Nikolis Cole: The Low-Rise Saint Richard Black  When homicide detective Karen Oswalt receives a phone call from a long-thought-dead informant claiming to have information that could help her solve a year-old case, she agrees to meet with him, not knowing at the time that she is about to come face to face with something that can't possibly exist.   Rock, Paper, Scissors Sebastian Bendix  During a routine practice session, an up-and-coming grunge rock band inadvertently summons The Tailor, a nightmarish fairy tale creature called upon by parents to help deal with unkempt children. Now, with The Tailor's help, the Filthy Habits will be cleaning up their act — whether they want to or not.  Coattails Joshua Rex   Julie thinks she's found the perfect birthday gift for her boyfriend, not realizing that a sinister force has compelled her to buy the antique waistcoat. But to what purpose? From the moment Ryan put on the jacket, Julie knew something wasn't right, and now she's in a race against time to save her boyfriend from a darkness that wants him for its own.

Grave Markers, Volume 1

Literature & Fiction

Black, Richard

Bendix, Sebastian

Rex, Joshua

Genre Fiction

Grinning Skull Press

With Dark Hallows: 10 Halloween Haunts, Scarlet Galleon Publications' Editor, Mark Parker, took readers to the heart of Halloween. With Dark Hallows II: Tales from the Witching Hour, he takes them a step further, to that early morning realm known as the 'Witching Hour,' where black magic is said to be at its most potent, and where the threshold between the living and the dead grows disturbingly tenuous. Lovers of Halloween and dark fiction will relish in these 13 chilling tales, from authors such as: Richard Chizmar, Lisa Morton, Sean Patrick Traver, Annie Neugebauer, Ronald Malfi, Brian Moreland, James Chambers, Stuart Keane, Joshua Rex, JC Braswell, M.L. Roos, A.P. Sessler, and J.D. Horn, bestselling author of the wildly successful 'Witching Savannah' series.

Dark Hallows II: Tales from the Witching Hour

Chizmar, Richard

Chambers, James

Neugebauer, Annie

Morton, Lisa.

Sessler, A.P.

Braswell, JC

Roos, M.L.

Keane, Stuart

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In these ten unsettling tales-the debut collection from Joshua Rex-cities and houses become predators, mothers macabre curators, dormant antique coats and colonial legends revivified dangers. A psychometress resurrects a rapacious fiend, and a psychologist counsels an eerily familiar patient. A man returning home to bury his father is forced to exhume a horrid secret, and a bullied adolescent's game-winning shot is not only a team victory but a bloody and visceral personal triumph.Uniting these doomed is the unequivocal certainty that what is coming is coming for us all.Includes: The Leap. Breakout Season. The Unfinished Room. What's Coming for You. A Mother's Museum. Coattails. The Whispering Wheel. The Reveal. The Voice Below. In Situ.

What's Coming for You: Stories

Rotary Press

Haunted Victorian America: Ghost Stories

Past and present collide in these eleven strange tales from Joshua Rex. Ranging from quiet and surreal, to grotesque and horrifying, each of these thoughtful stories promises to stick with you long after reading them.\nStep into worlds populated by predatory pictures, tidal waves of trash, and ditch spirits who lure young boys to their doom. Stand witness as the present pulsates with vengeful pasts and is contacted by dubious futures. Surrender to the dark, but know that there is also redemption in the light of long-dead and luminescent stars.

The Descent and Other Strange Stories

Weird House Press

November, 1799. Jonas Layne, the acclaimed "world's greatest violist" who performs on a notorious viola known as the Inamorta whose previous owners all have succumbed to violent fates, begins keeping a journal. He is weary of the touring life and plagued by a terrifying reoccurring nightmare of a monstrous wolf. When Jonas and his father/piano accompanist Theodore are commissioned by the enigmatic Count Rufus Canis, they travel to his residence, Teethesgate Castle, in the hinterland. Teethsgate is eccentrically opulent and grandiose, but things there are not as they seem. Something ghostly clings to the castle and its bizarre family. In Larmes Harbor, the decrepit village south of the castle, people are disappearing, and the Count's seductive daughter, Daeva, has a fearful and powerful secret which will force Jonas to confront one of his own-and the reality that his nightmare might be more premonition than dream.

The Inamorta

Weird House Magazine #1

Curran, TIm

Thomas, Scott

CLARK, SIMON

Gyzander, Carol

GOMEL, ELANA

Besson, Aaron

Lawson, Curtis

Ottone, Robert

Arts & Photography

Come. Take our hands. The twilight is dimming, but the moon is bright enough to see by, and it’s the perfect night to go for a walk. We’ll stroll through a cemetery in Exeter to where police officers are dispatched every Halloween and where a one-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire-girl is said to still roam. We’ll wander the wharfs in Jamestown, but mind your footing; the sea is home to all manner of creatures just waiting to break the surface after a thousand-year sleep. And keep an eye on the Romanesque Revival windows of the mansions along Newport’s Cliff Walk; you might catch a glimpse of a silhouette with no earthly reason for being there. In Providence, we’ll stalk the shadowy streets along with the ghosts of transcendentalist poets and jilted lovers, but don’t be surprised to discover that the monsters of Lovecraft’s fiction are not, in fact, the product of his imagination. The capital city has secrets and those secrets have tentacles. And teeth. 
Welcome to Rhode Island, home of the weird, the hometown horror, the haunted, the hunted. Home of the Gothic and of horror with history. We promise there’s something here for everyone, whether visiting or already one with the region’s countless legends. Rhode Island is the smallest state but the biggest house of horrors... 
And the door is open.

We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State

Lynch, John

Dalpe, Victoria

Beauregard, Aron

Lawson, Curtis M.

Ringel, Faye

Parent, Jason

Vaughan, K. H.

What sinister beings live behind the mirror’s reflection? Can the apocalypse bleed from the pages of a notebook and into the real world? What terrible cost must be paid when one steals from the realm of dreams? These are just some of the questions presented in this beautifully illustrated collection of the macabre. 
The Coffin Maker, your host and guide, presents twelve ghastly tales from two of the most gifted voices in modern horror. Curtis M. Lawson (DEVIL’S NIGHT, BLACK HEART BOYS CHOIR) and Joshua Rex (THE DESCENT, THE INAMORTA) weave the beautiful and the grotesque into rich tapestries, both chilling and fantastic. Sometimes hopeful. Often bleak. Always overbrimming with darkness. 
Equally inspired by the gorgeously illustrated editions that made you fall in love with horror as a child, and the golden age anthologies of Rod Serling and EC Comics, each dread tale features an introduction beautifully rendered by celebrated artist Luke Spooner. THE COFFIN MAKER’S BOOK OF DARK TALES is a must-read for fans of classic and contemporary horror alike.

The Coffin Maker's Book of Dark Tales

MONSTERS COME IN EVERY FORM A starving family in the 1600s is forced to kill and eat a strange blue animal, with hideous consequences. An escaped prisoner finds himself newly imprisoned by the thing to which he has been betrothed. A boy set on losing his virginity loses much more than that. A man returning to his hometown to discover the magic of his youth finds instead the wretched personification of that harrowing time. A homeless man squats in a tomb, much to the chagrin of its original occupant . . . In this collection, Joshua Rex, acclaimed author of The Inamorta and The Descent and Other Strange Stories, presents a gallery of the monstrous: fifteen raw stories about terror, grief, predators, and horrors historical and present. Lurking in these pages are monsters you never knew were there-creatures and phantoms and foreshadowings crouching in your future, in your worst dreams, in the corners of the ceiling in your room.

New Monsters

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