Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora

Bad Hand Books

EXPERIENCE A TAPESTRY OF TERROR

From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew…it is with our bodies folk horror is woven.

Edited by Bram Stoker Award-nominee Kristy Park Kulski, this stunning anthology features contributions from some of the most acclaimed authors of the Asian Diaspora.

Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology

Essential Dream Press

Sixteen new stories from some of today’s most renowned authors.
All inspired by the master storyteller Tanith Lee.

Drowning cities and unicorns. Burning deserts and forgotten gods. Golems, elf warriors, and inner-Earthers. Alien lifeforms and museum workers. Ancient plagues and the future of humanity. The familiar and the fantastical. Each story in this anthology is both unique and compelling: from fairy-tale retellings to romance-tinged high fantasy, from nihilistic horror to gripping science fiction. Immersive, wide-ranging, and sublime, Storyteller features worlds and characters that are sure to travel with you long after the last page has been read.

Strange New Moons

French Press Publishing

You can hardly swing a dismembered deer carcass these days without hitting a “No vampires, no zombies, and no werewolves” sign on an anthology.

Well, to that we say “Pshaw!” And also, “Awooo!”

Because what readers really don’t like are dull werewolf stories. So, we tasked the horror community with writing the weirdest, wildest, most creative, utterly bonkers tails (ha!) of lycanthropic lunacy possible.

The End Of The World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand

Gallery Books

Since its initial publication in 1978, The Stand has been considered Stephen King’s seminal masterpiece of apocalyptic fiction, with millions of copies sold and adapted twice for television. Although there are other extraordinary works exploring the unraveling of human society, none have been as influential as this iconic novel—generations of writers have been impacted by its dark yet ultimately hopeful vision of the end and new beginning of civilization, and its stunning array of characters.

Now for the first time, Stephen King has fully authorized a return to the harrowing world of The Stand through this original short story anthology as presented by award-winning authors and editors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene. Bringing together some of today’s greatest and most visionary writers, The End of the World As We Know It features unforgettable, all-new stories set during and after (and some perhaps long after) the events of The Stand—brilliant, terrifying, and painfully human tales that will resonate with readers everywhere as an essential companion to the classic, bestselling novel.

The Earth Bleeds At Night

Eerie River Publishing

Delve into the abyss with “The Earth Bleeds At Night,” an anthology that plunges you into the heart of darkness and implores you to ask: What terrors are capable of making the very earth bleed?

Featuring a haunting lineup of award-winning authors alongside the most promising new talents in horror fiction, these stories promise to unveil terrors that will haunt your dreams. From the eerie whispers of literary horror to the blood-curdling screams of campfire tales, each narrative will drag you deeper into the void.

Open this book if you dare.

Let the earth bleed.

And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired By The Music Of Neutral Milk Hotel

Pbarb Books

Celebrate the Strangeness of Being Anything at All

Spotlighting the bizarrely beautiful and beautifully bizarre music and lyrics of indie folk rock band Neutral Milk Hotel, And One Day We Will Die features 22 short stories from the realms of weird, phantasmagoric, and speculative fiction, all inspired by the cult classic songs written and performed by Jeff Mangum and company. From alternate histories where happy endings are allowed and mythological re-imaginings that center love over destruction to awe-inspiring contemplations of the potential in the present and dark and unfathomable future visions, all featured authors selected one song from the beloved Neutral Milk Hotel songbook to use as a springboard for their tales.

Gauges And Ghouls

Ps and Qs Publishing

Your boss is a demon?

Your job haunts your sleep?

You can’t seem to escape, no matter how hard you try?

You’re pretty sure that your co-workers are not quite human?

Gonna need more than one lifetime to get through all the work you have?

Clock in, get your PPE in order, ignore the copier talking to itself and the flickering lights, and dive into these ten haunted stories. They might just be the best thing the next few shifts have to offer.

Boreal: An Anthology of Taiga Horror

Strange Wilds Press

Two sisters huddle in a cabin seeking protection from a dark force. An engineer and an anthropologist search for their lost geologist partner on a derelict expedition. A disgraced tracker investigates a desecrated shrine in a small village.

These are only a few of the stories found within BOREAL: An Anthology of Taiga Horror. 22 stories intermingle the dark and lonely forests of the taiga biome with odysseys of sorrow, grief and self-reflection that skirt the boundaries of life and death.

War-ravaged trees, hypnotic glades, and cold desolate mountains await you. Try not to get lost in them.

Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4

Crone Girls Press

Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror:

• A food blogger hunts for a killer recipe.
• Ceaseless rain drives a lonely man into his fungus-covered town.
• A grieving son purchases a kit to regrow his dead mother.

This anthology explores the mysterious world of fungi, spores…and things that dwell in the dim forest under the rotting leaves. Here you’ll find 31 stories and 5 poems of quiet, cosmic, and body horror—plus subtle humor. Works examine themes of loneliness, desire, consumption, and connection with what lurks in the shadows.

Haunted Ecologies

JournalStone

In these fifteen stories of ecological horror and dark fantasy, Farrenkopf delves into the depths of environmental decay and cursed ecosystems, searching ancient forests for elder gods and swimming the oceans with nameless things that live in the deep.

In these stories, three published here for the first time, we encounter ethical werewolf rearing, murderous tree cults, Weird insectile evolutions, seaside folk horror, corrupt environmental tourism, gothic forest wanderings, eternal plastic pollution, sea-bound cosmic horror, hostile swamp creatures, and the ever creeping threat of climate change. Crack the spine. Step into the trees. Wade into the water. You will always be welcome in these haunted ecologies.