In May 1940, as Hitler's armies tear through France, two battalions of Guards are rushed to Boulogne in a desperate attempt to hold back the German advance.Lieutenant Jimmy Gale never expected to join them. Yet within hours he is leading a hastily assembled force of young sailors into a city already descending into chaos. Poorly trained for land warfare and armed with little more than rifles, they must face tanks, machine guns, mortar fire and relentless attacks from the air. Their...

From Evil Dead to The Ring , there's just something trapped in dead media that keeps drawing us back: a combination of horror and nostalgia that's irresistible. In The Black Tapes , Libby Cudmore and Nick Mamatas bring you haunting tales of lost media, real and imagined, from the best writers working today.It's a promise and a threat—...

Step into the gentle, comforting world of Happy Humphrey — a place where small acts of kindness shine brightly, quiet courage matters, and everyday moments become tiny adventures worth sharing.In this collection of short prose stories, readers will meet Humphrey: a soft‑hearted little creature with the ears of a donkey, the snout of a pig, the wings of a bat, and a gift for noticing the things others overlook. He isn’t loud or bold, but he has a way of seeing when something needs a...

Step into a world where whimsy walks on two legs, ears twitch at the faintest whisper, and every tale dances to the rhythm of verse. Happy Humphrey’s Adventures in Verse invites readers of all ages to journey alongside one of the most unforgettable characters ever to wander the edge of ordinary life.Humphrey is not your typical hero—mostly because he isn’t typical at all. With a face reminiscent of a cheerful hippopotamus, tall ears that seem part rabbit and part donkey, a lion-lik...

Voidian Poetry: Volume I is the first step into a universe where nothing behaves, everything questions itself, and even the haiku format looks slightly embarrassed to be here. Born from a lifetime of dodging labels, refusing categories, and politely declining society’s attempts to file the author under a convenient heading, this collection opens with a dry, self‑aware introduction that treats autobiography the way one treats a wasp: with caution, humour, and the knowledge that it may sting...

A Spoonful of Nonsense Helps the Ennui Go Down is a poetic tonic for the beautifully bored, the philosophically exhausted, and anyone who has ever stared into the void and wished it would wink back. This collection offers lyrical absurdity as an antidote to existential heaviness—each poem a playful jab at meaninglessness, a mischievous grin aimed directly at the grey fog of modern malaise. Here, socks elope with spoons, drawers unfold into metaphysical labyrinths, and melancholy is treated...

The Laughing Lobotomist is a book for readers who have misplaced their seriousness—and discovered something far stranger in the lost‑and‑found. This collection of darkly satirical, surreal poems giggles in the face of logic, pirouettes through pathology, and stitches absurdity directly into the folds of the cerebral cortex. Here, nonsense is medicinal, humour is a scalpel, and the mind is both patient and punchline.Your journey begins in the Clinic of Cognitive Whimsy, a sterile ha...

"Not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach, the 19 stories in this new best-of annual anthology feature episodes of graphic gore and violence--including torture, dismemberment, self-mutilation, and home abortion--that are designed to push buttons as well as boundaries...strictly for hardcore horror fans." --Publishers WeeklyExcerpt from the Introduction:Editors Randy Chandler and Cheryl Mullenax put the call out to horror writers and editors of...

All things broken may be made whole again…Sivino Spallic has always believed this to be so, but when his once idyllic world is suddenly torn apart, he will question everything he once thought to be true.The breaking begins with the arrival of the Nylacci - foul creatures of myth that descend on the villages of the Three Realms, razing and ravaging all they encounter. Their arrival is the doing of Cehron Cen Kohr, a...

The Absurdist’s Field Guide to Everything and Nothing is a book that promises everything, explains nothing, and delivers precisely what it intends: a gloriously useless, wildly entertaining poetic atlas of the absurd. This is not a guide in any conventional sense. It is a compass that spins without direction, pointing toward sock rebellions, spoon elopements, and the sacred ambiguity of lint. It offers a taxonomy of nonsense for the existentially curious, a survival manual for those who su...

Uncover the intertwined quests of Otto Rahn's Nazi search for the Holy Grail and the true hero, Peredur, in this captivating exploration of history and legend.Peredur, The Undiscovered Truth of the Nazi Grail Quest is written in two parts.The first part of the book charts the life and adventures of Otto Rahn, the man tasked by the Nazis, in the 1930s, with finding and getting his hands on the Holy Grail for them. The Nazis were hell bent on finding...

A selection of contemporary nonfiction and fiction writings about Alaska that explores life in 49th state, from wide open landscapes and wild seas, to its small towns and urban hubs. Through true stories and literary realism, they present a wide range of perspectives on contemporary life in Alaska. Moving beyond the stereotypical ideas of what Alaska is like, they take readers into the heart of the state and collectively offer insight into the reality that lies behind the myth of the Last ...