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...

“A CULT CLASSIC WAITING ON ITS CULT.”—William Boyle, author of City of MarginsRecently fired from his job, Dave sets out on a manic, misguided quest for answers up the food chain of law enforcement corruption and down the increasingly bizarre Florida coastline. Battling cops, biker gangs, backwoods Bigfoot hunters, and getting tangled in tourist traps (both figurative and literal), he eventually stumbles onto a conspiracy involving body cameras, love locks, ...

Whether you’re in the mood for a Chicago-style deep dish of darkness, or prefer a New York wide slice of thin-crusted carnage, or if you just have a hankering for the cheap, cheesy charms of cardboard-crusted, delivered-to-your-door devilry; we have just the slice for you.Bring your most monstrous of appetites, because we’re serving suspense and horrors both chillingly cosmic and morbidly mundane from acclaimed horror authors such as Brian Evenson, Jessica McHugh, and Cody Goodfell...

"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...

In this hugely original blend of thriller, sci-fi and horror, a trio of Blockbuster employees discover they may be able to change the endings of popular films and, thus, the world around them.The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry, and their tyrannica...

From the editors of Lost Signals comes the new volume in technological horror. Nineteen authors, both respected and new to the genre, team up to deliver a collection of terrifying, eclectic stories guaranteed to unsettle its readers. In Lost Films, a deranged group of lunatics hold an annual film festival, the lost series finale of The Simpsons corrupts a young boy’s sanity, and a VCR threatens to destroy reality. All of that and much more, with fiction from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Kel...

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—...

When Simon Mason, the world’s best-known televangelist, receives threats from Muslim terrorists, he hires Taylor Pasbury, a beautiful former Secret Service agent, to take charge of his security. Taylor is thrilled to receive the high-profile assignment, but she has no idea that Simon already knows more about her than she could imagine.When the terrorists strike, making a demand of the pastor that would shake the most steadfast saint, Taylor draws on all of her hard-knock toughness ...

This book is not a collection. It is a chamber—sealed, breathing, and older than your memory of entering it. Each page is a door that opens inward. Each poem is a held breath, a pulse beneath the floorboards, a whisper that persists long after the room has fallen silent. You have not opened this book. You have crossed a threshold. And what waits inside does not seek your understanding. It waits to be witnessed.These verses were not written so much as unearthed. They rise from the d...

Poems That Shouldn’t Exist is a book for readers who suspect that reality has been taking itself far too seriously. This is a collection of poetic misbehaviour—verses that slipped past the editors of existence, dodged the censors of common sense, and now gather here in gleeful defiance. Inside these pages you’ll find sock sonnets, spoon elegies, existential laundry chants, and other lyrical anomalies that refuse to obey genre, logic, or good taste. These poems were never invited, never exp...

Welcome to the world of poems for fun.This book continues the journey begun in the earlier Limericks for Fun series. As with the previous collections, it uses clear, easily recognisable patterns designed to encourage children—and all who remain young at heart—to experiment with creating stories of their own through the familiar structure of poems. Readers need only imagine a tale and begin with the repeated opening lines, which support pattern recognition while allowing each poem t...

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...