Harlan Thorne is a professional Hunter.When a solicitor approaches him on behalf of a client facing an unspecified vampire problem, he cannot turn away. But from the moment he steps into the imposing Thornhill Mansion, perched above the hallowed grounds of Highgate Cemetery West, reality itself begins to warp.Harlan soon finds himself swept up in a cyclone of long-held secrets, ancient vendettas, ghostly whispers, and a looming resurrection that demands blo...

This award-winning horror anthology is the "yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured"—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates, and others ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as "the genre's sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions"—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied...

The Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (English: Moral Epistles to Lucilius) is a collection of 124 letters which were written by Seneca the Younger at the end of his life. They are addressed to Lucilius, the then procurator of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. In these letters, Seneca gives Lucilius tips on how to become a more devoted Stoic. Lucilius was, at that time, the Governor of Sicily, although he is known only through Seneca's writings. Selected from the Epi...

Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction—from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others.Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives—but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous stalk their prey.

At 391 years old, Gabriel Graves is no ordinary undertaker. His funeral enterprise, Deep Graves, is a revered institution, but underneath his success lies a tormenting regret.Haunted by the tragic loss of his sister Elizabeth to the Black Death in 1665, Gabriel embarks on a perilous journey through time to rescue her from death's embrace. But time travel is a dangerous gamble, fraught with unpredictable consequences.Landing in the plague-ridden London of th...

Country living is easier today than it was 100 years agoThough that’s not to say it wasn’t fun.Step back in time with this hilarious collection of short stories as recounted by Lucius McCray. Starting in the 1890s, Lucius uses his witty humor to bring to life the tales of his family from before his time all the way through the present day and age.In his down-home, southern voice, Lucius recounts the story of his family and ...

Helena, a Thracian noblewoman, has been stolen from her home and sold as a slave. She is determined to hate her new master and escape at the first opportunity. She certainly doesn’t expect to be physically attracted to the young Roman who possesses her or to connect with him on a deeper level.Tribune Lucius Calpurnius is taken aback when he’s presented with a beautiful woman as a gift from a friend, yet he can hardly release her into a camp full of soldiers. He intends to use her a...

Y’all ain’t never gonna believe what’s inside my book. Sit yourself down, and open up a copy while I show you the joys of Carolina livin’.Inside you’ll find a tale about my tom cat who is so mean he fears neither man nor machine. It’s just a darn shame he wasn’t as big on common sense as he was his attitude. Then ride along with me while I get neutered. Well, my wife Darla called it a vasectomy, but I’ve seen our dogs treated with more respect. After you ain’t doubled over no more,...

Harlan Thornhill still yearns for what he did before joining the ranks of the undead: to dominate as a vampire hunter, reconcile with his girlfriend, and unravel the mystery of his parents' murder twenty years ago, the night his fate was irrevocably altered.But achieving these goals is far from simple. Bloodlust claws at him, suspicion shadows him after his rival's disappearance, an ancestral spirit seeks to possess him, and a man with vital answers is savagely kil...

Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatists and sometime humorist. He was born in southern Spain over 2,000 years ago and educated in Rome. As the story goes, his life took a sharp turn in 41 A.D. once Claudius became the emperor as he exiled Seneca to the island of Corsica on the premises of supposed adultery with Julia Livilla, the emperor’s niece and Caligula’s sister. Eight years later, Agrippina, mother of future emperor Nero and wife of Claudius secured...

The Metamorphoses of Lucius Apuleius, which St. Augustine referred to as The Golden Ass (Asinus aureus), is the only Latin novel to survive in its entirety.The protagonist of the novel may in fact be the author himself. His first name is revealed to be Lucius; at the end of the novel, he is revealed to be from Madaurus, the hometown of Apuleius himself. The identification of the protagonist as Lucius of Madaurus has led some scholars to posit that the narrator and the author are one and th...

Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.In this month's issue, we have original fiction from Matt Williamson ("On Murder Island") and Tamsyn Muir ("Chew"), along with reprints by Lucius Shepard ("The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast") and Lisa Tuttle ("Need"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "T...