Dale Bailey

In this contemporary fantasy, the grieving biographer of a Victorian fantasist finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject. Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children's book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin. Deep in mourning from the loss of their young daughter, they pack up their American lives, Erin gives up her legal practice, and the couple settles in Hollow's remote Yorkshire mansion. In the neighboring village, Charles meets a woman he might have loved, a child who could have been his own daughter, and the ghost of a self he hoped to bury. Erin, paralyzed by her grief, immerses herself in pills and painting images of a horned terror in the woods. In the primeval forest surrounding Caedmon Hollow's ancestral home, an ancient power is stirring, a long-forgotten king who haunts the Haydens' dreams. And every morning the fringe of darkling trees presses closer. Soon enough, Charles and Erin will venture into the night wood. Soon enough, they'll learn that the darkness under the trees is but a shadow of the darkness that waits inside us all.

In the Night Wood

Joyce Carol Oates

Aliette de Bodard

F. Marion Crawford

Richard Kadrey

Indrapramit Das

Ellen Datlow

Garth Nix

Ford Madox Ford

Jeffrey Ford

Stephen Graham Jones

Seanan McGuire

Alice Hoffman

Brian Evenson

Paul Tremblay

Carole Johnstone

Pat Cadigan

John Langan

A. C. Wise

Nathan Ballingrud

Nick Mamatas

Gemma Files

Alison Littlewood

Siobhan Carroll

Richard Bowes

Terry Dowling

Lee Thomas

Bracken Macleod

Vincent J. Masterson

M. Rickert

M. L. Siemienowicz

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay. Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen Datlow—the most lauded editor in short works of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories is her definitive collection of ghost stories. These twenty-nine stories, including all new works from New York Times bestselling authors Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay, span from the traditional to the eclectic, from the mainstream to the literary, from pure fantasy to the bizarrely supernatural. Whether you’re reading alone under the covers with a flashlight, or around a campfire with a circle of friends, there’s something here to please—and spook—everyone. Contributors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Vincent J. Masterson, A.C. Wise, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Lee Thomas, Alison Littlewood, M.L. Siemienowicz, Richard Kadrey, Indrapramit Das, Richard Bowes, Nick Mamatas, Terry Dowling, Aliette de Bodard, Carole Johnstone, Dale Bailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Bracken MacLeod, Garth Nix, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Paul Tremblay, Nathan Ballingrud, Pat Cadigan, John Langan.

The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

Echoes

En el bosque oscuro

When Edgar Allan Poe set down the tale of the accursed House of Usher in 1839, he also laid the foundation for a literary tradition that has assumed a lasting role in American culture. “The House of Usher” and its literary progeny have not lacked for tenants in the century and a half since: writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Stephen King have taken rooms in the haunted houses of American fiction. Dale Bailey traces the haunted house tale from its origins in English gothic fiction to the paperback potboilers of the present, highlighting the unique significance of the house in the domestic, economic, and social ideologies of our nation. The author concludes that the haunted house has become a powerful and profoundly subversive symbol of everything that has gone nightmarishly awry in the American Dream.

The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction

American Nightmares

The End of the End of Everything, by Dale Bailey, is an sf/horror story about a long-married couple invited by an old friend to an exclusive artist's colony. The inhabitants of the colony indulge in suicide parties as the world teeters on the brink of extinction, worn away by some weird entropy. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.Com Original

The End of the End of Everything

Tobias S. Buckell

Neil Clarke

Madeline Ashby

Kali Wallace

Emily Devenport

Ryan Row

Karla Schmidt

Sean Bensinger

Clarkesworld Issue 119

"A Rumor of Angels", by Dale Bailey, is a fantasy novelette that takes place during the period of the dust bowl in the American Midwest. A teenage boy walks away from his father's wasted farm to follow the other travelers heading west where there is a rumor of angels. "The stark mimetic power of 'A Rumor of Angels,' with its dusty, Steinbeckian heat and poverty, climaxes in a totally organic but still unexpected supernatural fashion."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Rumor of Angels

An unconventional billionaire, with the help of four strangers, is determined to unlock the secrets of Dreamland, a place of human suffering that has stood empty for years, before it is demolished, but they get more than they bargained for when they come face-to-face with evil. Original.

House of Bones

George Martin

Gwyneth Jones

Naomi Kritzer

Julie Novakova

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month they bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. The August issue contains: Original Fiction by Julie Novakova ("The Symphony of Ice and Dust"), Naomi Kritzer ("Bits") and Dale Bailey ("The Creature Recants"). Classic stories by Gwyneth Jones ("The Ki-anna") and George R.R. Martin ("A Night at the Tarn House"). Non-fiction by Karen Burnham ("Difficulties of an Asteroid Capture Mission"), an interview with Lavie Tidhar, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Clarkesworld

A chilling twist on the haunted-house story as five strangers resolve to spend two weeks in an abandoned, high-rise urban housing project that even gang lords and crack dealers avoid . . . Chicago’s Dreamland Housing Project was created to give people with nothing a second chance. Like so many ill-conceived dreams of its time, eventually the project fell into disrepair and disrepute, just another slum ruled by the gangs and the drug dealers. But there was one building in the complex that contained an evil far fouler than the kind running the streets. Here eerie sounds emanated nightly from the elevator shafts and the shadows at the far end of the hallways, and inexplicable, fatal “accidents” were the norm. Here human blood regularly soaked the walls and cheap carpeting as rapists and murderers ran rampant, though none could remember their dark deeds afterward. Now, decades later, Dreamland is empty of its residents and mostly demolished. But one building still stands, thanks to billionaire Ramsey Lomax, who won’t let the city raze the last and most notorious tower until he is done with it. Along with four willing strangers—a writer, an ex-cop, a doctor, and a psychic, each with a reason for participating—Lomax intends to spend two weeks living in the abandoned tower to see if the legends are real. But nothing can prepare these five for the terror they encounter once the front door slams behind them, trapping them all inside. Because in Dreamland, every nightmare comes true.

A Novel

"Ph.D. student Alex Kern is having trouble passing his exams, hanging on to his girlfriend, and teaching his composition class-- and that doesn't include the strange hole he's discovered in his scummy office deep under the football stadium, where more than 100,000 students, citizens, and alumni of West Georgia U gather every Saturday to worship at the feet of the mighty Fighting Bobcats. As for the hole, it seemingly has no bottom, as Alex discovers when he drops in first a rock, then his cherished Bobble Head Freud, and finally--during an especially challenging student conference--a troublesome undergraduate. Alex steels himself for the investigation to come, but no one seems to notice the missing student. Things go from bad to worse when Alex is forced to dispose of the world's foremost expert on Ezra Pound in the same way. Once again he steels himself for the consequences--and once again, no one seems to notice. Lowly student or chaired professor--either way, it doesn't seem to matter. West Georgia U can do without them. What it can't do without is its star quarterback, Ulysses Moreno. And when Alex drops him down the hole, all hell breaks loose at West Georgia U..."--Page 4 of cover.

The Subterranean Season

Jack Slay Jr.

A late-night joyride takes a sharp turn into nightmare territory when a group of college students tries to cover up a crime of carelessness A moment of inattention on a winding roadway in the Smoky Mountains leaves a stranger dead and his accidental killers at the mercy of a possible witness. Finney Durant, Nick Laymon, and Reed Tucker are desperate not to be linked to the crime. Finney and Tucker insist on hiding the corpse, and Nick, hard up for money, takes the man’s cash. But the hit-and-run is just the beginning of their problems once they use a key found in the victim’s pocket to open a bus locker—and find a videotape that opens an ever-widening doorway into horror.

Sleeping Policemen

Sauls Run is a great place to raise a family. Life is good, folks life to a ripe old age, and there hasn't been a violent crime in nearly a generation. It's almost as if some force is protecting the God-fearing folk of the Run from harm ...

The Fallen

Liu Cixin

Jean Ray

MARSHALL GROVE était né dans Borough, en une année où les démo-lisseurs avaient, on ne sait en obéissance à quel ordre municipal, cessé de manier, dans ce vieux et pittoresque quartier, le fer et le juron. Au fait, l’épicerie paternelle où il vit le jour, parmi les barils de mélasse, les régimes de millet et les bocaux de marinades, se trouvait à l’angle de Marshallsea Street et d’une venelle sans nom où ne s’ouvraient que d’antiques remises. Son père, Sol Grove, qui avait les mauvais payeurs en horreur, déplorait de tout son coeur sec et honnête la disparition de la vieille prison pour dettes : la Marshall Sea, et c’était par double estime pour cette geôle de la justice financière et de la rue qui abritait son négoce, qu’il donna à son fils le nom de Marshall, au mépris du parrain, Jérémiah Tulkes, qui aurait voulu éterniser son honorable prénom au moyen de la descendance des Grove. Jean Ray L’Histoire de Marshall Grove

Spécial Jean Ray

Bifrost n° 87

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