In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next sh...

Before the light of dawn, you will know the fury of the deadOriginally published in 1980 and long sought after by fans, Dennis Etchison's novelization of John Carpenter's The Fog is widely regarded as one of the finest novelizations ever published. Reveling in the eerie, coastal horror, Etchison transforms the classic film into a haunting work of horror literature.A writhing icy mist pulsing with terror. It is too late to escape. Even now the people of Antonio Bay are cut o...

"The Walk," by Dennis Etchison, is a neat little horror story about the dog eat dog world of Hollywood in which a director and writer have very different ideas of how their collaboration should proceed.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from Lane Robins ("The Black Window") and Mari Ness ("Death and Death Again"), along with reprints by Denis Etchison ("Talking in the Dark") and Tom Piccirilli ("The Misfit Child Grows Fat on Despair"). We also have the latest installment of our col...

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from Rose Hartley ("No Other Men in Mitchell") and Dennis Etchison ("Princess"), along with reprints by Seanan McGuire ("Inspirations") and Adam L. G. Nevill ("Where Angels Come In"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The...

Etchison’s fiction is justly famous for its creepy ambience, and explores the terrain mapped out by Philip K. Dick, Thomas Harris, and any number of black and white horror movies. This is his legendary first collection, carefully corrected by the author for this new edition. The title story won both the World Fantasy Award and the British Fantasy Award in 1982, the first time a single work received both major awards. Contents include sixteen groundbreaking stories and an introduction by Ra...

Before the light of dawn, you will know the fury of the dead.Originally published in 1980 and long sought after by fans, Dennis Etchison’s novelization of John Carpenter’s The Fog is widely regarded as one of the finest novelizations ever published. Reveling in the eerie, coastal horror, Etchison transforms the classic film into a haunting work of horror literature.A writhing icy mist pulsing with terror. It is too late to escape. Even now the peop...

It starts in a laboratory. A man-made strain of flesh-eating virus. Created by a power-hungry cartel. Capable of turning victims into brain-dead carnivores. Smuggled aboard a cruise ship that's about to set sail . . .One by one, the passengers are exposed. A U.S. senator. A young couple. An undercover agent. A beautiful assassin. Some will be infected. Others will survive. But no one will be spared if the outbreak isn't contained and the dead outnumber the living.Enter Delt...

25 to 1. Those are the odds of being struck down—and resurrected—by the savage plague that's sweeping the country, forcing survivors to band together against the dead.Even among the living, there is dissension. A new leader known as the Red Man has risen up and taken charge—and he's nearly as dangerous as the hungry dead. Some, like Ben Richardson and his friends, strike out on their own. Because if the men with guns don't get them, the zombies will.Fleeing the cities, Rich...

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of ac...

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely and desperate to change his life. So when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year. Gruhuken.But the Arctic summer is brief. As nig...

“Hell House is the scariest haunted house novel ever written. It looms over the rest the way the mountains loom over the foothills.” — Stephen KingFrom the author of I Am Legend comes Hell House, the basis for the supernatural horror film starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill.For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of u...