This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights v...

Water has always intrigued humanity. We walk along the shores and banks of oceans and waterways, take boats across the surface, or swim in the waters.But water hides secrets - including those of the creatures that live in its depths...- What if mermaids really do exist, and they lure men to their deaths?- Why might bodies suddenly start washing up on shores all around the world?- What if you discovered a lost girl is the daughter of a water spirit?This...

"Readers will find this a rewarding exploration of the emotions felt both by those confronting their own deaths and those left behind to mourn." - Publishers WeeklyWhen four patients unexpectedly wake after being declared dead, their families are ecstatic and the word “miracle” begins to be whispered throughout the hospital. But the jubilation is short lived when the patients don’t respond to their names and insist they are different people. It is suggeste...

Love pulp fiction?Amazing Monster Tales is here to provide it!11 tales of monsters, mayhem, strange and inexplicable events, uncanny technologies, wildly improbable events, and more. Some monsters you’ve seen before…And some of them you haven’t!Some monsters are the good guys…And some of them are very, very bad indeed!Featuring stories by:Dean Wesley Smith • Ron Collins • P. D. Cacek • Ma...

The sequel to Second Lives, praised by Publishers Weekly as "a rewarding exploration of the emotions felt both by those confronting their own deaths and those left behind to mourn."It has been four years since the first Travelers came back, and in that time their numbers have grown. There is still no explanation for their existence, but for the most part they have been accepted into society and given special protection under the law. There are those, however, who s...

Some hauntings rise with the tide.From storm-lashed coasts to quiet springs, these fifteen stories drift through the spaces where water remembers. Beneath the surface: shipwrecks, spectral whispers, ancestral bargains, and the past still waiting in the pipes.What returns isn’t always flesh or phantom, but the echo of something left unresolved—love, vengeance, memory, regret. Water keeps the shape of what passed through it, holding stories long after the world forgets. Somet...

The veil is thinner than you think.In these fifteen tales, the dead whisper through static and drift through long-abandoned halls. Haunted homes remember. Libraries echo with footsteps no one else hears. And not all who vanish are truly gone.A ghost haunts the farmhouse where she died. A lost traveler stumbles through a fog that refuses to lift. A grieving detective must learn to trust his spectral partner.Hauntings gathers stories of prese...

Poor Allison. One minute she's crying into her tequila in a country-western bar, and the next she's a vampire. She'd fallen for a lot of lines in her time, but she's never had a morning after like this one, waking up alone in a seedy L.A. motel room, dumped again--and suddenly one of the undead.Seth had promised her that things would be different. Then he sucked her dry and left her without so much as a training manual. Now it's up to her to figure out how to survive without a clue...

A child-sized doll is the object of his mother's obsession. He's beginning to wonder why..."Decidedly creepy, insidious and unsettling, but even more important, it's such a mature, perceptive and compassionate novel."Thomas Tessier, author of Fog Heart and Bram Stoker Award finalistThe son of a world-renowned photographer, Morgan Riley is familiar with his mother’s creative eccentricities. Having been the subject of one of her photographic series, ...

Picture this: you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article every published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up everyone on the bus. He takes a dislike to you and is about to slice you open when a large, gorgeously hairy man attacks him and saves your life. Only your rescuer is not a man, but a giant wolf who leaves a bloody pawprint on your newspaper, all over your precious byline . . .If you're...

Come sail away, come sail away……on a quest to find sea monsters!Ten tales about mysterious watery creatures, gods of the sea, aquatic aliens, and a couple of mermaids you do not want to meet. Under the water, in a boat, or just hanging out on the shore, these monsters are playing with all tentacles.Grab your scuba gear, start the motor, or sling on your jetpack. Whether you’re flying far above the water (and hopefully aren’t low on fuel!), catching a...

Listen to the leaves rustling. Hear the wind building. These could the first signs that Gideon Berlander has found you. They could be the last sounds you hear. Gideon hasn't been the same since that terrifying night in the cave, the night he changed forever—the night he became a wind caller. But the power to call upon and control the unimaginable force of the wind it all its fury has warped him, twisted his mind, and unleashed a virtually unstoppable monster. Those who oppose Gideon are de...