Anthologies

Sixteen tales of dread and desire by Nancy Holder, Max Allan Collins, Graham Masterton, and others reveal our deepest fantasies. The eighth anthology in Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett’s boundary-breaking Hot Blood erotic horror series delivers sixteen thrilling tales that will leave readers tied up ever tighter, even as the stories themselves defy all restraint. Four-time Bram Stoker Award–winner Nancy Holder, Shamus Award–winning and bestselling author Max Allan Collins, and award-winning authors Graham Masterton and Brian Hodge are just a few of the writers who bring the Hot Blood series to new heights. Nebula Award–winner Edward Bryant, reviewing for Locus , said “the variety will appeal to your every kink.” 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 “[An] aggressive and daring approach to erotic horror . . . Riveting.” — Gauntlet “Seek out this one (or its predecessors) for some naughty fun.” — Booklovers

In this tenth edition of Hot Blood, the "original" award-winning erotic horror series, fear has never felt so X-citing, X-quisite, or X-traordinary. Join seventeen of today's top authors as they X-pose the evil side of human -- and not-so-human -- nature. Take a seat in a bar where "three in the side pocket" has nothing to do with pool....Sexercise in a gym with a woman whose appetite for murder is insatiable.... Enter a body-piercing shop where betrayl and revenge are on the tip of the customer's tongue....Get seduced by a horror groupie with a body to undie for.... Join two amateur filmakers as their video camera captures the most gorgeous -- and deadly -- creature anyone has ever encountered.

Fatal Attractions, edited by Jeff Gelb and Michael Garrett, is the eleventh Hot Blood erotic horror collection -- and according to Cemetery Dance, “one of the best volumes in this long- running series - a top rating.” Like a moth to a flame, Fatal Attraction draws a diverse array of award-winning authors from the horror, mystery and thriller genres (and Hollywood) into its orbit, including Max Alan Collins, P. D. Cacek, Graham Masterton, Edo van Belkom, Nancy Holder, Brian Hodge, David Schow, Mick Garris and Yvonne Navarro. In fact, Fatal Attractions is the most lauded roster of contributors in the rich three-decade history of the Hot Blood series. Be Manhandled. Have an Epiphany. Work the Graveyard Shift. Go on Separate Vacations. Awaken to Moist Dreams. Fatal Attractions is One to Die For, the pinnacle of erotic horror and a must read for fans.

The sharpest, most stylized, and ambitious anthology of Native American literature ever published. Readers enter into a welter of troubled history throughout the Americans where the heritage of violence meets the ferocity of intent. Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir . Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Mistina Bates, Jean Rae Baxter, Lawrence Block, Joseph Bruchac, David Cole, Reed Farrel Coleman, O’Neil De Noux, A.A. HedgeCoke, Gerard Houarner, Liz Martínez, R. Narvaez, Kimberly Roppolo, Leonard Schonberg, and Melissa Yi. From the introduction by Sarah Cortez: “Many who inhabit Indian Country love it, and they often stay after their time on Earth is done. Others have died trying to claim it. They continue to wander there in the endless circle of time. This book has stories by both Native and non-Native authors reflecting them all . . . "As you step back into the troubled history of Joseph Bruchac’s “Helper” and Liz Martínez’s “Prowling Wolves,” you will find yourself swept up by a fresh and powerful look into personal revisionist histories. It is, perhaps, not unpredictable that some of these tales show the narrator partaking in what appears to be an eminently satisfying dose of revenge . . . Two of the stories are breathtakingly lyrical in their approach and articulation of the hard price paid by some Indians for spiritual homelessness and transgression: Kimberly Roppolo’s “Quilt like a Night Sky” and A.A. HedgeCoke’s “On Drowning Pond” . . . "Before you journey with these talented authors through the north, south, east, and west of Indian Country, you might wish to reflect upon the words of the famous Oglala Lakota teacher Black Elk: “Birds make their nests in circles; we dance in circles; the circle stands for the Sun and Moon and all round things in the natural world. The circle is an endless creation, with endless connections to the present, all that went before and all that will come in the future.“

A kinky collection of erotic stories exploring sexy propositions Twenty brand new stories about inappropriate behaviour in edgy situations. An obsession with the girl on the drug store counter turns into a threesome with a surprise for Perdy and Tom. Pinkie gets more than she bargained for when she visits her sculptor friend, Blare's, latest creation. And Larry discovers the wild cat in his wife Felicity when they attend a sexy feline costume party. Featuring the best new voices and established authors around today including Landon Dixon, Giselle Renarde, Ray Cluley, Eva Hore, Sommer Marsden and many others, these stories are indecent beyond your wildest dreams.

Crimewave is an approximately biennial collection of crime and mystery stories edited by Andy Cox and published by TTA Press. It takes a unique approach to the genre and contains the kind of crime and mystery fiction you just don't find anywhere else. It picks up nothing but rave reviews. Ian Rankin calls it "A must-have collection of the hottest crime stories around." Some of its stories have won prestigious awards such as the CWA Dagger and many of them have earned reprints in Year's Best anthologies of various genres. This Eleventh in the series has 14 stories including Nina Allan's first ever crime story. Quoting reviewer Gayle Surrette's verdict in Gumshoe "... read through the stories for each is a gem of tight writing and will pull you into a world you'll pray you'll never enter in any other way but via fiction." www.gumshoereview.com/php/Review-id.php?id=2628 In Crimewave 11: Ghosts: Plainview Part One: The Shoe Store by Dave Hoing Wilkolak by Nina Allan The Conspirators by Christopher Fowler Who's Gonna Miss You When You're Gone? by Mikal Trimm Holderhaven by Richard Butner Eleven Eleven by Cheryl Wood Ruggiero Where the Bodies Are by Ilsa J. Bick Neighborhood Watch by Cody Goodfellow K Love by O'Neil De Noux Living Arrangement by Steve Rasnic Tem 4am, When the Walls are Thinnest by Alison J. Littlewood The Hostess by Joel Lane We Are Two Lions by Luke Sholer Plainview Part Two: The Blood Cools by Dave Hoing A longer quote from reviewer Gayle Surrette's verdict in Gumshoe " As to the ghosts, some of the ghosts are those of regret and memory while some may actually be ghosts seeking revenge, redemption, retribution, or absolution. It's up to the reader to decide just how each story relates to the issue's theme. Keep the lights and read through the stories for each is a gem of tight writing and will pull you into a world you'll pray you'll never enter in any other way but via fiction." Crimewave has published stories by Molly Brown, Tom Piccirilli, Ian Rankin, Michael Z. Lewin, Martin Edwards, Mike O'Driscoll, Steve Rasnic Tem, Antony Mann, Shelley Costa, Michel Faber, Christopher Fowler, Sean Doolittle, Ceri Jordan, Marion Arnott, Chaz Brenchley, Brian Hodge, Susan Sonde, Scott Nicholson, Susan Fry, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Stephen Volk, Joel Lane, Michelle Scalise, Joe Hill, Muriel Gray, James Sallis, John Grant, John Shirley, Gary W. Shockley, Mick Scully, and many others.

The very best of over ten years of the Best New Erotica series and other erotica titles compiled by Maxim Jakubowski. Stories have been taken from all volumes of The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica with the exception of recent volumes 8 and 9. They have also been drawn from the Mammoth Book of International Erotica, Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica, Mammoth Book of Erotica, Mammoth Book of New Erotica and Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels. The anthology is likely to include stories by Thomas S. Roche; Poppy Z. Brite; Alison Tyler; Lucy Taylor; Matt Thorne; M. Christian; Michael Hemmingson; Mike Kimera; Tara Alton; Marilyn Jaye-Lewis; Savannah Lee; Heather Corinna; Carol Queen; Donna George Storey; Lauren Henderson; Vicki Hendricks; O'Neil De Noux; Cara Bruce; Mark Timlin; Graham Joyce; Conrad Williams; Claude Lalumière; Kristina Lloyd; and Mitzi Szereto.

Disorderly conduct is the gateway drug to crime. It’s not far from here to yonder—disorderly to uncooperative to resisting, then on to physical assault, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery, to wanted dead or alive. Disorderly conduct is the rabbit hole of violence. It’s the writing on the wall and it’s the spark of ideas for crime writers everywhere. In Disorderly Conduct, bestselling author and crime fiction maven Paul Bishop has once again locked up the criminally minded among us—Not those who would actually do the crime (most of us couldn’t do the time), but brilliant purveyors of criminal visions. Enjoy these ten tales of murder & mayhem and may the words spur your own inner world of imagination. Stories by Paul Bishop, O’Neil De Noux, Wayne D. Dundee, Brian Drake, Mike A. Baron, James Hopwood, Bill Craig, Bobby Nash, Jean Rabe, and Nicholas Cain.

Stories in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine cover all genres, from science fiction, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, and literature. And just about everything in between all of those. Editor Dean Wesley Smith looks for great stories that don’t fit, that just feel sort of different, but in a good way. This volume contains ten great mysteries from all the mystery stories published in the first ten issues of Pulphouse . From old spies with attitude, to a heartbreaking tale of a grieving father, to an assortment of detectives including one hard-boiled with fancy sunglasses, one zombie, and a ghost, to a dramatic story behind a famous painting, these stories will entertain readers, make them laugh, and even touch their hearts. Includes: “The Geezer Squad” by Annie Reed “Don’t Make Me Take off My Sunglasses” by O’Neil De Noux “Looking for the Bastard” by David H. Hendrickson “Heartbreaker” by Kevin J. Anderson “The Time Cop” by Patrick Alan Mammay “Red Carnation” by Lee Allred “Just Desserts” by R.W. Wallace “Under the Blood-Red Maple” by Joslyn Chase “The Distant Baying of Hounds” by J. Steven York “The Case of the Vanishing Boy: A Spade/Paladin Conundrum” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up twenty-one fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse. "This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online on Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Issue #1 Includes: “Jesting Pilate” by Lee Allred “Exchange Policy” by Scott William Carter “Dead Girlfriend” by Ray Vukcevich “Laugh Track” by David H. Hendrickson “Family Bonds” by R.W. Wallace “Mystery Weekend” by J. Roderick Clark “A Magical Negro” by Ezekiel James Boston “Be Very, Very Afraid” by Jerry Oltion “Barely Decent” by Kent Patterson “Call Me Peaches” by Daemon Crowe “Death by Vodka” by Robert J. McCarter “Virtual Oracle” by Leigh Saunders “Machine in the Ghost” by Rob Vagle “The Postcard” by David Stier “Gordie Culligan vs. Dr. Longbeach and the HVAC of Doom” by J. Steven York “On Red Mountain” by Robin Brande “Fort Dumpster” by O’Neil De Noux “Scrawny Pete” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “My Father, the Popsicle” by Annie Reed “The Neighborhood” by Angela Penrose “As if My Every Word Has Turned to Glass” by Robert Jeschonek

The first Black Cat Mystery Magazine of 2022 presents 12 original tales by top mystery authors. Included this time are: DEAD RECKONING, by Leone Ciporin THE MAN FROM TOPEKA, by Robert Lopresti VICE COP, by Elizabeth Zelvin THE WHITE CALF AND THE WIND, by Mike Adamson ANNIE, by Anita Murphy SANITY CLAUSE, by Max Devoe Talley THE BORSCHT BELT BURGLARY, by Marlin Bressi THE FIRST ANNUAL ATCHAFALAYA COYOTE HUNT, by O’Neil De Noux A REMOTE CHANCE, by David Rudd MINERVA JAMES AND THE HOUNDS OF HADES, by Mark Bruce A WALK IN THE PARK, by Lis Angus MUDBOUND, by Veronica Leigh Classic reprint:: "The Sleeper Caper," by Richard S. Prather Edited by Michael Bracken

Edgar & Shamus welcomes mystery connoisseurs to the Golden Age of Mystery and Murder…Have we ever really left? Has the Golden Age ever really slipped over the falls? The puzzle, the who-dun-it, the why-dun-it, the how-dun-it, and the unshakable alibi are as much afoot today as they were when Dr. Watson documented Holmes’s exploits under the glow of gaslight. As if picking up where the early masters of detection left off, Edgar & Shamus features twelve original mystery tales written exclusively by Edgar Allan Poe Award and Shamus Award-winning authors. Edgar winner Martin Edwards promises a few relaxing days at a quiet and respectable English resort with criminologist Darius Fortune—or does he? Shamus winner John Floyd’s private detective Luke Walker reserves a 1940s seat for you in the New Orleans Quarter—paid for with old money. To save a friend from a murder rap Shamus winner P. J. Parrish’s “Salvage Consultant” Mavis Magritte must untangle an unshakable alibi with a set of risqué bunny ears. Shamus winner Brendan DuBois rebuilds Boston’s historic and famed Scollay Square without pulling a single building permit. It’s anybody’s guess which master detective might solve the big caper in Edgar winner Art Taylor’s “The Invisible Band”—Nero Wolfe, Miss Marple, Charlie Chan, Lord Peter Wimsey, Father Brown, and even Mr. Holmes are among the all-star sleuths assembled to solve the baffling mystery. In post WWII Havana, “vices are annuities” for Shamus winner Carolina Garcia-Aguilera’s veteran P.I. Sophie Stevenson. Thanks to Tennessee Williams, Shamus winner O’Neil De Noux’s private dick Lucien Caye is up to his hip-pocket in extortion. Edgar winner Doug Allyn’s major crimes detective and WWII combat veteran Dolph LaCrosse returns home only to be called the “new guy” by fellow cops. The war to end all wars may be over, but political skullduggery is still afoot in Shamus winner Lia Matera’s “The Party.” When a “riverboat” gambler washes up dead, Shamus winner Kristen Lepionka’s LA homicide dicks Hewitt and Carmichael are up to their necks in suspects all capable of dealing from the bottom of the deck. It’s trouble with a capital “T” when a Tyrone Power look-a-like saunters into Shamus winner Lori Armstrong’s Marlow Detective Agency. In Edgar winner John McAleer’s “The Case of the Illustrious Banker,” 1920s London-based detective Henry Von Stray and his able collaborator in the detection of crime Professor John W. Dilpate are up against a “nippy bit of work” in one of their most baffling cases yet. Discovered more than eight decades after first penned, “Illustrious Banker” makes its debut in Edgar & Shamus . McAleer—forty years before he would win the Edgar Award unanimously beating out Christie’s autobiography—created Von Stray and Dilpate in 1937 during the Golden Age of Mystery. Praise for Edgar & Shamus Go Golden : “ Edgar & Shamus Go Golden is a 24-carat collection of stories by the best in the business, proving that we are in a new Golden Age ourselves, and lucky to be here.” —SJ Rozan, Edgar Award winner and best-selling author of Family Business “ Edgar & Shamus Go Golden is a must-read. Editors Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer assembled a collection of stories that fit together like the songs on a Beatles album, with one story setting up the next. Each piece captures the Golden Age glow the editors promised. I highly recommend it.” —Tom MacDonald, Shamus Award nominated author of the Dermot Sparhawk P.I. series “The Golden Age of Mystery will continue for as long as writers produce stories that challenge us to find solutions alongside the detectives. These stories in Edgar & Shamus Go Golden —some of the best of the best—offer definitive proof.” —Stephen D. Rogers, Derringer Award winning author of Shot to Death

At the cutting edge of crime fiction, Mystery Magazine presents original short stories by the world’s best-known and emerging mystery writers. The stories we feature in our monthly issues span every imaginable subgenre, including cozy, police procedural, noir, whodunit, supernatural, hardboiled, humor, and historical mysteries. Evocative writing and a compelling story are the only certainty. Get ready to be surprised, challenged, and entertained--whether you enjoy the style of the Golden Age of mystery (e.g., Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle), the glorious pulp digests of the early twentieth century (e.g., Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler), or contemporary masters of mystery. ★ In this issue★ “Lost And Found” by Paul A. Freeman, DI Williamson and DC Page begin an investigation to find an entrepreneur who vanished without trace after visiting Carson’s Gymnasium. “Humble Servant” by Victor Kreuiter: A self-ordained preacher, Samuel Harris, ministers to the lost and suffering, those not on the path of righteousness. His charge is to save those souls and deliver them to salvation, be they criminal or otherwise. “Sweet Gum Head” by Blu Gilliand: A bad man is on the run, lost deep in the maze of Florida swamps and back roads. Unfortunately for him, whatever he's running from is nowhere near as bad as what he's about to run in to. In “The First Law Of Plumbing” by Josh Pachter, a pair of home invaders learn that things don't always work out for the best. “No One Goes Out To Eat Anymore” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins: Freelance mailman Mercury Carter finds himself in Toronto on a feel-good mission delivering an elderly woman's once-lost locket, when an alarming comment by the woman about her health leads him down a dark path of rescue. In “Eye On The Ball” by Paul Vivari, a package stolen off a doorstep in a small town keeps trading hands as a group of criminals try to track it down. “Words On Wheels” by Michael Bracken: Victoria Huptmann and her Border collie Maximillian spend winters driving Words on Wheels from RV park to RV park along the Texas coast, selling new and used books to Snowbirds escaping Midwestern winters. Then one of her customers is murdered. “When Baby Cows Go Bad” by O'Neil De Noux: “Most of what we university police officers handle aren’t serious matters, then again, when I was NOPD, we got our share of ‘barking dog’ and ‘cat in a tree’ calls. But no baby cows chasing co-eds.” “The Affair Of The Wayward Schoolmaster” by Martin Hill Ortiz And Keith Jones: Holmes and Watson investigate a popular school teacher who turned to armed robbery. “A Messy Murder,” a You-Solve-It By Eric B. Ruark: It had all the earmarks of a bungled robbery, but Sheriff Tracy Hyers, with your help, will get to the bottom of the mystery. Custom Cover Art By Robin Grenville Evans

Want to read a twisted take on historical fiction? Well, look no further than stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine! From a skillful historical baseball story to masterful historical fantasy stories to an amazing story about a famous integrated casino well-known to history, the ten stories in this legendary volume will change your view on the history you think you know. Add in stories from two of the most honored and awarded mystery writers working today—Kristine Kathryn Rusch and O’Neil De Noux—and this volume proves unforgettable. Includes: “Death of a Woman of Ill Repute” by Annie Reed “No. 40 Basin Street” by O’Neil De Noux “Visage” by Lisa Silverthorne “Vital Force” by P.D. Singer “Jesting Pilate” by Lee Allred “Christmas at Glosser’s” by Robert Jeschonek “The Session” by Stephanie Writt “Rose in Dreamland” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Moulin Rouge” by Jason A. Adams “The Preacher's Kid and the 2004 Red Sox” by David H. Hendrickson