A deluxe edition of original and classic short stories, packed with monsters, vampires and a host of weird creatures. Tales of shadows and voices in the dark from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Hope Hodgson are cast with previously unpublished stories by some of the best writers of horror today. A dazzling collection of the most gripping tales of horror, vividly told.

Stories of the end of civilized life have always fascinated us, from the mythological world endings, Armageddon to Ragnorok, to the flood stories of across the Ancient world. They make us wonder what we would do if all around us came to an end: no transport, no fuel, no communications: a retreat into the desperation, the onslaught of disease, how would we survive? This is the source of zombie literature and provides the inspiration for this fabulous mix of horror and adventure, of classic and brand new writing in the successful series of Gothic Fantasy titles from Flame Tree. These new authors will appear alongside the following classic and essential writers: Stephen Vincent Benet, J.D. Beresford, Lord Byron, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Allan England, William Hope Hodgson, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, M.P. Shiel, Snorri Sturluson, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells; along with a retelling of the Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Myth of Apocalypse.

Why are we so obsessed with fighting? There's an old saying: No bar ever cleared out because somebody ran inside and said "Everybody come outside There's two guys getting along in the parking lot " Unarmed combat has enthralled audiences since the dawn of time. It's primal. Visceral. Immediate. And often, necessary. Bloody Knuckles collects a variety of two-fisted tales and real life reports that explore every aspect of the fight game. The underground, the amateurs, the pros, and the faded glory of aging warriors. Open the cage door and step inside.

Twin sisters, discovered dead in a house. No known relatives. No foul play. Who are they? Who were they? Inspired by a true story, Cipher Sisters focuses on the lives of twin sisters Lucy and Darcy, piecing together their lives from family stories, legends, and pure conjecture. We can only learn about them from stories of people who met them in passing, knew them well, crossed them, loved them. This is a collection of tales about two lives in abstract, filled with love, dedication, anger, hatred, fighting, success, failure, and perseverance.

Love. Death. Addiction. Twins. Cicadas. Strippers. Murderers. Children. Castles. Zombies. Pomeranians. Silver limbs. Mental institutions. Trailer parks. Time travel. Appalachia. Conversations. Memories. Lies.