Doug Murano

Michael Bailey

What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey. Featuring a foreword by Alma Katsu, and illustrations throughout by HagCult.

Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors

Miscreations

HagCult

A short story collection by Erik T. Johnson

Yes Trespassing

Christian A. Larsen

Marge Simon

A literary blend of science fiction and horror, Qualia Nous contains short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of Stephen King, Gene O'Neill, William F. Nolan, John Everson, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth Massie, Gary A. Braunbeck, and many others.

Qualia Nous

Chiral Mad

The Right Tools to Answer Important Questions

Real Econometrics

Chiral Mad 2 is an anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. All profit from sales of this anthology go directly to Down syndrome charities. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, John Skipp, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Gene O'Neill, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an introduction by Michael Bailey. Table of Contents: 01. Another Man's Bones - Mason Ian Bundschuh 02. Mnemonicide - James Chambers 03. Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy - Max Booth III 04. The Counselor - Mort Castle 05. Dear Boy - John Biggs 06. Interference - Andrew Hook 07. Picture-in-Picture - Dustin LaValley 08. When I Was - Thomas F. Monteleone 09. Tight Partners - Gene O'Neill 10. Approaching Lavender - Lucy A. Snyder 11. Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity - David Morrell 12. In the Eyes of the Beholder - Ann K. Boyer 13. Empathy - John Skipp 14. Versions - E. L. Kemper 15. The Tended Field of Eido Yamata - Jon Michael Kelley 16. Playing with Fire - Richard Thomas 17. Indian Summer - Philip C. Perron 18. Blood Women - Usman T. Malik 19. Whitechapel - P. Gardner Goldsmith 20. The Chute - Gary McMahon 21. Scavenging - Kevin Lucia 22. The Word - Ramsey Campbell 23. Welcome Home, All You Uninvited - Erik T. Johnson 24. The Geminis - John Palisano 25. A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House - Emily B. Cataneo 26. The Right Thing - Jack Ketchum 27. Passing Affliction - Patrick O'Neill 28. The Great Pity - Gary A. Braunbeck

Chiral Mad 2

A small collection of dark science fiction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Michael Bailey. Includes "Darkroom" and "SAD Face" (novelettes), and "Fade to Black" (short story).DARKROOM: After living most of her life blindfolded, for fear of what she might see, Grace shifts though time in a series of strange experiments involving old-fashioned black-and-white photography in order to create a flipbook of her father aging in reverse. Near completion of her project, and no longer able to go through with it on her own, she brings along her likewise blindfolded and temporarily deafened sister, for fear of what they might also hear in their travels, and together they take snapshots, wandering their childhood home, hand-in-hand, albeit with added disabilities to protect them from that which doesn't hide so well in the past. The undeveloped, they soon discover, what they'd forgotten of their troubled youth, is perhaps more frightening than what they later develop in the darkroom. SAD FACE: Yuliya dons a prosthetic face designed to help her cope with Social Anxiety Disorder, the essential oil infused mask not only disguising her expression, but the wet city stench as it soothes. Time, it can only stop when someone takes a photo, and that's what they did, whoever made it; they took her picture and made her a mask to hide behind whenever social phobia bullied her. A dead-face: expressionless, eyes only visible through open sockets, mouth slightly parted; the way she imagined she'd look the day she died. And now, whenever someone sees her, or stares at her, wearing her Yuliya mask, they are looking at her past. Yet behind her SAD face, she sometimes finds confidence, until she takes it off to uncover the woman hiding beneath.FADE TO BLACK: A bonus short story that explores optophobia, the fear of opening one's eyes.

Oversight

When Franklin bangs his head, his grasp on reality is compromised. He lurches frantically through Leicester in his search for love, forgiveness and understanding, finding comfort in conversations with his young sister Jenny – but as Franklin reveals himself to be a highly unreliable narrator, we must ask if Jenny exists or is merely a figment of his troubled mind? Franklin is increasingly losing touch with reality when, against the backdrop of Leicester landmark ‘Old John’, he meets a man he believes to be God. This stranger tells of his own son who had similar problems and in his increasing confusion Franklin believes the man is likening him to Jesus. As Franklin’s life spirals further out of control his behaviour becomes ever more erratic, culminating in his touching, frightening and often comical attempts to win the affections of market-girl Ronnie, who is fascinated and frightened in turn by this strange, funny, ill young man. Dealing with such universal themes as loss, love, guilt, forgiveness, relationships and mental health, this is an unsettling, but powerful, novel which will appeal to readers of books such as The Shock of the Fall.

An Hour in the Darkness

John K. Walton

Ben Clarke

Awarded 2013 PROSE Honorable Mention in Media & Cultural Studies With the resurgent interest in his work today, this is a timely reevaluation of this foundational figure in Cultural Studies, a critical but friendly review of both Hoggart's work and reputation. Re-examines the reputation of one of the ‘inventors’ of Cultural Studies Uses new archival sources to critically evaluate Hoggart's contribution and influence, set his work in context, and determine its current relevance Addresses detractors and their positions of Hoggart, delineating long-term ideological battles within academia Brings cultural studies, literary criticism, and social history to bear on this figure whose interests spread across disciplines, to create a text which blends many threads into a coherent whole

A Pedagogy of Hope

Understanding Richard Hoggart

John Horner Jacobs

The sick imagination of nonlinear horror novelist Michael Bailey brings you thirteen dark poems and thirteen tales of the macabre that will make you think twice before turning your room dark for the night. A young woman chews her fingernails raw, unable to stop; a television set dangles from an apartment complex window; a large chest is found containing only a banded bouquet of wilted flowers; a stitched up bear named Thatch bleeds at the neck, his stuffing torn out; a man wakes up duct-taped to a mammoth wooden chair. Between writing the novels Palindrome Hannah and Phoenix Rose, Michael Bailey penned and published a number of short fiction and poetry pieces, some of which can be found in literary magazines and anthologies around the world. A few of these fallen dragon scales and flower petals, as he likes to call them, are reprinted here, while others are seeing print for the first time, hand selected and arranged by the author. Once you crack the spine, there's no going back.

Scales and Petals

Thorsten Holz

Sotiris Ioannidis

Manolis Stamatogiannakis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses, RAID 2018, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in September 2018. The 32 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 145 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: attacks; intrusion detection and prevention; DDoS attacks; passwords, accounts, and users; machine learning for computer security; hardware-assisted security; software security; malware; IoT/CPS security; security measurements; and defenses.

21st International Symposium, RAID 2018, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 10-12, 2018, Proceedings

Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses

Erinn L. Kemper

They died heart to heart, chest to chest. Detective Kovelant, haunted by the fiery death of two women, investigates why Chloe Bisset, mother and wife, swerved last-second into oncoming traffic. What drove her to this impulse? L'appel du vide, he soon discovers, is both an explanation and a non-explanation. The phrase translates to "the call of the void," which doesn't surprise him. The French often have ways of expressing the unexplainable. Most never answer the call, but only briefly contemplate what could happen. Kovelant tracks Chloe's acts through her final days-a series of experiments in spontaneity that end with her crossing one final line on the asphalt to end two lives. Clues scribed with fridge magnets, etched into silver rings, scribbled on sticky notes, and painted on the smoke-stained walls of a derelict building, reveal a woman tormented by a growing need. Each revelation drives him closer to the grief that pins him to his own dark truth. Parents should never outlive their children.

The Call of the Void

A fiction and poetry collection by Michael Bailey

The Impossible Weight of Life

Darren Speegle

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales of dark science fiction that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror:

Adam's Ladder

Use the power of behavioral finance to make smarter, better-informed decisions through every step of the investing process In an economy where markets are more unpredictable than ever, emotions can derail the efforts of even the most experienced investors and wreak havoc on portfolio returns. Applying powerful behavioral finance concepts, Stop. Think. Invest. provides a framework for identifying personal biases and avoiding mistakes that can cost big profits. Based on the author’s extensive research and 100 key behavioral finance concepts, this guide provides a winning 12-step process you can use to successfully manage your trading and investing for long-term success, including: Begin the initial research into a new stock Create an investment thesis—why are you buying the stock? Trade timing and size—when are you buying and how much? Make the initial purchase Review the trade—round up or round down Test your original investment thesis Stop. Think. Invest. reveals critical information about behavioral finance flaws, such as anchoring, confirmation bias, recency bias, and loss aversion. Unlike other behavioral investing guides, Stop. Think. Invest. offers a fully organized and practical approach to applying behavioral finance to everyday investing.

Stop. Think. Invest.: A Behavioral Finance Framework for Optimizing Investment Portfolios

Joshua Viola

David Niall Wilson

Chad Lutzke

Nick Kolakowski

Ben Monroe

Brennan LaFaro

Villimey Mist

Amanda J. Spedding

Taylor Rae

Sean Eads

P. L. McMillan

Antonia Rachel Ward

Damascus Mincemeyer

Jonathan Kemmerer-Scovner

Craig E. Sawyer

Lana Elizabeth Gabris

Joel McKay

E. J. Sidle

Wen Wen Yang

Blood in the Soil, Terror on the Wind is an anthology of splatter-western stories, written by some of the hottest new voices in the indie horror scene. Edited by Kenneth Cain, and introduced by Ronald Kelly, these tales are sure to thrill [and terrify] the reader. And that's no lie, pardner!

Blood in the Soil, Terror on the Wind

A man who desires revenge should dig two graves.A woman who desires revenge needs an entire cemetery.One year ago, Sergeant Rosemary Booker violently ended crime lord Erkan Waldemar's reign of terror -- and in doing so, unwittingly awakened in his wife Isabel the sleeping soul of the legendary Blood Countess, Erzsébet Báthory.Hellbent on avenging her husband's death, Báthory sets out to gather to her side history's most notorious criminals and killers -- an army of the damned to carry out her vendetta against Rosemary.The sins of Rosemary's past are returning with a vengeance -- and unless she can reconcile with her lover Anne and locate her missing friend Julie, she'll have to face that past alone.

Well-Behaved Women - Transition

Edwin Alfred Dawes

The Magic Circle 1905-2005

Circle Without End

But what happens behind the closed doors of this intriguing society that only admits the most gifted magicians? In this fascinating history of the Magic Circle and magical performers, its former president, Michael Bailey, reveals how the society was created and what it stands for in a time when magic has become more and more sophisticated. Using his unique knowledge of the inside of this worldwide phenomenon, he documents the origins of magical performance and the subsequent beginnings of the society, including how it has changed in its hundred years of existence. This mesmerising book also chronicles the lives of some of the Circle's most famous performers, including Paul Daniels, David Copperfield and Channing Pollock. He takes the reader through the history of magical performers, from the age-old myth of the Indian Rope Trick and how the Rabbit from a Hat trick came about. He describes a selection of the world's greatest tricks and illusions, and discusses topics such as entry to the Circle, women in magic (including the 'beautiful assistant') and the motto 'indocilis privata loqui' ('keep mum'). This absorbing volume is a must for all those fascinated by the secret world of magic and magical performers, and will be an invaluable addition to any would-be magician's bookshelf.

Michael Bailey

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