When down-on-his-luck musician Darby Louvin is accidentally caught up in the slipstream of goth-loving, parallel-universe-shifting outlaw Harold Dalener, he's transported to an empty Los Angeles where a 1918 superflu has wiped out most of humanity: the home of the "Ultragoths." As an unknown entity begins to pick off the Ultragoths one by one, Harold and Darby must chase the killer across the dead continent to New Orleans, where the real gothic showdown begins. Fans of alternate history, z...

The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether it be a life after death, a life without love, a life filled with hunger, or the life shared by a ghost. These are stories of the weird, the mythic, the fantastic, the futuristic, the supe...