Beauty is a knife.Between the desire to create and the thing created, the model is a key, a stepping stone, a participant othered through the process of creation. These thirteen visions of modern horror dissect the relationship between artist and model, exposing the spaces the eye is tricked into missing where we witness the beautiful and monstrous intricacies of making and being made.Featuring stories by Andrew Wilmot, M. Lopes da Silva, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hailey Piper, Rola...

Sliced Up Press is delighted to present its debut anthology, featuring sixteen sweetly sinister stories.Grab your fork and dig in to tales of tiered cakes and teary eyes, plump currants and sinister undercurrents, all-consuming hunger and bizarre gluttony. There's something for all tastes here, though you might think twice before ordering dessert...With all-new fiction from:Tiffany Michelle BrownV CastroBelinda FergusonDougla...

SURREAL! SHOCKING! SALACIOUS!The Eurohorror movement of the mid-to-late 20th century produced a stunning array of nightmarish, surreal, and memorable horror films. Spooky castles, rivers of blood, madmen in torture chambers, lavish color and light, sensual acts of violence, unstoppable armies of saucy vampires, and plaster-faced undead—these are the markers of the dreamlike European contributions to grindhouse horror cinema.In Euroschlock Nightmares, contemporary North Amer...

Outsiders, outcasts, isolation, mutilation, transformation, exhibitionism, toxic families, poverty, identities, bodies, desire, transcendence, despair are just some of what legendary writer Katherine Dunn so grotesquely and beautifully mined in her small but powerful body of work. Oft regarded as literature but undeniably horror, Shrieks in Cups of Gold has Matt Brandenburg, Sasha Ravitch, Sara Century, Brendan Vidito, and editor Sam Richard paying dark tribute to the misfit hero ...

This story is about 8 year old boys named Mack and Taj who spend their weekends playing in their elderly neighbour, Mrs. Brown’s garage. The book uses a fun rhyming scheme to describe all of the fun things the boys’ find during their time playing.

Psycho Nightmare Freak-Out features four stories of late 1990s mall-goth horror from four fiends of modern dark fiction. Sam Richard, Xavier Garcia, Matthew Mitchell, and Jon Steffens offer glimpses into the lives of black-clad miscreants wallowing in shadowy worlds of madness and malevolence.

A drunk widower wanders through an endless, abandoned mall while the war machine marches.90s queer metalheads repeatedly try to burn down a regenerating church.Denizens of a punk house are confronted with the reality of what happened to their missing peer.An artist with acidic bodily fluids finds another like him.Award-Winning author Sam Richard returns with eleven weird horror stories ranging from body to cosmic to existential and beyond. The Still Beat...

New Meat in a Clean Room brings together Joe Koch, Edwin Callihan, Sam Richard, Charlene Elsby, Justin Lutz, and Brendan Vidito for a raw collision.A spiritual sister to BodyPunk, this anthology pushes deeper-melding body horror and splatterpunk with the jagged aesthetics of post-punk, goth, and industrial. Bleak, stylish, and defiantly loud.

In the spirit of Robert E. Howard, Tanith Lee, Karl Edward Wagner, and films like Conquest and Fire & Ice comes Profane Altars: Weird Sword and Sorcery. Underground horror authors Emma Alice Johnson, Matthew Mitchell, Adam Smith, Sara Century, Charles Austin Muir, Edwin Callihan, and editor Sam Richard conjure forth visions of the unknowable and ancient past. One of spider gods, aging warriors, crystal antlers, cultist soldiers, and whispered legends of strange creatures and woeful knights...

J.G. Ballard has held a tremendous influence on culture since he first started writing, much of which turned out to be prophetic. In Feral Architecture Joe Koch, Donyae Coles, Sara Century, Brendan Vidito, and editor Sam Richard plume the depth of that influence through the lens of horror fiction.The results are surreal, ominous, unexpected, unnerving, and a fitting tribute to the legacy of one of the 20th century's most impactful and important writers.Featuring a ...

Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers inspiration to help them improve their practice. Up-to-date research and thinking provi...

From Wonderland Award-Winning author Sam Richard comes twelve more uncomfortable tales of sorrow, ruination, and transformation.A young widow joins a spousal loss support group with bizarre methods of healing. An aging punk is stalked by something ancient and familiar in the labyrinthian halls of an art complex. A couple renting out a small movie theater are interrupted by a corrosive force of nature. Through these stories of weird horror and visceral sorrow, Richard shows us ways g...