Weird Fiction

Men in black calling at your door on the stroke of midnight . . . Three pieces of human flesh with the power to kill . . . A devoted wife who just won't die . . . A bag of bones that should never EVER be touched . . . These are just some of the tales in this gripping collection, taking the reader from supernatural suburban terror to the far future where the fate of mankind rests in the hands of an innocent. CONTENTS The Midnight Men Juju Killing Gloria The Devil's Bones Inheritance The Glamour Nan Death's Head The Witch is Dead Deus Ex Machina

Weird Santa and Other Xmas Tales is magic realism with a dash of erotic spiciness. The 10 independent stories in this collection range from “A Doggie’s Tale”, a boy-and-his-dog story appropriate for children, to “Never Too Old, Never Too Late” in which an old babushka recounts her Christmases in the Old Country. After receiving her magic gingerbread cookies, Ana’s young American friends, two couples, discover the depth of their passion for each other on a snowy Christmas Eve. In the previous two volumes of short fiction, the stories were interconnected.

When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village. Being a born explorer, Bethany seeks the answers to a host of strange events and discovers a magical world in a very unexpected place. She finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own; but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?

On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the large, mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories. Nora, at first, recounts nothing that Effie really wants to hear. Effie tells of her life at college in Dundee. But strange things are happening. Why is Effie being followed? Is someone killing the old people? And where is the mysterious yellow dog?

Residents of Austin, Texas, so value individualism that most (but not all!) of them rally around the phrase, "keep Austin weird". In the midst of that off-kilter vibe are two mildly weird kindergarten teachers, Eleanor Cooprider and Kim Park. One of them possesses a superpower and the other recognizes superpowers in others (and she can talk to plants, though they never answer). Once they share this super-secret, their mutual attraction blossoms into love, and there is nothing weird about that.

Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker, first published in 1914, two years after Stoker's death.

Hazel and Gary Price were a normal, balanced couple living in an utterly ordinary home in Killamarsh, a village in North Derbyshire. No pentagrams on the floor, no previous owners with a dark history, just an average house on an average street. Yet, for a time, their lives were turned upside down, as their home became a ground zero for the strange and unexplained.

Join Wallace Forbes as he encounters the enigmatic insomniac Alfred Kramer on a train journey like no other. Alfred, with his strange appearance and terrifying dreams, will take you on a mesmerizing ride through time and ancestors. Experience the suspense, excitement, and fear as Alfred unveils the secrets of his Kappa-ray device, allowing him to relive the experiences of his ancestors in his haunting dreams.

Self-Consumed contains the title story as well as Bagged, Tagged, & Buried. Both tales were featured in the out of print Journals of Horror anthology. They are both reprinted here for the first time and have been polished and edited. In Self-Consumed, a wealthy businessman who killed a young girl while drunk-driving discovers that guilt isn't the only thing that will eat someone alive.

There are approximately two million species of animals on earth, and each animal possesses characteristics and forms that make it unique and different. This book presents 270 random animal facts that will wow your mind and increase your knowledge of the magnificent animals that call earth home.

Tradotti per la prima volta in italiano, i racconti dell'antologia "Larisa Komarova trova l'amore" offrono l'occasione per leggere una delle migliori scrittrici russe di fantascienza e new weird. Ekaterina Sedia attinge a piene mani dalla cosiddetta "russkaya dusha" (l'anima russa) e, sebbene alcune storie contengano riferimenti alla storia e al folklore nazionale, è chiaro che i temi trattati trascendono i confini della Russia per affrontare questioni universali come lo spaesamento, la precarietà dell'esistenza, la perdita dell'identità e l'ambiguità del futuro.

An adventure ideally suited to Indiana Jones, ‘The Treasure of the Tombs’ sees three WW1 veterans return to a remote cave to recover hidden gold, but the tomb is cursed.

One of the author’s earliest pieces of short horror fiction, ‘On the Embankment’ introduces us to London’s homeless population as they fight for space on seats to sleep each night. However, no matter how busy it is or desperate the sleepers are, there’s always one seat that is mysteriously left empty....

A postman encounters a strange letterbox in this spooky story. He’s never seen the occupants of the house, the windows and doors are shuttered and any letters posted through the mysterious letterbox disappear into a void of black. It isn’t long before the postman and the local community must investigate.

Here you'll find stories with that little extra twist that sends those delicious shivers down your spine; you'll be both scared and turned on, afraid of all the things that go bump (and hump) in the night. Warning: This audiobook contains very explicit descriptions of sexual activity during paranormal sex encounters.

Judas Payne was the devil's spawn, a product of rape; a half-white, half-Indian outcast who was loved only by his pretty half-sister, Evangeline. When the Reverend Payne finds the two naked in the barn, he takes out one of Judas's eyes, and Judas chops off one of the Reverend's arms and then runs for his life. He meets up with a number of colorful characters out there in the weird wild west, from a white slave-trading ex-Confederate colonel to a gun-slinging assassin who quotes scripture as he slaughters his targets.

Cleve is a relic hunter scouring the wastelands for rusty gold in the year 2090. Most of civilization has been decimated and Cleve exists hand to mouth, trading with mutants at supply huts to feed himself. Cleve observes a calendar that few acknowledge. Soon, it will be his favorite day: December 25th. This day celebrates the birthday of our savior, Santa Christ. Cleve needs an Xmas miracle. And a gruesome one is heading his way!

!Es raro!: Andrés era un joven romántico que se sentía necesitado de amor. A medida que fue pasando el tiempo, trabajando con inteligencia fue haciéndose rico. Un día se encaprichó con un perrito que compró y cuidó como si fuera su propio hijo. Pero no acaba de llenarle. Un poco después al visitar la caballeriza de una plaza de toros quedó prendado por un caballo y consiguió también comprarlo. El caballo se hizo un gran amigo del perro, pero Andrés aunque se sentía feliz todavía notaba que le faltaba algo. En definitiva necesitaba el amor de una mujer.

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.

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.)