We Are Good People is an absurd, hilarious journey through privilege, morality and murder; a splat-ire for the new golden age. The Hopewells are Good People, living the Dream. Pillars of the community, even. Logan is the inventor of the wildly successful— and wildly invasive— social media app Bckyrds. Kennedy runs WagWear, a charity that makes tiny pants for terminally ill puppies. One morning they awaken to find themselves mysteriously, and permanently, bonded to their house via fleshy um...

The pink mold growing on the walls isn' t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles' brand new fixer upper. There' s also the inexplicable footsteps in the night; the sealed-over windows and doors; the neighbor that hears their screams but can' t be bothered to help. Soon, there' s no leaving at all. No hope of cleaning. And that encroaching mold? It' s practically become a second skin. Welcome to the House of Rot. You' re never getting out.

Here at Jersey Devil Press, there are three things we look for in a story: strangeness, beauty, and poop jokes. And while this collection is admittedly a little shy on scatological humor, the 18 works collected here are easily the strangest and most beautiful things we've ever published.The 2015 Jersey Devil Press Anthology contains the best work from our last five years, written by some of our favorite authors. We love them in a way we're not entirely comfortable with.And ...

ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP INTO THE EXISTENTIAL ABYSSWashington DC. 1906. The inaugural mission of the Moonfellow Program. A chance to shape the future of civilization as we know it. Our first tentative steps out into the stars...It was a complete and unequivocal disaster.Now a hapless gravedigger finds himself among the handful of survivors stranded on the lunar surface-forced to contend with madness, conspiracies, and whatever-the-fuck that thing is on...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A memoir from the author of The Middle Place about mothers and daughters—a bond that can be nourishing, exasperating, and occasionally divine.When Kelly Corrigan was in high school, her mother neatly summarized the family dynamic as “Your father’s the glitter but I’m the glue.” This meant nothing to Kelly, who left childhood sure that her mom—with her inviolable commandments and proud stoicism—would be nothing more than...

These poems topics range from hate crimes to playgrounds, from international conflict to hometowns, from falling in love to the desperation of loneliness. Gibsons work seizes us by the collar and hauls us inside some of her darkest moments, then releases us out the other side. 

Racing Hummingbirds examines critiques and at times delights in one woman's navigation through the many worlds of manic depression and her struggle to maintain humanity in the process. Jeanann Verlee's award-winning debut collection is a series of narratives prayers and conjurings which address gender sex race poverty heartbreak and survival with such stark intimacy you will find yourself living inside. These poems cannot possibly be about you yet they are. They cross boundaries and reclai...

A girl who eats dreams, a woman who chooses the apes, and a barbarian hero rendered as a collage. These are just a few of the people readers first met online thanks to the explosion of webzines. Ellen Datlow, editor of Omni Online>, Event Horizon, and SciFiction, led the charge into the brave new world of online science fiction. Digital Domains collects some of the best and most controversial of those stories—in print for the first time.

Blizz Richards and his band of wacky cryptids are back for another illustrated adventure!Everyone thinks the Loch Ness monster is one-of-a-kind. But that just means Nessie's lonely. And only yeti Blizz Richards and his team of cryptozoologists can help her find a friend just like her. With a little help from a time-traveling leprechaun, the gang travels back 65 million years to the age of dinosaurs to begin the search. But they aren't ready for the dangers that wait for them: monst...

This is a true story of a boy and his family celebrating Christmas in the early 1940's. Through the years the story was told to his children and grand children and they have encouraged him to have the story published so others might enjoy this heartwarming account of his most special Christmas. This Story takes you back to your own childhood when Christmas's were more than gifts. This is a story to read to your own children while you tell them about your personal special Christmas memories...

In TOO LATE, 15-year-old Greg is in a teen sex offenders’ facility because of an assault on his stepsister. He hates the professionals who try to help him and can’t wait to go home. When he enters a room for a meeting, his mother is there crying. Her partner, whom Greg calls Step Dude, sits at her side. They have come to tell Greg they don’t want him back. It’s too late to be good, they say. Greg comes to the crippling realization of what he has become: the father he has both hated and fea...

“Poetry,” writes best-selling author Ellen Bass, “is the way I pay attention, appreciate, give praise, struggle, grieve, rage, and pray. It’s the way I embody my love for the world.”The Human Line, Bass’ seventh book of poems, startles with its precise detail, intimate images, and wild metaphors. Bass brings attention to life’s endearing absurdities, and many of the poems flash with a keen sense of humor. She also faces many of the crucial moral dilemmas of our time—geneti...