A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021‘Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny … like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy’DAVID LIPSKY‘After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day’s work in your life … This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale … Undeniably powerful’SUNDAY TIMES

"[A] riveting, and original, achievement."—WIREDFrom award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority, manipulation, and the disappearance of privacy that “calls to mind The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood [and] Blindness by José Saramago” (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).Ten long years have passed since war first broke out, and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of t...

This issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories and one intimate poem - from four of todays top speculative fiction writers.S. Elliot Brandis opens with a visit to airport security (what could be more chilling).Award winning Poet Samuel Peralta contributes the inner thoughts of one so special.Michael Patrick Hicks tells the tale of a dinner transcendent of earthly delights.And Daniel Arthu...

Red beans and rice, trad jazz, and second lines are the Big Easy's calling cards, but beyond where the carriage rides take you is a city brimming with genre-defying music, transnational cuisine, and pockets of wild, artistic locals that challenge preconceived notions of what it means to be New Orleans.With a respectful nod to the traditional and a full embrace of the obscure, New Orleans: The Underground Guide is a resource for discovering the city as it really is -- as much brass b...

NO GRID: The Ultimate Survival Bible is the only guide you’ll ever need to thrive in a world without electricity. Packed with over 80 ingenious off-grid living projects, this book shows you how to protect your family and become truly self-sufficient in any crisis.Covering everything from emergency preparedness and home defence to sustainable living and alternative energy, this comprehensive manual is your key to independence — right on your own property.Aut...

Good evening,You hold in your hands, a collection of short stories of the most unfortunate verity. Bound within this volume are tales of revenge, mystery, kidnapping and unimaginable horror. Perhaps it is our duty to warn you of the sheer madness that you will find, if you choose to read further. In each story, you will find heroes, villains and monsters that defy the laws of sanity. Of course, these stories are meant to entertain… but they may, in fact, chill you.If you are ...

John Henry Cole's life has quieted down from what it had always been, and he can now settle down and make improvements on his small ranch. But everything changes when an old rancher named Wilson rides in with his two sons. Wilson is willing to pay Cole $5,000 to help get back his wife Lenora who has been taken hostage by Lucky Jack Dancer, an outlaw who had robbed the train on which she was a passenger. She is being held prisoner in Gun Town, a safe haven for outlaws. Cole had sided Lucky ...

This edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories.Jed McGuire, a third generation SANDHOG mining the bowels of the city, revives from a disaster to discover that he and his team are not alone.A glass tower dweller laments his day stranded in his PENTHOUSE, and a midwestern housewife discovers that the city and the HARBOR aren't all that she thought they'd be.Dark Sci Fi Slipstream Tales like you...

Nominated in the P & E Readers' Poll for Best Fiction e-zine published in 2016!This Second Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Nineteen sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from Eleven of todays top speculative fiction writers.Tales from the Canyons of the Damned (canyonsofthedamned.com) is a dark science fiction, horror, & slipstream magazine we've been working on since 2015. What is Dark Science Fiction and Horror? Think of ...

At seventeen, Cal and his mother move from the city to a remote island. His mother becomes withdrawn and Cal worries that she has found out that he is gay. His father, who is stationed overseas, has warned him that if she finds out about his sexuality, it will kill her.With no one to talk to and nowhere to go, Cal starts collecting driftwood to build himself a safe place, and while doing so, makes an unlikely friend. But when something terrible happens, will this friendship give hi...