Weird Fiction

Laid out upon these frail leaves is a banquet of delectable misfortunes and savory tragedies. Partake of these melancholy morsels of bile and brine, of wrath and regret. Sample vintages of fermented tears and distilled blood. Lick the sharp edges of cursed blades, and nibble frail hopes set on platters of tarnished silver. Strange sorrows warp the palette of perception and bring about subtle ruin and uncanny vigor. Indulge in the filling robustness of Tainted Steel.

When a petrol yacht catches fire in the South Atlantic, its lone survivor, Patterson, swims to safety. He is relieved when he washes up on a tropical island inhabited by four other ship-wrecked characters. But when he discovers one of the men was cast adrift by the Titanic, he is forced to question where he really is and if he will be able to escape.

Two Weird Tales of the Dystopian Present and Future is a two-story bundle - two prescient short stories that treat of what is and what may be. Both scenarios will likely come to pass, and neither will be very pleasant. So be warned...be prepared...and watch.

A fort is supposed to keep evil out. But what if evil gets in? Ezekiel and his people only wanted to warn the rest of the country of the sickness. But how do they make the army believe their story when they're still struggling to believe it themselves? Turns out they don't need to do the convincing. The biters will. (This is book 2 of the Ezekiel Cool Weird Western Trilogy.)

Susan is the epitome of the happy housewife, contentedly conducting her daily ritual of cleaning her home and keeping everything just as it should be. Wrapped up in her own little world within those familiar walls, she hardly notices the altogether different arrival in her own back yard. She may ignore the sudden shaking beneath her slippered feet, she might even neglect to spot the conspicuous sight itself - but she can't evade the stench. Something's wrong. Very wrong.

What could possibly go wrong when twelve-year-old twin girls go up against criminals plotting an evil scheme? Twins, Betty and Bev have a knack for sniffing out danger, and a greater knack for getting in over their heads. Suspicious, they follow a stranger and find the situation is far worse than they could have imagined. Sheriff Scott and their Dad try desperately to keep them safe, but Betty and Bev are determined to help.

William Wymark Jacobs (1863-1943) was an English author of short stories and novels. His most popular works in the early part of the last century were his humorous tales set around the docks of Wapping and in the taproom of the infamous Cauliflower tavern. 'The Rival Beauties' is one of the night watchman's most unlikely tales. He narrates the time when his ship came across a giant sea-serpent and they attempted to lure it with them to New York.

John McGill wasn't looking for love when he became Commander (for life) of the secretive Applied Science Concepts and he certainly didn't expect it to come in the form of a hybrid cat woman who drove both his heads crazy. The only problem? She wants nothing from him other than frequent booty calls. Katya (formerly Amy) is dealing with her own problems, namely a split personality and the attentions of a man who wants to take things to a level of relationship that scares the hell out of her.

A collection of stories written by Ethan Obi-wan Couldrey before his untimely death in 2024 aged 24. These are tales including ghost stories, modern myths and unique stories of human triumph.

Somewhere on the rocky coast of Maine there exists the small, quiet town of Light's End. Built along a metaphysical fault line between the universal forces of good and evil, it has been the setting for countless episodes of mind-numbing horror and depravity. Horror master Michael Vance chronicles a baker's dozen of terror-inducing tales that will leave you shivering in the night. Welcome to classic pulp horror at its most gruesome, courtesy of Airship 27 Productions.

Grandma Do is visiting, just in time for Grandparents’ Day, a trip to the farm and the school dance! Life is about to get really weird for Weir Do...because Grandma Do is the weirdest one of all! It won’t be easy...but it will be funny!

To make some extra money for the Feral Zoo, Sammy, Red, and Donny decide to promote their cryptozoology business: investigating animals that don't exist. What could possibly go wrong? Everything! Hired to check out sightings of a ghost dog, the friends uncover the terrifying legend of the Hell Hound. Anyone who is seen by this terrible beast is struck with a death curse. So when Sammy's best friend, Mark, runs into the deadly dog, Sammy knows he doesn't have long to figure out how to save him!

Sammy couldn't be more excited when two pandas arrive at Feral Zoo all the way from China. But when he finds a mysterious golden egg hidden inside the panda crate, he knows things are about to get WEIRD - again. Soon the egg hatches, and Sammy comes face to face with a tiny golden dragon. And it seems to think he's its dad! Sammy needs answers, and he needs them fast - who sent the dragon, and why? It's not long before Sammy realizes he's in more danger than he could ever imagine.

Annie and Basile are about to go to London on holiday, at the girl's godmother’s house. They are very excited! On the agenda: reading, shopping, and museums.But... nothing will happen as planned! This stay will not be relaxing at all.On the contrary: they will have to investigate to solve a mystery and travel through all the districts of this vibrant capital. The secret they will discover will have to be protected at all costs! In this episode : The two Parisians finally meet Gill, Annie's godmother, in her antique store.

Ming often gets teased for being "weird". His curious mind and wild imagination make him extra nervous for his school's upcoming lockdown drill after a deadly dance hall shooting. His teacher calls the Helper Hounds to help calm his nerves, and King Tut comes to the rescue! King Tut knows all about being weird - she's been in some scary situations herself after being abandoned under a bridge as a puppy. King Tut helps Ming and his classmates through the lockdown drill. Discover how King Tut helps Ming and his friends see the beauty in being "weird".

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....

It's the first day of a new school for Sam and Sara. So of course they're both hoping to fit in quickly. All they want is a helping hand - some new friends to keep an eye out for them and help them get ahead. What they're probably not hoping for is Thumb. Actually, a lot of thumbs. And fingers. They're turning up all over Freakham High in seriously unexpected places. But why?

Something strange is going on at Freekham High. Ginger Mutton was always the quiet, unpopular one. Now everybody wants to hear what she has to say - because she's started to predict the future. With a SOCK. And SOCKingly enough, her predictions are coming true - just not always to the right people! It SEAMS to be another DARNED Freekham mystery. Can Sara and Sam get to the bottom of it before people start getting hurt?

Sie ist kaltblütig. Sie ist berechnend. Sie ist gefährlich. Das ist alles, was Siem Kallason über die Kirche des heiligen Prozesses weiß, als er ihr beitritt. Sie verspricht, ihm zu zeigen, wofür er bestimmt ist.​ Doch das weiß er schon längst. Er hasst seine Arbeit, er hasst die Unterdrückung der Staatsvollstrecker, er hasst die endlose Stadt, aus der es kein Entkommen gibt. Er will all das hinter sich lassen. ​Und das wird er, denn er hat eine Vereinbarung mit dem, was die Menschen der Stadt einen Geist nennen.

A collection of 18 poems and six stories, weird as fungi. Ghosts, monsters, and aliens; empresses, adventurers, and cultists; and a lot of death. Includes the poems "Walpurgisnacht" and "Terrors of the Night of April Twenty-Ninth", and the prize-winning Lovecraftian story "Looking into the Can".