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All That Withers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

All That Withers

In 2016 Bram Stoker Award winner John Palisano's first collection, All That Withers, the stories range from Lovecraftian musings to terrifying explorations of the inhuman condition, with Palisano creating vivid images of desperate people engaged in ordeals which could happen to many of us … how they respond is the difference between their survival and oblivion. The stories include several Bram Stoker Award-nominated tales, as well as the 2016 Stoker winner for Short Fiction, "Happy Joe's Rest Stop". The complete listing of included stories: Happy Joe’s Rest Stop Splinterette The Geminis Available Light Long Walk Home My Darkness Travels on Sunshine The Haven To the Stars That Fooled You Mother You Can Watch Outlaws of Hill County Welcome to the Jungle Wings for Wheels Secret Sea Eternal Valley The Curious Banks of the Wabash River The Tennatrick Vampiro X is for Xyx Sunset Beach I Know This World Forever Gaia Ungaia Perrollo’s Ladder

Walking the Dusk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 267

Walking the Dusk

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-05-12
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  • Publisher: JournalStone

“Hey.” With that one word, uttered in the dead of night, young Charlie's life veers down a dark and unbelievable road. Some thirty years later, Dr. Charles Barry teaches physics at a small California college. Only in dreams do those childhood events reach him: the strange presence in the house, the otherworldly visits and the shadow over his beloved older sister, Megan, whose troubled inward life he could only glimpse. That is, until his father dies, and Megan, now an artistic wanderer, comes back into his life. With her come memories of unearthly creatures, a predatory entity and a harrowing trek behind the walls of the known cosmos, toward places of the alien and seemingly impossible, in order to save the very essence of his sister. Now, caught once more by the same forces, Charles returns to those places in the hopes of setting certain things right—and to keep Megan from slipping away forever. With Walking the Dusk, Mike Robinson delivers a contemporary Dantean vision, one of both sweepingly surreal vistas and intimate bonds, a mind-and-genre-warping journey into the twin infinities of the universe within, and the universe without.

The Streaming of Hill House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

The Streaming of Hill House

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-04-28
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  • Publisher: McFarland

Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House has received both critical acclaim and heaps of contempt for its reimagining of Shirley Jackson's seminal horror novel. Some found Mike Flanagan's series inventive, respectful and terrifying. Others believed it denigrated and diminished its source material, with some even calling it a "betrayal" of Jackson. Though the novel has produced a great deal of scholarship, this is the first critical collection to look at the television series. Featuring all new essays from noted scholars and award-winning horror authors, this collection goes beyond comparing the novel and the Netflix adaptation to look at the series through the lenses of gender, architecture, education, hauntology, addiction, and trauma studies including analysis of the show in the context of 9/11 and #Me Too. Specific essays compare the series with other texts, from Flanagan's other films and other adaptations of Jackson's novel, to the television series Supernatural, Toni Morrison's Beloved and the 2018 film Hereditary. Together, this collection probes a terrifying television series about how scary reality can truly be, usually because of what it says about our lives in America today.

The Best Horror of the Year
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 487

The Best Horror of the Year

An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers?including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another’s yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds more than she bargains for . . . The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Adam L. G. Nevill, Livia Llewellyn, Peter Straub, Gemma Files, Brian Hodge, and more. For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist ...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21

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  • Published: 2010-10-28
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones, whose Mammoth Book of Best New Horror is one of the major bargains of this as of any other year.' Roz Kavaney 'An essential volume for horror readers.' Locus 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.' Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books

Brightside
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Brightside

Brightside: A Psychological Thriller Imagine a world where the person next to you—stranger, friend, lover—can creep into your mind and steal your most intimate thoughts. Now imagine you are the Thought Thief who is so greatly feared that your freedom and your life are threatened. Welcome to Brightside…you won’t be leaving. Brightside takes a unique twist on the psychic phenomena of telepathy. The fearful masses panic and create Brightside, a town that is essentially a prison. Protagonist Joe Nolan is one of the many Thought Thieves who have been rounded up and forced to live in Brightside, with little hope of ever leaving. Suspense builds as Joe finds himself on a mission to break fr...

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 667

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-10-20
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers. As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most comprehensive annual overview of horror around the world in all its incarnations; a comprehensive necrology of famous names; and a list of indispensable contact addresses for the dedicated horror fan and writer alike. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror remains the world's leading annual anthology dedicated solely to presenting the best in contemporary horror fiction.

Borrowed Flesh
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

Borrowed Flesh

Poor Alex. She thought she would have some fun, take a chance, maybe fool around a little. Instead she’s lying dead in her own blood, cut open like a slaughtered animal. But the worst is still to come. Her tender young flesh will soon be used in an unspeakable act, an unholy ritual that few sane people could even believe. Alex was not the first, nor will she be the last. Not as long as Vanessa is alive—and she plans to be alive forever. Vanessa’s unnatural life has become a search for victims, virgins to satisfy her body’s need for eternal youth. But Vanessa doesn’t know that there are things in the world more powerful, more terrifying than even herself …

IT Chapters One and Two
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

IT Chapters One and Two

Drawing on critical analysis of film, the horror genre, the Gothic, and Stephen King scholarship, this book considers Andy Muschietti’s IT Chapter One (2017) and IT Chapter Two (2019) on multiple levels: as film (both as individual films and through their interconnected narrative), as adaptation, and as a barometer of the horror film’s popularity among fans. Key points of consideration include the significance of the fictional town of Derry as a traditionally Gothic “bad place,” the role of 1980s nostalgia in these two films, the complex navigation of memory and trauma, gender representation, queer representation, and the return of the repressed. The terrifying figure of Pennywise th...

Resist And Refuse #1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 82

Resist And Refuse #1

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-08-20
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

RESIST AND REFUSE is a benefit zine dedicated to inclusive politics and culture, filtered through a weird literary lens as most of the contributors come from the weird/horror fiction world.The main purpose of RESIST AND REFUSE is to raise money for non-profit groups doing work that benefits especially vulnerable people. All contributors have donated their works, and all proceeds from RESIST AND REFUSE will in turn be donated to three groups: Planned Parenthood, Transgender Law Center, and The Trevor Project.For non-fiction, issue #1 features a lengthy article by Sally Jane Black on ¿How To Watch A Movie,¿ a conversation between Selena Chambers and Farah Rose Smith about their writing and p...