Bear witness to the ghosts and dark gods of Motor City, revealed by the light of a fiery cityscape. It’s the night before Halloween and Detroit is burning in a celebration of arson and vandalism. Devil’s Night is a unique collection of interconnected urban horror stories taking you back to October 30th, 1987. 
Drawing inspiration from Michigan legends such as the Nain Rouge and the Hobo Pig Lady, Lawson weaves a rich and haunting tapestry of terror and tragedy. Inside these pages, you will find cursed vinyl records, inner-city druids, diabolical priests, and slim slivers of hope. Devil’s Night burns with Curtis M. Lawson’s signature brand of supernatural dread. This is smart psychological horror, ablaze with visceral imagery, with equal measures of heart and heartache.

Devil's Night

Literature & Fiction

Lawson, Curtis M.

Morey, Joe

United States

Weird House Press

Fourteen spine-tingling excursions into realms of nightmare in the tradition of H. P. Lovecraft, including two full-length novellas never before published, will leave you longing for refuge. Here hide horrors that burrow under the skin to lay eggs of anguish inside the brain. Waking them may mean never sleeping again … or sleeping forever. 
Thousands of years ago, a civilization that inhabited the Gobi Desert chiseled off the face of their stone god. Now modern technology will recreate the visage they destroyed.… Nova Scotian sailors have a charming custom of saluting an isolated rock formation that resembles a mother and child … but it is an inhuman statue of something else entirely.… A dark lake hides more than a bereft father’s grief.… 
A doomed beast learns what being a monster truly means.… The unguessable secrets behind the House of Usher are unveiled by an unwilling guest.… Witch-kin may be worse than no family at all for a lonely youth.… A nursing job at a care facility in Innsmouth—what could go wrong? 
In league with the village church, a wealthy mine owner exploits orphans … or serves a deity far more ominous than two young schoolteachers realize.… An archaeologist is fascinated by two lost civilizations—and their gods, whose enmity persists into the present day.… Holes form, sent from another world, that presage fearsome mental emissaries.… Buried on an impossibly distant island by none other than John Dee, the warnings against exhuming it should not have been ignored.… Some men want what they should not have, cannot refuse a terrible gift.… In a post-apocalyptic America, a hideous religion has a use for an untainted man.… A young lady sent to England to become a governess finds something worse than an entrepreneur’s traveling menagerie aboard the doomed vessel on which she sails. 
Other worlds exist that press against our own—and sometimes things pass through the edges where sanity has rubbed thin. From the fertile imagination of Donald Tyson, a reading experience that takes you down paths untrodden, through unmarked forests, with no signposts to lead you back home.

The Skinless Face

TYSON, DONALD

Genre Fiction

Unquiet Stars is the ninth collection from Rhysling Award-winning speculative poet Ann K. Schwader. These poems of somber brilliance are equally magisterial as metrical formalism or as free verse. Complex and hypnotic, Schwader's work leads us down-or out-into ancient darknesses that touch us where we live.

Unquiet Stars

Schwader, Ann K.

Poetry

H. P. Lovecraft’s fabled character, Alhazred, the mad Arab who wrote the infamous Necronomicon is back in a new and startling tale of sword and sorcery, horror, and adventure. 
The infamous author of the Necronomicon, Abdul Alhazred, is sent by the Caliph, Muawiya II, from Damascus to the distant Oasis of Jubbah, which lies in the midst of the Nefud Desert, to search of a fabled red stone that fell from the heavens many ages ago. The stone is mystically linked to the black stone in the Ka’bah at Mecca, and has the power to transform the man who holds it into a conqueror of nations, making him invulnerable in battle. It was once possessed by Alexander the Great, but was lost in Persia after Alexander’s death. 
Rumor has it that the stone was carried westward into Arabia by the mysterious cliff-dwelling clan of wanderers known as the Thamud. The last mention of the stone in ancient written records intimates that it was hidden by the Thamud at Jubbah. 
Alhazred must locate the stone before it can be found by the agents of the Caliph’s arch rival, Marwan ibn al-Hakam, who seeks to overthrow Muawiya and create a new ruling dynasty. Marwan’s agents in Jubbah are deceitful and dangerous, leaving Alhazred to wonder who he can trust. Does the stone lie forgotten in a cave on the mountain Jebel Umm Sanman, which looms over the oasis like a thundercloud, or is this only a rumor to mislead fools? 
The witch of the mountain, Salamagoogah, is ancient beyond the memory of men. She knows the secrets of the red stone, but will she share them with Alhazred or lead him to his death? 
Who will find the red stone of Jubbah first? The Caliph, Muawiya, in Damascus? His rival Marwan? The witch Salamagoogah? Or will it be another? The fate of the entire Caliphate hangs in the balance, for the man who holds the red stone holds the world on the palm of his hand.

The Red Stone of Jubbah

If you've felt eyes studying you from the shadows, it has seen you... If crooked branches have rapped upon your window at night, it has summoned you... If your dreams are plagued by half-glimpsed terrors, it has claimed you... From One of the most gruesomely original voices in contemporary horror comes this book of thirteen nightmares. Richard Gavin will plunge you into underworlds of Hellish beauty; give you flight on Dread-Moths' wings; tend for you a thicket that blooms with feral children. More than a volume of horror tales, this collection offers visions of a realm whose splendours are as illuminating as they speak. 'Richard Gavin is a major find; someone who can shake up horror's world with a whisper.' -Hellnotes 'Richard Gavin's tales are genuinely evocative of the strange and alien.' -Ramsey Campbell

Vale of the White Horse & Other Strange British Stories

Thomas, Scott

Past and present collide in these eleven strange tales from Joshua Rex. Ranging from quiet and surreal, to grotesque and horrifying, each of these thoughtful stories promises to stick with you long after reading them.\nStep into worlds populated by predatory pictures, tidal waves of trash, and ditch spirits who lure young boys to their doom. Stand witness as the present pulsates with vengeful pasts and is contacted by dubious futures. Surrender to the dark, but know that there is also redemption in the light of long-dead and luminescent stars.

The Descent and Other Strange Stories

Rex, Joshua

For the first time, Far Below and Other Weird Stories contain all of Robert Barbour Johnson’s weird fiction in one book, plus three essays selected by S. T. Joshi. His stories were admired by H. P. Lovecraft, and, “Far Below” was voted in 1953 by readers as the best story ever published in Weird Tales magazine. His stories are distinctive, and frequently use common motifs such as inanimate objects coming to life, ancestral curses, vampires, werewolves, witches, and so on. He always manages to infuse new life into these venerable themes by innovative treatment, and writes with an intense Poe like style which makes his weird fiction entertaining to read.

Far Below and Other Weird Stories

Johnson, Robert Barbour

Tony Richards' stories first started appearing in three classic long-running British series, The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and the legendary Pan Book of Horror. And it was the editor of the ghost series - Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean practitioner of dark fiction himself - who was most vocal of his praise. "I have no hesitation in saying," he wrote in the introduction to the first tale he published, After Dark, "that this is a brilliant story, told in a crisp, even elegant style. I regard Mr. Richards as a very welcome addition to my growing stable of authors." 
Since then Tony's fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Midnight Street, Cemetery Dance, The 3rd Alternative, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Static, Dark Terrors and Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, as well as in a slew of top anthologies including Best New Horror.\nA young boy creates an invisible friend. A dying man visits a faith-healer. Three friends on a fishing trip set up camp beside a jet-black lake. While out there in the ocean something waits.\nWhat is going on beyond the barbed wire fence at Trevon Point Research Facility? Why are the inhabitants of a small Spanish town attending a bullfight at the stroke of midnight? Are the secretive rulers of old Paris coming back. Just how dangerous can it be, searching for new love on the internet?\nAnd in the freezing icy waters off the coast of Scandinavia... do men who are dead stay that way?\n26 tales of terror from the supernatural dark including six in Tony's fictional town of Birchiam-on-sea.

After Dark: The Best Horror Fiction of Tony Richards

Richards, Tony

n 1932, the young Carl Jacobi (1908–1997) created a sensation with the haunting story “Mive,” published in the January issue of Weird Tales. One of the most prolific weird fiction writers of the 20th century, Jacobi was an early member of the Minneapolis Fantasy Society. He went on to write dozens of stories for pulp magazines in the weird, fantasy, and science fiction genres. August Derleth was a fan, and three volumes of Jacobi stories were published by Arkham House, but many others remain uncollected or unpublished.This first volume of Jacobi’s best weird stories includes “Mive,” along with “Revelations in Black,” a mesmerizing vampire tale; “The Satanic Piano,” one of several stories that seek to embody weirdness in music; “Smoke of the Snake,” evoking the opium dens of China; “The Tomb from Beyond,” which takes us to the ancient civilization of Dras; and twelve other chilling tales of supernatural horror.Jacobi’s tales cover an immense creative range, from bizarre artifacts to supernatural manifestations to mythological horrors, set in locales ranging from the mundane to the far-away and exotic. But his protagonists are frequently just ordinary folk, unwittingly stalked by terror.The volume has been assembled by S. T. Joshi, a leading authority on weird fiction, who has added an illuminating introduction and a bibliography.

Mive and Others: Best Weird Stories of Carl Jacobi Volume 1

Jacobi, Carl

Witches in the Corrnfield: Best Weird Stories of Carl Jacobi Volume 2

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