Ever felt the hairs on your neck rise at something a toddler says?Inspired by the creepy things kids say and do, this collection of horror stories features unexpected frights, nervous giggles and often poignant reflections on life, childhood, and the terrors of growing up - such as when your new house gets a taste for human flesh.And remember, when you hear your child calling for you in the middle of the night – the things that go bump in the night aren’t always under the bed.All proceeds from sales of this book donated to Duffy Books in Homes, to support their child literacy work.Table of Contents:Caterpillars by Debbie Cowens White by Grant Stone Burying Baby by Paul Mannering People Pleaser by M Darusha Wehm Con Somma Passione by Lee Murray Giant by Jack Newhouse Winter Feast by Elizabeth Gatens What’s the Story, Mother? by Lewis Morgan Blonde Obsession by Jean Gilbert Simon Says by Matthew Sanborn Smith Tarantella Moon by Dan Rabarts Backyard Gardening by Jake Bible Because I Could … by Celine Murray End of the Rainbow by Jenni Sands Kiss Your Mother by Alan Lindsay Practice Makes Perfect by Sally McLennan Blood Sisters by Matt Cowens Windows by M Darusha Wehm Dad’s Wisdom by Eileen Mueller Recession by Darian Smith Paper Butterfly by Alan Lindsay The Skulkybunking Wurld Champyon of the Hole Woorld by Paul Mannering Teach Your Children Well by Lee Murray The Character of 82 James St by Anna Caro Love Hurts by Jan Goldie Dark Night by Jenni Sands Friends by AJ Ponder Shadowed Halls by Michael J Parry If They Hadn’t Landed So Close by Matt Cowens All the Ghosts by Dan Rabarts The Boy with Anime Eyes by Kevin G Maclean The Oracle of Karawa by Paul Mannering Lockdown by Piper Mejia The Birthday Present by Sally McLennan Peter and the Wolf by Lee Murray How They See You by Morgan Davie The Dead Way by JC Hart

Baby Teeth: Bite-sized Tales of Terror

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Paper Road Press

Engines of Empathy (The Drakeforth Trilogy) (Volume 1)

Paul Mannering

For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. 
This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. 
Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid. 
Featuring: 
"We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons) 
"Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld) 
"The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space) 
"Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach) 
"A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform) 
"Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex) 
"A Brighter Future", by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) 
"The People Between the Silences", by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall) 
"Common Denominator", by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal) 
"The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's) 
"The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis) 
"Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) 
"Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi C. Buchanan (originally published in Apex)

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I

Science Fiction & Fantasy

English, Mark

Cade, Octavia

Buchanan, Andi C.

Hodgkinson, Marie

Fitzwater, A.J.

Wehm, M. Darusha

Hart, J.C.

Wi, Toni

McNeur, Isabelle

Monaghan, Sean

Fantasy

From a Shadow Grave

Ancient myths go high-tech a decade after the New New Zealand Wars.Safe homes and harbours turn to strangeness within and without.Splintered selves come together again - or not.Twelve authors. Thirteen stories. The best short science fiction and fantasy from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019.With work by: Juliet MarillierNic LowRem WigmoreAndi C BuchananOctavia Cade, A.J. FitzwaterNicole TanMelanie Harding-ShawAlisha TysonJames RowlandZoë MeagerCasey LucasVolume two in the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy series from Paper Road Press.

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: Volume 2 (Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy)

The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of SFF writing from Aotearoa New Zealand. 
Table of Contents: 
New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell 
Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw 
Kōhuia, by T Te Tau 
Death confetti, by Zoë Meager 
For Want of Human Parts, by Casey Lucas 
How To Get A Girlfriend (When You’re A Terrifying Monster), by Marie Cardno 
Salt White, Rose Red, by Emily Brill-Holland 
Florentina, by Paul Veart 
Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead, by Octavia Cade 
The Waterfall, by Renee Liang 
The Double-Cab Club, by Tim Jones 
Wild Horses, by Anthony Lapwood 
You and Me at the End of the World, by Dave Agnew 
The Secrets She Eats, by Nikky Lee 
How To Build A Unicorn, by AJ Fitzwater 
Even the Clearest Water, by Andi C. Buchanan 
You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good Day, by Anna Kirtlan 
The Moamancer (A Musomancer short story), by Bing Turkby 
They probably play the viola, by Jack Remiel Cottrell 
Crater Island, by P.K. Torrens 
A Love Note, by Melanie Harding-Shaw 
The Turbine at the End of the World, by James Rowland

Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume 3

Remiel Cottrell, Jack

Harding-Shaw, Melanie

Te Tau, T

Meager, Zoë

Cardno, Marie

Brill-Holland, Emily

Veart, Paul

Liang, Renee

Short Stories & Anthologies

Life is tough when you're an eldritch abomination. Trillin isn't technically a person. She's a tiny breakaway piece of consciousness from the all-devouring Endless, doomed to eventually rejoin it. But when a human witch stumbles into her world, Trillin suddenly has a new reason to figure out individuality-one shape-shifting tentacle at a time. Sian is sure important magical discoveries are just around the corner, if she can just get her portals to work reliably. Reaching the dimension of the Endless without being eaten on sight is a dream come true, and Sian is determined to explore every bit of it. For science, of course, not for the strangely adorable life-form who keeps popping up and trying to... flirt? But Trillin's world can be a dangerous place, and keeping Sian safe might risk drawing the attention of the Endless itself-which will swallow Trillin up along with all her dreams of humanity. Together, can this unlikely duo escape the Endless, figure out the optimum number of appendages, and maybe even find love? &#65279;How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster) is a sweet F/F romance between a witch scientist and a shape-shifting Cthulhu monster. HEA guaranteed!

How to Get a Girlfriend (When You're a Terrifying Monster)

Romance

Paranormal

Sian's world thinks she's dead. Trillin's dimension wants to make sure of it. And the place they escaped to together just threw a dragon at them. 
All Sian wanted was a quiet moment to make out with her new girlfriend. Instead, she and the adorably monstrous Trillin find themselves trapped by a world whose fairytale magic has very strict ideas about who gets a happily-ever-after. Princesses exist to be rescued. Heroes do the rescuing. And monsters? 
Monsters get killed. 
In a world where happy-ever-after has teeth, Sian and Trillin are going to learn to bite back. 
How to Get a Date with the Evil Queen is a paranormal romcom featuring ridiculous gender and genre roles, big swords and a woman who doesn't know how to use them, and shapeshifting true love winning against all odds.

How to Get a Date with the Evil Queen (Monster Girlfriend)

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