Life is Change.Children become adults. Summer becomes Winter. The old pass from life to death. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.But to some, life is purgatory. A place of temporary suffering between this world and the next.In these eleven stories, every painful, frightening transition is driven by a single element.That element is Purgatorium.

Love is in the air. And the stone. And the Wi-Fi. And in the blood.Passions ignite in this anthology, as sixteen genre authors come together to deliver stories of unique, if unconventional romance.Even immortals can succumb to unhealthy infatuation, as seen in ‘Cursed.’In ‘Escape’, we see that falling back into love can be easier, and harder, than we think.Love can take root in the darkest places, in ‘How’s the food here?’Can an unhappy fairy-tale en...

Joe Hill’s award-winning story collection, featuring “The Black Phone,” soon to be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse ProductionsImogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .Francis was human once, but now he’s an eight-foot-tall locust, and everyone in Calliphora will tremble when they hear him sing. . . .John is locked in a basement stained with the blood of half a...

Myron Vale sees ghosts. One hundred billion of them, to be precise.In a world where everybody dies but nobody leaves, Myron Vale is the rare individual who completely straddles both sides of the great divide. In fact, he may just be the only one. His strange ability the result of a gunshot to the head while serving as a Portland police officer, a few years later he recovers to forge a new life as private investigator catering to both the living and the dead.His biggest prob...

Half Moon Bay: Book TwoAngel Daniels grew up hard, one step ahead of the law and always looking over his shoulder. A grifter's son, he'd learned every con and trick in the book but ached for a normal life. Once out on his own, Angel returns to Half Moon Bay where he once found… and then lost… love.Now, Angel's life is a frantic mess of schedules and chaos. Between running his bakery and raising his troubled eleven-year-old half brother, Roman, Ange...

Abracadabra…My name is Margaux Asher—and I’m in love.Crazy, right? Me, the girl who grew up in the lap of luxury and the shadow of cynicism, is now head-over-heels for an apple farmer’s son. He rocks my world and steals my breath, and he loves me for me. Trouble is…he wants all of me. How can I commit that to him if I don’t know who ‘me’ is? There are pieces missing—and not just mine. Unless Michael opens up and shares all of himself, our great beginning won’t ever become a...

This sophisticated, scary anthology collects the best horror fiction published between 1984 and 2005, one of horror’s most innovative eras. These exceptionally diverse stories, hand-picked by horror-expert editor Ellen Datlow, are tales of the subtly psychological, the unpredictably mischievous, and the disturbingly visceral.Here are classics, such as horror master Stephen King’s “Chattery Teeth,” the tautly drawn account of a traveling salesman who unwisely picks up yet another hi...

Someone is stalking a widow, but she has no idea who or why in this suspense romance from New York Times bestselling author Shirlee McCoy, part of Mission: Rescue series.After losing her family, and then nearly her life when she was held hostage in Africa, grieving widow Raina Lowery only wants to put the past behind her. Instead, she’s finding her son’s toys in the woods and dodg...

A doctor makes a late-night emergency call to an exclusive California riding school; a professor inherits a mysterious vase... and a strange little man; a struggling youth discovers canine horrors lurking beneath the streets of Albany; a sheriff ruthlessly deals with monstrosities plaguing his rural town; a pair of animal researchers makes a frightening discovery at a remote site; a sweet little girl entertains herself... by torturing faeries; a group of horror aficionados attempts to trac...

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while invent...

A Contemporary Alpha Werewolf Shifter Paranormal Mystery Suspense Sexy RomanceA grimy world surrounds Leila Ulric. Gangs roam the streets, her dead-end job has no end, and her apartment isn’t much larger than a walk-in closet. Her life looks to be turning around when a death leads her to a new apartment with a new roommate. The improvement in possessions, however, doesn’t lead to the satisfaction she hoped. A walk in the fresh night air leads her to stumble on a mystery that refuse...

”There was nowhere in the world that I would rather be than pressed meaningfully against his broad chest, feeling the heat that emanated from him and the beat of his heart mingling with my own.  I slipped my hands beneath his arms and let my fingertips dance across his back.  Here and there I felt a scar or an imperfection along his skin.  Every bump and every line was a story - an illustration of the life he lived and the lengths he was willing to go to in order to fight fo...