Cutting Block Books proudly presents the best of the Horror Library, Volumes 1-5. This collection honors a full ten years of excellence in short horror fiction. Selected and curated by the original team behind the three-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library series, these thirty-three short stories should delight horror fans of all stripes.
Nearly 150 superb short stories have appeared in the Horror Library—and the ones in this book are truly among the best and most distinctive. So come on in, browse around. The Library will be open all night...
From the Publisher's Introduction:"In these pages you’ll find starving people and hungry ghosts; silent invasions and mysterious travelers; burning lovers and patriotic cannibals. It’s a book where gas stations aren’t what they seem, and neither are door-to-door salespeople. It’s a book where the end of the world doesn’t have to be, well, the end of the world."

The Best of Horror Library: Volumes 1-5

Literature & Fiction

Little, Bentley

Guignard, Eric J.

Arnzen, Michael A.

Ethridge, Benjamin Kane

Dixon, Lorne

ANDERSON, COLLEEN

Colyott, Charles

McBride, Tracie

Calvillo, Michael Louis

Despins, Kim

Genre Fiction

Cutting Block Books

From the publishers who brought you the multiple Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library anthology series, now comes Cutting Block Single Slices, Volume 1 -- a new collection of slightly longer short stories that will make it hard to sleep with the light off.  From a classic possessed puppets story, to mysterious green mists and gods wreaking havoc, to an old-style Hollywood ghost and other supernatural horrors, this collection brings you stories you'll enjoy from skilled horror fabulists such as Marsheila Rockwell & Jeffrey J. Mariotte, John F.D. Taff, Tom Johnstone and others.  Some chills are best served in Slices!

Cutting Block Single Slices, Volume 1

Taff, John F.D.

Marzioli, Samuel

Mariotte, Jeffrey J.

Rockwell, Marsheila

Johnstone, Tom

Dearborn, Kristin

Wyckoff, Jason A.

Bundschuh, Mason Ian

Lillie, Brian

"Lorne Dixon's Blue Eel is an engaging and offbeat mixture of police procedural, eldritch mysticism and monster story wrapped up in a tale of redemption." -- Rue Morgue Long suspected of guilt in his daughter Madeline's disappearance, Branson Turaco takes an abrupt turn in his life when a lock of Madeline's hair is found in a child predator's home. Branson buys an unlicensed handgun, enlists the help of a disgraced filmmaker and a desperate intern, and heads out onto the open road. Clinging to the dim hope that his daughter might still be alive, Branson finds himself pursued by a team of post-human assassins with glowing skin and a symbiotic relationship with a mysterious species of eel. Lost in a psychedelic world of uncontrollable substances and bizarre evolutions, he must decide how much he is willing to sacrifice in order to unravel the mystery of Madeline's disappearance. What remains of a man once he sheds his humanity in the name of vengeance?

Blue Eel

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

What happens when idyllic small-towns, and the simple folk who inhabit them, collide with inexplicable evil borne of a vast and uncaring cosmos? Imagine a series of stories set in a golden era of American life, where worldly troubles are regarded from a distance, if at all. Hear the buzz of playing cards clipped in children’s spokes echo down quiet lanes. Smell the faint aroma of rich tobacco smoke from an old man’s pipe on a shady boulevard. Listen to the gossip of small towns where everyone knows everyone’s business. Or do they? Sometimes, deadly secrets lurk out in the barn. Sometimes, unimaginable evil awaits us in the root cellar. Sometimes, we fall under the sway of the Shadows Over Main Street. Contains stories and poems by: Gary Braunbeck, Nick Mamatas, Josh Malerman, Mary SanGiovanni, Tim Curran, Rena Mason, Lucy A. Snyder, Stephanie Wytovich, Kevin Lucia, Chesya Burke, Brian Hodge, James Chambers, Aaron Polson, T. Fox Dunham, Richard Thomas, Adrian Ludens, Cameron Suey, Lisa Morton, Jay Wilburn, and John Sunseri. Foreword by Ramsey Campbell. Cover art by Luke Spooner. Interior illustrations from Paul Carrick, Vincent Chong, John Coulthart, Galen Dara and HagCult.

Shadows Over Main Street: An Anthology of Small-Town Lovecraftian Terror

Mamatas, Nick

Thomas, Richard

Chambers, James

Polson, Aaron

Dunham, T. Fox

Ludens, Adrian

Suey, Cameron

Morton, Lisa.

The multiple Bram Stoker Award® nominated Horror Library anthology series is back!  Shepherded by new editor Eric J. Guignard -- himself a past Stoker winner -- Horror Library Volume 6 is imbued with a new level of literary energy and purpose. It features 27 brand new horror short stories, written by 27 different authors, including well-known pros and up-and-coming new talents.  As always, if you'd like a snapshot of where modern literary horror fiction is headed, you've found the right book.  Don't miss Horror Library Volume 6! The Librarian wants to see YOU.

Horror Library, Volume 6

Ford, Jeffrey

Erdelac, Edward M.

Caselberg, Jay

Wild, Dean H.

Kuhl, Jackson

Faherty, J. G.

Bedwell-Grime, Stephanie

Little, Raymond

Allred, Rebecca J.

de Bruler, Connor

You know this place. Seems normal enough. But you know better, don’t you? You've heard rumors of strange histories. You've seen hints of dark deeds.  Turns out you can go home again, and the shadows will be waiting for you. Bram Stoker Award® nominated editors Doug Murano and D. Alexander Ward bring you the next installment of their best selling, critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian anthology series: Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2. Within these pages, you'll discover:  * America's pastime awakening dark secrets buried deep within the earth.  * Vietnam War heroes who glimpse something worse than war and return home to discover a new kind of hell waiting for them.  * The music of a generation—of many generations—revealed as something older, hungrier and more insidious than a bad acid trip.  * A war-widow who rediscovers love and passion… only to cultivate the world’s end.  Featuring stories by: Joyce Carol Oates, Joe R. Lansdale, Gary A. Braunbeck, John F.D. Taff, Lucy A. Snyder, William Meikle, Ronald Malfi, Damien Angelica Walters, and others. With a foreword by Laird Barron and stunning illustrations by Luke Spooner.   Every turn you take leads back to Main Street. We've been waiting. Welcome home.

Shadows Over Main Street, Volume 2

Royce, Eden

Madron, Suzanne

Wynne, Douglas

Booth III, Max

Wehunt, Michael

Wilburn, Jay

Braunbeck, Gary A.

Kemper, Erinn L.

LaSart, C. W.

Award-winning author and “Champion Mojo Storyteller” Joe R. Lansdale (Hap &amp; Leonard, Bubba Ho Tep) and his daughter, author / country singer Kasey Lansdale, have joined forces to bring you a short story collection showcasing the new dynamic duo of supernatural sleuthing, Dana Roberts and her sidekick Jana! Terror is Our Business gathers together all of Dana’s and Jana’s previous cases in a single volume, and features an all-new adventure, “The Case of the Ragman’s Anguish,” written exclusively for this collection. Join Dana and Jana as they investigate—and battle—angry jinns, malevolent shadows, ancient travelers, and soul-sucking shapeshifters. With two tough, resourceful women on the case, the specters from “the other side” won’t know what hit them!

Terror is Our Business: Dana Roberts' Casebook of Horrors

LANSDALE, Joe R.

Lansdale, Kasey

Throughout history, there have been certain moral evils so entangling, so alluring, that they routinely give birth to countless other evils in the hearts of human beings. From antiquity, these "capital vices" have been known as the seven deadly sins. Now, from the editors who brought you Cutting Block Single Slices and Shadows Over Main Street, comes an all-new novella anthology featuring seven dark fiction authors at the top of their games, each writing passionately about one of The Seven Deadliest sins. Inside these pages: John C. Foster spins "Gilda," a yarn about Avarice; Bracken MacLeod takes us on the road to Wrath with "A Short Madness"; Kasey Lansdale's "Cap Diamant" teaches us the steep cost of Pride; Brian Kirk lays bare the Jealousy hidden beneath affluence in "Chisel and Stone"; Rena Mason reveals a new and terrifying guise of Sloth in "Clevengers of the Carrion Sea"; Richard Thomas examines Lust in his dystopian "Ring of Fire"; and John F.D. Taff feeds us the darker aspects of Gluttony in "All You Care to Eat." These dark tales from a cabal of highly regarded and award-winning authors hold nothing back, so turn the pages and feast your eyes. The Seven Deadliest sins await you.

The Seven Deadliest

Kirk, Brian

MacLeod, Bracken

Foster, John C.

Mason, Rena

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