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  Still So Strange

  Amanda Downum

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  The World Fantasy Award Finalist: “It’s Clive Barker crossed with Tanith Lee set to a Siouxsie and the Banshees beat, and I loved every second of it.” —Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of Experimental Film Welcome to a world of monsters, ghosts, and witches, both seductive and terrifying. In the first collection of short fiction from the author of the Necromancer Chronicles, reality shifts and shimmers with potent magic. More than twenty works, including two poems, feature characters who will steal your heart just as easily as your soul. In “Wrack,” a fisherman becomes so enchanted by a mermaid that the call of the waves becomes impossible to resist. When a killer comes to “Dogtown,” he learns that his bark isn’t worse than the bites of the locals. A dying artist returns to Ireland, where the faerie she has always loved tempts her with eternal life, as long as she leaves her humanity on the shore like so much “Flotsam.” And in “Smoke & Mirrors,” the circus comes to a town strangely bereft of ghosts, thanks to a demonic being conducting a train to the netherworld. With prose that is “gently pulling, promising beautifully cold oblivion in smothering darkness,” Amanda Downum transports you to sweltering southern swamps and the labyrinthine streets of Old World cities, proving without a doubt that “she’s one of the very best dark fantastical writers working today” (Bracken MacLeod, author of Closing Costs). “Ethereal, atmospheric, and mysterious.” —Elizabeth Bear, Hugo Award–winning author of Machine “These stories range from the melancholic to the downright chilling, and deftly evoke both the truly strange and the very human.” —Liz Bourke, author and reviewer for Tor.com and Locus

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  Maul Rats

  Jessica Lacy

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  It’s 1999 and there are more people dropping than shopping at the dying Lone Star Mall.While Ginny Todd’s parents are off saving the world from Y2K, she is trapped in a small town in Texas, forced to live with her neglectful aunt and uncle and her unstable cousin, Michelle.When Ginny stumbles upon a gruesome murder in an abandoned section of the mall, she finds herself wrapped up in a murder mystery over a year in the making. The worst part? As more bodies pile up and the police follow the most likely suspect, Ginny begins to believe Michelle may be behind it all.Between a freakish killer in a baby-doll mascot costume, a potential killer in the bedroom next door, and a mall dripping with blood, Ginny only knows one thing: She needs to get the hell out of Texas.

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  The Christmas Banquet

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Step into the haunting and introspective world of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Christmas Banquet. In this darkly contemplative holiday tale, Hawthorne presents a gathering unlike any other—a Christmas banquet where the guests are bound by their sorrows, regrets, and life’s unfulfilled desires. The story follows a mysterious host who invites individuals to join in the festivities, creating an atmosphere filled with both somber reflection and eerie revelations. 
  Narrated by Wendy-Maree Milich, this audiobook brings Hawthorne’s unique blend of melancholy and moral insight to life. Milich’s nuanced performance captures the subtleties of Hawthorne’s prose, drawing listeners into the unsettling yet thought-provoking ambiance of the tale. 
  Perfect for fans of classic literature and holiday stories with a twist, The Christmas Banquet offers a thought-provoking exploration of human nature, redemption, and the bittersweet reflections that accompany the season.

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  The Act Of Killing God - A Short...

  Michael van der Voort

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  To stand opposite your own grave is a strange and deeply unnerving experience. I did it first at eleven years old, with my parents standing either side of me, Mother holding tightly onto my hand as Father intoned with brutal nonchalance the words, “This is where we buried you.”To see the name, your name, carved into granite and marble, gouged into the stone with chisel-edged finality, is enough to chill the blood to the same temperature as the slab. It is a leaden declaration for all the world to read that once you did exist, but now, now you do not.Still, it is not a unique experience. I read once that both...

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  The Dead Of Night

  Rachel Lawson

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  The night was still, and quiet, all seemed the same for the ghost of the hotel. 
  It would be another boring night roam for her, she foresaw. 
  Until the silence was broken by a man screaming. She wandered to the room the scream came from. It was the room she was murdered in. 
  When she got there, she found a man looking terrified at a grey alien. 
  He had apparently awoken and seen the alien about to abduct him. 
  The ghost was nice, so she felt there was only one thing to do to scare away the alien and save the man. All is not as it seems, how will this end?

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  The Oblong Box

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores human mysteries and obsessions. The narrative follows a man who, during a sea voyage, becomes intrigued by a strange oblong box brought on board by a friend, triggering a series of enigmatic events and surprising revelations.

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