John Skipp

This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers, but still turning the pages. Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics, the best that the genre has to offer, by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman, Amelia Beamer, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors. John Skipp, who is also the editor of Zombies, Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight, through two nonfiction essays, into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction, movies, websites, and writers.

Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane

Psychos

Marc Levinthal

It's years past the Millennium and somehow the worlds of Earth and Oz have begun to commingle. It starts when Glinda the Good Witch becomes President and before long munchkins are working at fast food restaurants.

The Emerald Burrito of Oz

The Long Last Call

Craig Spector

Animals

HORROR & GHOST STORIES. From a master of Zombie fiction and a founding father of "splatterpunk" comes a mind-bending anthology of 35 new and classic stories from both renowned writers and rising stars. This rich collection showcases the best of the genre.

Encounters with the Hungry Dead

Zombies

A powerful demonic force emerges from a war-torn jungle, comes to America with an army of believers, and uses a rock-and-roll band to break into and gain control of the world

The Scream

An adrenaline-charged tale of unrelenting suspense that sparks with raw and savage energy... The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Ten murders on the New York City subway. Ten grisly crimes that defy all reason -- no pattern, no m.o., no leads for police to pursue. The press dubs the fiend the "Subway Psycho"; the NYPD desperately seeks their quarry before the city erupts in mass hysteria. But they won't find what they're looking for. Because they all think that the killer is human. Only a few know the true story -- a story the papers will never print. It is a tale of abject terror and death written in grit and steel... and blood. The tale of a man who vanished into the bowels of the urban earth one night, taken by a creature of unholy evil, then left as a babe abandoned on the doorstep of Hell. Now he is back, driven by twin demons of rage and retribution. He is unstoppable. And we are all his prey... unless a ragtag band of misfit souls will dare to descend into a world of manmade darkness, where the real and unreal alike dwell in endless shadow. A place where humanity has been left behind, and the horrifying truth will dawn as a madman's chilling vendetta comes to light... Filled with gripping drama and harrowing doomsday dread, The Light at the End is the book that ushered in a bold new view of humankind's most ancient and ruthless evil; a mesmerizing novel from two acknowledged masters of spellbinding suspense.

The Light at the End

A collection of thirty-five short stores featuring werewolves and shapeshifters.

Encounters with the Beast Within

Werewolves and Shapeshifters

LOVE IS THE ONLY SHOCKING ACT LEFT We all know horror. It's in our face every day. You can try to negotiate the nightmare but total chaos and destruction is just one button-push away. Horror legend John Skipp walks you through the light and the dark with an unflinching eye. Revealing both the best and worst of us, one laugh and scream at a time. It ain't pretty. But it's beautiful. Once you go all the way. PRAISE FOR DON'T PUSH THE BUTTON "Startlingly honest, refreshingly revealing, funny, freaky, upset-ting, unsettling. His best yet." -Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box "John Skipp has never, ever been afraid to walk in the dark: he knows that's where all light shines hardest. Walk with him, trust his vision and his voice. Push the button." -Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher "John Skipp's Don't Push the Button is so full of rage, humor, truth, wisdom and beauty it makes me want to be one of his REAL friends." -Lucky McKee, writer/director of May, co-author (with Jack Ketchum) of I Am Sam "A genie of fire-eating brilliance. In his virtuoso trove, Don't Push the Button, John Skipp's X-Acto gaze slays artifice, heals with true, golden heart. No fathom can resist his maestro dives." -Richard Christian Matheson, author of Dystopia "Don't Push the Button is a beautiful, bluesy, angry, affectionate howl of a book. It wants to tear you apart to show you what's wonderful deep inside of all of us. A wild, unpredictable portrait of a bright, burning mind, it showcases Skipp's radical range, dark-hearted humor, and enormous empathy. There's a grace and honesty to these stories that moved me, and made me grateful that John Skipp will always choose to push those buttons." -Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Entropy In Bloom "Don't Push the Button proves John Skipp doesn't know how to quit, and thank God he doesn't because we're all better for it. An electric collection that showcases the passion, strain, grief, and im-pulses of what it means to be human. These stories get dirty. They get political. They get uncomfortable. Sometimes they just make you laugh. And all the while they shine through with John Skipp's acid-god light and his love for us all, even at our worst. Even when we push his buttons." -Autumn Christian, author of Girl Like a Bomb "As writers age, we refine our craft to compensate for a creeping disengagement with the world outside our heads. John Skipp has been working against that curve all his life, tearing down fusty literary conventions and bringing the raw realness with a wrecking ball. Don't Push the Button hits with the urgency of a ransom note and the hard-won wisdom of a prizefighter's face. To see so unflinchingly into the dark corners of life and still give a shit is less a gift than a miracle, but Skipp wraps that gift in his own skin and he's giving it to you. Open it!" -Cody Goodfellow, author of Unamerica

Don't Push the Button

Book of the Dead

La Luz Al Final Del Tunel

2011 BRAM STOKER WINNER for Superior Achievement in an Anthology! This mind-blowing anthology cracks open the lid on demonic lore, from the possessed to fallen angels and the Devil himself. The next book in Black Dog's supernatural series, Demons presents thirty-six terrifying, tantalizing tales in which evil spirits wreak havoc on the world. Neil Gaiman, William Peter Blatty, Kim Harrison and Robert R. McCammon join H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Beaumont, Bentley Little, Maggie Stiefvator, Danielle Trussoni, David J. Schow, Karl Edward Wagner, Richard Christian Matheson, Adram-Troy Castro, Amelia Beamer, Cody Goodfellow, Carlton Mellick III, and dozens more, both old and new. Horror legend John Skipp, editor of Zombies and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight into the history and details of demon lore, and its role in popular culture. Between the extensive resource materials and the lovingly selected stories - ranging from fantasy, horror, paranormal romance, and magic realism to full-blown Bizarro - Demons is an indispensable text, and the most fun you'll ever have with the forces of evil.

Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed

Demons

It was closing time at the strip club. The bartender was cleaning up, and the girls were looking forward to calling it a night. Then he came in, a well-dressed stranger with a lot of cash to spend. A briefcase full, in fact. But this is no normal customer, and his money is a bit unusual too. Every dollar he spends stirs up a bit more hatred, a little more repressed rage in whoever he gives it to. As the night passes, the pressure builds...and builds, and the stranger just smiles. He knows what will come. He knows he only has to wait to see all of his blood-drenched plans fulfilled.

An anthology of horror stories based on the universe of George A. Romero features the work of Nancy Collins, Douglas Winter, Elizabeth Massie, and others, and includes the lost original script for Romero's "Day of the Dead"

Still Dead

Cody Goodfellow

SIX MONTHS AGO, AMERICA DIED. IS IT TOO SOON TO MAKE THE MOVIE? A massive nuclear attack has destroyed the major cities. Untold millions are dead. The survivors are starving savages. But where others see only tragedy, one man sees opportunity. Enter Julian Harvey: an A-list producer with a hot project, a private army and a vision for America that will give her back her soul. It's the last Hollywood film crew, making the last Hollywood movie, in the radioactive crater formerly known as Los Angeles. Spreading hope the only way they know how...through total bullshit. And like it or not, you're along for the ride. ""Fasten your blast goggles for the mutant offspring of Dr. Strangelove and The Player."" - Richard Stanley, writer/director of Hardware ""Humor, heart, and wit so sharp you don't even know you're bleeding until after you've finished. I could not and did not put it down."" - Sarah Langan, author of "Aubrey's Door" ""Packs a hell of a punch. Hilarious, savage and moving.""- Peter Tennant, Black Static

The Last Goddam Hollywood Movie

The groundbreaking novel of new age horror from the masters of Splatterpunk, Skipp and Spector. A brutal killer is stalking New York City's underground--a killer the tabloids call the "Subway Psycho". But what they're looking for isn't even human. His kind has ruled the night for centuries, and down in the tunnels, the night lasts forever.

Joe R. Lansdale

Jeff Strand

William Meikle

J. F. Gonzalez

Shane McKenzie

Stephen Mark Rainey

Nate Southard

Christmas Horror Volume 1 Campaign Exclusive CS

After one hundred-plus years of human dumping, a virulent, dark new order of evolution awakens from the landfills and oceans, invading human beings' land, water, air, and bodies

A Horror Story

The Bridge

A crooked TV evangelist who preached eternal life proves himself right on one score at least when he returns from the dead at his own wake—and sets out so slaughter everyone who he thinks has wronged him.

John Skipp

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