Kaaron Warren

Slights

Neil Gaiman

Laird Barron

Indrapramit Das

Catherynne M. Valente

Kij Johnson

Sofia Samatar

Maria Dahvana Headley

Rachel Swirsky

Nathan Ballingrud

Gemma Files

Joe Lansdale

Chinelo Onwualu

Through the work of twenty-six writers, emerging to award-winning, The Humanity of Monsters plumbs the depths of humane monsters, monstrous humans, and the interstices between. In stories by turns surreal, sublime, brutal, and haunting, there are no easy answers to be found. Featuring Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Polenth Blake, Leah Bobet, Indrapramit Das, Berit Ellingsen, Gemma Files, Neil Gaiman, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Joe R. Lansdale, Yoon Ha Lee, Rose Lemberg, Livia Llewellyn, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Meghan McCarron, Sunny Moraine, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Chinelo Onwualu, Sofia Samatar, Rachel Swirsky, Sonya Taaffe, Catherynne M. Valente, Kaaron Warren, Peter Watts, and A.C. Wise.

The Humanity of Monsters

The Time-Ball Tower of Tempuston houses the worst criminals in history. Given the option of the death penalty or eternal life, they chose eternal life. They have a long time to regret that choice.

Tide of Stone

Through Splintered Walls

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shawn Speakman

Matthew Ward

Brian Staveley

Mark Alder

R. Scott Bakker

Bradley P. Beaulieu

Janny Wurts

Michael R. Fletcher

Mazarkis Williams

Deborah A. Wolf

Peter Orullian

Marc Turner

Jeff Salyards

Alex Marshall

Teresa Frohock

Courtney Schafer

E. V. Morrigan

Step into the shoes of your favourite fantasy antagonists.Featuring stories by:R. Scott BakkerAdrian TchaikovskyMichael R. FletcherShawn SpeakmanTeresa FrohockKaaron WarrenCourtney SchaferMarc TurnerJeff SalyardsMazarkis WilliamsDeborah A. WolfBrian StaveleyAlex MarshallBradley P. BeaulieuMatthew WardMark AlderJanny Wurts

An Anthology of Antagonists

Evil is a Matter of Perspective

The island is the world and the centre of the island is the tree. When they are 18, each person must leave their home and walk the tree. Years laters, when they return - if they return - they will be changed.

Walking the Tree

Into Bones Like Oil

Winner, Best Horror Novel, 2016 Aurealis Awards Winner, Best Novel, 2016 Shadow Awards Winner, Best Novel, 2016 Ditmar Awards There are many grief holes. There's the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There's another grief hole in all of us; small or large, it determines how much we want to live. And there are the geographical grief holes, the buildings that attract sorrow and loss and are filled with ghosts. Theresa sees these ghosts better than most, but can she figure out how to close the holes?

The Grief Hole

Tade Thompson

Emma Newman

Paul Meloy

Rose Biggin

A new anthology bringing together five great new and established writers to explore the world of Mary Shelley’s all-time classic, Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein is the first to unlock the key to life, but not the last. Over two centuries of relentless advancement, five more minds find the secret, and five more creatures are made. Five more stories end in tragedy. From the stinking streets of 1850s London to the sun-drenched hysteria of a modern cruise liner, amidst passion, jealousy, art, obsession, desperation and war, Creatures is a hidden history of a forbidden science.

The Legacy of Frankenstein

Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein

Victor Frankenstein is the first to unlock the key to life, but not the last. Over two centuries of relentless advancement, five more minds find the secret, and five more creatures are made. Five more stories end in tragedy. From the stinking streets of 1850s London to the sun-drenched hysteria of a modern cruise liner, amidst passion, jealousy, art, obsession, desperation and war, Creatures is a hidden history of a forbidden science.

The Legend of Frankenstein

Creatures

Stephen King

Elizabeth Massie

Chuck Palahniuk

Victor LaValle

Zoje Stage

Gary A. Braunbeck

Josh Malerman

Steve Rasnic Tem

Linda D. Addison

Eugen Bacon

Cynthia Pelayo

Eric LaRocca

Gabino Iglesias

Scott Edelman

Hailey Piper

Lee Murray

Gordon Linzner

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

A literary blend of sci-fi and horror by some of the finest contemporary writers of speculative fiction, edited by multi-award-winning editor Michael Bailey and illustrated throughout by Pat R. Steiner.

Vol. 2

Qualia Nous

Botanica is an island, but almost all of the island is taken up by the Tree. Little knowing how they came to be here, small communities live around the coast line. The Tree provides them shelter, kindling, medicine-and a place of legends, for there are ghosts within the trees who snatch children and the dying. Lillah has come of age and is now ready to leave her community and walk the tree for five years, learning all Botanica has to teach her. Before setting off, Lillah is asked by the dying mother of a young boy to take him with her. In a country where a plague killed half the population, Morace will otherwise be killed in case he has the same disease. But can Lillah keep the boy's secret, or will she have to resort to breaking the oldest taboo on Botanica?

“Don’t write merely to shock. People are used to shock-horror. You need to get beneath the skin. Use a flensing knife and keep it sharp. It’s good to shock, but only as part of the story you tell.” In this chapbook, Kaaron Warren—the Shirley Jackson Award-winning writer behind Slights, The Greif Hole, and Into Bones Like Oil—explores the craft and philosophy of trapping dark and disturbing fiction on the page. Drawn from essays, workshops, and articles about the craft and business of writing, Capturing Ghosts On The Page feature’s Warren’s tips on writing ghost stories, overcoming professional jealousy, working to an anthology brief, tapping your drams for inspiration, and more. Whether you want an insight into the creative process that drives Warren’s dark and enchanting fiction, or you are an aspiring writer seeking tips from one of the most talented authors of horror fiction writing today, this chapbook is a peek into the mindset and practice of a celebrated Australian author.

Capturing Ghosts On The Page: Writing Horror & Dark Fiction

Jeffrey Thomas

Brian Evenson

Sunny Moraine

Lucy A. Snyder

Daniel Mills

Michael Cisco

Richard Gavin

Livia Llewellyn

Scott Nicolay

Damien Angelica Walters

Simon Strantzas

Nadia Bulkin

Christopher Slatsky

Craig Laurance Gidney

Brooke Warra

Michael Wehunt

Kristi DeMeester

Michael Griffin

Betty Rocksteady

S. P. Miskowski

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.

Looming Low

Subtle depictions of future worlds, of stark contemporary settings and alternate realities are some of the wonders of Warren's imagination. From science fiction to fantasy and eerie, soul-shaking horror. Warren's words will reverberate in all of us. What is there to enjoy in this collection? A profound vision of a future, perhaps dismal without hope, horror that makes your spine feel pierced by hundreds of rings, a smattering of bodily fluids, a few feminist themes, a clear and penetrating vision, the clarity of which is unearthly. Clever, sometimes funny, morbid and at times racy. You'll find all of this in Kaaron Warren's work.

The Glass Woman

Gary McMahon

Ramsey Campbell

Dead Souls contains twenty five stories that will only ensure the darkness without enfolds you in its cold embrace. Within these pages, you will find a man so affected by the horrors he witnessed at war, he believes another is guiding his actions; a small boy with enough malevolence to shake a young girl to her very core; a tattoo artist with a hidden agenda. You will read about a future not as bright as we might have imagined or hoped; a puppet show with a damning message; a new twist on the theory of Beethoven's Immortal Beloved; Adolf Hitler in a new guise, and something terrible that approaches us in the desert. All this, plus many, many more, tales of darkness and human suffering.

Dead Souls

Christina Henry

Stephen Graham Jones

Peter Tieryas

Nisi Shawl

Kelley Armstrong

Nicholas Kaufmann

Hillary Monahan

Jason Sanford

Kenesha Williams

Linda D Addison

LEANNA RENEE HIEBER

Errick Nunnally

Angela Yuriko Smith

DANA CAMERON

What if a young girl had the power to stop her tyrannical father from battering her mother ever again?What if a student had a secret weapon to end sexual assault by her predatory professor permanently?What if a housewife had unusual means to get back at her controlling husband and walk away from her marriage alive?In Giving the Devil His Due, the Pixel Project's first charity anthology, sixteen acclaimed fantasy, science fiction, and horror authors take readers on an unforgettable journey to alternative worlds where men who abuse and murder women and girls meet their comeuppance in uncanny ways.Featuring stories from Stephen Graham Jones, Christina Henry, Peter Tieryas, Kelley Armstrong, Linda D. Addison, Hillary Monahan, and more, Giving the Devil His Due presents sixteen stories that will make you think about the importance of justice for the victims of gender-based violence, how rare this justice is in our own world, and why we need to end violence against women once and for all.

Giving the Devil His Due: Special Edition

Alan Baxter

Matthew R Davis

From the Introduction by Tabatha Wood: "What follows is a varied collection of dark canine tales that will excite, thrill and captivate readers, while supporting a truly worthwhile cause. And above all else, you know the dog won't die." CONTENTS: Foreword by Alan Baxter Introduction by Tabatha Wood Nero by Shannon Elizabeth Gardner (Artwork) Hunted by Dion Winton-Polak (Poem) Black Cloud Sunshine by Dan Rabarts The Dead Way by J.C. Hart Vision Thing by Matthew R. Davis Shifting in the Black by L.L. Asher Synaesthete by Melanie Harding-Shaw Fossil Bluff by P.J. Blakey-Novis A Handshake in Darkness by Miranda Crites (Artwork) Night Wolves by Tabatha Wood The Honeymoon's Over by E.E. King Black and Tan by Martine Poels Ding Dong Bell by Steve Dillon (Poem) The Gaze Dogs of Nine Waterfall by Kaaron Warren Park Life by Ian J. Middleton Grey Dog by John Linwood Grant Use a Shovel by Galina Trefil Banjo by Chloe Herczeg (Artwork) I am Become by Hari Navarro Yellow Dog by Alan Baxter Redbone by Justin Guleserian The Feather Wall by Octavia Cade This Dog's Life by Dion Winton-Polak (Poem)And Don't You Ever Look Back by Falco Verholen (Artwork)From the Foreword by Alan Baxter: "As the stories in this book point out, dogs are the best, and we should all try to be a little bit more like them. Except the butt-sniffing. We don't need that. Unless it's your personal kink, in which case, enjoy! Meanwhile, read this book, be transported by the dark tales, and enriched by the wagging tails. And remember, you are awesome."17 short dark fiction stories, some poems, some illustrations. featuring dogs that you know won't die...

A Charity Anthology for the Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand

Black Dogs, Black Tales - Where the Dogs Don't Die

Kaaron Warren

About

Books

Join the club