Not all monsters are fantasy. Some are very real, and they walk among us. They're our friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers. They're the people we're supposed to trust...and they know it. Contained within this anthology are 35 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors and best-selling novelists. Brace yourself for the unexpected and unimaginable horror of?human monsters.

Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology (Dark Matter Presents)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

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From acclaimed author Ai Jiang, follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. to the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go. This edition includes a foreword by Yi Izzy Yu, Translator of The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, the essay "A Ramble on Di Fu Ling & Death" by the author, and two bonus short stories from Jiang: "Yǒngshí" and "Teeter Totter."

Linghun

Jiang, Ai

Literary

Remember the '90s? Well...the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn't, and they're living in the year 1997. That's because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash landed in the town's trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite--and right before Christmas! Now it's up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate to stop the spread and defeat the worms before the entire town loses its mind. The only things standing in the way are their troubled pasts, a doomsday cult, and an army of infected prairie dogs.

Frost Bite

Teen & Young Adult

Sylvaine, Angela

SOMETHING WICKED WAITS. When Robin Griffiths embarks upon the restoration of a stained-glass window in a thirteenth-century church, little does she comprehend the stakes involved. The more slivers of glass she pieces together, the more she realizes things are not what they appear to be in the seemingly cozy hamlet of Bilbury. Piece by piece, sliver by sliver, the window is revealed in all its glory. But will she survive with her sanity intact, or will reawakening the image in the window prove to be her undoing?

Mosaic

McCarthy, Catherine

29 BRAND NEW SCI-FI HORROR STORIES\nThe future is now, and it's not what we were promised. The optimistic science fiction of old was wrong. Progress is not linear, technology creates as many problems as it solves, and the concept of a better tomorrow has become an abstraction that is in no way guaranteed. When looking at the future now, we no longer ask what is possible, we wonder how we'll cope. Contained within this anthology are 29 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors. Brace yourself for the all too real horrors of what could very well be our terribly monstrous futures.\n﻿﻿﻿﻿STORIES BY\nM. H. Ayinde, P. A. Cornell, Yelena Crane, Rodrigo Culagovski, Koji A. Dae, Kevin M. Folliard, Lew Furber, Andrea Goyan, Ivy Grimes, Kay Hanifen, D. A. Jobe, Wailana Kalama, Rae Knowles, Catherine Kuo, Rich Larson, Avra Margariti, J. A. W. McCarthy, Christi Nogle, Ashleigh Shears, D. Roe Shocky, Lisa Short, Hugh A. D. Spencer, Simo Srinivas, Kanishk Tantia, M. Elizabeth Ticknor, S. J. Townend, Kaitlin Tremblay, Emily Ruth Verona, Aigner Loren Wilson\nEdited by Alex Woodroe. Introduction by Andrew F. Sullivan, author of THE MARIGOLD. Cover art by Olly Jeavons.

Dark Matter Presents Monstrous Futures: A Sci-Fi Horror Anthology

31 BRAND NEW DARK FANTASY HORROR STORIES Bloody corridors of ancient rock. A castle surrounded by poisonous thorns. A lost temple of traps and corpses. A subaqueous cave at the bottom of a cursed lake. These are the places where secrets are buried, where ancient evils are summoned, where beasts are imprisoned, where the insane lie in wait. These are tombs of darkness and nightmare, where if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will stare back. Heed the warnings of your elders and return from whence you came. Ahead lie monster lairs. STORIES BY Fatima Abdullahi, J. W. Allen, R. F. Anding, Michael Boulerice, Kevin M. Casin, Kaitlin Caul, Lyndsey Croal, Marie Croke, Koji A. Dae, Oleander Dudek, Victor Forna, L. P. Hernandez, Jordan Hirsch, Andrew Leon Hudson, Vanessa Jae, Ai Jiang, Wailana Kalama, Alex Langer, Rajiv Moté, Leah Ning, Damilola Oyedotun, Zachary Rosenberg, Abhijeet Sathe, Jean Strickland, Kanishk Tantia, Gretchen Tessmer, V. F. Thompson, D. Matthew Urban, Emily Ruth Verona, Carson Winter, Lucy Zhang Edited by Anna Madden. Introduction by Anna Madden. Cover art by Olly Jeavons.

Dark Matter Presents Monster Lairs: A Dark Fantasy Horror Anthology

The Bleed

Schreffler, Stephen S

HOLLYWOOD HAUNTS DARK MATTER. &#65279;DARK MATTER PRESENTS: HAUNTED REELS is the newest anthology in our 'Dark Matter Presents' series. In April 2020, the world faced imminent lock-down, so a group of filmmakers started a virtual support group. Once a week, these diverse voices would assemble to do what they do best: tell each other stories. Campfire horror tales, emotional cosmic mysteries, and anything else that either made them take their minds off what was happening to the world, or help them understand it. HAUNTED REELS is the best of those stories. Curated by film producer, David Lawson Jr., this collection features 29 brand-new stories written by some of the biggest and most creative names in film, TV, and video games, including C. Robert Cargill (Sinister, Dr. Strange, The Black Phone), Aaron Moorhead & Justin Benson (Something in the Dirt, Moon Knight, Loki), and Janina Gavankar (The Morning Show, God of War: Ragnarök, Horizon Zero Dawn, Tales of the Jedi). The book covers a wide range of genre fiction, from science fiction and horror, to alternate history and new weird, so there is sure to be something in here for every kind of reader and fan. STORIES BY: Jay BaruchelThe Gloom Justin BensonThe World Often End Lola BlancYeast Sarah BolgerThe Deception of Youth C. Robert CargillIt Stood Above Me B. J. Colangelo"Natalie Fears Recurrence" and Other Letters the Psychiatrist Recommended She Write Michael DunkerDetroit Owen EgertonDead No Longer Elise Finnerty & Estelle Girard-ParksIt Comes Back Kyra GardnerStrange to Me Janina Gavankar & Russo SchellingFuGaZi Jordan GoldsteinSprout Brea GrantHologram Store Gigi Saul GuerreroThis Is Not My Face Gillie KlabinWeavers David Lawson Jr.Towards the Light Izzy LeeThe Beginning Carl LucasVox Canis Malachi MooreDesire Path Aaron MoorheadA Story with a Beginning and No End Jared MosheThe Man Who Saved the World Wanjiru NjenduIlimu Nick PetersonBreathe Brett Pierce & Drew PierceMuzzle Cezil ReedThe Fiancée Comes to Visit Gary ShermanSpells Graham SkipperGrim A. T. WhiteMidnight: A Series of Letters Ariel VidaRoll the Bones

Dark Matter Presents Haunted Reels: Stories from the Minds of Professional Filmmakers

An abandoned mine. A mummified corpse. A simmering evil.When a shriveled body turns up in an old silver mine, failed detective Syl Dixon gets pulled into the investigation.But the strange case is even more sinister than she imagined. And the dying town of Pate, Idaho is full of secrets that don't want to be uncovered. People go missing all the time. Strange howls echo from the woods. Eerie portraits hang like shrines outside homes. But nobody-including the local sheriff-seems to care. The deeper Syl digs, the more she realizes she's facing a malicious darkness that has plagued Pate for over a century. Can Syl rid the town of this evil before it swallows everything in its path, including her?

The Vein

Nelson, Steph

DARK MATTER MAGAZINE'S THIRTY DARKEST STORIES FROM THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION (2021-2022) Every story published in Dark Matter Magazine is a best-of story to our staff, and that's why we had to do something different when choosing stories for the magazine's first-ever trade paperback anthology. Enter Zero Dark Thirty, a curated collection of the thirty darkest stories to haunt our magazine's pages during the first two years of publication (2021-2022). These are the most depressing and deranged tales the magazine has to offer. Enter if you must, but beware.

Zero Dark Thirty: The 30 Darkest Stories from Dark Matter Magazine, 2021-'22 (Dark Matter Presents)

Dudak, Andy

Piper, Hailey

Nogle, Christi

Carroll, Rob

Ha, Thomas

Meza, R L

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