McKenzie Writing About Films and for Film by Paul Kane Screenplay Writing by Dean M. Drinkel Audiobooks by Chet Williamson Ghost-writing by Thomas Smith Self-Publishing: Making Your Own Dreams by Iain Rob Wright The Pros and Cons of Collaborations by Michael McCarty A beginner’s guide to setting up and running a website by Michael Wilson Poetry and Horror by Blaze McRob So you want to write comic books… by C.E.L. Welsh Writing the Series by Armand Rosamilia Running a Web serial by Tonia Brown The 7 Signs that make Agents and Editors say, "Yes!" by Anonymous Filthy Habits – Writing and Routine by Jasper Bark Ten Short Story Endings to Avoid by William Meikle Editing and Proofreading by Diane Parkin Editing Your Own Work by Jasper Bark Writing Exercises by Ben Eads The Year After Publication… by Rena Mason Networking at Conventions by Lucy A. Snyder You Better (Net)Work by Tim Waggoner Friendship, Writing, and the Internet by Weston Ochse Writer’s Block by Mark West Horror 101 categories: Horror Anthologies Science Fiction and Fantasy Authorship Writing tips Screenplays
How does Southern food look from the outside? The form is caught in constantly dueling stereotypes: It’s so often imagined as either the touchingly down-home feast or the heartstopping health scourge of a nation. But as any Southern transplant will tell you once they’ve spent time in the region, Southerners share their lives in food, with a complex mix of stories of belonging and not belonging and of traditions that form identities of many kinds. Cornbread Nation 7 , edited by Francis Lam, brings together the best Southern food writing from recent years, including well-known food writers such as Sara Roahen and Brett Anderson, a couple of classic writers such as Langston Hughes, and some newcomers. The collection, divided into five sections (“Come In and Stay Awhile,” “Provisions and Providers,” “Five Ways of Looking at Southern Food,” “The South, Stepping Out,” and “Southerners Going Home”), tells the stories both of Southerners as they move through the world and of those who ended up in the South. It explores from where and from whom food comes, and it looks at what food means to culture and how it relates to home.
The Beauty of Death Anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award® Winning Author Alessandro Manzetti. BRAM STOKER AWARDS 2016 NOMINEE - SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY Over 40 stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of horror and exciting newcomers. Stories by: Peter Straub, Ramsey Campbell, Edward Lee, John Skipp, Poppy Z. Brite, Nick Mamatas, Shane McKenzie,Tim Waggoner, Lisa Morton, Gene O'Neill, Linda Addison, Maria Alexander, Monica O'Rourke, John Palisano, Bruce Boston, Alessandro Manzetti, Rena Mason, Kevin Lucia, Daniel Braum, Colleen Anderson,Thersa Matsuura, John F.D. Taff, James Dorr, Marge Simon, Stefano Fantelli, John Claude Smith, K. Trap Jones, Del Howison, Paolo Di Orazio, Ron Breznay, Mike Lester, Annie Neugebauer, Nicola Lombardi, JG Faherty, Kevin David Anderson, Erinn Kemper, Adrian Ludens, Luigi Musolino, Alexander Zelenyj, Daniele Bonfanti, Kathryn Ptacek, Simonetta Santamaria.
In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next shower. Stories by: Joanna Parypinski, Lucy Taylor, Dona Fox, Eric J. Guignard, Lucy Snyder, Stephen Gregory, Daniel Braum, Simon Bestwick, Peter Straub, Lisa Mannetti, Daniele Bonfanti, Ramsey Campbell, Gregory L. Norris, Michael Bailey, Marge Simon, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Frazer Lee, Paolo Di Orazio, Dennis Etchison, John Palisano, Brian Evenson, Michael Hanson, Edward Lee, Tim Waggoner, Gene O’Neill, Jonah Buck, David J. Schow, Anthony Watson, Bruce Boston, Michael A. Arnzen, Adam Nevill, John Langan, Alessandro Manzetti, Clive Barker, Lisa Morton, Jodi Renée Lester, Jeremy Megargee, Nicola Lombardi, Adam Millard. Edited by: Alessandro Manzetti & Jodi Renée Lester
Terror Tract is dedicated to bringing you quality Horror stories from some of the best authors in the Indie community. Our goal is to thrill, chill and scare the hell out of you so badly you won’t turn off the lights to sleep at night. Want to know what hides in the dark? Join us and find out.
**2020 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED** Some call it courage in a bottle while others perceive it as the devil’s cocktail. Alcohol comes in all types, bringing along with it the temptation of sin, the eagerness of confusion and the psychological bombardment on the mind forcing us to play a game between life and death. 15 authors dive deep in the subconscious where the demons swim, blinding our judgment and guiding us to make horrific decisions. ALL NEW STORIES BY: - Dustin LaValley & Edward Lee - Jeff Strand - Ryan Harding - Gerard Houarner - Armand Rosamilia - Christine Morgan - Jeremy Thompson - Stephen Kozeniewski - John Wayne Comunale - Robert Essig - Dev Jarrett - C.M. Saunders - Rachel Nussbaum - Bob Macumber
**2022 SPLATTERPUNK AWARD NOMINATED** 18 authors tread through the muck and mud to add their own stories to the every-growing meat-pile of carnage and chaotic aftermath when bad decisions come full-circle. COUNTING BODIES LIKE SHEEP is the fourth extreme horror anthology from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Pushing the limits with fast-paced, high-gore elements and plots, this anthology holds no punches and blurs the line between sanity and insanity. FEATURING ALL NEW STORIES BY: - Edward Lee & Roman Neznayu - Stephen Kozeniewski - Gerard Houarner - Armand Rosamilia - Christine Morton - Robert Essig - Lucas Milliron - Dustin LaValley & Daniel J. Volpe - Jeremy Megargee - Sarah Budd - Bridgett Nelson - Richard Dansky - Josh Davis - Mike James Davis - Trevor Newton
Gloom House Publishing & Mothers of Mayhem proudly offer this charity anthology of horrors -- Nursery Stories for Dumb Crotch Goblins: A Child's Garden of Curses . All proceeds go to DONATE LIFE AMERICA. We all have an inner child. Sometimes that child is joyful and well-behaved, a shining symbol of nostalgia. At other times, that inner presence is decidedly darker and more disturbed, a small figure crouched in our mental shadows, grinning menacingly while holding a sharp knife. Our formative years teach us much about ourselves and the adults we will become. They teach us what delights us and what devastates us. They also reveal to us what we fear most in the world. Whether empirical and rational or imagined and impossible, such fears tend to stay with us. These stories are what happens when adult horror authors give their inner children permission to come out and play. But the authors in this book aren’t just any authors, and their inner children didn’t just come out and play; they ran amok, leaving trails of carnage and bloody sneaker prints across the floor. Good luck getting these uncomfortable and terrifying bedtime stories out of your head.
"Each short story is unique, carefully crafted, and memorable. A fun read from cover to cover." – MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW Desperados and yellow-bellies be warned: These ain't your typical westerns… Herein find legendary masters of anomalous Western and Horror stories—along with a posse of budding word-slingers—who all bring you an electrifying and frightening collection of extraordinary tales set in the Old West and beyond... Within these pages, the improbable is made real: cowboys encounter a chimeric critter of the night; dinosaurs return as massive poltergeists; Chinese railroad workers are haunted by invisible frights; outlaws experience Cronenbergian body-horror; fallen-light stalks mother and daughter upon a wintry prairie; a headless horseman roams the badlands; otherworldly creatures hunt within our domain; screaming spectral birds nest within the damned; and gunslinging women with murderous skills annihilate foolish notions of a man's world. These are just a handful of the offerings in this body of macabre lore. So, mount your saddle-horse and join this gang of rogue authors for a ride down dark trails of terror and unsettling thoroughfares that lead deep into strange, nightmarish territory. Here you gallop through places where law has no dominion and Death constantly deals a grim hand—and where the iron is red-hot and the blood drips ice-cold. Featuring stories by Joe R. Lansdale, Edward Lee, David J. Schow, Jill Girardi, R.J. Jackson, Vivian Kasley, Owl Goinback, Kenzie Jennings, Jeff Strand, Wile E. Young, and more. Edited by Patrick R. McDonough with an introduction by R.J. Joseph
Kennedy brings together some of Horror’s best names with a brand new werewolf book. The tales are dark, the wolves are vicious. Werewolves are first and foremost, monsters, and in this book you will fear their fangs and cower from their claws. It’s time to grab your silver bullets, and get ready for some mayhem.
FEATURING A BRAND NEW NOVELLA BY EDWARD LEE. Splatterpunk is a movement within horror fiction originating in the 1980s, distinguished by its graphic, often gory, depiction of violence, countercultural alignment and "hyperintensive horror with no limits." The term was coined in 1986 by David J. Schow at the Twelfth World Fantasy Convention in Providence, Rhode Island. Splatterpunk is regarded as a revolt against the "traditional, meekly suggestive horror story". Splatterpunk has been defined as a "literary genre characterised by graphically described scenes of an extremely gory nature." These stories are a little bit of madness, brought to you by some of the best horror authors working in the industry, today, that wanted to show off their love for splatterpunk. This book is dedicated to the late, great, Richard Laymon.
From the mind of Edward Lee comes a brand new neighborhood anthology. HORROR FOR HOUSEWIVES is a cul-de-sac of some of the best female horror writers within the sadistic suburbs. With two introductions from both the MOTHERS OF MAYHEM: Marian Echevarria and Christina Pfeiffer… the anthology includes all new stories from: Mary SanGiovanni Lucy Taylor Monica J. O’Rourke CV Hunt Christine Morgan Jackie Mitchell Bridgett Nelson Candace Nola Karolina “Mangusta” Kaczkowska and Edward Lee