Showing results for "Billie" in Anthologies & Short Stories

From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown . . . and unimaginable.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the magical gothic halls of the Scholomance trilogy to the fairy tale worlds of Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik's most beloved worlds. Within this anthology, we move from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Black Death, and into the modern era.

Women write horror and have written it since before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. This anthology highlights the fact that women write great horror and kills the fallacy that they aren't in some way up to standard. They are. Hear stories by Elizabeth Massie, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Lucy Taylor, and a plethora of other great writers as they work on your nerves, get inside your head, and bang out some of the scariest tales written today. Lock the door and windows, put on a light, and remember, it's not real.

For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them.

Fourteen brand-new 2013 tales of dread ranging from horror to dark science fiction and noir, Sinister will keep you awake at night. Two hundred and forty-four pages of aliens who come from the sky, a detective working his last case, a skull flenser who loves his job, and various evils and dark chills creep through this new collection from the Edgar and Stoker nominated author, Billie Sue Mosiman.

This year's stories are by an award-nominated author of horror and suspense. Two of the stories are novellas. Hear dark tales of terror and intrigue from an alien child left on an Earth overrun by zombie cannibals to the first killer in all the world, Cain, the murderer of Abel, his brother. This is a worthy addition to the ongoing yearly series of Sinister, these eight tales will make your dreams restless.

Kämpft mit uns gegen die grauen Herren und Aluhutträger! Haltet die Banner hoch für Jubel, Trubel, Heiterkeit! Auf dass der Goldberg in Selb an jedem zweiten Septemberwochenende erbeben möge! Dudelsäcke, Trommeln, epische Gesänge und feiner Harfenklang ertönen. Kunterbunt, international und familiär lustwandeln tausende Fans und Mitstreiter auf dem größten europäischen Mittelalterkulturfestival: dem Festival-Mediaval.

Jeremy Miller is six weeks old. He is not like other children. In fact, no other child on earth is like him. He was somehow born with a fully-functioning adult mind. A unique character study of human nature and moral implications regarding parenthood, The Sixth Week of Jeremy Miller is a dramatic, yet subtly unsettling listen.

A couple is stuck in a small town, unable to leave due to a violent storm that seems to have come out of nowhere. The residents seem overly prepared for what, at first, seems like an ordinary thunderstorm. People are fleeing into their homes and shutting them up as if protecting themselves from something far deadlier than thunder and lightning. There's just something about those clouds....

If there truly is life after death, he was going to find out. Before he suddenly passed away, world-famous magician and showman Harry Houdini vowed that he would find the truth and prove it to the world. Rhonda Bennett works at an old folk's home. A new arrival, a Mister Paul Dresser, is suffering from dementia with the onset of Alzheimer's. He is just another resident. A kind, but very sick old man at the end of his life. He claims to be the man who knows the truth. Not just about Houdini, but about his promise of returning from the afterlife. Rhonda doesn't believe him.

These 16 short tales delve into realms of existential investigation, from dark horror and science fiction futures to fantastical flights of scientific wonder. Each story is a self-contained world of its own, a moment in time that illuminates a thought, a person, an experience or a curiosity.

Attention : le livre que vous tenez entre les mains est une machine à avancer dans le temps. Si vous l'ouvrez, vous serez propulsé dans le futur et y découvrirez comment on fera l'amour en 2050. Mais voulez-vous vraiment le savoir ? Voulez-vous vraiment vous initier aux jeux sexuels en réseau ? Découvrir la machine qui permet de vivre ses rêves érotiques ?