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In Queer Little Nightmares, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems—the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past—relish their new sparkle in the spotlight.

Sabina Murray has long been celebrated for her mastery of the gothic. Now in Muckross Abbey and Other Stories, she returns to the genre, bringing listeners to haunted sites from a West Australian convent school to the moors of England to the shores of Cape Cod in ten strange tales that are layered, meta, and unforgettable.

Hot on the heels of her 2018 This Is Horror Award–winning short story collection Spectral Evidence, critically horror author Gemma Files compiles fifteen more of her most startling recent nightmares—a creepily seductive downward spiral of dark poetry and existential dread, entirely suitable to the slow apocalypse going on all around us. So take your mind off your troubles and send it somewhere the rules still operate, if only to punish those who violate them.

From the creators of Castle Heights comes Sweet Little Chittering, a quaint looking village nestled in the English countryside. Picturesque, peaceful, and deadly.

Bullied at school. Abused at home. Davey McKidd has no other choice but to run. He runs until he has nowhere else to go. When a mysterious figure appears, offering him an escape, Davey follows. Pulled into world he could have only imagined, a place where he is accepted, a place he can call home.

If you like scary stories, you've come to the right place. Over 15 tales of terror told in a true story style that will give you the heebie-jeebies.

Majestic sun-temples. Mystic cenotes. Sacred ball-courts. Ritual sacrifice to blood-hungry gods. Mighty jaguars, feathered serpents, obsidian, jade, and gold.

The second collection of a witch's dozen of weird or horrific tales from Brian Lumley, author of the internationally best-selling Necroscope and Vampire World series.

Todd elevates genre short fiction beyond entertainment. Whether it's the titular story of a haunted mug driving the new office hire mad, or a worrisome look at the near future where the guilty simply hire someone to do their prison time, these stories will challenge as much as engage.

Prepare yourself as you enter the Fright Vault—four tales of chilling horror and suspense—tales of ghosts, murder, revenge, and the unknown in a nightmare of reality with "dead time" stories to keep you awake at night. Pleasant screams!

Fire nye letlæste gys af Kenneth Bøgh Andersen: Helt forkert nummer, Smil, Emil, Dukke-Lise og Slut. Man skal ikke flirte med hverken voodoo eller Djævelen, og hvem ved, hvad et kamera eller en bog kan rumme? Det overgår ens fantasi!

This handbook for the cheerful nihilist contains tales to chill, thrill, and amuse: A secret sex club that brings couples closer together in more ways than one, the disgruntled host of a dystopian game show determined to go out with a bang, and more....

A hot holiday toy that brings terror to a department store. A man caught in a blizzard as he searches for help for a dying friend. A girl who wakes up to surprise visitors on Día de los Muertos. A man who recounts a sick and twisted Thanksgiving. A boy who becomes intrigued by a mysterious house and the girl who resides there during fall break. A family man who struggles with a dilemma that may cost him his soul.

The Calling is a collection of short fictional stories that were either inspired by my personal life and the lives of people I know, or by my passion for anything true-crime, thriller, and horror related.

In their search for a surrogate, the Wilkenses thought they struck gold with Alina. All she wanted was a flight to the United States and a warm place to stay during the pregnancy. But some things are too good to be true....

A mother is willing to sacrifice it all to save her unborn child.... A pair of fishermen reel in a catch they'll soon regret.... A mysterious puzzle holds an ancient secret....

Ein wunderbares Schiff, der Lastensegler, auf dem der Erzähler von Batavia nach den Sunda-Inseln fährt. Wunderbares Wetter zudem... Bis auf einmal, aus dem Nichts, ein Sturm aufzieht, der die gesamte Takelage zerstört, und das Wrack immer weiter nach Süden treibt. Doch wäre das noch nicht furchtbar genug, nähert sich auf einmal ein riesiges Segelboot – auf direktem Kollisionskurs! Eine frühe Geschichte des Meisters des gepflegten Horrors.

Joyce has a taste for the forbidden. After years of reveling in the finer things life has to offer, she invites four dinner guests to partake in an exquisite feast. As her guests morph into victims, Joyce prepares for the next phase of her dinner. But her long-awaited plans crumble before her very eyes when she realizes her victims may be defective.

A man awakens in a strange room, in an unfamiliar bed. Is it a nightmare, or has reality changed? A controlling voice forces two young women to fight for survival. Terrible dreams of a flesh-eating creature compel a man to return to his childhood home for answers.

A grieving father attempts the unthinkable to keep his child alive. A contractor discovers a secret in the soil of a haunted house. A community faces a plague after a drought-stricken lake reveals a forgotten cemetery.