Damien Angelica Walters

"A supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts about two young girls, a scary story that becomes far too real, and the tragic--and terrifying--consequences that follow one of them into adulthood."--

The Dead Girls Club

Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you finish the collection.

Cry Your Way Home

A disfigured woman discovers a haunted photo album that could make her whole again but only at a terrible price.

Paper Tigers

Alan Baxter

Ramsey Campbell

Christopher Golden

Stephen Graham Jones

Paul Tremblay

Bracken MacLeod

Sarah Read

Karen Runge

Nerine Dorman

Suspended in Dusk II

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Ford

Chen Qiufan

Sofia Samatar

Maria Dahvana Headley

Michael Blumlein

John Langan

Karin Tidbeck

Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

A.C Wise

Richard Gavin

John R. Fultz

Anne-Sylvie Salzman

Livia Llewellyn

Anna Taborska

Scott Nicolay

Kristie DeMeester

Simon Stranzas

W.H. Pugmire

Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outré. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres. Hence, in this initial showcase of weird fiction you will discover tales of horror, fantasy, science fiction, the supernatural, and the macabre. Contributing authors include Jeffrey Ford, Sofia Samatar, Joseph S. Pulver Sr, John Langan, Richard Gavin, and W. H. Pugmire.

Year's Best Weird Fiction

Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Voices) (Volume 3)

Tooth, Tongue, and Claw

This is book #03 in our APEX VOICES series! In her first collection of short fiction, Damien Angelica Walters weaves her lyrical voice through suffering and sorrow, teasing out the truth and discovering hope. Sometimes a thread pulled through the flesh is all that holds you together. Sometimes the blade of a knife or the point of a nail is the only way you know you're real. When pain becomes art and a quarter is buried deep within you, all you want is to be seen, to have value, to be loved. But love can be fragile, folded into an origami elephant while you disappear, carried on the musical notes that build a bridge, or woven into an illusion so real, so perfect that you can fool yourself for a little while. Paper crumples, bridges fall, and illusions come to an end. Then you must pick up the pieces, stitch yourself back together, and shed your fear, because that is when you find out what you are truly made of and lift your voice, that is when you Sing Me Your Scars. Blurbs: "Sing Me Your Scars revolves in the mind's eye in a kaleidoscope of darkness and wonder." --Laird Barron, author of The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "Damien Angelica Walters writes prose as sharp as a scalpel. With surgical precision, she slices through her characters' veneers to lay bare the secret scars underneath, the knots of fear and desire twisting them. The women and men in these stories struggle against their own, oddly-beautiful damage, and even when they succumb to it, the narrative is never less than compelling. Anatomist of dreams and nightmares, Walters is a writer to watch." --John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies Reviews: "From a pure enjoyment perspective, there are few that rival Damien’s style. I will not be the first to talk of how lyrical her prose can be, but I haven’t heard many mention how unobtrusively so it is. It flows easy, like a song, but dammit if she doesn’t manage to pull of the trick of not allowing the wording to distract us from the tale. The images are strong and memorable and the stories are tight and there is even a second person perspective tale in here that doesn’t come across as snobbish and self-conscious." --Eviscerating Pen, Anton Cancre Table of Contents Part I: Here Sing Me Your Scars All the Pieces We Leave Behind Girl, With Coin Paskutinis Iliuzija (The Last Illusion) Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods Sugar, Sin, and Nonsuch Henry Part II: And The Now Running Empty in a Land of Decay Scarred The Taste of Tears in a Raindrop Always, They Whisper Dysphonia in D Minor Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us? Immolation: A Love Story Part III: And Away Melancholia in Bloom Iron and Wood, Nail and Bone And All the World Says Hush They Make of You a Monster Paper Thin Roses of Maybe Grey in the Gauge of His Storm (Apex Magazine issue 53) Like Origami in Water

Sing Me Your Scars

Jonathan Maberry

Kevin J. Anderson

Tim Lebbon

Tom Piccirilli

Seanan McGuire

Tim Waggoner

Lucien Soulban

Lucy A. Snyder

Nisi Shawl

Michael West

Nick Mamatas

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Brandon Massey

Anton Strout

Gary Kloster

Douglas F. Warrick

Gerard Brennan

A.C. Wise

Daniel Robichaud

Laurie Tom

Jason Sizemore

From the editors of Dark Faith, Maurice Broaddus and Jerry Gordon, comes a collection of supernatural crime noir. You think you're safe. What a joke. You don't think about the places you pass every day. The side streets. The alleys. The underbridges. All you'd have to do is take a step to the side. Then you'd know. The streets are filled with shadows.

Streets of Shadows

A Novel

Dead Girls Club

Rochita Loenen-Ruiz

Ferrett Steinmetz

Maurice Broaddus

Cat Rambo

Ken Scholes

David Boop

Jamie Lackey

Amanda C. Davis

Jennifer Brozek

Sarah Hans

Erika Holt

Remy Nakamura

Lucy Snyder

Beth Wodzinski

LaShawn M. Wanak

Wendy N. Wagner

Eric James Stone

Andrew Penn Romine

Keffy R.M. Kehrli

Alasdair Stuart

Life is uncertain, and the chance to get a peek into the future is tempting... but is it a good idea to look? Edited by Nayad Monroe, this anthology brings together stories from a diverse group of speculative fiction writers who provide insight into the possibilities. The book includes cover artwork by Steven C. Gilberts, and an introduction by Alasdair Stuart. Between the contributors, they have won the Bram Stoker Award, a Nebula Award, an AU Shadows Award, an Origins "Cleo" Award, a silver ENnie Award, the Authorlink! New Authors Award, a Octavia Butler Scholarship, and multiple other recognitions across the industry.

What Fates Impose

Gwendolyn Kiste

Angela Slatter

Dan Rabarts

Letitia Trent

Paul Michael Anderson

Simon Dewar

Annie Neugebauer

JC Michael

Benjamin Knox

DUSK DEFENDS THE LIGHT FROM THE DARK. SOMETIMES… Life is nothing if not constant change. And these changes force us to make terrifying choices that will lead us into either the light or the dark. Dusk is this tipping point, where things go well, or where they go very, very bad. Suspended in Dusk II continues the legacy of editor Simon Dewar's anthology series. Volume II includes the disturbing work of seventeen extremely diverse voices from the horror and speculative fiction genres. -- Teenage boys navigate the Dark Web where diabolical games of life and death await… -- A woman stalked by shadows gets answers she doesn't want to hear… -- Ghost hunters commune with malevolent spirits seeking vengeance on the living... -- A family confronts a Maori legend that's less myth and far more terrifying truth… -- A young man explores a love that continues to gnaw long after it's gone… -- A group of adults encounter childhood fears that will not die… -- And so much more. Suspended in Dusk II is introduced by Angela Slatter and includes fiction from Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Graham Jones, Bracken MacLeod, Damien Angelica Walters, Alan Baxter, Paul Tremblay, Sarah Read, Christopher Golden, Nerine Dorman, Dan Rabarts, Gwendolyn Kiste, Benjamin Knox, Annie Neugebauer, J.C. Michael, Letitia Trent, Paul Michael Anderson and Karen Runge. Confront your change. But you must first survive dusk. Praise for Suspended in Dusk II: "Simon Dewar's second installment of the series really delivers. This collection has thrown together a multitude of quality writing that begs to be read. There is darkness in the margins of each page, smudges of black ink threatening to swallow the reader when they aren't expecting," – Brian Bogart, Kendall Reviews "Suspended in Dusk II grabs you by the throat from the very first story and does not let go. I honestly can't overstate how good this anthology was. There are some very heavy topics in the stories but…not a single one is played merely for shock value or cheap emotion." – Gracie Kat, Sci-Fi & Scary "I appreciated the large amount of diversity in this book; from the foreword it became clear that individuals of all shapes of life were given the chance to contribute, and I feel that's largely absent in anthologies these days." – Red Lace Reviews Proudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the home of multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated volumes of horror. Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive

"Once upon a time there was a monster. This is how they tell you the story starts. This is a lie." Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. DNA doesn't define us, gravity doesn't hold us, a home doesn't mean we belong. From circus tents to space stations, Damien Angelica Walters creates stories that are both achingly familiar and chillingly surreal. Within her second short story collection, she questions who the real monsters are, rips families apart and stitches them back together, and turns a cell phone into the sharpest of weapons. Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you turn the last page. "Once upon a time there was a girl ..." Featuring the following works: "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw" "Deep Within the Marrow, Hidden in My Smile" "On the Other Side of the Door, Everything Changes" "This Is the Way I Die" "The Hands That Hold, the Lies That Bind" "Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys: The Elephant's Tale" "The Judas Child" "S Is for Soliloquy" "The Floating Girls: A Documentary" "Take a Walk in the Night, My Love" "Falling Under, Through the Dark" "The Serial Killer's Astronaut Daughter" "Umbilicus" "A Lie You Give, and Thus I Take" "Little Girl Blue, Come Cry Your Way Home" "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice" "In the Spaces Where You Once Lived"

Daniel Mills

Michael Cisco

Cody Goodfellow

Nadia Bulkin

Gemma Files

Maura McHugh

Molly Tanzer

Orrin Grey

Rhys Hughes

Janice Lee

Robert Levy

Michael Griffin

S. P. Miskowski

Nathan Carson

David Nickel

Reginald Oliver

22 Weird tales by a pantheon of top Horror writers, inspired by the classic film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari." The origins of Noir, Expressionist, Existential, and Horror films to this day carry echos of the film, and these tales express and recombine those themes in each author's inimitable style.

The Madness of Dr. Caligari

Brian Evenson

Sunny Moraine

Kaaron Warren

Simon Strantzas

Christopher Slatsky

Craig Laurance Gidney

Brooke Warra

Michael Wehunt

Kristi DeMeester

Betty Rocksteady

Lisa L. Hannett

Kurt Fawver

Anya Martin

LOOMING LOW presents 26 wondrous and unsettling tales that represent some of the best writing from the new golden age of strange literature. Featuring brand new stories from: Nadia Bulkin, Michael Cisco, Kristi DeMeester, Brian Evenson, Kurt Fawver, Gemma Files, Richard Gavin, Craig Laurance Gidney, Michael Griffin, Lisa L. Hannett, Livia Llewellyn, Anya Martin, Daniel Mills, S.P. Miskowski, Sunny Moraine, Scott Nicolay, Betty Rocksteady, Christopher Slatsky, Lucy A. Snyder, Simon Strantzas, Jeffrey Thomas, Damien Angelica Walters, Brooke Warra, Kaaron Warren, Michael Wehunt, and A.C. Wise.

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