Livia Llewellyn

Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.

Furnace

Laird Barron

Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfils the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards....The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn. In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes "Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain." An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshipping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge a reader's sensibilities, their fears and desires.

Tales of Love & Other Horrors

Engines of Desire

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeffrey Thomas

Jeffrey Ford

Chen Qiufan

Sofia Samatar

Paul Tremblay

Maria Dahvana Headley

Michael Blumlein

John Langan

Karin Tidbeck

Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

A.C Wise

Richard Gavin

John R. Fultz

Anne-Sylvie Salzman

Anna Taborska

Scott Nicolay

Damien Angelica Walters

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

Jonathan Maberry

Stephen Graham Jones

Joe McKinney

Scott Edelman

Silvia Moreno-García

It's a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from walking. In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked throughout history by the walking dead.

Shambling Through the Ages

Zombies

Brian Evenson

Sunny Moraine

Lucy A. Snyder

Daniel Mills

Kaaron Warren

Michael Cisco

Simon Strantzas

Nadia Bulkin

Gemma Files

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

H. P. Lovecraft

Clark Ashton Smith

Victor LaValle

Molly Tanzer

Fred Chappell

Erica L. Satifka

Masahiko Inoue

Inspired by the Lovecraft's more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn. Also includes Clark Ashton Smith's 1931 "The City of the Singing Flame" and Lovecraft's own "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

Wonder and Glory Forever

Livia Llewellyn

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