Flame Tree Press
A Hunter Called Night
A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it’s part of the civilized world, and she’s a creature of the Wild. But soon, amongst the twisting warps of the real world the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
A Killing Fire
A Killing Rain
Raven Burns wants nothing more than to leave police work forever to become the person that her serial killer father had always denied her. But when her nephew is kidnapped by a ruthless serial killer preying on young boys, Raven is pulled into her old life.
A Man Among Ghosts
A Sword of Bronze and Ashes
Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)
After Sundown
The first of an annual, non-themed horror anthology series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer.
American Dreams
Ancient Images
August's Eyes
When dreams start bleeding into reality, a social worker is forced to face the mistakes of his past. A serial killer has found a way to make his land of graveyards a sinister playground to be bent at his sadistic will. The secrets behind August's eyes will bring two worlds together, and end in a cataclysm of pain and ruin.
Beyond the Veil
Blood Country
Born to the Dark
1985. Dominic Sheldrake is now a lecturer on cinema. His son Toby has begun to experience strange nocturnal seizures that no medical help seems to be able to treat. Meanwhile Dominic assumes the occultist Christian Noble is out of his life, but his influence on the world is more insidious than ever...
Brittle
City of Angels
It's 1924. Sam Lacy, tough as nails robbery/homicide detective follows his own unique code of conduct within the racist and corrupt Los Angeles Police Department. Together with a group of allies, he must solve the murder of his old flame and deal with a ruthless and powerful predator who victimizes vulnerable young Chinese immigrants.
Close to Midnight
Close to Midnight is the third volume in an annual, non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris.
Dark Observation
Darkness Beckons Anthology
Dead Ends
No one is safe. The residents of a small, forgotten neighborhood are being watched, stalked and harassed by someone or something, and they seem powerless to stop it. As the death toll mounts, these desperate people embark down a path of self-destruction driven by fear, politics and technology. The results are all-too-real and terrifying.
Death's Key
Death’s Successor
Sequel to The Devil's Advisor, chronicling the fallout of the invasion of Hell as Brian struggles to balance the life he always wanted, while navigating the demands of his chaotic personal relationships on a near-apocalyptic scale. A darkly comic, satirical masterpiece.
Demon Dagger
Drew Price has a gift, or perhaps a curse. When a demon possesses a person, he can see the horrific-looking demon that dwells within. A demon named Nicobar sets its sights on punishing him, starting by taking the soul of Drew’s son, condemning the boy to a life as a psychopath. Can Drew save his son’s soul and end Nicobar’s time on Earth?
Dragonfly Summer
Dragonfly Summer is a gripping thriller that asks: What happens when the past comes back to haunt you? Deliciously twisty and suspenseful from the first minute to the last, Dragonfly Summer proves that no small town’s secrets can stay buried for good.
Dry Lands
After a cataclysmic flood submerges half the world underwater, Liv and her son Milo face extreme dangers in the dry lands. Liv's determination to protect her son leads her to make drastic choices. A gripping tale that explores resilience, parenthood, and the profound sacrifices made for loved ones.
Elemental Forces
Fearless
Captain Ellisa Shann commands Khidr, a search and rescue ship with a crew of twenty-five, tasked to assist the vast commercial freighters that supply the different solar system colonies. Now, while on a regular six-month patrol through the solar system, Khidr picks up a distress call from the freighter Hercules…
Fellstones
Five Deaths for Seven Songbirds
Greyfriars Reformatory
Nineteen year-old Emily's acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised at Greyfriars Reformatory For Girls. When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious ‘Grey Girl' begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily’s disorder may be the one thing that can save her.
Hellweg's Keep
Kendra Omen is on an off-world FBI mission, hoping to assuage the grief of losing a daughter and husband, but she learns that loss is unruly and not everyone, or everything, wants you to heal. Down in the depths of Hellweg’s Keep, she tries to find thirty-seven lost miners who vanished without a trace. Soon she’ll pray they don’t find her.
Holes in the Veil
Human Resources
Anders Nordvelt is chief of security so, when a prominent member of a dissident group is murdered, it is his job to find the killer. Unsatisfied with the obvious explanation, Anders keeps pushing, not knowing that he’s about to enter a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a ruthless killer.
Idolatry
In Darkness, Shadows Breathe
In a luxury apartment and in the walls of a modern hospital, the evil that was done continues to thrive. Carol and Nessa are in the hands of an entity that knows no boundaries and crosses dimensions - bending and twisting time itself - and where danger waits in every shadow. The line between reality and nightmare grows harder to define...
Interchange
Anne Houlihan uncovered a wormhole to Junction, a patchwork planet of competing alien biomes. Now, she and Daisuke are going back to investigate "The Howling Mountain," the possible location of a wormhole into space. As the expedition tears its way across the alien landscape, Anne must fight to protect its lifeforms, herself, and the Earth.
Jubilee
Keeper of Sorrows
Land of the Dead: A Stoker’s Wilde Novel
Science and the supernatural collide in this tale of witches, reanimated corpses and spirits invading our world from beyond the grave. Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde once again find themselves reluctant monster hunters when a mad scientist searching for immortality teams up with a necromancer to put spirits into his reanimated abominations.
Lord of the Feast
Twenty years ago, a malevolent cult failed in their attempt to create their own god: The Lord of the Feast, forging instead a horrible, misbegotten creature, so the cultists destroyed it, trapping each piece in scattered, mystic nightstones. Now, Ethan plans to resurrect the god, and fulfill its ancient promise.
Mestiza Blood
A short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience. V.Castro, "a dynamic and innovative voice" (Booklist) weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this intimate anthology of modern horrors.
Misfits
A group of friends decides to take matters into their own hands when one of them is brutally raped by a drunk townie. Deep in the woods of the town live the Melon Heads, a race of creatures that shun human interaction and prey on those who dare to wander down Dracula Drive. Could two bands of misfits help each other?
Mondo Crimson
When Melanie, a car thief, is sent to find a certain vehicle only to discover it’s owned by dangerous hit-woman, Brenda, they begin to wonder if their fateful encounter wasn’t just pure coincidence. It turns out they both work for Felix Eberhart whose network of car thieves, fixers, and drug runners have all been set against one another
Music of the Night
No/Mad/Land
Following the creation of their community in The Roamers, the pulldogs leave Rome to shape a new challenging lifestyle: wandering around the world as neo-nomads to spread their solarpunk way of living and to engage on a never-ending mission to save endangered human cultures with nanites.
October
Of Civilized, Saved and Savages: Coronam Book II
Hyrax searches for new revenue to rebuild from its defeat. Maaraw revolts, Silangan is uprising. The occupied worlds bleed money. There is but one place left: Tirgwenin, Jareth’s world, wild and unclaimed. His colony destroyed, Morgan returns to Enskari to beg for rescue.
Of Heroes, Homes and Honey: Coronam Book III
Where the enemy ends and dissatisfaction begins blurs in the lines of battle. The many stir against the few, led forward by the drone of alien bees, and the words of a child on far away Tirgwenin. The powerful know war and time is against the Family. Genocide approaches. Heroes will fall, others rise and the homes of humanity shall be remade.
Of Kings, Queens and Colonies: Coronam Book I
Nearly a millennium after The Unsettling of old Earth, the new civilized worlds are on the brink of war. The planet Enskari, as an affront to tradition has placed a woman upon its throne. With the backing of the church, Brandon of Hyrax readies an armada to subdue Enskari and unite the system under a single rule—his own.
One Eye Opened in That Other Place
Christi Nogle’s best weird and fantastical stories are collected here, each focusing on liminal spaces and the borders between places and states of mind. Within its pages you'll travel across thresholds, and arrive at other times and places that are by turns disquieting, terrifying, and wonderful. Make sure to bring your special glasses!
Promise
Promise collects Christi Nogle’s best futuristic stories ranging from plausible science fiction to science fantasy stories about aliens in our midst. These tales will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, TV shows such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Under the Skin by Michel Faber.
Ragman
An Egyptian priest comes back from the land of the dead to take revenge on the descendants of the men who killed him and uses a spell to call forth a bloodthirsty mummy. Two police officers must overcome their differences to stop the creature before things spiral completely out of control.
Redspace Rising
Harris Alexander Pope is the man who ended the Partisan War on Mars. All he seeks now is solitude and a return to the life that was stolen from him. Yet when he learns that the worst war criminals are hiding in other bodies, he is forced into an interplanetary pursuit.
Resilient
Sebastian
Morgan Riley is familiar with his mother’s creative eccentricities, so he’s not overly concerned when his mother shows him her newest series that spotlights a small, featureless white plastic manikin that his mother has named Sebastian. However, as Morgan watches his mother’s obsession with the manikin grow, he begins to question her sanity…
Second Chances
Years since the first Travelers came back, their numbers have grown. There is still no explanation for their existence, but for the most part they have been accepted into society and given special protection under the law. There are those however who will do anything and everything in their power to put an end to the Travelers.
Shadow Flicker
Insurance investigator Oscar Basaran travels to Kidney Island to document the negative effects of shadow flicker from wind turbines on residents living near the windmills. As his investigation deepens, he discovers the turbines create a phenomena kept secret by a select group of people on the island who attempt to harness its dark power.
Silent Key
After losing her husband under mysterious circumstances, former detective Cam Ambrose must learn how to keep her young daughter safe from a world of the supernatural she never knew existed. She sets out to solve a decades-old mystery entangling the machinations of an obsessed killer, her husband’s mistress, and a series of deadly hauntings.
Snowball
Somebody's Voice
In a bid to rescue his reputation, Alex Grand ghostwrites a memoir of abuse on behalf of a survivor, Carl Batchelor. Carl’s account proves to be less than entirely reliable; someone is alive who shouldn’t be. As Alex investigates the background of Carl’s accusations his grasp of the truth of the book and of his own involvement begins to crumble...
Tarotmancer
Harper holds the Gift of Divination. Red is the infamous Reynard the Fox, fugitive shapeshifter. When the past finds Red, they are both taken to the Kingdom of Vale within Underneath so Red can pay for his crimes. With the Rot drawing on the hatred of all, Harper and Red realize they must reconcile and work together to save Vale.
Tempered Glass
That Which Stands Outside
The After-Death of Caroline Rand
The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future
Christi Nogle’s finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look out to promising but often terrifying futures. The stories share themes of trauma and resilience, with a focus on characters’ psychologies, and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life.
The Bloodstained Doll
The Damnations: M.R. James Short Stories
The Devil’s Advisor
Lucy, the Devil, wants to retire. Brian, the Business Advisor, hates his job. When Brian finds himself in Lucy’s crosshairs, she makes him an offer he can’t refuse: work his business magic on Hell, and if he succeeds, become her successor as the next Devil. To claim this throne, Brian faces off against Death, God, and Lucy's own twin children.
The Emergent
The ruthless new leader of the fundamentalist Trinity Compound seeks to understand his strange neurological connection with Amira and unleash an army on an unstable North America. Together, Amira and Barlow form an uneasy alliance in pursuit of scientific breakthroughs and protection from shared enemies. But new discoveries uncover dark secrets...
The Eternal Shadow
Using magic in her realm is forbidden and because of this, Cassia is abducted by the king of Selene. In a frantic attempt to escape him, Cassia, Lucas and their friends flee Selene in search of allies. But in this new realm they discover that all its inhabitants are afraid of the dark and the shadows lurking within.
The First King
King Idis has declared war by setting the Selene realm on fire. Lucas is the only one who can stop him, but can they really trust a vision of the future? While Cassia, Lochlan and Rosheen are trapped in Vineas, Lucas gathers allies and despite lacking control of his First magic, he knows that one way or another this needs to end now.
The Forever House
In Rockridge, a sinister family moves into a sleepy cul-de-sac. The Eldreds feed on the negative emotions of humans, creating nightmarish realms within their house to entrap their prey. Neighbors are lured into the Eldreds’ home and faced with challenges designed to heighten their darkest emotions so their inhuman captors can feed, and feed well.
The Gaia Chime
Patricide, an echo of Zeus rising up against Cronos, the young gods replacing the titans. Now, a public murder televised live and across the world prompts filmmakers Seth and Charlotte to trace the threads of blood to the rich and powerful, and the horror of global destruction. Can they stop the Gaia Chime? But what is the Gaia Chime?
The Garden of Bewitchment
In 1893, Evelyn and Claire leave their home in a Yorkshire town for life in a rural retreat on their beloved moors. But when a strange toy garden mysteriously appears, a chain of increasingly terrifying events is unleashed. The Garden of Bewitchment is all too real and something is threatening the lives and sanity of the women.
The Gemini Experiment
The Hatter’s Daughter
There is more to the Vine than mortals and immortals know. It reaches its tendrils into realms beyond the Riven Isles. On the night Faith was born, her mother perished, but not before sending her to safety in Underneath. Discovered by The Mad Hatter, he raises her as his own. When Rot invades, Faith decides to fight. She won’t be alone.
The Haunting of Henderson Close
The Heart of Winter
The Heron Kings' Flight
In this sequel to THE HERON KINGS, the secretive band of rangers is all that stands against a charismatic invader with a nation behind him. Three young comrades Linet, Aerrus and Eyvind confront cowardly monarchs, traitor lords, assassins and savage armies with only a few allies and a dangerous new weapon to help prevent the kingdom's destruction.
The Incubations
The Intruders
The Invocations: H.P. Lovecraft Short Stories
The Last Crucible
Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a supervolcano, but civilization is preserved in vast orbiting ringstations and in isolated communities on Earth. Jana is in line to become the next maghiarja (sorceress) by way of an ancient technology and must protect her people, while deciding whom to trust amongst possible ringstation allies.
The Last Feather
Twenty-two-year-old Cassia's sister is dying, and she doesn't know why. Cassia wakes up in another realm to find her missing best friend who knows how to save her sister. But a mysterious and dangerous curse is spreading across the realm and Cassia needs to break the curse, save her best friend and get home before she’s trapped there forever.
The Lonely Lands
The Nameless
The Nirvana Effect
Aaron and Clarissa are members of a subculture of realists who resist the lure of a fake utopia. They watch in horror as the technology spreads across the country with willing participants who easily forgo their freedoms for false pleasures. When they discover a plot to enforce compliance for mind control, the battle for free will begins...
The Perfect Stranger
The Playing Card Killer
The Queen of the Cicadas
Belinda Alvarez has returned to Texas for the wedding of her best friend Veronica. The farm is the site of the urban legend, La Reina de Las Chicharras - The Queen of The Cicadas. In 1950s south Texas a farmworker is murdered. Her death is ignored by the town, but not by the Aztec goddess of death, Mictecacíhuatl...
The Restoration
When Terri is hired to spend a year restoring a crumbling manor house, she believes she’s hit the jackpot. She moves in with her young daughter and high hopes for the project’s success. As the restoration begins to go terribly wrong, she realizes dark forces won’t let her leave the house until its horrible secrets are revealed.
The Rift
Estranged husband. Grieving father. A doorway through which the dead – or something else entirely – speak. How far would you go to see the ones you’ve lost, just one more time? Would you step through the rift? And, what if something else stepped out?
The Roamers
The Stones of Landane
When Jonathan accompanies Nadia to Landane, he soon discovers she's obsessed by the village’s Neolithic megaliths, and Jonathan becomes entangled in a legacy with its roots deep in prehistory. What are the secrets of the stones of Landane? And why does an ancient piece of folklore ring so true?
The Transcendent
After a fateful confrontation with her former ally, Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone and desperate. All her hopes lie with finding Nova, the first human clone, to solve the greatest riddle in human history – how to preserve human consciousness after death.
The Wakening
In a small New York town, an ancient demon has possessed a young girl. Different groups of people, including a team of paranormal investigators, a priest who once exorcised the demon from another child, and a defrocked priest with a dark secret, all must join forces to rid the town of the evil that is growing in it.
The Way of the Worm
The Wise Friend
Patrick’s aunt Thelma was an artist whose work turned towards the occult. As an adult he discovers a journal of her explorations, and his son Roy becomes fascinated. His experiences at the sites scare Patrick away, but not Roy. Can he convince his son that his suspicions are real, or will what they’ve helped to rouse take a new hold on the world?
They Stalk the Night
Those Who Dwell in Mordenhyrst Hall
Tinderbox
Vengeance is Mine
Ray Cruz made a career out of hurting and killing people in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America. When his daughter is attacked by thugs who scare her into silence, Ray uses his lifetime of skills and connections to keep her safe and find out who wants to hurt her and why.
Vigilance
The third and final installment in The Fractal Series, following Fearless and Resilient.
A war in the depths of space to determine the future of humanity, Vigilance concludes the journey of Captain Ellisa Shann.
Vintage Crime
We Will Rise
In Echo Hill, Ohio, the dead begin to reappear, manifesting in various forms and attacking the living. A group of survivors come together after the initial attack, all plagued by different ghostly apparitions of their own. Can they make it out alive? And if so, will they still be sane? Or will they die and join the ranks of the vengeful dead?
What Rough Beast
As the Zhen Empire descends into civil war, Tajen, Liam, and Katherine each have their own part to play in the final conflict between the humans and the Zhen Empire. As Tajen searches the outer regions in an attempt to find and recruit Zhen deserters to his side, Katherine heads for Marauder space to seek out technology their Tabran allies need.
When the Night Falls
Vampires come to a small beach community in Maine to find out the truth behind the rumors of serial killer Gabriel Riley, aka the Beach Night Killer.
Whisperwood
After near-death at the hands of her witch-hunting ex, running away to a woodland town that nobody goes to, and nobody comes from, seemed like a great idea to Anna—until the Whispers came.
Your Turn to Suffer
Lorelai Palumbo is harassed by a sinister group calling themselves The Cabal. They accuse her of having committed unspeakable crimes in the past, and now she must pay. She must try to figure out what The Cabal thinks she’s done if she’s to have any hope of answering their charges and salvaging her life.