Enjoy this anthology of Neo-Gothic fiction inspired by the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe.  Winner of the Paris Book Festival Award – Best anthology of the yearNominated for a Bram Stoker Award – Superior Achievement in an Anthology"Make sure your belt is done up good and tight when you read nEvermore!. It's very embarrassing to have your...

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 ...

Vampires have Evolved and They are Here!Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff and twenty-two other Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers re-imagine the future of vampires in this new collection of all-original short fiction. One of the most unusual and original vampire anthologies ever compiled.EVOLVE includes works by:Kelley Armstrong, Tanya Huff, Claude Lalumière. Mary E. Choo, Sandra Kasturi, Bradley Somer, Kevin Cockle, Rebecca Bradley...

This anthology is the most unusual and original collection of stories you’ll ever read! It is a literary version of Danse Macabre "Plague art". Twenty-six literary reflections that embody those themed, classical artworks devoted to the spectrum of humanity’s intriguing interactions with the Angel of Death.--"People die from old age, illness, accident, violence, despair. They can die before they are born. The happy and the sad, the sane and insane, the rich and the poor, the l...

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet....

Meet the eternal predator that humanity never ceases to find both fascinating and terrifying. Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead moves this creature beyond 2012, through this century and into the next. We humans will evolve, but so will they! Whatever apocalyptic events that lie ahead for our species, for the planet, Vampires will be there too, helping or hindering, effecting or infecting us. Time is on their side, but it may not be on ours. They are vampires, and more powerf...

Experience the shadowy side of Canadian speculative fiction...Tesseracts Thirteen: Chilling Tales From the Great White North uses the mysterious and bewitching volume number thirteen as the editors’ “raison d’être” to select the innovative, thought provoking and disturbing fiction found in this anthology.Unique to this twenty-plus year Canadian literary legacy, Tesseracts Thirteen features 23 Science Fiction, fantasy and horror writers chosen by award-winning editors Nancy ...

Vampires: Darkest DesiresFive captivating vampire novellas taking mortal and immortal relationships to their most passionate endgame.Wild Hunt - Lorelie is a partially-blind psychic. She reads a vampire's unpredictable future. Together they travel to his outcome, but also to her fate.Dark Seduction - A modern woman and a cynical vampire meet. Who is the victim and who is not?Lover of...

Award-winning author Nancy Kilpatrick's first collection of her vampire stories is an eclectic mix that presents the undead in all its various manifestations. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro says "Nancy Kilpatrick creates mosaics," and this compilation reflects that scope in stories exposing the dark side of the desire for passion, longevity, power, creativity and control. Contents include:Introduction: Nancy Kilpatrick, an appreciation, by Chelsea Quinn YarbroForeword: A few thoughts ...

The six volumes in the Black Wings series, from which these "Best of" tales are selected, stand as a monument to H. P. Lovecraft's incalculable and unassailable influence on contemporary weird fiction, and so the time seemed right for a retrospective volume that exhibits the choicest items from the series. The task of selection was not a simple or straightforward one, for every tale in the series had some claim to be chosen; let it then be said that this volume does not contain necessarily...

Thirteen Plus-1 Lovecraftian NarrativesStories honoring the intriguingly dark and imaginative world of H.P. Lovecraft. Elder Gods and hideous creatures change the lives of human beings forever. These cautionary tales remind us to: Be careful! Pay attention! Remember: you never know what lurks just beneath the surface!Nancy Kilpatrick is an award-winning author and editor. She has published 23 novels, 3 novellas, over 250 short stories, 7 co...

Vampires: Darker DesiresWild Hunt & Vampyre Theatre, 2 modern vampire novellas in one book!Wild Hunt - Lorelei, a legally-blind psychic, reads Tarot and the Crystal at a music festival. One of her customers is a vampire! He is on a wild and dangerous hunt. Whether or not she likes it, Lorelei is dragged into his world and what's at stake could not be more dangerous, for both of them."I enjoyed every drop. "Wild Hunt...