Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long haunt of childhood, marriage and divorce — these lie at the heart of The Ambassador of What

18 Spine Tingling Tales Best Served Chilled...Edited by the maestro of macabre, Michael Kelly, CHILLING TALES: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live will distress you, delight you, and disturb you with stories that slowly creep under your skin and linger in your mind long after the pages have been read.This tome includes selections by iconic Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Brett Alexander Savory, Rob...

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2025, volume two of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year is your guide to the state of contemporary weird fiction.PRAISE FOR THE BEST WEIRD FICTION OF THE YEAR"Momentous...an indispensable guide to the state of the weird in the twenty-first century." -Zachary Gillan, Strange Horizons"When an anthology contains "Best" in its title, you expect a certain level of quality, and The Best Weird Fiction of the Year, Vol. 1 a...

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor, The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vols. 1 - 5 (2014 - 2018).Fiction from Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, J...

"A Light Rising in the East" is an under- told missionary story sure to inspire faith and even surprise you!Rev Paul HudsonSenior Pastor, Community Presbyterians Church Vacaville, CA, Former Missionary to Asia"I believe you're going to love this book-and once you've read it, you'll be asking Dr. Hilderbrand to write more often!"Pastor Mike KaiLead Pastor, Inspire Church Foun...

21 New Spine Tingling Tales...Canada’s maestro of the macabre, Michael Kelly, brings you CHILLING TALES: In Words, Alas, Drown I, an all new collection of nightmares that will perturb and torment you. Tales that will leave a frisson of fear and raise a quiver of gooseflesh. A chill is in the air.This tome includes selections by iconic Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers Camille Alexa, Colleen Anderson, Kevin Cockle, Gemma Files, Lisa L Hannett, Derek K...

"A Gentleman of Limerick" offers a meticulously researched glimpse into 18th century Ireland through the life of Francis Arthur. As a wealthy Catholic merchant, Arthur used his privileged position to champion the cause of Catholic rights, making him a target for powerful members of the ascendency class. The book details his trial on concocted treason charges, his guilty verdict, and subsequent banishment from Ireland.Kelly's work paints a vivid picture of life for Catholics in Irel...

Something stirs in the boundless dark of the Canadian north. Listen. Can you hear it?Northern Nights is an anthology of strange stories, featuring the dark dreams and feverish imaginations of Canada's finest speculative authors. Steel yourself for a journey through these northern nights.Featuring all new original stories from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Camilla Grudova, Premee Mohamed, David Demchuk, Senaa Ahmad, A.C. Wise, Naben Ruthnum, Simon Strantzas, Richard Gavin, Rich Lars...

Month by month, learn how to grow fresh, nutritious fruit and vegetables that save you money, taste delicious and help you become more self-sufficient. With down-to-earth, informative accounts from Michael Kelly's own growing year and beautiful hand-painted illustrations by Sarah Kilcoyne, this book is packed with hard-earned wisdom and inspiration that will help you to coax delicious food from even the most unpromising soil. Whether you are a complete beginner or a more experienced grower...

Distilled through the occluded lens of weird fiction, Michael Kelly's third collection of strange tales is a timely and cogent examination of grief, love, identity, abandonment, homelessness, and illness. All cut through with a curious, quiet menace and uncanny melancholy.Advance Praise for All the Things We Never See"The stories in Michael Kelly's All the Things We Never See balance on the delicate knife edge of the weird, taking place at the moment of incision, just befor...

Shadows & Tall Trees, Vol. 8"Shadows & Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series."-Peter Straub"Shadows & Tall Trees epitomizes the idea of and is the most consistent venue for weird, usually dark fiction. We...