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To the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by
writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti
comes Laird Barron, an author whose literary voice invokes the
grotesque, the devilish, and the perverse with intensity and
astonishing craftsmanship. Collected here for the first time are
nine terrifying tales of cosmic horror, including the World Fantasy
Award-nominated novella "The Imago Sequence," the International
Horror Guild Award-nominated "Proboscis," and the
never-before-published "Procession of the Black Sloth." Together,
these stories, each a masterstroke of craft and imaginative irony,
form a shocking cycle of distorted evolution, encroaching chaos,
and ravenous insectoid hive-minds hidden just beneath the seemingly
benign surface of the Earth. With colorful protagonists, including
an over-the-hill CIA agent, a grizzled Pinkerton detective, and a
failed actor accompanying a group of bounty hunters, Barron's
stories are resonant and authentic, featuring vulnerable,
hard-boiled tough guys attempting to stand against the stygian
wasteland of night. Throughout the collection, themes of
desolation, fear, and masculine identity are played out against the
backdrop of an indifferent, devouring cosmos. Skyhorse Publishing,
under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a
broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction
(space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future
dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban
fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies,
vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While
not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a
national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are
committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of
authors.
Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us
from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird
cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old
Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us...
Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of
a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life
between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering
realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover
the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about
his wife Michelle, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts.
For Donald is about to stumble on the secret... ...of The Croning.
From Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The
Imago Sequence and Occultation, comes The Croning, a debut novel of
cosmic horror. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos
imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers
interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF,
alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and
sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative
history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and
supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish
becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a
Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality
books from a diverse group of authors.
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, nine stories of cosmic horror
from the heir apparent to Lovecraft's throne. Laird Barron has
emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark
fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by
writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti.
His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted
in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple
awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley
Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. His debut
collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural
winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. He returns with his second
collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a
carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's nine tales of terror
(two published here for the first time) were nominated for just as
many Shirley Jackson awards, winning for the novella "Mysterium
Tremendum" and the collection as a whole. Featuring an introduction
by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly
sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is
proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in
science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion,
near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery,
contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and
horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and
much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula
award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a
diverse group of authors.
A third collection of stories from critically acclaimed and
award-winning author Laird Barron, and the winner of the 2013 Bram
Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Fiction Collection.
Over the course of two award-winning collections and a critically
acclaimed novel, "The Croning," Laird Barron has arisen as one of
the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror
and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with
hard-boiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron's
stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in
numerous year's best anthologies. His work has been nominated for
multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror
Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy
awards.
Barron returns with his third collection, "The Beautiful Thing That
Awaits Us All." Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic
horror, including "Blackwood's Baby," "The Carrion Gods in Their
Heaven," and the World Fantasy Award-nominated "Hand of Glory,"
"The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All" delivers enough
spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.
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Behold the Void (Paperback)
Philip Fracassi; Introduction by Laird Barron
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"I want to be like John Langan when I grow up, okay? He blends
meticulously crafted traditional narratives with joyous
genre-bending and narrative rule-breaking. His stories are fiercely
smart, timely, timeless, heartbreaking, and of course, flat-out
scary. Langan fearlessly commits to his monsters, his characters,
his readers, to his vision of the horror story and the messed-up,
broken, frightening world we inhabit. Wide, Carnivorous Sky,
indeed."-Paul Tremblay, author of "The Little Sleep" and
"Swallowing a Donkey's Eye."
John Langan has, in the last few years, established himself as one
of the leading voices in contemporary horror literature. Gifted
with a supple and mellifluous prose style, an imagination that can
conjure up clutching terrors with seeming effortlessness, and a
thorough knowledge of the rich heritage of weird fiction, Langan
has already garnered his share of accolades. This new collection of
nine substantial stories includes such masterworks as
"Technicolor," an ingenious riff on Poe's "Masque of the Red
Death"; "How the Day Runs Down," a gripping tale of the undead; and
"The Shallows," a powerful tale of the Cthulhu Mythos. The capstone
to the collection is a previously unpublished novella of
supernatural terror, "Mother of Stone." With an introduction by
Jeffrey Ford and an afterword by Laird Barron.
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Unseaming (Paperback)
Mike Allen; Introduction by Laird Barron
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Mike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and
dark fantasy. UNSEAMING burns bright as hell among its peers.
-Laird Barron, author of THE BEAUTIFUL THING THAT AWAITS US ALL
Everyone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows
where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its
owner's reality limb from limb. A portal to the spirit realm
stretches wide on the Appalachian Trail, and something more than
human crawls through on eight legs. Words of comfort change to
terrifying sounds as a force from outside time speaks through them.
The buttons in the bin will unseam your flesh to bare your nastiest
secrets. Opening with "The Button Bin," a finalist for the Nebula
Award for Best Short Story, and culminating with its sequel, "The
Quiltmaker," which Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award
winner Laird Barron has hailed as Mike Allen's masterpiece, this
debut collection gathers fourteen horror tales that, in the words
of Barron's introduction, "rival anything committed to paper by the
likes of contemporary masters such as Clive Barker, Ramsey
Campbell, or Caitlin Kiernan. This is raw, visceral, and sometimes
bloody stuff. Primal stuff." More praise for UNSEAMING Throughout
UNSEAMING, reality is usually in bad shape right from the start-and
from there things proceed to go downhill. Such is the general
background and trajectory of life in Mike Allen's fictional world.
More could be said, of course, but there's one thing that I feel
especially urged to say: these stories are FUN. Not "good" fun, and
certainly not "good clean" fun. They are too unnerving for those
modifiers, too serious, like laughter in the dark-unnerving,
serious laughter that leads you through Mr. Allen's funhouse. The
reality in there is also in bad shape, deliberately so, just for
the seriously unnerving fun of it. The prose is poetic, except it's
nonsense poetry, the poetry of deteriorating realities,
intermingling realities, realities without Reality. And all the
while that unnerving, serious laughter keeps getting louder and
louder. Are we having fun yet? -Thomas Ligotti, author of TEATRO
GROTTESCO and THE SPECTRAL LINK Mike Allen's UNSEAMING confirms his
status as a poet who writes in dread and awe rather than ink. His
most recurrent themes are those of wrenching loss and
transformative retribution, with a liberal helping of the literal
fear of God(s); sowing out a hundred different apocalypses,
personal and otherwise, these stories reap an unforgettable crop of
nightmares, sketching a chimeric universe in which shape-changing
is less a rumour or an option than a sad, simple inevitability. Not
to be missed. -Gemma Files, author of WE WILL ALL GO DOWN TOGETHER
Mike Allen blends a poet's attention to language with a crime
reporter's instinct for the darker precincts of human behavior.
Lush, phantasmagorical, his stories match the monsters outside with
the monsters inside, B-movie tropes opening into psychological and
spiritual desolation. These stories glow with demonic energy, and
what they illuminate are the faces of our secret selves, screaming
back at us from the mirror's depths. -John Langan, author of THE
WIDE, CARNIVOROUS SKY AND OTHER MONSTROUS GEOGRAPHIES"
1888: A killer stalks the streets of London's Whitechapel district,
brutally--some would say ritualistically--murdering women. With
each slaying, the killer grows bolder, his crimes more extreme. So
far, there have been five victims (that we know of): Mary Ann
Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and
Mary Jane Kelly. The story of Jack the Ripper captured lurid
headlines and the public's imagination, and the first
fictionalization of the Ripper killings, John Francis Brewer's The
Curse Upon Mitre Square appeared in October of 1888, mere weeks
after the discovery of Jack's first victim. Since then, hundreds of
stories have been written about Bloody Jack, his victims, and his
legacy. Authors ranging from Marie Belloc Lowndes to Robert Bloch;
from Harlan Ellison to Maureen Johnson; from Roger Zelazny to Alan
Moore have added their own tales to the Ripper myth. Now, as we
arrive at the quasquicentennial of the murders, we bring you a few
tales more. From the editor who brought you The Book of Cthulhu
comes Tales of Jack the Ripper, featuring new fiction by many of
today's darkest dreamers, including Laird Barron, Walter
Greatshell, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Ed Kurtz, Joseph S. Pulver Sr.,
Stanley C. Sargent, E. Catherine Tobler, and many more.
"Some writers one admires and others make one want to do as they
do, or try. For me, Joe Pulver is of the latter type. His
imagination is so vile so much of the time that it makes me giggle
with amazement. And the prose so deadly visionary. I'm grateful
that the pieces in this collection are those of a fellow horror
writer who has raised the ante on what it means to be such a
creature." -- Thomas Ligotti on _Blood Will Have Its Season_ by
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. The world of Joe Pulver's dreams and
nightmares is a world of grim violence and death but also of
strange beauty and wonder. In stories that read like poems and
poems that read like incantations, Pulver weaves a sorcerer's spell
of language-tough, gritty, cheerless, but always evocative,
hypnotizing, intoxicating-that lays bare the fragility of human
beings on the edge of the abyss, looking down at the depths and
looking up at the boundless cosmos. H. P. Lovecraft, Robert W.
Chambers, and other writers of terror and the supernatural are
Pulver's touchstones, but his riffs on their tales are the work of
a master craftsman who recognizes the emotive value of every
sentence, phrase, and word. A poet in every sense of the word,
Pulver sees the world and the cosmos as a cauldron of death and
carnage but also a platform for triumph and redemption. In these
stories, sketches, prose-poems, and vignettes, Pulver evokes the
wild beauty of terror in a manner that few can match. Joseph S.
Pulver, Sr. is the acclaimed author of the Lovecraftian novel
_Nightmare's Disciple_, and he has written many short stories that
have appeared in magazines and anthologies. His first short story
collection, _Blood Will Have Its Season_ (2009), was published to
wide acclaim.
A novel set in the underbelly of upstate New York that's as
hardboiled and punchy as a swift right hook to the jaw, a classic
noir for fans of James Ellroy and John D. Macdonald. Isaiah
Coleridge is a mob enforcer in Alaska--he's tough, seen a lot, and
dished out more. But when he forcibly ends the money-making scheme
of a made man, he gets in the kind of trouble that can lead to a
bullet behind the ear. Saved by the grace of his boss and exiled to
upstate New York, Isaiah begins a new life, a quiet life without
gunshots or explosions. Except a teenage girl disappears, and
Isaiah isn't one to let that slip by. And delving into the
underworld to track this missing girl will get him exactly the kind
of notice he was warned to avoid. At turns brutally shocking and
darkly funny, heartbreaking and cautiously hopeful, Blood Standard
is both a high-tension crime novel and the story of a man's second
chance--the parts of his past he will never escape, and the parts
that will shape his future.
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Adam's Ladder (Paperback)
Laird Barron, Ramsey Campbell; Edited by Michael Bailey
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