When 30-something Emily Collins inherits her recently murdered Aunt's house she moves to Heartshorne, Oklahoma, to claim it and confront her family's dark past. After her dead mother begins speaking to her in dreams, Emily stumbles upon a horrible community secret that leads to terrifying revelations about the supernatural pull of Echo Lake.

Echo Lake: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Trent, Letitia

United States

Dark House Press

The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories are the future of genre-bending fiction. Table of Contents: Foreword by Laird Barron Stephen Graham Jones, "Father Son, Holy Rabbit" Paul Tremblay, "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks" Lindsay Hunter, "That Baby" Roxane Gay, "How" Kyle Minor, "The Truth and All Its Ugly" Craig Clevenger, "Act of Contrition" Micaela Morrissette, "The Familiars" Richard Lange, "Fuzzyland" Benjamin Percy, "Dial Tone" Roy Kesey, "Instituto" Craig Davidson, "Rust and Bone" Rebecca Jones-Howe, "Blue Hawaii" Joe Meno, "Children Are the Only Ones Who Blush" Vanessa Veselka, "Christopher Hitchens" Nik Korpon, "His Footsteps are Made of Soot" Brian Evenson, "Windeye" Craig Wallwork, "Dollhouse" Tara Laskowski, "The Etiquette of Homicide" Matt Bell, "Dredge" Antonia Crane, "Sunshine for Adrienne"

The New Black: A Neo-Noir Anthology

GAY, Roxane

EVENSON, BRIAN

Percy, Benjamin

Jones, Stephen Graham

Joshua City is one of seven city-states in a post-apocalyptic world where water is scarce and technology is at mid-twentieth-century Soviet levels. As the novel opens, the Baikal Sea has been poisoned, causing a major outbreak of a flesh-eating disease called nekrosis. Against this backdrop of political corruption, violence and oppression, a struggle for control of Joshua City ensues, and a revolutionary group called The Underground emerges. The Doors You Mark Are Your Own is a sweeping literary epic—the result of years of painstaking writing and world-building by two brilliantly imaginative minds—that readers will get lost in and never want to end.

The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (Joshua City Trilogy)

Elliott, Okla

Clement, Raul

WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORROR NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDS NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS The fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out of print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions. In "Thirteen," horrors lurk behind the flickering images on the big screen. "Welcome to the Reptile House" reveals the secrets that hide in our flesh. In "The Black Sleeve of Destiny," a single sweatshirt leads to unexpectedly dark adventures. And the title story, "After the People Lights Have Gone Off," is anything but your typical haunted house story. With an introduction by Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale, and featuring fifteen full-page illustrations by Luke Spooner, After the People Lights Have Gone Off gets under your skin and stays there. Table of Contents: Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale Illustrations by Luke Spooner Thirteen Brushdogs Welcome to the Reptile House This is Love The Spindly Man The Black Sleeve of Destiny The Spider Box (original Snow Monsters Doc’s Story The Dead Are Not Xebico Second Chances After the People Lights Have Gone Off Uncle Solve for X

After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Edited by Richard Thomas Foreword by Chuck Wendig Cover art by Daniele Serra Interior illustrations by Luke Spooner TABLE OF CONTENTS: Wilderness by Letitia Trent Monster Season by Joshua Blair Cat Calls by Rebecca Jones-Howe Ceremony of the White Dog by Kevin Catalano The Armadillo by Heather Foster The Last Manuscript by Usman T. Malik Single Lens Reflection by Jason Metz The Mother by Nathan Beauchamp Everything in Its Place by Adam Peterson When We Taste of Death by Damien Angelica Walters Figure Eight by Brendan Detzner My Mother's Condition by Faith Gardner Fragile Magic by Alex Kane The Eye Liars by Sarah Read Searching for Gloria by W. P. Johnson And All Night Long We Have Not Stirred by Barbara Duffey Dull Boy by David James Keaton Brujeria for Beginners by Marytza Rubio Heirloom by Kenneth Cain The Owl and the Cigarette by Amanda Gowin Desert Ghosts by Mark Jaskowski Blood Price by Axel Taiari

Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology

Keaton, David James

Walters, Damien Angelica

Catalano, Kevin

Detzner, Brendan

Genre Fiction

Vile Men is a collection of fourteen short stories that are transgressive in nature, filled with heart and emotion, leaving you sweaty and spent, your heart pounding in your chest. Stolen moments on the subway, fear of intimacy, sexual perversion and dark fears come home to roost all unite in a powerful mixture of literary fiction, contemporary fairy tales, and late night confessions. Shocking and yet touching, unnerving and yet brutally honest, Rebecca Jones-Howe is an emerging author that you'll want to keep an eye on. ADVANCE PRAISE: "Rebecca Jones-Howe’s Vile Men is an exciting, dark, sexy collection that is convulsively beautiful and bright. Each story digs a great hole and is filled with the most savage, brutal, human emotions: love, desire, addiction and the impossibility of satisfaction." Antonia Crane, author of Spent Rebecca Jones-Howe fearlessly tackles the ugliness most of us manage to hide. Each broken character blurs the lines between villain and victim as they bathe in sex, horror, dignity, want, resignation, and darkness. Vile Men is the handbook to uncovering your damage.” Mercedes M. Yardley, author of Pretty Little Dead Girls "Rebecca Jones-Howe takes you on a tour of the human psyche that is dark, disturbing, and exquisitely written. The sentences in this book are the best kind of dangerous. Just when you think you're safe another one comes along and draws blood." Rob Hart, author of New Yorked Rebecca Jones-Howe's Vile Men shows us characters driven by desperation to do violence to themselves or others, but behind these sharp stories about the horror of gender and sex is an empathetic insight into human weakness. Jones-Howe might bring us to the darkest parts of the human heart, but her stories remind us that we are all a little bit vile, too.” Letitia Trent, author of Echo Lake "Vile Men is dark, provocative stuff. The men found within these pages are indeed bad news, but the most dangerous paths aren't always led by them, as Rebecca Jones-Howe's narrators take us right past the expected awfulness of dead-end, drug-addled relationships, bad sex on ant hills, or navigating the treacherous rubble of the bar scene, where her women can find satisfaction and even surprise flashes of triumph amongst all the emotional jetsam. "There's a certain kind of man who goes for damaged girls," she writes. They may be broken, but as vile as these men may be (and always such needy little beasts) they don't get to have everything." David James Keaton, author of The Last Projector

Vile Men

Jones-Howe, Rebecca

In this haunting and hypnotizing novel, a young woman loses everything--half of her body, her fiancé, and possibly her unborn child--to a terrible apartment fire. While recovering from the trauma, she discovers a photo album inhabited by a predatory ghost who promises to make her whole again, all while slowly consuming her from the inside out. Damien Angelica Walters is the author of Paper Tigers (Dark House Press, 2016) and Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Publications, 2015). Her short fiction has been nominated twice for a Bram Stoker Award, reprinted in The Year's Best Dark Fantasy &amp; Horror and The Year's Best Weird Fiction, and published in various anthologies and magazines, including Cassilda's Song, Nightscript I, Cemetery Dance Online, Nightmare Magazine, Black Static, and Apex Magazine. She's also a freelance editor and, until the magazine's closing in 2013, she was an Associate Editor of the Hugo Award-winning Electric Velocipede.

Paper Tigers

Dramas & Plays

After an aimless life, Martin Blaskett is ready to settle down, unaware of the tension rising in his new town from unknowable forces. When he draws the attention of a shape-shifter from local legend, his world is shaken, and he is led across the hazy border of the feral wilderness with a tempestuous history.
Steve Himmer is author of the novels The Bee-Loud Glade and Fram. His stories have appeared in Hobart, Hawk &amp; Handsaw, the Collagist, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He edits the web journal Necessary Fiction and teaches at Emerson College in Boston.

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Himmer, Steve

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