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$14.95George Williams returns with a second collection of stories as original and arresting as his first, Gardens of Earthly Delight. From a Texas reservoir a fisherman hauls in a record-breaking…
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George Williams returns with a second collection of stories as original and arresting as his first, Gardens of Earthly Delight. From a Texas reservoir a fisherman hauls in a record-breaking…

For too long, our educational system has oversimplified the practice of reading while pretending that only one method works: Read as fast as you can, from beginning to end, in…

Mr. Wicker is the Recipient of a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel *this edition is out of print* Alicia Baum is missing a deadly childhood…

Mourning is the new black… The tradition of Victorian mourning jewelry began with Queen Victoria after the death of her husband, Prince Albert. Without photography, mementos of personal remembrance were used…

Embrace the Hideous Immaculate is an excursion through nightmarish landscapes, vast alien terrains and shallow earthly trenches. Within these realms of darkness await outer space monstrosities, ancient undead goddesses, serial…

Soft Apocalypses is the Recipient of a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Lucy A. Snyder proves once again that she is fearless in mapping every…

~Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week, May 12~ A science fiction novel that begins as a murder mystery and is taken over by an interstellar treasure hunt. What could draw…

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends–and their wheelchair-bound hostage–set out on a perilous fool’s mission: to cross from one side of the…

About the signed limited edition hardcover Ambasadora: Marked by Light is now available in a special hardcover version. This edition is limited to 26 copies and includes a unique signature page…

Publisher’s Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag—these are not actual biographies. They are closer…

Publisher’s Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag—these are not actual biographies. They are closer…

Publisher’s Note: The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am letting the cat out of the bag—these are not actual biographies. They are closer…

Truth in Ruins Available in Kindle at Amazon Through a series of dark bizarro adventures Truth in Ruins chronicles the world’s dying gasps. Sneak into the space where flesh is…

The Plague Factory is available in paperback and Kindle The Plague Factory contains 90 pages of John Edward Lawson’s most experimental poetry. The Plague of experimental John poetry, pages contain…

The Horrible is available in Kindle Lawson’s second poetry collection mixes the humorous with the grotesque in a bizarre collection of new and previously published poetry. This volume showcases his…

The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination, a pioneering web-based literary magazine, first went online in 1998 with the intention of publishing a type of fantastic fiction most often associated with writers…

Who should be given a second chance at life? Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface with…

In this book of creative non-fiction essays Gills tells us stories from his life. The title piece, White Indians, is a “visionary memoir” that recounts Gills’ experience as a participant at…

Life in Dreamfield, Indiana, is a daily harangue of pigs, cornfields, pigs, fast food joints, pigs, Dollar Stores, motorcycles, pigs, and good old-fashioned Amerikan redneckery. The decidedly estranged yet complacent…

First century tillers used oxen to help them plow the land, and when the animal slowed or refused their commands, the tiller would use a prick to jab the animal…

Greenshift is a tale set within the world of Ambasadora. Mari’s rare eye color makes her a pariah within Upper Caste society, which is why she prefers plants to people…except…


~Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Best Poetry Collection~ Asylums once used to confine those deemed mentally unfit linger, forgotten behind trees or urban development, beautiful yet desolate in their decay. Within…

Play Dead was originally released in 2005 as a hardcover and has been sold out for years, we’re now publishing it in a paperback edition. Johnny had been to the…

Donna Lynch has returned with the prequel to her acclaimed debut novel Isabel Burning. This is the tragic and haunting love story of damaged Russian scientist Vladimir Millerovo, a Grace…

~Finalist for the 2014 Eric Hoffer Award and The Da Vinci Eye for cover design~ The Civil War has ended but not because the South surrendered, instead it’s on hold while…

In a futuristic world where personalities can be downloaded at will, who’s a girl to trust? The Ryder family is at the top of the corporate elite. Father Geren Ryder…

Sometimes a battle between good and evil doesn’t look much like the ones they show in movies. The good guys don’t always wear white, and they don’t always walk away…

Light crept across the snow in the backyard and the snow became blindingly bright—it seemed more than white, seemed more like empty space, like a crisp sheet of paper just fed through the roller of a typewriter.
Adam Golaski spins dark, weird tales in the original sense of the word: uncanny, unearthly, sometimes fantastic and always slightly off-center. These are stories to be savored late at night in bed, read by the light of a single lamp in an empty, dark house.

The rushes rasp in ghost-fed breezes as seed-hungry finches chance the thistle’s fangs. The bracken has gone gold and brown, the brambles heavy with plump berries. The days, warm as…

Unintended Consequences is the 4th installment in Fondation’s “L.A. Stories” series. This new collection reveals with precision the way life can tangle good intentions and trip up even the most sure-footed…

From the introduction by Michael A. Arnzen: Welcome to one of the meatiest collections of grizzly, grotey, bizarro poetry you’ll come across. In other words, “the good stuff.” The stuff…

As in Harold Jaffe’s two previous “docufiction” collections, False Positiveand 15 Serial Killers, the author of Terror-Dot-Gov selects then “treats” his texts such that the reader is incapable of distinguishing between fact and fiction….

SuiPsalms is the follow-up to Lawson’s first, acclaimed poetry collection, The Troublesome Amputee. Exploring the subject of suicide from all angles, this collection challenges preconceived notions and both poetry and suicide….

Recipe for Spider Pie: blend 2 cups of dark humor with a healthy dash of oddity, add a pinch of ground freak’s ear and 2 tsp of secret desires. Bake until…

Jeremy Shipp is the master of the mind-bending tale. These stories bewitch and transport the reader. Though you may not know where Shipp will travel next, each story is an…

Lettered Edition with original handpainted cover by Steven Archer The Lettered Edition of A Rhapsody for the Eternal will be limited to 26 copies (A-Z). An original painting by Steven Archer will…

In Pseudofoliculitis City nothing is as it seems and everything is as it should be. Today’s forecast calls for extreme confrontation, with sandwich flurries and the threat of handlebar mustaches…

In this new collection of poetry Lynch pays homage to her muses and explores their dark beauty. Whether victims or victors, scarred or unblemished, she casts light on all their…

TERRIFYINGLY TINY. DEVILISHLY DEEP. The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen’s poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of…

You really can’t read Proust in Texarkana. A modern alchemist falls prey to a magic darker than his own. The Antichrist’s mother goes on the run in Spain. In his garage a…

Readers of Jeremy C. Shipp’s fiction will be familiar with his minimalist, breakneck pacing, his surreal forays into political satire, and his seamless blending of science fiction, fantasy, and horror….

ugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of…

Already known for his works of speculative fiction, author John Edward Lawson uses Discouraging at Best to take a look at the “real” world. On the pages within are five…

Prepare for a decadent feast. A Dirge for the Temporal, Darren Speegle’s second collection of fiction, bursts with sensations. Like Baroque architecture, plush velvet furnishings or the richest chocolate truffle…

And when it was done, these beautiful monsters, children, serpents, killers, lovers, and mothers became our new saints and sisters. And, as we would quickly learn, they were also the…

An irreverent and illustrated look at the ABC’s of death featuring 26 ways to die, one for each letter of the alphabet. Every shocking entry is accompanied by an equally…

Listen to sample tracks here Audiovile is Michael Arnzen at his weirdest and, well, most vile. Known for his entertaining and over-the-top readings he now takes it one step further…

These 50-word stories are based on “found” texts from mainstream news sources and other public sites. Jaffe sculpts them to reveal their inner core, all niceties stripped away. Now the…

Released as a paperback in 2004 this ground-breaking collection is considered by many to be a pioneering work in the flash fiction movement. It broke publishing barriers to micro-fiction, inspired…

Taking as his text Georges Bataille’s insight that “only at the extremes is there freedom,” critically acclaimed “guerrilla writer” Harold Jaffe documents Bataille’s aperçu with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather,…

In France, Eric Miles Williamson is known as “The Erudite Bukowski.” In America, he has been called “The Last Beat.” Best known for his internationally praised and stunning novels of…

A beautifully surreal masquerade. World Fantasy Award Winning editor Forrest Aguirre brings you fantastical fiction from the most imaginative minds of our time. Contributors to this hallucinogenic spectacle include Brian…

This anthology from the fringe examines our culture’s obsession with taboos and the added temptation that forbidden pleasures bring. Warnings of danger and peril only heighten our desire for those…

Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it is a plague heralding the apocalypse for convention, writing a dirge for complacency. Sick is an anthology compiled by editor John…

From the Introduction: “I began this anthology to dispel the illusion that we are in a famine age of literature and the result surprised even me in how powerfully it…

Lint created a text that was unsettling only to those who are unaware enough to be ‘settled’ in the midst of the world’s nightmare…” This follow-up to Lint, the biography of…

In Technologized Desire, D. Harlan Wilson measures the evolution of the human condition as it has been represented by postcapitalist science fiction, which has consistently represented the body and subjectivity as…

An entertaining, eclectic chronicle of modern fantastical fiction, Monstrous Creatures delivers incisive commentary, reviews, and essays pertaining to permutations of the monstrous, whether it’s other people’s monsters, personal monsters, or monstrous thoughts….

Ideal for individual or classroom use, Architectures of Possibility theorizes and questions the often unconscious assumptions behind such traditional writing gestures as temporality, scene, and characterization; offers various suggestions for…

Psych Noir is a book of art-based fiction printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Pairing Dave Lipscomb’s subversive, ultra-detailed illustrations and Lawson’s explosive day-glo prose…

When Ivy Spookerton realizes that her apartment is too small for all of her pets she decides to move. But where will she and her pets feel most at home?…

We all have questions…even the moon. On his night off, the moon decides to journey to the earth in search of the answer to a burning question: What is the…

The sheer energy and passion and intensity, the linguistic virtuosity of Eric Miles Williamson’s latest novel, Welcome to Oakland, will leave readers breathless. The vigor and uncensored redneck honesty of T-Bird…

It’s time for blueblood Bernard Johnson to leave his boring life behind and go on The Vacation, a yearlong corporate-sponsored odyssey. But instead of seeing the world Bernard is captured…

Finalist for the Wonderland Award, 2009 The brains of past tenants line the shelves of my boarding house, soaking in a mysterious elixir. I’m pretty sure something has infected my…

Wakelin, frontman of seminal rock group The Hinge, once wrote a poem so prophetic that to ignore its wisdom is to doom yourself to drown in blood. After realizing the…

Meat Puppet Cabaret is a dark fantasy novel that restores the perverse sex, bad drugs and violent rock ‘n’ roll to contemporary folklore. It starts from a weird idea: what if…

Kenrick Brimley, the state prison’s official gigolo, hangs over a lava pit on trial for his life in a strange land. He will reveal the course of his life one…

Building on the mayhem created by the controversial but critically acclaimed collection 15 Serial Killers Jaffe’s Jesus Coyote goes one step further. This docufictional novel based on the Manson murders proves that, just like…

As a young woman raised in the soot-covered mediocrity of an English industrial town, Isabel has led a common and directionless life. Secretly she yearns to be the center of…

In the constant apocalypse nobody cares if your skull is made of wood or your friends are flying ants. Corrosive phantoms are two-a-penny in such a high-res environment. Minotaur Babs…

Although the Collins clan is steeped in Appalachian magic, Henry has never paid it much attention. But when his younger sister dies mysteriously Henry can’t shake the feeling that the…

Punktown’s health agents are charged with keeping the public safe from infectious disease. Between inter-planetary travel, super-mutant strains of bacteria and criminal genetic manipulation they certainly keep busy. But for…

Josephine Stepwell Harvell is certainly not lucky in love; from Buddy Washer, the Arizona mistake, who got her pregnant and then got arrested trying to smuggle weed in the belly…

Fish, Soap and Bonds follows the movements of three homeless persons on the unforgiving streets of Los Angeles. Through their eyes we experience both the depths and heights of humanity: hate…

As a boy, Hale Privet dreamed of sailing the grey waters of the northern Gantic Ocean aboard a mighty ship of war. But when farm life kept him from the…

Jeffrey Thomas first seduced readers to the world of Punktown through a short story collection of the same name, bending time and technology to create a futuristic world which felt…

For a professor at Corndog University it’s quite acceptable to purchase a robotic dopplegänger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching…

J.T. is a sensitive but privileged 12-year-old who’s runaway to New York City. He soon comes under the guidance of Allie Romano, a homeless man who stays afloat by challenging…

Your life is no longer recognizable, every detail corrupted by unknown forces. The harder you struggle, the more you suffer. Your words mean nothing, your actions backfire, and one by…

Since he assassinated the Nowhere Man, Vincent Prague hasn’t been the same, haunted by the ontological impossibility of the kill. His celebrity status has skyrocketed, however, and everybody wants a…

Is Epstein a despicable man? He’s certainly trying desperately at something. When his wife disappears he’s frantic to talk to his daughter. But what can he tell her? There must…

Rutger Van Trout has worse problems than his mundane existence in the all-consuming, all-suppressing Vulgaria of Grand Rapids, Michigan. It’s not that his son might be turning into a werewolf,…

A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths of the Broken Land is like no Western you’ve ever seen or read. Desperate…

In this timely collection of essays and “quasi-essays,” acclaimed novelist and critic Harold Jaffe explores the intricate vicissitudes of millennial culture. Gesturing, in a philosophical shorthand, toward a kind of pop…

With Martyrs and Holymen, Larry Fondation continues to record gritty stories of city life. In his fifth book of “L.A. Stories” he has expanded the scope to include the experiences…

Preston Black has a nasty habit of falling in love with the wrong women. But girls who don’t play nice are the least of his problems. This charismatic bar-band guitarist…

In the early 21st century, Michael A. Arnzen hacked his own poems into their constituent components. Inspired by the popular magnetic word kits, he encouraged visitors to gorelets.com to rearrange…

In the wake of the Stick Figure War, civilization lapsed into obscurity. Fallout ravaged the fabric of space and time. History digested reality and reality exhumed the future as survivors…
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