What if the gruesome killings plaguing the quiet town of Hollow Hills were not the handiwork of a human, but something far more sinister and malevolent?When Barker Davis stumbles into Hollow Hills one fateful day, drenched in blood from head to toe, the tight-knit community hastily points fingers at the reclusive toymaker dwelling deep within the ominous woods nearby. However, the arrest of the toymaker uncovers a tangle of questions rather than any concrete answer...

Desire: Tales of New Orleans, a debut collection of short fiction by William Sterling Walker, delves into the gay demimonde in New Orleans before the flood. Circles of friends and acquaintances—lawyers and supermarket clerks, drifters, painters and musicians, cabaret singers and writers—alternately dominate the landscape and fade into the background. However they identify themselves, they speak a common language—funny, sexy, pithy, sometimes bitchy, always on-target.But perhaps the...

Bigger. Louder. Angrier.It's time for the encore. 19 horror authors, from Stoker winners to debut voices. 19 stories, inspired by songs all up and down the punk and punk adjacent spectrum. PUNK goes HORROR is a mixtape anthology. Get ready for hymns of rebellion and stories of musical mayhem which connect body horrors to bass drums, rhythm guitars to psychological terrors, and microphones to human monsters.Contributing Authors:Abby Vail

Prepare for a lethal dose of terror…A young boy’s art takes a sinister turn when the monstrous creature from his drawings reaches into the real world. The clues to a fiendishly clever crossword puzzle predict a series of tragedies for a witch’s nosy neighbors. And a creepy old doll brings pain and misfortune to a woman struggling to cope with her mother’s illness…As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatura...

For Noelle, summer is gearing up to be the worst kind of hell.With her friends miles away, her grifting, angry parents, and, worst of all, having to watch her WILDLY obnoxious brother, Noelle would kill for something exciting to happen.But as it turns out, it's not Noelle who will be doing the killing.Because her parents' latest get-rich-quick scheme is about to go very, very wrong.Break out the beans. Things are about to get messy in the Jackson household.

In this modern interpretation of Meditations, the timeless wisdom of Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius is brought to life with clarity, depth, and spiritual relevance. Each book is unpacked with thoughtful reflection, revealing practical truths about self-mastery, resilience, mortality, and living in harmony with nature. Designed for the seeker, the leader, and the everyday soul, this book offers a grounded path to inner peace in a chaotic world. Let Marcus be your guide ...

Prepare for a lethal dose of terror…A young boy’s art takes a sinister turn when the monstrous creature from his drawings reaches into the real world. The clues to a fiendishly clever crossword puzzle predict a series of tragedies for a witch’s nosy neighbors. And a creepy old doll brings pain and misfortune to a woman struggling to cope with her mother’s illness…As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is the...

“Dottie Frank’s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.”—Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of BroadThe incomparable Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry Novel, Folly Beach. As she has with Lowcountry Summer, Return to Sullivans Island, Land of Mango Sunsets, and so many other delightful literal excursions to ...

**#1 New York Times bestseller!In this unforgettable collection of essays, acclaimed humorist David Sedaris lifts the corner of ordinary life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.**Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all so...

A special Christmas short story in “one of the funniest cozy series going” (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine).The Christmas rush is on as Brandy Borne and her quaintly quirky mother, Vivian, sniff out plum collectibles for resale, only to find the owner of a Santa's workshop worth of treasures has received some deadly tidings. It's beginning to look a lot like murder. . .but who wanted the deceased closed for the holidays—permanently? Maybe a rival antiques d...

**Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe–winning role!One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s most beloved books—an “acerbically funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “intelligent…portrait of deception” (The New York Times).**The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about ...

Rue McClanahan, best known for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux on the Emmy-award winning series The Golden Girls reveals her life in and out of the spotlight in a laugh-out-loud funny memoir about love, marriage, men, and getting older that is every bit as colorful as the characters she played.Raised in small-town Oklahoma in a house “thirteen telephone poles past the standpipe north of town,” Rue developed her two great passions—theater and men—at an e...