Weird Fantasy

When a petrol yacht catches fire in the South Atlantic, its lone survivor, Patterson, swims to safety. He is relieved when he washes up on a tropical island inhabited by four other ship-wrecked characters. But when he discovers one of the men was cast adrift by the Titanic, he is forced to question where he really is and if he will be able to escape.

Mike Vendetti's mesmerizing voice brings "The Valley of the Worm" to life, capturing the essence of Howard's vivid characters and thrilling plot twists. Listeners will be transported to a world where swordplay and ancient beings collide in an epic battle for survival. Whether you're a fan of Fantasy Science Fiction or just looking for an exciting new adventure, "The Valley of the Worm" is sure to captivate and enthrall you from start to finish.

One of the author’s earliest pieces of short horror fiction, ‘On the Embankment’ introduces us to London’s homeless population as they fight for space on seats to sleep each night. However, no matter how busy it is or desperate the sleepers are, there’s always one seat that is mysteriously left empty....

A collection of stories written by Ethan Obi-wan Couldrey before his untimely death in 2024 aged 24. These are tales including ghost stories, modern myths and unique stories of human triumph.

A masterpiece of Gothic horror and suspense that inspired such writers as H. P. Lovecraft, The Three Impostors is Machen’s famous collection of “weird tales” - a string of shocking short stories woven together with a fine narrative thread. The three impostors of the title are members of a secret society devoted to debauched pagan rites who weave a web of deception in the streets of London as they search for a missing Roman coin commemorating an infamous orgy by the Emperor Tiberius and close in on their prey: “the young man with spectacles”.

Henry Grimshaw prides himself on his dual personality. By night, he is a socialite and eligible bachelor; by day, he is a clothing factory tyrant, with fugitives working for him who he hands over to the authorities if they step out of line. When Cyrus Sabinette meets Grimshaw at a party, he initially wants in on the operation, but when Grimshaw refuses to be blackmailed, he devises a cunning plan to get back at the factory owner. Is he just a master of illusion, or can he conjure the dead?

In 2025, neutron bombs wipe out much of the world’s drinkable water. For the next several years, survivors exist in deplorable conditions and their rations are dwindling. One woman arises from the camp, determined to improve conditions. Charlotte is ready to do whatever it takes to ensure clean water for her fellow survivors. Water is almighty. Whoever controls the water rules the world. Can Charlotte prevent the power from falling into the wrong hands?

A postman encounters a strange letterbox in this spooky story. He’s never seen the occupants of the house, the windows and doors are shuttered and any letters posted through the mysterious letterbox disappear into a void of black. It isn’t long before the postman and the local community must investigate.

This story was written on a Joe Konrath dare. It's a tale of wine drinking and the taste of pure regret. It is a story of ganja bums and frat boys and squid pirates and whoreboards and bloodsuckers. If you REALLY need to classify this story - it is your basic bizarro steam-driven cyberpunk neo-fantasy that takes place in a setting that was inspired by Munden's Bar - (how many Grimjack fans out there?) - and in short is a fast, fun and very weird read. Pick it up and down it at a swallow.

Content Warning: Be advised, this book contains very strong language and violence, including violence against women. Recommended for mature audiences only. Behold The Palace of Maids, where the illegitimate daughters of nineteen elven kings are forced to live in solitude. They're chained to their beds and cut off from the world until they're “lucky” enough to be chosen for marriage. When Princess Alore is chosen as the bride of a twisted prince, her grandmother sends her to the Hall of Mirrors, where she escapes to an unfamiliar world of rifles, cowboys and whiskey. As she struggles to ...

Ernest Roydon is distressed by a mysterious apparition that appears around his house. What he initially thinks is a trick of the light soon starts taking on a more human form, until he’s too scared to stay in the house on his own and must enlist the help of a friend.

Jarek leaves the safety of the City to travel far and wide. A cursed priestess Hidden chambers Strange afflictions Danger lurks at his every step. In order to survive, Jarek must learn the secrets of the road! Discover the epic deeds of Jarek the Scholar, a new pulp hero, inside this anthology of fantasy and mystery.

These are tales of the darkest fantasy. “These are the literary spawn – bastards though some may be – of the stories that one would have read in the pages of Weird Tales, that venerated pulp magazine of the early part of the twentieth century. That pulp rag that birthed the stories of Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, C. L. Moore, and many others. These stories have percolated in those pages as well as through the fiction of Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock. They have been steeped in heroic fantasy fiction, sword and sorcery, and outright ...

This compelling collection will engage the lovers of horror, fantasy, and science fiction and marry their eccentric desires in the church of Blithecraft. Twelve stories suitable for the discerning fantasist. A blithely return to the eccentric craft of weird short stories. Tales of other dimensions, eldritch beasts, and seditious sirens. Ancient witchcraft, necromancers, and giant arthropods. Worlds of past, present, and future are presented in a classical style with contemporary beguile.

Sterling Page never thought that, some day, he'd be sailing across the ocean with a robot, a fairy, a hot-tempered teddy bear, and a sewer lizard. But when a strange creature breaks into his house and tells him his sister is still alive, Page embarks on an adventure to another world to find her. Unfortunately for Page, this is a world that rarely makes sense, a world where boats get stuck in clouds, storks deliver baby dragons, and leftover biscuits turn into flying monsters. Blending together The Odyssey and Alice in Wonderland, The Second Page is filled with both silly humor and dangerous...

No one should ever come between a man’s family and his guns.
 Not if they wanted to live.
 Not even a sorcerer supreme.
 Or an undead horde. 
Especially when those guns belong to a spellslinger.
 The wizard who opened his world to the invading demonic horde had a death wish. 
Koren D’uene is a ja’lel, a gun knight, and his is the job of granting wishes. 
His guns spoke, and infernals fell. 
Gun’s Ghosts is a weird western, a Wild West-inspired fantasy adventure novel of roughly 35,000 words.

No one should ever come between a man’s family and his guns. Not if they want to live. Not even a dragon. Especially when those guns belong to a spellslinger. The dragon who had killed his brother had a death wish. Koren D’uene is a ja’lel, a gun knight, and his is the job of granting wishes. His guns spoke and the world listened. Spellslinger is a weird western, a Wild West-inspired fantasy novel full of cowboy wizards and spell-slinging outlaws of roughly 40,000 words.

Residents of Austin, Texas, so value individualism that most (but not all!) of them rally around the phrase, "keep Austin weird". In the midst of that off-kilter vibe are two mildly weird kindergarten teachers, Eleanor Cooprider and Kim Park. One of them possesses a superpower and the other recognizes superpowers in others (and she can talk to plants, though they never answer). Once they share this super-secret, their mutual attraction blossoms into love, and there is nothing weird about that.

O Chamado de Cthulhu é um conto do norte-americano H.P. Lovecraft que logo se tornou um clássico do terror. Foi escrito em 1926 e publicado pela primeira vez na revista estadunidense Weird Tales em fevereiro de 1928. Cthulhu é um deus que nos primeiros minutos do conto aparece como um ídolo de argila quase indescritível, possuindo um culto multimilenar dedicado a trazê-lo de volta, o seu retorno desencadearia o fim da humanidade. Neste audiolivro, encontramos esse clássico e mais sete contos consagrados do autor na literatura de terror.

12-Year-Old Gwendolyn is a Dream-Shifter. She Becomes the Animals She Dreams About. When she wakes normally, she becomes human again. But just as she's leaping around as an elk, a fire alarm jars her awake. It's elk hunting season, and she doesn't know how to change back to a girl, or how to stay alive. But she still speaks English, and she still thinks like a girl. The thing she wants most is to attend journalism camp. The camp only admits humans. She goes to the magician for help. He gives her access to his magical library, and trains her to put on magic shows. He does have a book that ...