Caitlín R. Kiernan

Imp, a struggling schizophrenic, fights to determine whether or not the strange mythological creatures she meets are due to her condition or are from something else entirely in this new novel from the award-winning author of The Red Tree. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A Memoir

The Drowning Girl

After discovering an unfinished manuscript hidden in an old house, Sarah becomes obssessed with the subject of the work--an ancient oak on a desolate corner of the property-- and risks both health and sanity to uncover its secret. Original.

The Red Tree

The mysterious owner of a secondhand store in a small southern city, Spyder Baxter becomes the mad queen of a flock of social misfits, who begin to wonder whether she has come to redeem them or drag them into Hell. Reprint.

Silk

Neil Gaiman

Elizabeth Bear

Joe R. Lansdale

Deliciously creepy, this loving tribute to the master of modern horror features riveting stories from his wicked progeny. H. P. Lovecraft created a wealth of legendary monstrosities a century ago, and this collection of stories reconnects with those imaginings: the massive, tentacled Cthulhu, who lurks beneath the sea waiting for his moment to rise; the demon Sultan Azathoth, who lies babbling at the center of the universe, mad beyond imagining; the Deep Ones, who come to shore to breed with mortal men; and the unspeakably-evil Hastur, whose very name brings death. Celebrating these famous beasts in all their grotesque glory, each story is a gripping new take on a classic mythos creature accompanied by an illuminating illustration. In one accursed tale, something unnatural slouches from the sea into an all-night diner to meet the foolish young woman waiting for him. In another storyline the Hounds of Tindalos struggle to survive trapped in human bodies, haunting pool halls for men they can lure into the dark. Strange, haunting, and undeniably monstrous, this is the best of Lovecraft's creatures—reawakened and re-imagined.

Lovecraft's Monsters

Stolen their human parents to be raised by ghouls, the Children of the Cuckoo are changelings who are forbidden any human contact, but now they are coming to reclaim a lost child, Emmie Silvey, a precocious and solitary young girl, who has been raised by her widower father and is haunted by two very different women--one who stalks her and one who haunts her dreams. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Daughter of Hounds

"Pure genius."--New York Times "Lyrically compelling tales that are nearly impossible to stop reading...fans of weird writers like Carmen Maria Machado, Jeff VanderMeer, and China Mieville will be glad to find this volume and thereby discover a writer who inspired them all." --Booklist Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror's most acclaimed and influential short fiction writers. Her powerful, unexpected stories shatter morality, gender, and sexuality: a reporter is goaded by her toxic girlfriend into visiting sadistic art exhibits; a countess in a decaying movie theater is sated by her servants; a collector offers his greatest achievement to ensnare a musician who grieves for her missing sister. In this retrospective collection of her finest work--previously only available in limited editions--Kiernan cuts straight to the heart of the emotional truths we cannot ignore.

The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Presents a compilation of the author's science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, including several previously uncollected pieces.

The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan. Volume one

Two Worlds and in Between

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitl'n R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy in the pages of her award-winning second novel, Threshold (2001), then went on to write several more short stories and a novella about this unlikely heroine, each a piece of what has become an epic dark fantasy narrative. Alabaster finally collects all these tales into one volume, illustrated by Ted Naifeh (Gloomcookie, How Loathsome, Courtney Crumrin, Polly and the Pirates, etc.).

Alabaster

Chance and Deacon work to rebuild their lives, looking forward to a bright future and trying to put the past to rest, until a woman with a need for violence enters their lives.

Low Red Moon

Ten years after witnessing something unspeakable in an old Birmingham, Alabama, house, Daria Parker, a successful musician and addict, and Niki Ky, trapped in a world of schizophrenia, are drawn back together, when Niki begins to receive messages from her dead lover, Spyder Baxter, who warns her of her new role as a prophesied sorceress capable of opening a portal between worlds. Original.

Murder of Angels

Award-winning author Caitlmn R. Kiernan, best known for her contemporary settings, "gothnoir" tales of pain and wonder, and atmospheric stories of Lovecraftian terror, was first published as an author of dark science fiction. Now she returns to sf with a masterful thirty-thousand word novella, The Dry Salvages.Three centuries in the future, though much of Earth has been crippled by war, pollution, and catastrophic climatic change, man has at last traveled to the stars and even found evidence of at least one extraterrestrial civilization. In a bleak and frozen Paris, at the dawn of the 22nd Century, an old woman is forced to confront the consequences of her part in these discoveries and the ghosts that have haunted her for almost fifty years. The last surviving member of the crew of the starship Montelius, exopaleontologist Dr. Audrey Cather struggles to remember what she's spent so long trying to forget -- the nightmare she once faced almost ninety trillion miles from Earth.

The Dry Salvages

A Menina Submersa. Memórias

Presents a compilation of the author's science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories, including "The Maltese Unicorn," "The Collier's Venus (1898)," and "As Red As Red."

The Ape's Wife and Other Stories

A dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan's Black Helicopters is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated original. Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency's world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable. Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself, chaos unleashed, rational explanation slipped loose from the moorings of the known. Two rival agencies stare across the Void at one another. Two sisters, the deadly, sickened products of experiments going back decades, desperately evade their hunters. An invisible war rages at the fringes of our world, with unimaginable consequences and Lovecraftian horrors that ripple centuries into the future.

Black Helicopters

Richard A. Kirk

Tales of Pain and Wonder

Joyce Carol Oates

Dreams Fom the Witch House

Laird Barron

Ellen Datlow

"An anthology of short stories inspired by the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft"--

Children of Lovecraft

Peter Hogan

Peter Doherty

Jeff Nicholson

'The Dreaming' is a collection of dark tales about the inhabitants of the subconscious world. When people sleep, they enter the Dreaming, a magical realm populated by fantastical beings and creatures. Equally burdened and blessed by human emotions and motivations, these entities each play a role in their world and the world of reality. Depicting stories of redemption, salvation, freedom, peace, and tragedy, this thought-provoking book features the adventures of the caretaker of the Dreaming, a cursed raven, the librarian of dreams, the biblical Eve, and a sadistic being obsessed with eyeballs.

Through the Gates of Horn and Ivory

The Dreaming

Chance Matthews, a troubled young woman grieving over the death of her grandfather, stumbles upon a bizarre fossil among her geologist grandparents' artifacts, a discovery that leads to an encounter with a strange girl who claims to have been charged with the task of battling monsters and who is out to enlist Chance's assistance in her quest. Reprint.

A Novel of Deep Time

Threshold

Presents eight science fiction tales on what it means to be human, and the decisions that mankind might face in the future.

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