A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix as well as many more.Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when...

What is Violent Communication?If "violent" means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who's "good/bad" or what's "right/wrong" with people— c...

When a supernatural apex predator begins stalking the town of Bridgepayne, an apathetic detective and a disparate group of survivors must stop the brutal onslaught. Tasked with a seemingly impossible mission, they must also face their own demons.Junk Sick Moon isn't a tale of silver bullets or romanticized lunar curses, no; this is a visceral descent into the extreme horror underbelly of Bridgepayne, where the real monsters- addiction, apathy, and urban decay- are suddenly eclipsed...

"Now you may tell your friends you have kissed a prince."In the summer of 1980, the news is full of the upcoming election and the hostage crisis in Iran but Patrick Henry Burke is not paying any attention. He's met a Persian prince and his head is full of romance. All of that changes though when a sexy CIA agent, Gary Walker, approaches him and asks that he spy on the prince and his father. They're attempting to prevent the hostages from being released to guarantee Carter won't win...

They were eleven when they sent a killer to prison. They were heroes . . . but they were liars.Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods is a thrilling novel about friendship, secrets, betrayal, and lies - and having the courage to face the past."Clever and deliciously dark.” —Alice Feeney, bestselling author of Rock Paper Scissors“Unexpected plot twists, deep ps...

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER!A woman invited to her wealthy fiance’s family retreat realizes they are hiding a terrible secret—and that she’s been there before, by the bestselling author of What Lies in the Woods*.***A whirlwind romance.When Theodora Scott met Connor—wealthy, charming, and a member of the powerful Dalton family—she fell in love in an instant. Six months later, he’s brought her to Idlewood, his family...

Between 1995 and 2002, Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror was Britain's premier non-themed anthology of original horror stories.Over six volumes, it published some of the biggest names in the field as well as many newcomers who have gone on to forge impressive careers in the genre.Edited by the World Fantasy Award-winning team of Stephen Jones and David A. Sutton, Dark Terrors established itself as a cutting-edge market for some of the most literary and disturbing fi...

Revised 2nd Edition of Book II in the Ancestor Series of adventure thrillers fom a "Foreword Reviews," 1st Place Award Winning Author:A Comboquake rakes across the submerged twenty-five hundred mile ribbon of the Atlantic Ridge, threatening disaster on three continents. At the north end of the Ridge, a fifteen-mile long rift tears into Iceland's largest ice cap, spewing a curtain of steam five hundred feet in the air. Advanced satellite imagery reveals the dissection of a large cav...

Dolly Mack has everything the world thinks should make a woman happy: chart success, celebrity status, a rock-star husband, and a glamorous life in Los Angeles. But when a humiliating viral incident sends her career into freefall, Dolly does the only thing she can think to do—she runs.Back in Iris Beach, the small ocean town she swore she'd outgrown, Dolly is forced to reckon with the people and places she left behind: her tender, reclusive father; the music teacher who first belie...

In A.D. 299, the Roman oracles ceased to prophesy for the Emperor Diocletian. The silence of the gods sparks a bloody storm of persecution that sweeps across the Roman Empire. As the fires of suspicion and hatred ignite all around them, a young man and a young woman are united by a prophecy from the catacombs of Rome...one that will set them on a journey to battle an evil beyond imagining.

CAMILLA WALTERS finds herself on the outside of ALEXI CARRERO's world after he sets her loose. Following a dramatic end to their roller coaster relationship and is trying to start over again.She's healing, wounded and low, but with determination to get back on her feet as fast as she can.Fate takes a turn one awful night, and leads her straight back to the door of the people she swore never to rely on again, pulling her back into the world she had run away from.The C...

CAMILLA WALTERS thought she had come to the end of the road when fate caught up with her. Nowhere left to run or hide, on the verge of becoming fish food at the hands of drug runners she owed a lot of money to.That was until fate brought her ALEXI, head of the family CARRERO - The unexpected hero who saved her ass and changed her life in one easy manoeuvre.Who knew she would have to sign her soul over to the devil in a bid to stay alive and, in doing so, lose her heart and mi...