Robert Shearman

Twenty short stories “from the surreal to the horrific, from dark fantasy to black humor” by the World Fantasy Award–winning author—“a terrific collection” (SF Site). Deliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader’s Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before. In this collection, you will read of a woman who rejects her husband’s heart―and gives it back to him, still beating, in a plastic box; a little boy who betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus; a widower who suspects his dead wife’s face is growing over his own; and a man who goes to Hell, where he finds he’s roommate to the ghost of Hitler’s dog. Also lurking in these pages are giant spiders, killer angels, ghost cat photography, and the haunted house at the center of the Garden of Eden.

Remember Why You Fear Me

Dan Abnett

Paul Lewis

David Roden

Steve Lockley

For a year, while the Master ruled over Earth, Martha Jones travelled the world telling people stories about the Doctor. She told people of how the Doctor has saved them before, and how he will save them again. This is that story. It tells of Martha's travels from her arrival on Earth as the Toclafane attacked and decimated the population through to her return to Britain to face the Master. It tells how she spread the word and told people about the Doctor. The story of how she survived that terrible year. But it's more than that. This is also a collection of the stories she tells - the stories of adventures she had with the Doctor that we haven't heard about before. The stories that inspired and saved the world... Featuring the Tenth Doctor and Martha as played by David Tennant and Freema Agyeman in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.

The Story of Martha

Still unable to reach 1930, the TARDIS places the Doctor and Charley into an Edwardian household, in 1906. There they meet the servants of Edward Grove who seems to keep his workers in a constant state of bewilderment and terror. When the scullery maid is found murdered, it falls to the famous amateur sleuth known as the Doctor to solve the mysteries. The only trouble is, the household keep shifting into different moments in time. This story, akin in mood to the popular ITV series Sapphire and Steel, has been written by playwright Robert Shearman, who was responsible for the critically acclaimed The Holy Terror in 2000. This story takes place after the TV movie.

The Chimes of Midnight

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Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical

In Wanting to Believe, acclaimed science-fiction writer Robert Shearman critiques and examines the whole of the X-Files universe, including the spin-off series Millennium and The Lone Gunmen. As such, this is one of --- if not the only --- guide of its kind to cover all 13 seasons of this extremely popular property.With this unauthorized guidebook, X-Files fans will be able to reevaluate these TV series with Shearman (World Fantasy Award winner, Hugo Award nominee, renowned playwright, writer on the new Doctor Who series and all-around nice guy) as he diligently comments upon all 282 X-Files-related episodes (and the two motion pictures), which form one of the most notable TV works of the 1990s --- and is every bit as enjoyable today. Armed with Wanting to Believe, you will not only find yourself mulling over Shearman's insights and opinions about The X-Files --- you will want to pull your DVDs and re-watch this amazing and impressive series for yourself.

A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen

Wanting to Believe

The Holy Terror

Hurrah! The deadly Daleks are back! Yes, those loveable tinpot tyrants have another plan to invade our world. Maybe this time because they want to drill to the Earth£s core. Or maybe because they just feel like it. And when those pesky pepperpots are in town, there is one thing you can be sure of. There will be non-stop high octane mayhem in store. And plenty of exterminations! But never fear. The Doctor is on hand to sort them out. Defender of the Earth, saviour of us all. With his beautiful assistant, Evelyn Smythe, by his side, he will fight once again to uphold the beliefs of the English Empire. All hail the glorious English Empire!

Jubilee

Tiny Deaths

Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours--except landlocked countries may disappear overnight, marriages to camels are the norm, and the dead turn into musical instruments. Sometimes there is horror, and dreams fulfilled and squandered, of true love. They do the same things different there.

The Best Weird Fantasy of Robert Shearman

They Do the Same Things Different There

Scott Smith

Laird Barron

Lynda Barry

Tim Lebbon

Michael Koryta

David Wellington

Seanan McGuire

Joe McKinney

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Rio Youers

Brian Keene

Dan Chaon

John Langan

Lucy A. Snyder

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Charlaine Harris

Kelley Armstrong

Gary A. Braunbeck

Leigh Perry

Dana Cameron

A blockbuster anthology of original, blood-curdling vampire fiction from New York Times bestselling and award-winning authors, including Charlaine Harris, whose novels were adapted into HBO’s hit show True Blood, and Scott Smith, publishing his first work since The Ruins. Before being transformed into romantic heroes and soft, emotional antiheroes, vampires were figures of overwhelming terror. Now, from some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, comes this stellar collection of short stories that make vampires frightening once again. Edited by New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden and featuring all-new stories from such contributors as Charlaine Harris, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Scott Smith, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Kortya, Kelley Armstrong, Brian Keene, David Wellington, Seanan McGuire, and Tim Lebbon, Seize the Night is old-school vampire fiction at its finest.

New Tales of Vampiric Terror

Seize the Night

"The entire Dalek race, wiped out in one second. I watched it happen. I made it happen!" The Doctor and Rose arrive in an underground vault in Utah in the near future. The vault is filled with alien artefacts. Its billionaire owner, Henry van Statten, even has possession of a living alien creature, a mechanical monster in chains that he has named a Metaltron. Seeking to help the Metaltron, the Doctor is appalled to find it is in fact a Dalek - one that has survived the horrors of the Time War just as he has. And as the Dalek breaks loose, the Doctor is brought back to the brutality and desperation of his darkest hours spent fighting the creatures of Skaro... this time with the Earth as their battlefield.

Doctor Who: Dalek (Target Collection)

Obra ganadora de los premios Shirley Jackson Award, Edge Hill Reader's Prize y del British Fantasy Award Esta gota de fantasía grotesca cae como la tinta en las aguas claras de la vida cotidiana, pero iluminando, en vez de contaminar lo cotidiano. Grandes cuentos de comedia negra y maligno resplandor. Su escritura es aguda y de imaginación desbordante. ( The Word) Contiene fragmentos que tienes que volver a leer para comprobar que de verdad se ha atrevido a escribir eso. ( SFX) Shearman posee una voz narrativa única y se mantiene alejado de los clichés, inyectando elementos de horror y surrealismo en un mundo realista claramente reconocible. Tan impresionante como su estrafalaria imaginación es su espectro emocional. ( The Times) Shearman tiene un extraño don para dar sorpresas en las situaciones más mundanas. ( The Guardian)

Canciones de amor para tímidos y cínicos

The Maltese Penguin

Homo Homini Lupus

There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining. But every good story has to come to an end ...

Scherzo. 52

Doctor Who

Tade Thompson

Nina Allan

Sarah Lotz

K. J. Parker

One house, five hauntings, five chilling stories. Five Stories High is a collection of five novellas each set in the same house - Irongrove Lodge. This five storey Georgian mansion, once a grand detached property, has now been split into five apartments. This is a building with history, the very bricks and grounds imbued with the pasts of those who have walked these corridors, lived in these rooms. Five extraordinary writers open the doors, revealing ghosts both past and present in a collection that promises to be as intriguing as it is terrifying. Featuring novellas by Sarah Lotz, JK Parker, Nina Allan, Robert Shearman and Tade Thompson.

One House, Five Hauntings, Five Chilling Stories

Five Stories High

Helen Marshall

Peter Chiykowski

Sandra Kasturi

Sonya Ballantyne

Shawn Coss

James Mark Miller

Jordan Shively

Postcards From Impossible Worlds collects 88 dazzling micro-stories written as postcards from strange and beautiful worlds that run parallel to our own.

The Collected Shortest Story

Postcards from Impossible Worlds

A little boy who betrays his father to the mercies of Santa Claus. An assassin whose personality is so insipid he erases people with his very presence. This is the history of mankind as told through 21 tales of the comic and the macabre.

Everyone's Just So So Special

Plays for the Stage

Caustic Comedies

A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe.Lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting. Helen Marshall's exceptional debut collection weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human in fifteen modern parables about history, memory and the cost of creating art.2013 British Fantasy Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer (Winner)2013 Aurora Award for Best Related Work (Short-List)"Masterful horror. In Marshall's dark landscapes, the metaphors are feral and they'll turn on you in a heartbeat." --M.R. Carey, Author of The Girl with All the Gifts". . . A tour de force of imagination, this remarkable debut collection uses the conventions of dark fantasy and horror as the framework for some of speculative fiction's most unusual stories. VERDICT Fans of experimental fiction and exceptional writing should find a wealth of enjoyment here." --Library Journal, Starred Review". . . Amidst moments of body horror and hauntings galore, miracles and expressions of joy are liberally sprinkled, offering moments that lingered in my thoughts well after I'd finished the story. . . . I cannot wait to see what Marshall conjures next."--San Francisco Book Review"The stories in Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side occur in the interstices of our most fundamental relations. Brothers and sisters, parents and children, lovers find the space between them grown strange, shifting, as the familiar becomes the site and the source of startling transformation. Elegant, unsettling, these stories leave the reader no less changed than their characters. Highly recommended work." --John Langan, Author of Technicolor and Other Revelations and House of Windows". . . Hair Side, Flesh Side is a strong first collection of speculative fiction borne out of faded manuscripts, old libraries and the memories of the past. However, it's how Marshall sees us reconcile these ghosts with the world of the living that give her stories the weight of immediacy. She is a talent to be discovered." --The National Post

Hair Side, Flesh Side

Robert Shearman

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