The Third Rule of Time Travel

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fracassi, Philip

Science Fiction

Orbit

"When you open this collection, you're headed down a dark alley within the precincts of the Twilight Zone. It's the kind of place where the wrong people get hurt; hazard is everywhere and it doesn't play favorites. The complacent won't find refuge here on the threshold of the void. Nobody is safe and nothing is sacred. Enjoy the ride."
– from the introduction by Laird Barron
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BEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980's and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.
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Praise for Behold the Void:
SHORT STORY COLLECTION OF THE YEAR – This Is Horror
 “Fracassi…builds his horrific tales slowly and carefully…his powers of description are formidable; and he’s especially skillful at creating, and sustaining, suspense.” – The New York Times
“…think vintage King at his best.” – Rue Morgue Magazine (“Dante’s Pick”)
 “…recalls the work of writers such as McCammon, King, and Bradbury.” – John Langan, LOCUS Magazine“With carefully drawn characters, vividly constructed situations, and deft description, Behold the Void offers the perfect blend of honest-to-goodness human nastiness and true supernatural creepiness. This is horror fiction at its best.” – Brian Evenson, author of A Collapse of Horses
“Everything here is damned near perfect… a first-rate collection.” Black Static
“Philip Fracassi is the next big horror writer to blow your mind. If you’re a fan of the horror genre at all, then this guy is a must-read.” – Lit Reactor
“These stories are scary, yes, but more than that, they’re haunting– they get inside you and they don’t go away.” – Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
“Fracassi’s Behold the Void is the perfect read for horror fans who expect authors to raise the bar and redefine what horror fiction means.” – Ronald Malfi, author of Bone White
“Fracassi is quickly building a reputation as a superior storyteller of incredible talent…. an author we must surely now hail as a leading light in the dark field of horror fiction.” – This Is Horror

Behold the Void

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Lovecraft eZine Press

Tomorrow's Gone

Poetry

Hybrid Sequence Media

Follow the dark yet hysterical memoirs of a brutish young man as he struggles with the confines of adulthood, women, and corporate America. A fast-paced, engrossing read that will leave the reader shaking their head in awe of the ultimate egomaniac.

The Egotist

Literary

Equator Books

There is a legend in the town of Sabbath that tells of a haunted car lost somewhere in the local junkyard. Young Jim Honeycutt and his friends have decided that they're going to find it today.\nUnfortunately for them, they do.\nAnd the ghost stories of that old Commodore can't even touch the horrors they are about to experience...\n"Fracassi does small-town horror with the best of them." - Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase\n“Fracassi's sly novella takes recognizable horror tropes, smooshes them together, twists them apart, and recalibrates them into something utterly new that only he could write. Commodore runs hot, rushing inexorably toward its dark conclusion. Think Stephen King’s "The Body" meets Christine.” – Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World\n“A dark coming-of-age tale about a town equally filled with wonders and horrors. Put Lovecraft, Bradbury, and King into a blender, mix well, and you get Commodore – a tasty horror cocktail with one a hell of a kick. Move over, Castle Rock! Horror has a new hometown!” - Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner\n“Commodore” is the classic 1970s horror story you’ve never read. It’s got all the sleek lines and the chrome you love in the old models, with a weird new engine under the hood, full of growling horsepower. It’s compulsive, scary, and heartbreaking. But most of all it's a ton of fun. Philip Fracassi nails it again. I love it." - Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell\n"This is a two-toned, chrome-plated, V-8 monster of a story. Fracassi continues his tradition of taking his readers on a journey through a landscape of the bizarre and terrifying." - Ronald Malfi, author of Bone White\nAbout Philip Fracassi 
Philip Fracassi is an award-winning author and screenwriter. 
His debut collection of stories, BEHOLD THE VOID, was named "Story Collection of the Year" by both This Is Horror and Strange Aeons Magazine. LOCUS Magazine said it "...recalls the work of writers such as McCammon, King, and Bradbury." 
His second collection, BENEATH A PALE SKY, received a starred review from Library Journal, and Booklist called it a "must read collection." In his introduction, Josh Malerman calls it "a book for the ages." 
His debut novel, BOYS IN THE VALLEY, will premier on Halloween, 2021, from Earthling Publications. 
His stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including BEST HORROR OF THE YEAR, BLACK STATIC, CEMETERY DANCE, and NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. His work has been favorably reviewed by The New York Times, Rue Morgue Magazine, LOCUS Magazine and many others. 
His produced screenplays have been distributed by Lifetime Television and Disney Entertainment. 
Philip lives with his family in Los Angeles, California. 
You can follow Philip on Facebook, Instagram (pfracassi) and Twitter (@philipfracassi), or at his official website at www.pfracassi.com.

COMMODORE

Strange Aeons LLC

For two days in the year 1862, the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War held theatre in southern Tennessee – a patch of land called Shiloh. Thousands of soldiers on both sides of the conflict lost their lives, and tens of thousands more were badly injured. For twin brothers Henry and William, infantry soldiers in the Confederate Army, the battle held more than the horrors of war. It was a portal to something beyond mankind, where demons tread and angels fly, where the spilling of blood brings not only death, but eternal damnation. "In Shiloh, Fracassi's powerful, precise writing immerses the reader in the savage brutality of a Civil War battle – an exquisitely harrowing precursor to the strange horror of the tale. A masterful, mad charge into the weird." – Jeffrey Ford This edition also includes the bonus tale Soda Jerk - A Sabbath Story!

Shiloh

The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Philip Fracassi. St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family. Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon, boys begin acting differently, forming groups. Taking sides. Others turn up dead. Now Peter and those dear to him must choose sides of their own, each of them knowing their lives -- and perhaps their eternal souls -- are at risk.

Boys in the Valley

Children's Books

Animals

Tor Nightfire

The Boy with the Blue Rose Heart

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks—a famous, but struggling, horror writer—receives an antique 
desk from his partner, Sarah, in the hopes it will rekindle his creative juices. Perhaps inspire him 
to write another best-selling novel and prove his best years aren’t behind him.\nA continent away, a mysterious woman makes inquiries with her sources around the world, 
seeking the whereabouts of a certain artifact her family has been hunting for centuries. With the 
help of a New York City private detective, she finally finds what she’s been looking for.\nIt’s in the home of Tyson Parks.-\nMeanwhile, as Tyson begins to use his new desk, he begins acting... strange. Violent. His writing 
more disturbing than anything he’s done before. But publishers are paying top dollar, convinced 
his new work will be a hit, and Tyson will do whatever it takes to protect his newfound success. 
Even if it means the destruction of the ones he loves.\nEven if it means his own sanity.\n"Fracassi, coming off a Bram Stoker Award nomination for his horror short-story collection Beneath a Pale Sky, is on a roll. A violent and original entry into both the cursed-object and writer-descending-into-madness tropes, with palpable fear leaping off the page, similar to The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones and Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt." - Library Journal\n"Not since The Shining has the descent of a writer into madness been so masterfully rendered on the page.” – Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Tome\n“A high creep factor chiller with a sinister edge that had me reading well past my bedtime. Frightening and fun, and deliciously original!" — James A Moore, author of the Blood Red trilogy and Cherry Hill.\n“Fracassi takes the familiar traps—love, obsession, power—and gives them new teeth. It’s dark fun twisted tightly around a story of human frailty...He’s doing for the desk what King did for the car.” – Jeff Terry, THE JEFF WORD\n"Fracassi's page-turning thriller offers unapologetic horror raised to the next level with strong characterization, great pacing, and visceral details that ensure we experience unspeakable dread alongside the book's protagonist. I think I went a little insane while reading it." --Norman Prentiss, author of Haunted Attractions with your Other Father and The Apocalypse-a-Day Desk Calendar\n"Stylish, atmospheric, and chilling, GOTHIC is an affectionate ode to the horror greats, and an effective reminder that Philip Fracassi is destined to become one of them. One of my favorite reads of the year so far."- Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy\n""GOTHIC is the literary equivalent of the abyss gazing right back at you from the hellish depths of its pages. Don't lean in too close, lest you fall into this nightmarish novel and never find your way out again." - Clay MacLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters\n"A diabolical novel! Fracassi pens this one with furious, devilish glee. Readers--and writers--of horror fiction will love it." - Ronald Malfi, author of Come with Me and Black Mouth\n"A dark and delirious journey into the unraveling of a mind, Gothic is the accursed 21st century bastard child of the 70s horror boom and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Deadly, compelling, and pulls no punches." – Brian Evenson, author of The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

Gothic

Cemetery Dance Publications

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