NEVERTHELESS WE PERSISTED is the ebook companion to a special audio-first anthology of poems, essays, and stories that explores themes of loss, love, and finding your own power. It's an astonishing collection filled with heart, tears, laughter, and ultimately hope. Pieces include:  A woman's journey fleeing Iraq with her children and how it made her stronger.  A man recovering from his experience in Vietnam and learning empathy. ...

A desperate race to revive an alien buried on an icy moon. A fringe cult tuned into signals from the stars. And two extraordinary women willing to risk everything to forge humanity’s destiny.The second and final entry in the electrifying series from multimillion-copy international bestselling authors Douglas E. Richards and Joshua T. Calvert.Four years after the world-changing events of Frequency, the fragile hope born on Europa has fractured under cults, c...

It’s time to come home…The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Their wine wins awards. Their business prospers. Their family thrives. People whisper that the curse has awakened once more.The sprawling old house has long been perched on top of a hill overlooking the nearby town, jealously guarding the estate's secrets.It's been more than a decade since Margot Hull last saw her childhood home. She was young enough when she w...

Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan’s World Fantasy Award–nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison.Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, i...

We were destined for disaster from the second we met.... Massimo D'Agostino is the heir to his father's empire.Don't be fooled by his handsome face or that piercing blue gaze. He's no prince charming. He's dangerous and feared, possessive and fierce. Our first meeting began with a contract that forced me to marry him and sign my life away. I was a debt repayment and a pawn in his game to exact revenge against my father. The only way out is death. I belong to him no...

Caitlin R. Kiernan has been described as one of “the most original and audacious weird writers of her generation” (Jeff and Ann VanderMeer, The Weird), “one of our essential writers of dark fiction” (New York Times), and S. T. Joshi has proclaimed, “hers is now the voice of weird fiction.”In The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories—Kiernan’s twelfth collection of short fiction since 2001—she displays the impressive range that characterizes her wo...

From the mind of the man Stephen King calls “a master of the macabre,” comes a brilliant new collection of no-punches-pulled horror stories, some never before collected and many originals that have never been published anywhere before. Bentley Little can take the innocuous, twist it around, and write a story that will change your way of thinking. Walking Alone: Short Stories is a shining example of his talent to scare you, creep you out, and make you shudder.

Rose Berman is losing her mind. At least, that’s what everyone at school seems to think. Plagued by panic attacks that started after her mother’s death, Rose is the target of frequent teasing and rumors. But when the star quarterback takes it too far, the school’s tattooed, cigarette-smoking time bomb―Elliott King―steps in and punches him in the face.Rose’s therapist recommends she try out a sport to manage her anxiety. She can’t help but think of Elliott―maybe if she could punch l...

To Charles Fort, With Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlín R. Kiernan’s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe. To quote the object of Kiernan’s affection, meta-poet and arch-enemy of dogma Charles Hoy Fort, “The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention, a...

There’s a story behind every farewell. In Three Viewings, award-winning playwright Jeffrey Hatcher explores love, money, and loss in a trio of mordantly witty narratives.In a small-town funeral parlor, three stories portray the extent to which we all hold on to memories, money, life, and love.“Tell-Tale” is Emil, a mild-mannered undertaker burning with unspoken passion for a local realtor who frequents his funerals. Emil plots to confess his true feelings before time (and b...

Three female victims, one alarming similarity, zero time to waste.Sandie will do anything for her brother. When he is suspected of murdering not one but three young women, she is forced to show just how far she'll go to prove his innocence.As Sandie uncovers the clues, she discovers the investigating detective may have an ulterior motive for placing the blame on Will.Desperate to find the actual killer, Sandie enlists the help of her trusty...

A pending divorce. A struggling bakery. A winning plan. Two dead bodies?Sandie's sister needs help. If she can't come up with a hefty chunk of change to save her struggling bakery, her wish for a fair settlement with her soon-to-be ex-husband will be dashed.When Sandie devises the perfect plan—a competition to save the bakery, all the pieces come together fairly quickly. Sandie believes she's done something that can help Kathy keep her business and...