1888: A killer stalks the streets of London's Whitechapel district, brutally--some would say ritualistically--murdering women. With each slaying, the killer grows bolder, his crimes more extreme. So far, there have been five victims (that we know of): Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly. The story of Jack the Ripper captured lurid headlines and the public's imagination, and the first fictionalization of the Ripper killings, John Francis Brewer's The Curse Upon Mitre Square appeared in October of 1888, mere weeks after the discovery of Jack's first victim. Since then, hundreds of stories have been written about Bloody Jack, his victims, and his legacy. Authors ranging from Marie Belloc Lowndes to Robert Bloch; from Harlan Ellison to Maureen Johnson; from Roger Zelazny to Alan Moore have added their own tales to the Ripper myth. Now, as we arrive at the quasquicentennial of the murders, we bring you a few tales more. From the editor who brought you The Book of Cthulhu comes Tales of Jack the Ripper, featuring new fiction by many of today's darkest dreamers, including Laird Barron, Walter Greatshell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ed Kurtz, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Stanley C. Sargent, E. Catherine Tobler, and many more.

Tales of Jack the Ripper

Literature & Fiction

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Laird Barron

Alan M. Clark

Gary A. Braunbeck

Ann K. Schwader

joe-r-lansdale

Ramsey, Campbell

Ennis Drake

Walter Greatshell

Genre Fiction

Word Horde

Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. There are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech... and we love you. --- Table of Contents Introduction: Of Whisky and Doppelgängers - Justin Steele The Harrow - Gemma Files Pale Apostle - Jesse Bullington and J. T. Glover Walpurgisnacht - Orrin Grey Learn to Kill - Michael Cisco Good Lord, Show Me the Way - Molly Tanzer Snake Wine - Jeffrey Thomas Love Songs from the Hydrogen Jukebox - T.E. Grau The Old Pageant - Richard Gavin Notes for "The Barn in the Wild" - Paul Tremblay Firedancing - Michael Griffin The Golden Stars at Night - Allyson Bird The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of Yesterdays - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. The Woman in the Wood - Daniel Mills Brushdogs - Stephen Graham Jones Ymir - John Langan Of a Thousand Cuts - Cody Goodfellow Tenebrionidae - Scott Nicolay and Jesse James Douthit-Nicolay Afterword - Ross E. Lockhart

The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

An anthology of original strange stories at the intersection of crime, terror, and supernatural fiction. Inspired by and drawing from the highly stylized cinematic thrillers of Argento, Bava, and Fulci; American noir and crime fiction; and the grim fantasies of Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, and Jean Ray, Giallo Fantastique seeks to unnerve readers through virtuoso storytelling and startlingly colorful imagery. What's your favorite shade of Yellow?

Giallo Fantastique

Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award. There are Things - terrifying Things - whispered of in darkened forests beyond the safe comfort of firelight: The Black Guide, the Broken Ouroboros, the Pageant, Belphegor, Old Leech... These Things have always been here. They predate you. They will outlast you. This book pays tribute to those Things. For We are the Children of Old Leech... and we love you.

Gunslinging, chain smoking, Stetson-wearing Taoist psychopomp, Elouise "Lou" Merriwether might not be a normal 19-year-old, but she's too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts, shades, and geung si to care much about that. It's an important job, though most folks consider it downright spooky. Some have even accused Lou of being more comfortable with the dead than the living, and, well... they're not wrong. When Lou hears that a bunch of Chinatown boys have gone missing somewhere deep in the Colorado Rockies she decides to saddle up and head into the wilderness to investigate. Lou fears her particular talents make her better suited to help placate their spirits than ensure they get home alive, but it's the right thing to do, and she's the only one willing to do it. On the road to a mysterious sanatorium known as Fountain of Youth, Lou will encounter bears, desperate men, a very undead villain, and even stranger challenges. Lou will need every one of her talents and a whole lot of luck to make it home alive... From British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer comes debut novel Vermilion, a spirited weird Western adventure that puts the punk back into steampunk.

Vermilion

Tanzer, Molly

United States

Winner of the 2015 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel Like everyone else in the world, you've wanted to do things people say you shouldn't do.How many times in your life have you wanted to slap someone? Really, literally strike them? You can't even begin to count the times. Hundreds. Thousands. You're not exaggerating. You're not engaging in... whatchamacallit? Hyperbole? You're not engaging in hyperbole.Maybe the impulse flashed through your brain for only a moment, like lightning, when someone tried to skip ahead of you in line at the cafeteria. Hell, at more than one point in your life you've wanted to kill someone; really, literally kill someone. That's not just an expression. Not hyperbole. Then it was gone and replaced by the civilized thought: You can't do that. Not out in public.But you've had the thought...

Mr. Suicide

Cushing, Nicole

In his house at R'lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming... What are the dreams that monsters dream? When will the stars grow right? Where are the sunken temples in which the dreamers dwell? How will it all change when they come home? Within these pages lie the answers, and more, in all-new stories by many of the brightest lights in dark fiction. Gathered together by Ross E. Lockhart, the editor who brought you The Book of Cthulhu, The Children of Old Leech, and Giallo Fantastique, Cthulhu Fhtagn! features nineteen weird tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Cthulhu Fhtagn!

ORRIN GREY LOVES MONSTERS. That is abundantly clear in the stories he spins. No matter where he draws inspiration from, whether the weird tales of Lovecraft, Machen, and Poe or the films of Murnau, Corman, and Argento, the end result is inevitably fresh and new. And wonderfully monstrous. If you love monsters-the macabre, the murderous, the misunderstood; the strange, the sinister, the sympathetic; the cinematic and the literary-you will find plenty to love in Orrin Grey's Painted Monsters &amp; Other Strange Beasts.

Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts

Grey, Orrin

Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.

Furnace

Llewellyn, Livia

Over the last few years, Michael Griffin has been heralded by critics as an author of breathtaking skill, melding the aesthetics of quiet horror, dreamlike wonder, and the strangeness inherent in the classical weird. Readers have sought his stories, scattered throughout prestigious anthologies, magazines, and limited-edition chapbooks, hoping to assemble their own collections of Griffin's ferocious, poetic fiction. Now, Word Horde presents Michael Griffin's debut collection, The Lure of Devouring Light. Here you will find strange and luminous tales, character-driven, emotionally resonant, and grappling with horrors both everyday and supernatural. Experience for yourself The Lure of Devouring Light.

The Lure of Devouring Light

Griffin, Michael

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Tales of Jack the Ripper

The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

Giallo Fantastique

The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron

Vermilion

Mr. Suicide

Cthulhu Fhtagn!

Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts

Furnace

The Lure of Devouring Light