A trail of pawprints vanishes under falling snow. A pair of eyes glints in the darkness outside. Something brushes past your leg ... but your beloved pet is nowhere to be seen.Curl up by the fireside and settle in for another set of festive cat-themed detective stories, from the greatest writers of the genre. A perfect stocking-filler that will mystify and delight long after the last turkey drumstick has mysteriously disappeared, The Case of the Christmas Kitten is essenti...

Greatest Love Stories brings together timeless tales that explore love in its many forms—romantic, tender, tragic, passionate and quietly transformative. These stories move beyond simple romance to capture the emotional complexity of love: its hope, its ache, its misunderstandings, its sacrifices and its lasting power.The collection offers readers a rich literary journey through desire, longing, devotion and heartbreak. Some stories celebrate the sweetness of affection, while others...

Ten acclaimed authors. Ten original mysteries. Sherlock Holmes returns.In this thrilling new collection, the world’s greatest detective is reimagined by some of the finest writers at work today. From the gaslit streets of Baker Street to cases that test even Holmes’s legendary powers of deduction, these brand-new stories honour Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal creation while bringing fresh ingenuity, atmosphere and suspense to his world.Featuring original stor...

A turkey stuffed with a mysterious surprise. A blackmailer's note posted in the dead of a winter's night. A Bonfire celebration that turns to a crime scene as soon as the first match is struck.As the snow falls and the frost thickens on the windowpanes, these ten classic tales of murder and intrigue will bring an irresistible sense of mystery to your Yuletide festivities. From the greatest crime writers of the last century, including Ian Rankin, Val McDermid, Ellis Peters and Julia...

A brand new collection of short stories featuring the legendary great detective Sherlock Holmes and penned by ten of the most acclaimed authors writing today.In 1887 A Study in Scarlet was published by a then little-known author called Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle had almost given up on writing, having had very limited success in the fiction that he had written up to that point. But then he created Sherlock Holmes and a legend was born.Arthur Conan Do...

Ten acclaimed authors. Ten original mysteries. Sherlock Holmes returns.In this thrilling new collection, the world’s greatest detective is reimagined by some of the finest writers at work today. From the gaslit streets of Baker Street to cases that test even Holmes’s legendary powers of deduction, these brand-new stories honour Arthur Conan Doyle’s immortal creation while bringing fresh ingenuity, atmosphere and suspense to his world.Featuring original stor...

Evermore: Sixth Edition is a gothic poetry anthology inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, blending darkness, memory, and haunting lyricism from international voices.Where shadows linger and whispers echo, Evermore returns—inviting you into poetry's most haunted chambers.

Prize-winning and highly commended stories from the 2025 Hope Prize, with judges including Dame Quentin Bryce, Kathy Lette and Julia Gillard.

Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.

A collection of twelve spine-tingling short stories of cursed curios that bring misfortune, madness and death upon their owners, penned by modern masters of the weird and uncanny.Sometimes your possessions own you.Delve into twelve terrifying stories that reimagine a tradition that stretches back over a century to W.W. Jacobs’s “The Monkey’s Paw.”Discover the antique brooch possessed by a malignant spirit; the sewing needle that demands a bloody sac...

The essential volume for every Hellraiser fan!Decades after introducing the world to The Hellbound Heart and bringing Hellraiser to the screen, Clive Barker returns to craft a definitive new chapter in the series’ official continuity–forever redefining the legacy of the Cenobites…and Pinhead.Presented in an expansive omnibus format, this collection assembles over 500 pages of richly imagined, meticulously crafted horror fr...

Your favorite horror anthology is back with another issue of tantalizingly gruesome original stories!Brock’s unsettling journey continues in “The Arrangement Part Two,” where he’s become overwhelmed by the physical changes from his pregnancy. But Dr. Alan reassures him everything’s completely normal, stabbing pains and all! You won’t believe what happens next in this gut-wrenching body horror tale from writer Mark Bouchard and arti...