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From the haunted hills of Roman Britain to the sewers of occupied Warsaw … in the bloodied streets of Revolutionary Paris, and the anarchy World War II Shanghai … out of the wilds of America, India, Africa and Europe … down the long savage darkness of the centuries, monsters have fed upon us. They are shapeshifters, vampires, sorcerers and spirits—things named only in myth, and things for which we have no name. They are our demons, our reflections, our desires and our nightmares. And all too often, they are … only human.

In Everyday Weapons, Silas Dakar crafts an intimate and profound exploration of the human condition. Blending poetic reflection with sharp insight, he unveils how the ordinary etches traces that evolve into acts of courage.

In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation, and the toll it takes on their psyches. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one woman's increasingly fraught relationship with her body during pregnancy. A woman recalls an uncanny experience, in which Elvis impersonators take center stage, to an acquaintance who doesn't yet know just how intimately they're connected. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in the giant corpse flower a mourner has gifted her.

From Egypt to a Russian village to the mountains of Eastern Europe and back, one of the old-fashioned gentlemen of Russian literature, Nikolai Leskov, takes his listeners on a journey of spirit, mind, and imagination.

Megan Kamalei Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth.

As the smell of pinecones and cinnamon fill the air and the plump turkey roasts in the oven, the final preparations for Christmas day have begun just as they do every year. The tree lights are twinkling and the mince pies are cooked and there is just one final tradition to carry out before the Christmas magic can begin. This year though, something is different and it's time for life-long traditions to change.

Horror, tragedy, and comedy collide in the third diabolical collection of horror from Duncan Ralston. A hitman takes a flight with his latest victim's severed head in a bowling bag. A rich man takes a twisted form of revenge on the man sleeping with his wife. A sentient appendage terrorizes an apartment complex. A psychologist moves to the small town of Dark Pines, where his patients' inner demons manifest as terrifying monsters in reality. Take an unforgettable journey into a world of nightmares. But be warned...you can't unsee what you'll find in the dark.

Years of research… decades of study… and it’s all led up to this. The greatest moment of researcher Roland Ohtani's professional career is at hand... but even with the eyes of the world upon him and the backing of the world’s most powerful billionaire, he never could have predicted the horrific truth that lies at the heart of everything.

From Daniel Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from his beloved Children's Stories Made Horrific series, The Merry Spinster takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to listeners of both The Toast and his best-selling debut Texts from Jane Eyre. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.

Every spotlight casts a thousand shadows: five short stories from the darker recesses of a life in professional theatre.

Author Mark Tullius will leave you wondering, "Where does he come up with this stuff?" Experience chills as you read these stories and more: An artist whose paintings become reality. A man who longs to rid himself of an annoying companion. A child terrified by things that slither and ooze in the night. A woman who sniffs out killers. A life coach whose own brand of "therapy" goes way beyond cruel and unusual.

Evangelina is as everyday as women come. If she were a landscape, she'd be a patch of woods on the edge of a fallow Indiana field, her edges visible from all directions from miles away. Nothing special on the outside. A disturbance to nobody. One might think her a boring, self-contained Midwestern housewife.

Rajiv has everything that a person of his age could ever dream of. However, the arrival of a special someone has completely changed his life. The question arises: Is this special someone truly good for him? When Anaya chooses a different path in life, she faces a struggle for which she was not prepared. While attempting to lead a normal life, the unexpected arrival of an old friend has created a storm in her life. Will she be able to overcome it, or could she find herself entirely lost in its turbulence?

Open this collection of short stories to meet a chatty ghoul, senior citizens with a unique twist on Sundowner’s Syndrome, a hard-bitten cowhand who rides into Perdition, and a host of others among the sacred, the damned, and everyday man. Tokens of Perdition is your ticket to a roller coaster ride that climbs to inspiring heights, then plunges into dark, sinister depths. Take up your sword and join in this battle of good and evil that runs across time, circumstance, humanity, and beyond. Choose a side.

"When I was a young boy, I asked my grandfather how he proposed to his wife. He said that he showed my grandmother a magical moment." This is a fictionalized set of stories, loosely based on the memories of my father and the romance shared by his paternal grandparents.