After a solar eclipse, nineteen people were found dead in a remote area of the California National Forest. They were lying in a circle, holding hands and wearing plastic fairy wings. Years later, on the other side of the country, no one in the southern city of Jefferson is concerned about fairies or fairy-worshiping suicide cults. Except for Candy. She might not have proof, but she's damn sure it's going to happen again. The problem is, Candy is a coke-dealing stripper and the only person who will listen to her is an alcoholic mall Santa named Hank, who's only listening because, well...she's hot. There are seven days until the next eclipse.

The Atheist's Prayer

Humor & Entertainment

Biddle, Amy R.

Humor

Perfect Edge

This is the first collection of creative writing-related interviews originally posted on Mourning Goats, a website founded by the mysterious Mr Goat. Over a year of mostly anonymous work, the Goat managed to interview some of the most exciting English-language authors around. Edited by Phil Jourdan and the Goat himself, and featuring expanded interviews not available online, Chewing the Page offers a series of weird and hilarious glimpses at the world of writing. Includes interviews with Stephen Graham Jones, Craig Clevenger, Paul Tremblay, Donald Ray Pollock, Stephen Elliott, Chad Kultgen, Chelsea Cain, Rick Moody, Christopher Moore and Nick Hornby, and others.

Chewing the Page: The Mourning Goats Interviews

Self-Help

Jourdan, Phil

Creativity

Sixteen Small Deaths is a collection of short fiction culled from nearly a decade of work from Boston-based author, Christopher J. Dwyer. The stories in the collection skirt the edges of noir, horror and science-fiction, sometimes bringing the hazy boundaries of all three genres together within a single piece. Sixteen Small Deaths will take the reader on a journey of heartbreak and terror while diving into the dark recesses of the mind.

Sixteen Small Deaths: A Collection of Stories

Literature & Fiction

Dwyer, Christopher

Genre Fiction

Damon lives a content life, playing video games and dealing drugs from his second-hand store while his girlfriend, Mary, drops constant hints about marriage. If only he could tell her his name isn't really Damon. If only he could tell her who he really is. But after he witnesses a friend's murder, a scarlet woman glides into his life, offering the solution to all of his problems. His carefully constructed existence soon shatters like crystal teardrops and he must determine which ghosts won't stay buried - and which ones are trying to kill him - if he wants to learn why Mary has disappeared.

Stay God, Sweet Angel

Korpon, Nik

Fish is an idealistic young composer whose life is in meltdown. Gabrielle is an archaeologist who has uncovered something frightening and needs to get away. The couple escape to economically decimated Greece where they take up residence at the abandoned house of Fish's late father. The arrival of a rebellious lifeguard, a love-struck schoolteacher and an Albanian puppeteer, prompts Fish to follow his utopian dream of creating a new society. But as the heat of the Greek summer rises and tensions in the fledgling 'republic' increase, the unspoilt Aegean shoreline plays host to a series of unexplained events that threatens the future of the community. With the sounds of Fish's imaginary orchestra playing throughout, Thimio's House builds towards an emotional crescendo and a shocking revelation. Lyrical and satirical, funny and sad, sensuous and intellectual, gentle and traumatic, John Kefala Kerr's remarkable debut novel is about the raw unhappiness of modern society and an ancient vision of utopia.

Thimio's House

Kerr, John Kefala

Religion & Spirituality

Vanished poets, overlooked artists, hapless visionaries: The Purgatory Press opens a tantalizing window on a publisher’s catalogue of improbable books. Dark, comical, and startlingly inventive, After the End is a dazzling display of postmodern storytelling. These short fictions showcase the many talents of an emerging author.

The Purgatory Press / After the End

Culbert, John

Literary

After obscure author of strange stories, SimonPeterkin, vanishes in bizarre circumstances, a typescript, of a textentitled, The Wanderer, is found in his flat. The Wanderer is a weird document. On a dying Earth, in the far-flung future, a man,an immortal, types the tale of his aeon-long life as prey, as a huntedman; he tells of his quitting the Himalayas, his sanctuary for thousands of years, to return to his birthplace, London, to write the memoirs;and writes, also, of the night he learned he was cursed with lifewithout cease, an evening in a pub in that city, early in thetwenty-first century, a gathering to tell of eldritch experiencesundergone. Is The Wanderer a fiction, perhaps Peterkin's last novel, or something far stranger? Perhaps more account than story? A fiendishly wrought labyrinth of tales within tales, opening out fromthe most intimate horrors into aeons of desolation, wonderfully writtenand devilishly compelling. -Hal Duncan, author of Vellum and Ink Achieves an uncanny and unsettling quality, trailing itself spookily across the tender membrane of the reader's imagination. -Adam Roberts, author of Bête and Jack Glass Easily one of the best modern horror novels I have read in many, many years.Imagine M.P. Shiel and William Hope Hodgson channeled through MarkSamuels, with frequent scenes of quite nightmarish ghastly horror andcruelty that read like Reggie Oliver doing a novelisation of Cannibal Holocaust. Witty, clever, and utterly, deliciously horrific. I can't begin todescribe how impressed I was with this, and how much I enjoyed it. Justmarvellous. -John Llewellyn Probert, author of The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine and The House that Death Built The Wanderer is a grimoire, filled with stories about stories, stories withinstories, legends, folktales, histories and foretellings. It's a bookyou'll stay up all night reading - both to find out what happens next,and to forfend the nightmares it will surely inspire. -Neil D.A. Stewart, author of The Glasgow Coma Scale A little like wandering through a library assembled by some insane devotee of fantastic atrocities and excesses. -Robert Maslen, editor of Mervyn Peake: Collected Poems

The Wanderer

Jarvis, Timothy J.

Craft, 47, has always craved the comfort of his role as the eccentric English teacher at Earhart High in the suburbs of St. Louis. But now he finds himself in the school's library, suffering a mysterious mental paralysis that won't allow him to stop reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Lila, 21, has a holiday-break rendezvous planned with her old mentor, Craft. Actually, Lila has many plans and they're not all nice. She's feeling more than a little betrayed and bewildered after discovering that her father is not the man her mother always said. In fact, he kills people.Duke, 17, is a high school dropout working in the bowels of Disney World. In his room before dawn, he stuffs essentials into a backpack, preparing to leave home for the first time. It's news to him, but he has this (disturbed?) sister, Lila, and she wants him to come to L.A. to meet her. The altered reality Craft and these lost-and-found siblings inhabit propels them on separate journeys across America. In a landscape of angels and mirrors, allies and adversaries, Craft, Lila, and Duke converge to expose the man whose life of violence connects them. Will they find wholeness, justice, and love? Or is it all an invitation to unleash demons best left asleep?

Spiral Bound Brother

Wilson, Ryan Elliot

Contemporary

A collection of noir, surreal stories, comicbook asides, hardboiled moments, fantasy, dystopia, sci-fi, snapshots of Japanese culture, and the existentialism of contemporary experimental electronic music. This is Bergen's baptismal short story collection, bringing together recent short stories, never-before-seen older material, new comicbook art, and a range of incisive pop-culture articles written about music and Japan from 1999 to 2013.

The Condimental Op

Comics & Graphic Novels

Bergen, Andrez

Manga

Heropa: A vast, homogenized city patrolled by heroes and populated by adoring masses. A pulp fiction fortress of solitude for crime-fighting team the Equalizers, led by new recruit Southern Cross - a lifetime away from the rain-drenched, dystopic metropolis of Melbourne. Who, then, is killing the great Capes of Heropa? In this paired homage to detective noir from the 1940s and the '60s Marvel age of trail-blazing comic books, Andrez Bergen gloriously redefines the mild-mannered superhero novel.

Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?

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