Sliced Up Press is delighted to present its debut anthology, featuring sixteen sweetly sinister stories.Grab your fork and dig in to tales of tiered cakes and teary eyes, plump currants and sinister undercurrents, all-consuming hunger and bizarre gluttony. There's something for all tastes here, though you might think twice before ordering dessert...With all-new fiction from:Tiffany Michelle BrownV CastroBelinda FergusonDougla...

**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweepin...

One of the greatest films ever to be made in Scotland, The Wicker Man immediately garnered a cult following on its release for its intense atmosphere and shocking denouement. This book explores the roots of this powerful, enduring film. With contributors including The Wicker Man director Robin Hardy, it is a thorough and informative read for all fans of this indispensable horror masterpiece.

A spine-tingling new collection of stories from the acclaimed author of Thrill Me and The Dark NetBenjamin Percy is a versatile and propulsive storyteller whose genre-busting novels and story collections have ranged from literary to thriller to postapocalyptic. In his essay collection, Thrill Me, he laid bare for readers how and why he channels disparate influences in his work. Now, in his first story collection since the acclaimed Re...

They are ten strangers with one thing in common:A mysterious tattoo on the bottom of their feet.None of them know how it got there or what it means.One of them is a homicide cop who’s determined to find out.All of them are marked for death—because they’re next on . . .THE LISTThe explosive thriller from bestselling author J.A. Konrath, The List takes you deep inside a top-secret techno-conspiracy that’s too sho...

The twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. He was a master of twentieth-century imaginative fiction who mapped the anxious perplexities of his time; Isaac Bashevis Singer called him "one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived." Schulz was also a talented illustrator and graphic artist whose masochistic drawings would catch the eye of a sadistic Nazi officer. Schulz's art became the currency in which he bought life.Drawing...

""An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death."" —Kirkus ReviewsWhen veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. As a journalist for Fox News, Hall had worked in dangerous war zones like Syria and Afghanistan, but with three young daughters at home, life on the edge was supposed to be a thing of the past. Yet w...

In May, 2001, Chris Benjamin hitchhiked across Canada and volunteered on organic farms in British Columbia. He was in search of a good home, love and community, and perhaps a source of income to pay off his student loans.In Northern Ontario, Benjamin writes, “Big Al was my first encounter with what turned out to be a hitchhiking trope, the kind and generous – to his own kind at least – racist.” The trope got worse after September 11, which happened as Benjamin was leaving Prince Ru...

Presenting twelve breakthrough practices for bringing creativity into all human endeavors, The Art of Possibility is the dynamic product of an extraordinary partnership. The Art of Possibility combines Benjamin Zander's experience as conductor of the Boston Philharmonic and his talent as a teacher and communicator with psychotherapist Rosamund Stone Zander's genius for designing innovative paradigms for personal and professional fulfillment.The authors' harmonious...

**"[Narrator Steven Crossley's] British accent gives his narration an academic-sounding quality fitting for the text. He is clear and precise in pronunciation and enunciation and is suitably expressive throughout." — AudioFile MagazineThe Death of Democracy is a riveting audiobook account of how the Nazi Party came to power, and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.**Why did democracy f...

Desperate times…The Hama came out of nowhere. In a single surprise attack, they destroyed the Alliance flagship, took its command crew hostage and rent the very fabric of the federation.For the first time in its history, the Alliance finds itself on the defense. The citizens are frightened. The council is cautious. And some men are desperate.Desperate enough to disobey the security council and mount a secret rescue operation.Desperate enough...

RenI’ve played by the rules my whole life*, only to get fired at the peak of my career and find out* my boyfriend is married.Well, if this is what being good gets me . . .RomanI haven’t always done everything right, but I became irrevocably ruined when the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen told me she wanted...