The 10th Anniversary edition of Vigilantes of Love, John Everson's second book-length collection of tales of short fantasy and the macabre, includes a new preface by the author and six additional stories not present in the original release! A woman whose life is shaped and doomed by the "Calling of the Moon"... A girl who learns the secret powers of the "Seven Deadly Seeds"... A boy who finds that the power of music can open a hidden world thanks to a flute hidden in the attic... A man who learns the meaning behind the voodoo curse that brings the "Vigilantes of Love" from the hearts of the New Orleans swamps to punish the adulterers under the light of the full moon... Vigilantes of Love offers these and many more tales of dark magic, the macabre and things that happen when you go one step beyond. Vigilantes of Love was originally issued in 2003 by Chicago-based Twilight Tales, a year before a limited edition of Everson's first novel, the Bram Stoker Award-winning Covenant, was released. While Everson's first book of short fiction, Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions, focused on erotic horror, Vigilantes of Love was something of a flip side -- this collection offers light and dark fantasy tales, mixed with the occasional slice of horror. The Dark Arts Books 10th Anniversary edition of Vigilantes of Love is an expanded release that includes six never-before-collected Everson tales -- including his first horror publication, "Learning To Build" -- alongside Vigilantes of Love's original 15 dark fantasy and horror stories. The book includes the voodoo-zombie oriented title story, written especially for the collection, as well as "Calling of the Moon," which received an Honorable Mention in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology, and "Lovesong" a 5th Place winner in the 2000 World Horror Convention Fiction Contest.

Vigilantes of Love: 21 Tales of the Dark and Light

Literature & Fiction

Everson, John

Genre Fiction

Dark Arts Books

The debut Dark Arts Books release compiles 12 "new and used" horror stories by four darkly humorous and horrifically dark Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson, and Martin Mundt. CANDY IN THE DUMPSTER includes Jay Bonansinga's short story "Stash," which inspired the movie of the same name featuring Marilyn Chambers and Tim Kazurinsky. It also includes one of John Everson's most popular erotic horror shorts, "Pumpkin Head," a modern "Great Pumpkin" patch fable with a femme fatale twist that has been reprinted several times and translated into French. Martin Mundt's disturbingly funny "A Perfect Plan" opens the book with a Very Bad Things-style descent into personal disaster and Bill Breedlove contributes his typically rapier-sharp wit in the boys shouldn't play with boys who play with dolls tale "The Lost Collection." The book also features eight more must-read stories by the four authors, and a nod-and-a-wink introduction by another lauded Chicago horror veteran, Mort Castle.

Candy in the Dumpster

Jay Bonansinga

John Everson

Martin Mundt

Bill Breedlove

Humor & Satire

The seduction of an angel; the lure of the lash; the touch of psychic hands; living ropes that wind and bind... these are just a few of the alluring sins of these sirens. Look inside, but be careful they don't lure you in too far...

Sins of the Sirens

Rhoads, Loren

Faust, Christa

Alexander, Maria

Wilson, Mehitobel

TWELVE INSCRUTABLY TWISTED TALES... Unusual, weird and wonderful, herein are twelve stories from the minds of four supremely talented — and twisted — authors. From the curse of the living dead to vengeance from beyond the grave, from the darkest corner of Africa to the bowels of the local cemetery, these tales are as unique and as mysterious as…well, a Chinese Tattoo!

Like A Chinese Tattoo

Cullen-Bunn

Rick R. Reed

David Thomas Lord

JA Konrath

United States

UNWELL... Cody Goodfellow wants to introduce you to a goddess who offers unsurpassed pleasure at an unspeakable price. UNWISE... Gemma Files wants you to see what happens when you look too closely into places and things better left unknown. UNQUIET... Mort Castle wants to play some unfamiliar music for you... the tunes of the lost and the damned. UNDONE... Gary A. Braunbeck wants to take you to the edge of madness and perversity... and push you over. From the agony of unrelenting grief to the desperation of spontaneously-combusting convicts, from the grim battle between a human monster and his otherworldy competition to the salacious secret life of Ro-Man(!). All this and more in strange worlds vividly painted by four supremely talented authors worlds that are twisted, cruel and mighty unclean.

Mighty Unclean

Castle, Mort

Goodfellow, Cody

Files, Gemma

Braunbeck, Gary A.

TRAPPED WITHIN THE TWILIGHT... Call it what you like: dusk, twilight, sunset. It's that magical moment between daylight and darkness when anything is possible - the evening ahead promises untold enchantment... or nameless dread. Within are 16 tales of the oncoming blackness, including more than the usual cast of characters. There are shapeshifters and gravediggers, but also supernatural private detectives - and perhaps most terrifying of all - beautiful creatures that prey on... horror writers. Murder, death and things worse than death are all waiting for you When The Night Comes Down.

When The Night Comes Down

Kenyon, Nate

Vincent, Bev

Weinberg, Robert E.

D'Lacey, Joseph

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW... Life is fleeting. Things happen quickly. One moment you're at the office, or maybe sitting in your living room; more of the same old, same old. And the next...You're gone. Forever.  For the brave, Dark Arts Books presents sixteen tales of those sudden moments when life goes from light to dark, laughing to screaming, bad to worse. Scary to...unspeakable.  Four of horror's brightest talents light up the corners, illuminate the shadows and show you ready or not what's there in the dark, where if you're not careful, you might end up Swallowed By The Cracks.  Once again, Dark Arts Books has assembled a killer lineup of top-notch talent and they have delivered some amazing stories! Bram Stoker-Award winning author Lee Thomas shares emotionally-devastating tales spanning the Victorian-Steampunk era ("The Dodd Contrivance") to the newest terror trawling Internet chat rooms ("Appetite of the Cyber Tribes") and more. Gary McMahon, drawing favorable comparisons to Ramsey Campbell in his native England, shows just why in tales ranging from feverish nightmares ("The Ghost in You") to coldly-calculated terror ("Creep") and everything in between.  S.G. Browne, fresh from the success of his ingenious novels Breathers and Fated, explores male sexual fantasies run amok in "Dream Girls," science run amok in "Dr. Lullaby," a charming small town run amok in "Lower Slaughter," and, perhaps most terrifying, a writer run amok in "Lord of Words."  Michael Marshall Smith shows why he is an international sensation with pieces ranging thought-provoking ("REMTemps") to horrifying ("What Goes on in Their Minds") to whimsical ("Dave 2 Beta 2").  Another hugely enjoyable collection of the best dark fiction writing by today's most talented authors, courtesy of your friends at Dark Arts Books.  TABLE OF CONTENTS:  LEE THOMAS:  Appetite of the Cyber Tribes  I'm Your Violence  The Dodd Contrivance  Before You Go  GARY MCMAHON:  Creep  A Night Unburdened  The Ghost in You  My Name is Natasha Putkin  S.G. BROWNE:  Dream Girls  Lower Slaughter  The Lord of Words  Dr. Lullaby  MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH: Death Light  What Goes on in Their Heads  REMTemps  Dave 2 Beta 2

Swallowed By The Cracks

Browne, S.G.

McMahon, Gary

Thomas, Lee

Smith,Michael Marshall

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