Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge. In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark, surreal, discomfiting story of the horrors that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award--the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have re-imagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how, in the end, they find love. Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.

The Man on the Ceiling (Discoveries)

Literature & Fiction

TEM, Steve Rasnic

Tem, Melanie

Genre Fiction

Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

Celestial Inventory

Religion & Spirituality

Chris Drumm Books

Ugly Behavior collects 19 of Steve Rasnic Tem's best noir tales, ugly stories about people behaving quite badly indeed. These are the stories in that box under your bed, pushed all the way back against the wall, the one that takes some effort to get to, the one you thought your momma didn't know about."Ugly Behavior is a powerfully dark collection of crime fiction showcasing Steve Rasnic Tem's handling of uber-disturbing themes, characters, and confrontations. All of the pieces here are unsettling, wrenching, and affecting, yet polished to a poetic perfection. The author valiantly goes to the bad places and shares his insights so you don't have to face head-on those same vicious struggles. As always, Tem demonstrates impressive range and sensitivity in this grouping of black jewels."--Tom Piccirilli, author of The Last Kind Words"Steve Tem is a writer's writer and he and his stories are hidden treasures. Here are some of those beautiful gems revealed."--Joe Lansdale, author of Edge of Dark Water"Lusciously grizzly, creepy, and original, glimpses into the souls of people you would never want to meet. Tem actually scares me--hard to do--and I love it."--Vicki Hendricks, author of Miami Purity"I've not only read Steve Rasnic Tem over the years I've also learned from him as both a writer and a human being. He's one of the true masters."--Ed Gorman, author of The Poker Club"I've read a lot of stories by Steve Rasnic Tem and have never failed to be impressed by their extraordinary range and originality."--Otto Penzler, editor of The Best American Crime Writing

Ugly Behavior

New Pulp Press

Nightmares come in many forms. Some rend the veil of sleep with heart-stopping madness. Others defy sanity to leave a helpless corner of your mind twitching for release. Sometimes, hours after waking, a nightmare drifts across your memory, tainting your day with wisps of discomfort. NIGHTMARES UNHINGED reveals horror in all its mutable forms—abject to absurd—through twenty tales of terror. Contributors include Mario Acevedo, Edward Bryant, Dustin Carpenter, Sean Eads, Keith Ferrell, Warren Hammond, Jason Heller, Gary Jonas, Stephen Graham Jones, J.V. Kyle, Aaron Michael Ritchey, Jeanne C. Stein, Steve Rasnic Tem and Dean Wyant. Foreword by Steve Alten. Edited by Joshua Viola. Illustrations by Aaron Lovett. A portion of the book's proceeds will be donated to Rocky Mountain Cancer Assistance in honor of Melanie Tem. “Featuring an impressive line-up of speculative fiction luminaries—Mario Acevedo, Jason Heller, Jeanne C. Stein, Steve Rasnic Tem, Warren Hammond, etc.—this stellar collection of twenty nightmare-inducing short stories is appropriately titled: it’s a check-underneath-the-bed-before-you-go-to-sleep kind of anthology.” —PAUL GOAT ALLEN

Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror

Viola, Joshua

Jones, Stephen Graham

Stein, Jeanne C.

Ritchey, Aaron Michael

Kyle, J V

Wyant, Dean

Hex Publishers

The Mask Shop of Doctor Blaack

Teen & Young Adult

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Hex Publishers LLC

Fall is Laura's favorite time of year, but this autumn, things are different. She's a teenager now, and the season brings new changes and challenges. Laura's decided she's too old for trick-or-treating and wants a more grown-up Halloween experience with her friends. Unfortunately for Laura, her parents tell her she has to take her little brother, Trevor, out trick-or-treating first. When they go shopping for Halloween costumes, they stumble upon a very strange shop and its even stranger proprietor. When Trevor tries on the wrong mask, the consequences are exciting...and dangerous.
Written by Bram Stoker-, International Horror Guild-, World Fantasy-, British Fantasy Award-winner, Steve Rasnic Tem.

The second volume of THINKING HORROR: A JOURNAL OF HORROR PHILOSOPHY focuses loosely on the horror boom of the second half of the Twentieth Century and contains the following:THNKHRRR Interview: Steve Rasnic Tem, “The Word in Flesh, or Whenever We’re Opened, We’re Red: A Personal Meditation on Clive Barker’s Books of Blood” by Gemma Files, “An Endless Laceration: The Limit Experience in Horror” by Daniel Pietersen, “The Impossible Literature of Thomas Ligotti, Puppeteer and Eschatologist” by D. P. Watt, THNKHRRR Interview: Lisa Tuttle, “‘Your Worst Fear': Monstrous Feminine(ism) and the Horror Boom of the 1970s” by Andrew P. Williams, “The Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ and ‘Good Country People'” by Kristi DeMeester, THNKHRRR Interview: John Skipp, “A Faint Sense of Double Vision”: Cinematic Tensions and Transmedial Anxieties in the Fiction of Files/Barringer, Wehunt, Tremblay, Link, and Ballingrud” by Christopher Burke, THNKHRRR Interview: Nick Mamatas, “His Knife, Her Shadow” by John Glover, “Nothing Will Have Happened: Speculation and Horror in the Anthropocene” by David Peak, “Collective Abjection: Social Horror in Stephen King’s It” by Mike Thorn, “‘Hello from the Sewers of NYC’: T.E.D. Klein’s ‘Children of the Kingdom'” by Michael Cisco, Cover Art by Stephen Wilson

THINKING HORROR: A JOURNAL OF HORROR PHILOSOPHY VOLUME 2: THE HORROR BOOM

Mamatas, Nick

Skipp, John

bagley, s.j.

Tuttle, Lisa.

History & Criticism

Independently published

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<li>ZVR: This Means War! takes IDW's splatterific Zombie vs Robots comic book series — created by writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood — and expands it in ways that will redefine both zombie and robot fiction. A shambling cohort of top horror and fantasy writers from across the globe (okay, Canada, England, Australia, and Bakersfield) have devoted themselves to making evocative word-pictures in your brain of this delicious cult series.</li> <li>Featuring the Brain-Eating Talents of (in alphabetical order) Jesse Bullington (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, The Enterprise of Death), Nancy Collins (Sonja Blue, Swamp Thing, Vamps), Lincoln Crisler (Despairs &amp; Delights, Magick &amp; Misery), Brea Grant (Dexter), Robert Hood (Immaterial), Nicholas Kaufmann (Chasing the Dragon), James A. Moore (Vendetta), Norman Prentiss (Invisible Fences), Rachel Swirsky ("The Lady Who Plucked Red Flowers Beneath the Queen's Window"), Steve Rasnic (Bram Stoker Award Winner), Rio Youers (End Times), and Jeff Conner (editor/World Fantasy Award Nominee).</li> <li>For readers who enjoyed; World War Z, Robopocalypse, and Zombies vs Robots. </li>
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Zombies vs Robots: This Means War!

Youers, Rio

Collins, Nancy

Moore, James A.

Grant, Brea

Bullington, Jesse

Conner, Jeff

Hood, Robert

Swirsky, Rachel

Prentiss, Norman

Kaufmann, Nicholas

Crisler, Lincoln

IDW Publishing

Discoveries: Best of Horror &amp; Dark Fantasy represents a culmination of a small press journey. Former Dark Discoveries Publisher and Editor-in-Chief James R. Beach and Managing Editor &amp; Designer Jason V Brock collect ten years of award nominees, best of stories, fan favorites and honorable mention tales from the life of DDP (including the magazine, newsletter and the anthologies NW Horrors and Darker Discoveries).Featuring stories by: Paul Bens Jr., Ray Bradbury, Jason V Brock, Kealan Patrick Burke, Elizabeth Engstrom, Paul Finch, Bill Gauthier, Cody Goodfellow, Gerard Houarner, Richard Laymon, Tim Lebbon, John R. Little, Nick Mamatas, Brett McBean, Michael McBride, James Newman, William F. Nolan, Gene O’Neill, Weston Ochse, Wilum H. Pugmire, Stephen Mark Rainey, David A. Riley, Michelle Scalise, John Shirley, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeffrey Thomas, Tim Waggoner, Matthew Warner.

Discoveries Best of Horror and Dark Fantasy

LEBBON, Tim

Goodfellow, Cody

Burke, Kealan Patrick

Laymon,Richard

Pugmire, Wilum

BRADBURY,RAY

Shirley, Jon

Dark Regions Press, LLC

Dreams and nightmares—what Ambrose Bierce called “visions of the night”—are the basis of some of the greatest weird fiction in literary history. The unruly images that torment us in sleep are usually dispelled by the coming of day—but can they be dismissed so easily? Do nightmares have some impalpable reality that can affect our daily lives, the lives of those around us, and perhaps the very fabric of the universe? Who can say that the nightmare is merely a wisp of fancy engendered by our own minds? After all, it was Edgar Allan Poe who said: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” All original nightmares by David Barker, Jason V Brock, Ramsey Campbell, Gemma Files, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nancy Kilpatrick, John Langan, Reggie Oliver, W. H. Pugmire, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Simon Strantzas, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thomas, Donald Tyson and Stephen Woodworth. This volume is edited by S. T. Joshi, a leading critic and anthologist of weird fiction.

Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic

Shirley, John

Langan,John

Files, Gemma

Kiernan, Caitlìn R.

Gavin, Richard

Oliver, Reggie

Campbell, Ramsey

Pugmire, W.H.

Dark Regions Press

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