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  A Christmas Ghost Story - A...

  Kim Newman

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  From the acclaimed author of Anno Dracula, the perfect gift for those who love the dark fantastic imaginations of Neil Gaiman and T. Kingfisher, this is a nightmarish tale of a haunted Christmas set deep in the British countryside not too long ago. Cosy traditions are made twisted and terrifying as a mother and son grapple with their painful past. 
   
  December 1st. Angie and her teenage son Rust prepare for Christmas, stringing fairy lights around their isolated home on the Somerset levels and decorating a tree with traditional ornaments. The first door of the advent calendar is opened, but the chocolate inside tastes off. Rust receives his first Christmas card, it's unsigned and the message is 'pinch, punch… first of the month'. The robin chirruping on a bough in a snowy woodland picture looks like a nasty piece of work. 
   
  The cards keep coming, one each day and each more sinister than the last, and a frightened Angie recalls The Cards - a seasonal TV show from her childhood that featured similar happenings, and while she remembers it vividly, there is no evidence that it was ever broadcast… 
   
  Christmas cheer is gradually poisoned, with cruels instead of carols, the turkey rotting in the fridge, unwelcome visits from the Merciless Gentlemen and the Jingle Basterds, and Rust becoming increasingly unwell. Angie begins to wonder if her childhood Christmases were in fact as joy filled as she remembers… 
   
  A frightening tale of seasonal dread from a master of horror.

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  OlderMort- Reworked

  Rachel Lawson

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  It was Blake's least favorite time of the year. 
  His son Lance passed him an envelope he took it with a great lack of enthusiasm. 
  "Open it you'll love it," an enthused Lance said. 
  Blake opened it expecting an insult It was. 
  "Oh thank you!" said Blake putting on a smile. 
  "I knew you'd love it," said Lance smiling. 
  "Yeah," said Blake he hated it. 
  It being a picture of Harry Potter's Lord Voldermort in a birthday hat, 
  under the picture, a legend in a black box reading OLDERMORT. 
  It hit Blake like a ton of brick it was his birthday again. 
  "Mortimer," said Blake's assistant with another pile of more files for Blake to sign. 
  "What is it Dante," Blake said knowing his day would get worse. 
  Dante saw the card and laughed. 
  "Mortimer's birthday is it?" he said. 
  "Yes," said Lance. smiling. 
  Mortimer also known as Blake grimaced.

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  Amelia Edwards - A Short Story...

  Amelia Edwards

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  Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards was born on 7th June 1831 in Islington, London.  She was educated at home by her mother and showed early promise as a writer, publishing her first poem at the age of 7 and her first story at 12.  Thereafter several popular periodicals published her poetry, stories and articles. 
   
  In addition she also illustrated some of her own writings and painted scenes from books she had read.  This talent was not supported by her parents, who saw an artist’s life as scandalous.  Undeterred Amelia took up composing and performing music until a bout of typhus caused throat damage.  Other interests soon followed until, early in the 1850s, Amelia focused exclusively on writing.  Her early novels were well received, and with ‘Barbara's History’ in 1864, a work revolving around bigamy, her reputation was established.  
   
  Amelia’s pen was also the purveyor of ghost stories for magazines and are still anthologized as classic tales to this day. 
   
  In January 1851, Amelia became engaged, apparently to please her parents, but she quickly broke it off.  In reality her emotional attachments were almost exclusively with women.  From the early 1860s she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher, a widow 27 years her senior, until both women died in early 1892.  During this relationship other women also entered and left her life.  Her frequent travelling companion, Lucy Renshaw, accompanied her to Egypt in the winter of 1873 and there she found a life-changing interest in Egyptology.  Aware of increasing threats from tourism and modern development she became an advocate for their research and preservation.  
   
  To advance the work Amelia largely abandoned much of her writing in favour of Egyptology and even took on strenuous lecture tours to raise funds. 
   
  After catching influenza, Amelia Edwards, ‘the Godmother of Egyptology’ died on 15th April 1892 at Weston-super-Mare.  She was 60.  
   
  1 - Amelia Edwards - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction 
  2 - No 5 Branch Line. The Engineer by Amelia Edwards 
  3 - Was It An Illusion. A Parson's Story by Amelia Edwards 
  4 - The Phantom Coach by Amelia Edwards 
  5 - The 4 15 Express by Amelia Edwards 
  6 - The Story of Salome by Amelia Edwards

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  Drakkhani - Season 2

  Rima Goswami Das

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  Indrashish, the ruler of the Draksh empire, sets on a journey to find answers to his pain after his son Ruru goes missing. Peace and justice were once again restored in the Draksh empire proving that God exists and watching everybody. Indrashish restores the peace of his empire from the wicked grasps of Ekadanta once again.

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  No One Will Come Back For Us -...

  Premee Mohamed

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  Here there be gods and monsters—forged from flesh and stone and vengeance—emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavor is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and hate. Science and magic. And smiling monsters in human skin. 
   
   
   
  Premee Mohamed's debut collection of contemporary cosmic horror and dark fantasy heralds the arrival of a new and vibrant voice on the cutting edge of modern speculative fiction.

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  Passing Through Veils

  John Harrison

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  A fusion of Shirley Jackson and Gillian Flynn, Passing Through Veils is a gripping psychological thriller about Kathryn Fields who moves into a run-down Georgetown, D.C. townhouse in hopes that restoring it will be a metaphor for her own rehabilitation from the recent nervous breakdown that derailed her promising career.    But when she discovers a forgotten vanity behind a false wall in her bedroom and the secrets hidden there, the veil between the real and the surreal is abruptly pierced, and the ghost of a beautiful woman who was murdered in this very townhouse escapes to seek revenge.    Is this simply a fantasy of Katherine’s damaged psyche?   Or have her own demons finally escaped to torment her?

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