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softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 121 pp.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Light shelf wear. Text clean, binding firm.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. People come to The Angelsea , a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned and desperate, who speak through the sleeping inhabitants. She fears sleep herself, terrified that the ghosts of her daughters will tell her "it's all your fault we're dead." At the same time, she'd give anything to hear them one more time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A city on the brink, a battle for its soul.In New Samarqand, the king is dying, and terrorist groups are rising. As the National Museum prepares to unveil its Amazon sisters' tomb, a web of intrigue tightens around the city.Enter Hokki, the museum director; Ali, the police commissioner; Kassandra, the poet; Thomas, the bookseller; and Vita, the secret agent. In this final installment of the City-States Cycle, they must navigate a labyrinth of power, corruption, and betrayal to save their world.For readers of speculative fiction, dystopian novels, and political thrillers, The Sum of All Things is a smart, subtle, and unputdownable exploration of identity, resistance, and the forces that shape our reality. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma after a very suspicious "accident." Even if it means infiltrating the last place Seraphina knows Eff was alive: a once-abandoned amusement park now populated by a community of cultists. Follow Seraphina through the mouth of the Goblin: To the right, a wolf-themed roller coaster rests on the blackened earth, curled up like a dead snake. To the left, an animatronic Humpty Dumpty falls off a concrete castle and shatters on the ground, only to reform itself moments later. Up ahead, cultists giggle as they meditate in a hall of mirrors. This is the last place in the world Seraphina wants to be, but the best way to investigate this bizarre cult, is to join them. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories by Cat Sparks.The collection offers a glimpse into a chilling future world that is similar to our own. Readers will be drawn into experiences at once familiar and bizarre, where our choices have far-reaching consequences and the environment is a force to be reckoned with.The title of the collection tethers these stories to a shared space. The calvaria is the top part of the skull, comprising five plates that fuse together in the first few years of life. Story collections work like this; disparate parts melding together to make a robust and sturdy whole. The calvaria tree, also known as the dodo tree, adapted to being eaten by the now-extinct dodo bird; its seeds need to pass through the bird s digestive tract in order to germinate. In a similar way, the stories in Calvaria Fell reflect the idea of adaptation and the consequences of our actions in a changing world. Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void. Dark Factory is a dance club: three floors of DJs, drinks, and customizable reality, everything you see and hear and feel. Ari Regon is the club's wild card floor manager, Max Caspar is a stubborn DIY artist, both chasing a vision of true reality. And rogue journalist Marfa Carpenter is there to write it all down. Then a rooftop rave sets in motion a fathomless energy that may drive Ari and Max to the edge of the ultimate experience. Dark Factory is Kathe Kojas wholly original new novel from Meerkat Press that combines her award-winning writing and her skill directing immersive events to create a story that unfolds on the page, online, and in the reader's creative mind. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When the world ends, chaos begins for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bit for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends. Dark times. Dark dreams. DARK MATTER The third and final book in the DARK FACTORY series. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Tess burns. Bibi cuts. Together they create chaos, love, pain, and unstoppable art, in SKIN, the story of a partnership that sparks like flying metal and bleeds like a breaking heart. A classic of queer horror, with a brand new introduction from Eric LaRocca. A classic of queer horror, with a brand new introduction from Eric LaRocca. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Includes the bonus novella, SARAHOn a razor' s edge between speculation and reality, Freirich' s psychological horror Deprivation tracks the spread of the next epidemic - insomnia. Over a week, as sleeplessness engulfs a New England summer resort island, the hapless Chief of Police struggles to keep order, a blurry doctor searches for the cause and the cure, and a teenage girl competes with her friends in an online game: who can stay awake the longest? Impaired judgment spirals into delusions, the island is cut-off, and hysteria descends into mob rule and murder. For some, suicide is the only way to close their eyes. The new novella features cellist Sarah, caring for her comatose, former symphony conductor husband, Jeremiah. As sleeplessness spreads, Sarah is not immune - nor Jeremiah, who awakens, weak, hoarse, but grateful. Suspecting he will relapse into coma if and when the strange epidemic of insomnia ends, they slowly make their way through the chaos of Carratuck to the far cove where he proposed to her, to dance in the shallows and make love a last time before sleep can find them again. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says, "We're not." But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: New. Map; 9.0 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches; 226 pages; Soft cover has brown spine with white lettering. NEW. B/w map at front of book. 'Agent "Sully" Sullivan is one of the top cops in the Imperial Bureau of Investigation. A veteran witch of the British Empire who isn't afraid to use her magical skills to crack a case. But Sully might need more than a good education and raw power to stop the string of grisly murders that have been springing up across the American Colonies. Every one of them marked by the same chilling calling card, a warning in the form of a legion of voices screaming out through the killers' mouths: "It IS tHe YEAr oF the KNife." Sully's investigation will drag her away from the comforts of home in New Amsterdam, the beautiful but useless hyacinth macaw that used to be her boss, and the loving arms of her undead girlfriend, in a thrilling race against time, demonic forces and a shadowy conspiracy that will do anything to keep its hold on power and ensure that Sully takes their secrets to her grave, as soon as possible. G. D. Penman's imaginative The Year of the Knife is a fun, fast-paced urban fantasy mystery with an engaging set of characters, most notably Agent Sully of the Imperial Bureau of Investigation.'.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From the queen of genre-bending speculative fiction, comes the newest Sauutiverse offering, a mystery like no other, where the investigator is not a detective, but a sound scientist.In a world where sound is a tangible force, Musomi is a maadiregian expert in the art of consuming it. At the prestigious Mahadum, she researches the language of silence, seeking to master the gift her mother calls theft. But academic intrigue turns to deadly peril when her friend vanishes after unearthing a hidden truth. Pursuing clues through pools of quietude across worlds, Musomi stumbles upon a horrifying discovery: a pattern of carnage left in fields of harvested silence. Now, the hunter becomes the hunted, as her unique expertise draws her into the orbit of a serial killer who understands the power of sound all too well.Includes a glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric and made-up words from this cross-cultural tale written in gorgeous lyrical language packed with emotion. From the queen of genre-bending speculative fiction, comes the newest Sauutiverse offering, a mystery like no other, where the investigator is not a detective, but a sound scientist. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. From Keith Rosson, the acclaimed author of Coffin Moon and Fever. Blending the fantastic with the painfully familiar, Shirley-Jackson award-winning Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons is dark, visceral, strange, and unexpectedly funnya collection filled with grace, imagination, and brazen gallows humor.In "Dunsmuir," a newly sober husband buys a hearse to help his wife spread her sister's ashes, while "The Lesser Horsemen" illustrates what happens when God instructs the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse to go on a team-building cruise as a way of boosting their frayed morale. In "Brad Benske and the Hand of Light," an estranged husband seeks his wife's whereabouts through a fortuneteller after she absconds with a cult, and in "High Tide," a grieving man ruminates on his brother's life as a monster terrorizes their coastal town. With grace, imagination, and a brazen gallows humor, Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons merges the fantastic and the everyday, and includes a number of Rosson's unpublished stories, as well as award-winning favorites. "With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels"--Back cover. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A remote island, a monster hunt, and a past that refuses to stay buried.Mark Sandoval, a once-famous cryptozoologist haunted by a hit-and-run, seeks refuge in Hvildarland, a remote Icelandic island, after grainy footage surfaces of a possible unicorn. He hires an assistant, and they venture to the farm where the sighting occurred, only to find more than they bargained for.As they delve deeper, they uncover military secrets and chilling truths about the island's history and its residents. With the lines between reality and illusion blurring, they must confront their inner demons and decide what they are willing to risk in the face of the unknown. Perfect for readers of speculative fiction, horror, and mystery, this novel blends dark humor with philosophical themes, exploring the nature of belief and the price of knowledge. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4"; 343 pages; Hard cover is grey with gold lettering on the spine. DJ. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. 'Roberto, a young left-wing South American journalist, receives an ominous phone call: leave the country in ten days, or die. Roberto is being targeted because of a series of articles he's written exposing government corruption and violence at the highest levels. Roberto believes the voice on the other end of the phone and has every intention of leaving, as soon as he follows a lead on a major story developing in the jungle: thousands of innocent lives are at stake. The book follows him on his perilous journey into the heart of darkness in pursuit of his story. Unknowingly, Roberto is headed toward a confrontation with an evil darker than he could possibly have imagined.'.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 6 3/4 x 9 1/4"; 343 pages; Hard cover is grey with gold lettering on the spine. DJ. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. 'Roberto, a young left-wing South American journalist, receives an ominous phone call: leave the country in ten days, or die. Roberto is being targeted because of a series of articles he's written exposing government corruption and violence at the highest levels. Roberto believes the voice on the other end of the phone and has every intention of leaving, as soon as he follows a lead on a major story developing in the jungle: thousands of innocent lives are at stake. The book follows him on his perilous journey into the heart of darkness in pursuit of his story. Unknowingly, Roberto is headed toward a confrontation with an evil darker than he could possibly have imagined.'.…

Soft cover. Condizione: As New. Meerkat Press, Atlanta, 2020, Trade paperback. As New copy.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Simon Kemper is on the up and up he s out of rehab, and his band is gaining moderate success around Berlin. But out of the corner of his eye and over his shoulder, he s always aware of her. The stalker. She s at every show, no matter what city. She sends hundreds of postcards to his label. Worst of all, she acts like she knows him. Like she owns him.When the stalker disappears at one of his shows, Simon is the prime suspect. Initially an effort to clear his name, his search for July quickly becomes a deeper psychological quest: to prove that his fears were warranted? That she couldn t have given up her obsession that easily?The threads of July s disappearance turn out to be tangled into every corner of Simon s life: a trusted band member, a tenuous new love interest, a resentful ex, and the self he s supposedly left behind. Narcissistic, insecure, and consummately relatable, Simon is the anti-hero of his own life trying to want to be better; hoping that s enough. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Enter a world of strange and unsettling beauty with Kathe Koja's electrifying collection of short fiction.In Velocities, award-winning author Kathe Koja plunges readers into thirteen tales that explore the darker aspects of the human condition. From urban landscapes to rural nightmares, these stories delve into themes of art, identity, and transformation with a unique blend of horror and literary prose.Experience mounting tension and dangerous desires as Koja's characters confront their inner demons and navigate the blurred lines between reality and the surreal. Perfect for readers who enjoy:Immersive and hypnotic storytellingThought-provoking explorations of bleak topicsShort, sharp speedballs of strangeVelocities is a must-read for fans of dark speculative fiction and literary horror. Prepare to be captivated by Koja's signature blend of supercharged prose and unforgettable imagery. From the award-winning author of The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes Velocities , Kathe Koja's second electrifying collection of short fiction. Thirteen stories, two never before published, all flying at the speed of strange. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Time is closing in and Meera is afraid of where she stands on the bridge between worlds fearful of what waits on the other side.Meera and her twin sister Kai are among thousands of hybrid women called Mades bred by the Father in his Blood Temple cult. Meera is rescued by a mysterious healer and storyteller, Narn, but her sister, Kai, does not survive the Fathers 'unmaking.'Years later, when the cult is discovered and abolished, Meera, still racked with guilt and grief, enrolls in college to take advantage of a generous new Redress Program. When Narns conjure stories buy Meera a free ride to a notorious horror reading series, she is soon the darling of the lit set, feted by the other students, finally whole, finally free of the idea that she should have died instead of her sister. But college is not all it seems Narn has lost a sister too, and Meera agrees to try and find her if Narn will keep feeding Meera the stories that are opening her up to memories shes never acknowledged, secrets shes never wanted to know, about Narns and the Fathers connection to a violent campus stalker. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In this lush interplanetary tale, Novic is an immortal Sayneth priest who flouts the conventions of a matriarchal society by choosing a name for his child. This act initiates chaos that splits the boy in two, unleashing a Jekyll-and-Hyde child upon the universe. Named T-Mo by his mother and Odysseus by his father, the story spans the boy's lifetime a from his early years with his mother Silhouette on planet Grovea to his travels to Earth where he meets and marries Salem, and together they bear a hybrid named Myra. The story unfolds through the eyes of these three distinctive women: Silhouette, Salem and Myra. As they confront their fears and navigate the treacherous paths to love and accept T-Mo/Odysseus and themselves, the darkness in Odysseus urges them to unbearable choices that threaten their very existence.Publishers Weekly "Bacon explores a four-generation alien family saga in this gleeful, wacky debut." Full ReviewForeword Reviews "Claiming T-Mo is literate, imaginative, and provocativea strong, even unforgettable, science fiction debut."Aurealis Magazine, Megan Kelly "Bacon enthralls readers with an innovative narrative that extols the potency of using poetic language in fiction." Full Review Publishers Weekly "Bacon explores a four-generation alien family saga in this gleeful, wacky debut." Full Review Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening: a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches. The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives - leading them all to a discovery that will change them and their town forever. At the heart of the story are Sam Finster, a senior in high school mourning the death of his mother, and his sister Trina, a nine-year-old deaf girl who denies her grief by dreaming of a nuclear apocalypse as Cold War tensions rise. Meanwhile, Sheriff Dave Dobbs and Deputy Nick Hayslip must try to put their own sorrows aside to figure out who, or what, is wreaking havoc on their once-idyllic town. Keith Rosson paints outside the typical genre lines with his brilliant debut novel. It is a gorgeously written book that merges the sly wonder of magical realism and alternate history with the depth and characterization of literary fiction.- NPR Books | Jason Heller - "Rosson is a talent to be watched, and Riptide is one of the most immersive fictional settings in recent memory."- Publisher's Weekly (starred review) - "A striking novel"- Foreword Reviews (4/4 hearts) - "An exquisitely honed, beautifully written novel." Riptide, Oregon, 1983. A sleepy coastal town, where crime usually consists of underage drinking down at a Wolf Point bonfire. But then strange things start happening--a human skeleton is unearthed in a local park and mutilated animals begin appearing, seemingly sacrificed, on the town's beaches. The Mercy of the Tide follows four people drawn irrevocably together by a recent tragedy as they do their best to reclaim their lives--leading them all to a discovery that will change them and their town forever. At the heart of the story are Sam Finster, a senior in high school mourning the death of his mother, and his sister Trina, a nine-year-old deaf girl who denies her grief by dreaming of a nuclear apocalypse as Cold War tensions rise. Meanwhile, Sheriff Dave Dobbs and Deputy Nick Hayslip must try to put their own sorrows aside to figure out who, or what, is wreaking havoc on their once-idyllic town. Keith Rosson paints outside the typical genre lines with his brilliant debut novel. It is a gorgeously written book that merges the sly wonder of magical realism and alternate history with the depth and characterization of literary fiction. This book will appeal to fans of genre-bending authors such as Dean Koontz, Karen Russell, Kelly Link, and Kevin Barry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smiths first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncles insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. 2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver MedalistPowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018"Rosson is a talent to be watched." - Jason Heller, NPRMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week.Oh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Therage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?When Marvin heads to Los Angeles to locate the woman who may or may not be Joan, he's picked up hitchhiking by Mike Vale, a self-destructive alcoholic painter traveling to his ex-wife's funeral. As they move through a California landscape populated with "smokes" (ghostly apparitions that've inexplicably begun appearing throughout the southwestern US), each seeks absolution in his own way.In Smoke City, Keith Rosson continues to blur genre and literary fiction in a way that is in turns surprising, heartfelt, brutal, relentlessly inventive, and entirely his own. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Covers in very good condition with no noticeable wear. Binding tight and text clean.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. People come to The Angelsea , a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned and desperate, who speak through the sleeping inhabitants. She fears sleep herself, terrified that the ghosts of her daughters will tell her "it's all your fault we're dead." At the same time, she'd give anything to hear them one more time. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Condizione: Trade paperback, New. Atlanta: Meerkat Press:, 2020. Trade paperback, New, 182 pp. Cover artwork by: Tricia Reeks "This peculiar hybrid of the untraditional, the extraordinary within, without and along the borders of normalcy will hypnotize and absorb the reader with tales that refuse to be labeled. The stories in this collection are dirges that cross genres in astounding ways. Over 20 provocative tales, with seven original to this collection, by an award-winning African-Australian author."- This is a print-on-demand edition. Tricia Reeks (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 253 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A city on the brink, a battle for its soul.In New Samarqand, the king is dying, and terrorist groups are rising. As the National Museum prepares to unveil its Amazon sisters' tomb, a web of intrigue tightens around the city.Enter Hokki, the museum director; Ali, the police commissioner; Kassandra, the poet; Thomas, the bookseller; and Vita, the secret agent. In this final installment of the City-States Cycle, they must navigate a labyrinth of power, corruption, and betrayal to save their world.For readers of speculative fiction, dystopian novels, and political thrillers, The Sum of All Things is a smart, subtle, and unputdownable exploration of identity, resistance, and the forces that shape our reality. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …