Weird Fiction

Mr. Macky dresses up as Abraham Lincoln to get the students at Ella Mentry School excited about their Presidents' Day oral reports.

Something weird is going on! Miss Suki is a famous children's book author - and she's coming to A.J.'s school! She lives in the rainforest and writes about endangered animals. But when her pet raptor gets loose in the classroom, it's the kids who are going to be endangered! Yikes!

Dan Gutman’s critically acclaimed children’s books have won numerous accolades, including the Booklist Editor’s Choice. In this seventh hilarious book in Gutman’s My Weird School series, A.J. still hates school, but he’s developed a giant crush on the school nurse, Mrs. Cooney. Unfortunately, a couple of A.J.’s classmates also like Mrs. Cooney - plus, she’s married. And then things get even more confusing when A.J. begins to think his crush might be an international spy.

A new collection of weird western horror shorts with Porter Rockwell and a selection from the forthcoming novel IN MY TIME OF DYING.

What could be weirder than a mad science teacher who invents a car that runs on potatoes and wants to take over the world? How about a bus driver who can't even "find" the weirdest school on the planet?

Something evil lurks inside Lily’s bedroom mirror. Beth just moved to a small town with her baby daughter, Lily. She figures a fresh start would do them both some good after losing her husband in a tragic accident. Their new home is a real charm, and their new neighbors are no different. Everything is looking up until Eva, Beth’s old next-door neighbor, warns her of strange, haunting noises from her house in the middle of the night. That’s when the horrors start in Beth’s new home. From a bleeding teddy bear to strange palm prints in Lily’s bedroom mirror. Beth ignores them all, ...

Learn to kill or wait to die. In 3066 the world is a different place. Massive coronal ejections, nuclear fallout, and chemical poisons have reshaped the land. New life forms have evolved at an accelerated rate into creatures God and nature had no hand in playing. A few remaining settlements of mankind struggle to re-establish civilization. They’re failing. But beneath the ground, buried deep in a lost and forgotten installation, humanity’s ancestors are about to awaken. The freaks, mutants, and monsters roaming the blasted earth above are about to discover what real terror is all about.

Something weird is going on! Mrs. Yonkers, the computer teacher, is the nerdiest teacher in the history of the world. She can type with her feet! She buys foam cheeseheads off eBay! She even puts a Webcam on a turtle! Is she trying to take over the planet?

A sailor recalls the monstrous terror that lay at the bottom of the deep in this, Lovecraft’s earliest tale of unspeakable horror from outside our universe.

FOR REASONS UNKNOWN AND UNKNOWABLE Authorities are calling it the American Dyatlov Pass incident. Four campers on an overnight hike fail to return. Only three bodies are found. Authorities piece together what happened using the latest in cell phone video enhancement and GPS tracking technology, but disturbing questions remain. A literary take on the "found footage" horror film genre! LUNATICS AND MARTYRS A cynical photographer is hired for a photo shoot of a famous wealthy family on their remote island. He arrives with an open agenda and a hidden one. The ancient secrets he uncovers are far...

Louis L’Amour Meets Lovecraft Porter Rockwell, wanted for a murder he did not commit, is hiding out in Old California selling whiskey to thirsty forty-niners. When his friends dig up some monstrous bones and a peculiar book and offer to sell it for a helluva price, Porter can’t resist the mystery. But when both his night bartender and the sellers are murdered at his saloon Porter has to find out what the mysterious artifacts are all about. With some Native American legends, Sasquatch, Lovecraftian horror, and murderous bandits thrown in, not even bullets and blades can stop Rockwell ...

A young boy with a special quarter makes life dangerous for a burned out mall security officer. A petty thief discovers there are worse things than old feuds. An abductee is put on trial for the ultimate crime of humanity. A loving wife has to make the choice between saving her soul and taking care of the monster she loves. Welcome to Urban Nightmares. In this slender tome you will find 4 stories of people pushed to the edge of human experience...and then beyond!

Earth faces an unprecedented threat - an alien ship headed straight for the planet. Connor Connolly holds a secret that could determine the fate of humankind. Connor has discovered that the supposed "refugee" aliens promising to share advanced technology with Earth are hiding their true intentions. As the alien ship nears, Connor must act fast to uncover the truth behind Volaris and their mysterious connection to metaband technology. The problem? Connor's own meta powers are gone. His only hope lies in a stolen alien nanosuit that grants him new abilities. Partnering with his allies ...

This is the completionist's edition of the work of H.P. Lovecraft! Literally every single weird-fiction story he wrote, revised, or collaborated on - to the best of our knowledge - is in this one enormous volume. The stories are arranged chronologically and contextualized with a brief running biography of the life of this fascinating author.

Tales from the Library of a Twisted Mind is a collection of dark short stories, having a common theme of being a bit warped. Perhaps not the best bedtime reading. Tales to thrill, shock and tantalise. With fore and after words on each story by the author.

Have you ever sensed an enigmatic presence lingering in the cosmos around you? A deadly force, held in check by either vigilant individuals or those fortunate souls who navigated the right path? Has your intuition ever stirred, hinting at something concealed beneath your bed or in the dim corners of your room? Does your small town or large city veil themselves in secrets, or do the stars above harbor a sinister malevolence, casting a looming threat upon our very existence? Dear readers, prepare to be immersed in an anthology that will transport you into the depths of every conceivable fear....

Hank’s sister Emily wants Ralph’s Reptile Show to perform at her birthday party more than anything, but Ralph is booked solid. So Hank comes up with a plan: he’ll disguise himself as a magician called The Westside Wizard and pull a snake from thin air! But when Hank’s true identity is revealed during his performance, his good deed might just turn into a huge disaster.

Captain Maxwell Davis and his entire unit scrambled to engage alien ships over Iowa. The aliens snatched him out of his destroyed jet before they continued on their interplanetary hot pursuit. Then they informed Max that Earth was too far outside regular shipping lanes to return him to his planet.

In a desolate world where dirigibles rule the skies and blood soaks the dry earth, a young man joins the fight against a tyrant who has problems of his own. Andrew Sutter returns home from hunting to find drought-wracked Carroll Town under the thumb of a tax collector from the cannibalistic Flesh-Eating Legion. A riot becomes a battle, leaving Carroll Town in ruins and Andrew alone in the merciless Iron Desert. Saved from certain death by the riders of rebel chieftain Alonzo Merrill, Andrew finds himself fighting for their doomed cause. Meanwhile, Grendel, first lord of the Northlands and ...

Drugs. Delusions. Or the Biggest Mystery in Florida Since Will-o'-the-wisp? Meet Barry Babcock, your typical Florida Man—unemployed, self-medicated, and living in a swamp-side trailer with a laundry list of bad decisions behind him. But when a death-defying stunt lands him in a psychiatric facility, Barry’s got a hell of a story to tell. To the staff psychiatrist, it starts off as the usual Florida nonsense: drugs, booze, alligator dodging, and some questionable life choices. But then Barry takes a sharp left into the unexplainable—because according to him, the real reason he wound up...