Weird Fiction

"The perfect blend between Ray Bradbury and H.P. Lovecraft." --Sheila Shedd (Author of Heart of Jet) Dark Forces are Everywhere. Dark Forces of Nature has all the excitement and imagination of the best works of classic science fiction. This collection of twelve original tales of cosmic terror and mad science by best-selling author Tristan Vick are sure to thrill and entertain you. In this collection of short stories, you will find the following tales: 1. Solar Winds -- During a spacewalk on the outer rim of our solar system, an astronaut hears ominous and strange whispers talking to him and...

The snake infested love child of HP Lovecraft and Louis L’Amour. Territorial marshal Porter Rockwell rides into a den of outlaws and hears tell of something horrific out in the haunted Henry Mountains, a place men don't come back from. The Paiute call the place of snakes The Serpent Temple, and with stories of giant snakes and vanishing men, Porter knows he must investigate the mystery even while desperadoes stalk the desert, waiting for a chance at revenge. What causes men to go mad out there in the high, lonesome desert? Who or what is Yig? Will Porter tie the knot with a rustler's ...

Dances With Drumsticks is a darkly imaginative collection of science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories by David Lee Stone. Each tale pulls you into a world where the bizarre and the eerie collide. A tormented child with a sinister imaginary friend. A dystopian future where society is gripped by a deadly disease A long-abandoned spaceship with a very odd crew and morePrepare for a journey through twisted realities, where the line between the mundane and the macabre is constantly blurred.

Wyatt Mazy is a young attorney newly arrived in Bath, New York who has recently opened his own legal practice. Wyatt suffers from a form of Asperger's Syndrome which causes him to repeat ridiculous rituals especially when a pen or eating utensil is in his hand. In this second novel in the WEIRD LAWYER SERIES, poor Wyatt is falsely accused of sexually assaulting a pretty young client. Establishing his innocence as an oddball stranger in a small town will prove to be a daunting task. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Donald W. Desaulniers is a Canadian attorney who has penned more than 100 novels since his ...

After a soul-crushing Tinder date, a woman returns to her apartment to cook some squid and seethe. Her eye starts to itch; her memory starts to skip, and she starts to spiral. Offense is an auditory explosion and an exploration of the rash of loneliness...and what happens when the voices inside our heads start to warp.

Sarah was just trying to stop her dungeon from collapsing. Now she’s rewriting reality. What began as a bureaucratic headache has exploded into metaphysical mayhem. As a hybrid dungeon core with a snark problem and too much cosmic power, Sarah is evolving into something no one—kingdoms, liches, or the laws of magic—can define. The magical Compact is cracking. Archives are collapsing. And the Lich Lord Kravix? He’s one ritual away from turning the world into his ascension playground. Armed with a crumbling dungeon, glitchy golden glyphs, and a desperate need for five minutes of peace...

In this first audiobook in the My Weirder-est School series, Ella Mentry School is having a science fair! Guest scientist Dr. Snow has arrived to help A.J. and his friends conduct their own cool experiments. But what is “the Snowman” really planning? And what does S.T.E.M. even stand for, anyway?

Most of us have at some point in our lives felt like an outsider, sometimes considering ourselves "too weird" to fit in. Growing up as a Russian immigrant in West Texas, Olga Khazan always felt there was something different about her. This feeling has permeated her life, and as she embarked on a science writing career, she realized there were psychological connections between this feeling of being an outsider and both her struggles and successes later in life.

You may "know" Jenny Slate from her Netflix special, Stage Fright, as the creator of Marcel the Shell, or as the star of Obvious Child. But you don't really know Jenny Slate until you get bonked on the head by her absolutely singular writing style. To see the world through Jenny's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility.

In Ghostwalkers, a gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction...and an army of the living dead!

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.

Every day is an adventure for A. J. and the gang. Now your favorite holiday hijinks are available in a single audio collection! Summer is almost over, and you know what that means - time to head back to school! But when a tropical storm ends A.J.'s vacation earlier than expected, he and his family have to stay at Andrea's house. Ugh, disgusting! Soon after, everyone in the house starts getting cabin fever, and even back-to-school shopping won't calm the kids down. So, Andrea and A.J. are sent to Camp Ockatollyquay. The catch? It's a camp to get kids ready for school!

They were sisters... when one calls on Satan for revenge the other is willing to assist. With a deadly combination of black magic and teenage hormones, the girls soon get what they asked for and more!

In his Locus review of Two Worlds and in Between - the first volume of The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan - Gary K. Wolfe wrote, “...it makes you wish the second volume were here now.” Well, the long wait is over. This second volume completes this ambitious undertaking, collecting the finest of Kiernan’s stories from 2004 to 2012, selected by the author herself. The book includes 25 short stories and one poem, plus the short novel Black Helicopters - more than 200,000 words of fiction, including the World Fantasy Award-winning “The Prayer of 90 Cats”.

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

What happens when you're on a moving train and do not know where you are going? When you hear voices? When someone offers you money? Or you find a cursed item? Or someone knocks at a door that leads to nowhere? Here in this short story collection you'll find the answers. Enter, if you dare.

You can’t have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters don’t need to be hunted. Sometimes it’s fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem.

Woody wants to get un-weird - and fast! And he'll find help in the most unlikely of places. Woody is forever worried about being different. He thinks himself weird and a bit of a wuss, and two bullies, Della and Casey, make sure he doesn't forget that. It doesn't help that his mum is slightly bonkers. She dresses up as a sheep for a living - mostly for her job as a children's entertainer. And not to mention the fact that she forces Woody to wear old granny jumpers that she finds down the local charity shop.

A trio of outlaws are released from an orbiting prison and sent back to their home planet. The catch? Find the president's missing son, and you’ll be pardoned by the Federation. Welcome to the desert planet of Lazarus, the hottest place in the universe inhabited by humans. It’s not only the heat that will kill you. Lazarus is also home to a spectrum of deadly creatures who have clawed out a living in the harsh desert, and they don’t take kindly to visitors. Not to mention the gangs of vicious bandits roving the land in search of anyone to kill and steal from. As descendants of tough ...

Seven tales. One unraveling world. This is horror for those who’ve looked too long into reflective glass, who’ve heard their name whispered from empty rooms, who’ve sensed something watching from the cracks in routine. In this anthology of cosmic and post-Lovecraftian horror, everyday settings become the staging ground for reality’s slow undoing. Roadside diners, coworking spaces, nursery monitors, and forgotten hospital wings—all bend under the weight of something unknowable, ancient, and still evolving.Inside, you’ll find: “Late Night at The Mother’s Way Diner” – A ...