American Horror

When Lucas Smoke learns the Ojibway art of carving from his grandfather, he proves to be a natural. He can literally make people come to life in wood. Then Lucas’s growing reputation attracts a mysterious stranger, who offers him a large advance to carve a spirit mask. This mask is to represent the master, but Lucas must find its face in his dreams. As his dreams become more and more disturbing, he feels himself changing. And the mask takes control of his life. Then an encounter with an old woman introduces him to the identity of the master: an ancient sorcerer named Him Standing.

Vern, a Black woman with albinism, is hunted after escaping a religious compound, then she discovers that her body is changing and that she is developing extra-sensory powers. Alone in the woods, she gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong - not with them, but with her own body. To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate not just the secluded religious compound she fled but the violent history of dehumanisation, medical experimentation and genocide that produced it.

"Ameryka?ski Dom Wariatow" jest kontynuacj? mej poprzedniejj ksi??ki "Zakopia?skiego Domu Wariatów". Ka?de opowiadanie pe?ne humoru, ale te? refleksji. Wszystko toczy si? wokó? mieszkanców wielkiego, wiktoria?skiego domu, o nazwie "Silverstone", którego w?a?ciciele zamienili go w B&B i teraz spotykaj? najró?niejszych ciekawych, a czasem dziwnych ludzi, Polaków osiad?ych w Ameryce, Amerykanów od hippiesów do milionerów, podró?ników z calego ?wiata, jednym s?owem ca?? galeri? postaci.

When Pablo’s backyard orange tree mutates into a durian tree, the virus infects every other plant in San Diego, locking people in their homes and ending normal life. Between Pablo’s bullying “friends,” his divorced mom who starts acting like an animal, and his annoying younger brother Camilo, Pablo has much to handle amidst this new epidemic. Faced with a city falling apart, he and Camilo must confront the mayor with the secret they discovered that could hopefully reverse the virus.

From New York Times best-selling author Seanan McGuire, a haunting urban fantasy short story in the Carniepunk anthology - for fans of all things circus, supernatural, and mysterious.... It's been 17 years since the last time Ada's carnival passed through her father's hometown in Alabama.... and no one is expecting the reception she gets.

DEADLY SECRETS OF THE TREE SPIRITS. When a member of Seattle's Duwamish Tribe is accused of murder, Dr. Peyton McKean is called in to unravel a dense tangle of clues among the majestic trees of a Pacific Northwest rainforest. The victim, cedar-tree poacher Bradley Olafsen, was found dead beside traces of a freshly removed cedar log and police detectives have fingered an old derelict found raving nearby. Henry George, a native with a grudge against modern society, stands accused of killing Olafsen to avenge the death of the tree. George's mad utterances about ghost tree spirits and his ...

Hunter's Moon is a collection of six spine-tingling stories: "Bringing the Family", "Hunter's Moon", "Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall", "A Glimpse of the Ankou", "Loco-Motive", and "Drilling Deep".

After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is well-documented, the other untested but rumoured to be shorter. Donner’s decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand.

Land has a price. It's always been that way. When J.S. Stensrud and his wife Dotty buy a piece of land on the Oregon coast known as the Spit, they come to know that price. As Stensrud tries to build a legacy on his island amid the background of the Great Depression, he is visited by a Native American woman who helps him learn the bloody price of land in the most painful way possible.

How could Sadie have lived so long in this town without knowing it was harboring a very old secret? The dark side of the woods was a place she walked by nearly every single day and it seemed perfectly normal. But one day, she realized that nothing that walked in there walked back out. Curses and wolves are somehow entangled in Sadie's new romance, and a gruesome transformation threatens to change everything she has ever known. She's the only one who can save her town, her love, and herself. It has to end where it started, in the center of the forest.

With the world balanced after the tragedies of the year before, two tribes attempt to come together and form a whole. But as an ancient foe from the past reappears and a new threat from the south snakes its way to them, the Stick People and the Cliff People must do more than put their differences aside...they must come together to survive.

It's frustrating for local law enforcement to come up against a piece of scum like Newton Glover. He's dirty as hell, everyone knows that - breaks into and vandalizes his neighbors' homes; cheats and steals from everyone; folks suspect he deals drugs and porn. He's even killed a man and gotten away with it. He gets away with all of it, hinting that he has a secret government background and that he's "protected" by the Powers That Be. Glover may finally have gone too far.

Guadalupe, New Mexico, is usually a pretty quiet town. That is until everything starts going to hell with a series of bizarre murders. Not to mention, a demon gives birth at a park. A boy disappears in the middle of a swimming pool. Rattlesnakes invade the town. Asked by his best friend the sheriff to assist in the investigation, Prosecutor Matthew Riley suspects a high-end resort development is at the heart of the crimes. But he also discovers a conspiracy of the living has opened the door for an ancient evil seeking revenge for old and new betrayals that threaten his own family.

Since the massacre at Heavenly Hope, the once breathtaking home has been empty, with no one daring to come close to it; until the Blackwells were made an offer they couldn’t refuse. Moving into the smaller house at the foot of Heavenly Hope, the smell of fear nearby revealed the creatures were still alive and starving for the taste of fresh blood. With the creatures again on the attack and threatening to expand their feeding to the people of the cities, they need to be stopped for good.

In this visionary novel framed as a hagiography, the ruminative, subjective memories of Gabriel’s witnesses - spiritual, familial, romantic, and political - converge to make sense of the man’s confounding works and message. As they do, a surprising portrait develops...not only of the deepening mystery of Gabriel Romero himself but also of a country in conflict and the faith it takes to fight the suspicion and fear that divide us.

As Melanie Carson and Kim Foster board their flight in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, bound for Paris, France, they are giddy with excitement to be on their first international adventure - studying at the Sorbonne. They could never have imagined the horror that will confront them only weeks into their Parisienne adventure. When Melanie disappears from her room one night, Inspector Pierre Dubois is called in to investigate. His sharp instincts and experience, after a brief investigation, tell him she didn’t leave on her own but was kidnapped. But by whom? And why Melanie?

Matt Green’s successful capitalist lifestyle is shattered when a trusted property management company mismanages his portfolio, leaving him with vacant rental properties, civil litigation, mounting debts, and the threat of criminal charges for harassment. He meets an enigmatic and alluring woman Angelique Augusto on an internet dating site. After two passionate weeks, Angelique begins to show a terrifying side, demanding to know Matt’s whereabouts every hour of every day.

Feministischer Horror trifft auf gesellschaftskritischen Nervenkitzel. Monika Kims Sunday Times-Bestseller ist ein fesselnder feministischer Horrorroman über Wut, Obsession und die Grenzen der Moral. Nach der Trennung ihrer Eltern gerät Jiwons Leben ins Chaos – und der neue, selbstgefällige weiße Freund ihrer Mutter macht alles nur schlimmer, indem er sie und ihre Schwester fetischisiert und ihre Kultur verhöhnt. Jiwons Gedanken werden immer radikaler. Wie weit wird sie gehen, um ihre Familie zu retten? Good for her? – Eine schockierende weibliche Rachegeschichte.

These three stories come with a breath of cold and a sort of longing, the sort of thing that consumes someone if they let it. "Wendy Won't Go" is the story of a family whose loss threatens to consume them all, "Love like Blood" is a story about the limits one will reach before love is gone, and "Cold Comfort" is about the bitterness that devours us within before it goes on to consume everything around us.

It's always high noon in the hollow earth!When a South American hunting expedition for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid goes bad, Doc Holliday, the Earp Brothers, and Native American gunslinger Lone Crow find themselves trapped in the hollow earth along with the vicious killers they were tracking.In order to survive, they make a tenuous pact and throw their lots together against a brutal tribe of female warriors, and the ravenous prehistoric beasts that roam the jungled interior of the planet and soar its hazy crimson skies.With ammunition running low and treachery running high, they ...