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A collection of the critically acclaimed surreal short fiction of Ben Peek. It presents a world where bands are named after the murderer of a dead president, where the work of Octavia E. Butler is turned into an apocalypse meta-narrative, and John Wayne visits a Wal-Mart. It presents a world where a dying sun shines over a broken, bitter landscape, and men and women tattoo their life onto their skin for an absent god. It presents the visions a dreaming Mark Twain has of Sydney, a crime that begins in a mosque, and answers a questionnaire you never read.

AVAILABLE MARCH 2014

978-1-77148-172-4

For the first time in one collection, award-winning author Susie Moloney unveils thirteen of her most dark and disturbing short stories.

A middle-aged realtor makes a deal that could last forever. A cheating woman finds herself swimming in dangerous waters. A wife with a dark past can’t bear the fear of being exposed. The bad acts of a little old lady come home to roost. A young man with no direction finds power behind the wheel of a haunted truck.

From behind the pretty drapes of the average suburban home, madness peers out.

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978-1-77148-162-5

The crumbling summerhouse called Wild Fell, soaring above the desolate shores of Blackmore Island, has weathered the violence of the seasons for more than a century. Built for his family by a 19th-century politician of impeccable rectitude, the house has kept its terrible secrets and its darkness sealed within its walls. For a hundred years, the townspeople of alvina have prayed that the darkness inside Wild Fell would stay there, locked away from the light.

Jameson Browning, a man well acquainted with suffering, has purchased Wild Fell with the intention of beginning a new life, of letting in the light. But what waits for him at the house is devoted to its darkness and guards it jealously. It has been waiting for Jameson his whole life . . . or even longer. and now, at long last, it has found him.

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978-1-77148-160-1

This is a double novella “flip book” pairing a modern corporate suspense story about the cover-up of a CEo’s illicit affair, with a 1970s-era science fiction thriller about an oil company’s environmental disaster. It is an exploration of the paranoia inherent in business and the thin line between competition and conspiracy.

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978-1-77148-152-6

In the end, the zombie apocalypse was nothing more than a waste disposal problem. Burn them in giant ovens? Bad optics. Bury them in landfill sites? The first attempt created acres of twitching, roiling mud. The acceptable answer is to jettison the millions of immortal automatons into orbit. Soon Earth’s near space is a mesh of bodies interfering with the sunlight and having an effect on our minds that we never saw coming. aggressive hypochondria, rampant depressive disorders, irresistible suicidal thought—resulting in teenage suicide cults, who want nothing more than to orbit the Earth as living dead. Life on Earth has slowly become not worth living. and death is no longer an escape.

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978-1-77148-164-9

HORROR STORY AND OTHER HORROR STORIES
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-926851-74-7]

NEXUS: ASCENSION
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-926851-87-7]

THE BOOK OF THOMAS: HEAVEN
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-927469-28-6]

PEOPLE LIVE STILL IN CASHTOWN CORNERS
TONY BURGESS [978-1-926851-90-7]

THE STEEL SERAGLIO
MIKE CAREY, LINDA CAREY &; LOUISE CAREY [978-1-927469-04-0]

SARAH COURT
CRAIG DAVIDSON [978-1-926851-88-4]

A BOOK OF TONGUES
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-82-2]

A ROPE OF THORNS
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-97-6]

A TREE OF BONES
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-64-8]

ISLES OF THE FORSAKEN
CAROLYN IVES GILMAN [978-1-926851-98-3]

ISON OF THE ISLES
CAROLYN IVES GILMAN [978-1-927469-07-1]

FILARIA
BRENT HAYWARD [978-1-926851-73-0]

THE FECUND’S MELANCHOLY DAUGHTER
BRENT HAYWARD [978-1-926851-96-9]

IMAGINARIUM 2012: THE BEST CANADIAN SPECULATIVE WRITING
EDITED BY SANDRA KASTURI & HALLI VILLEGAS [978-1-926851-68-6]

CHASING THE DRAGON
NICHOLAS KAUFMANN [978-1-926851-80-8]

OBJECTS OF WORSHIP
CLAUDE LALUMIÈRE [978-1-926851-78-5]

THE DOOR TO LOST PAGES
CLAUDE LALUMIÈRE [978-1-926851-95-2]

THE THIEF OF BROKEN TOYS
TIM LEBBON [978-1-926851-84-6]

KATJA FROM THE PUNK BAND
SIMON LOGAN [978-1-926851-83-9]

BULLETTIME
NICK MAMATAS [978-1-926851-72-3]

SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK
JOHN MANTOOTH [978-1-927469-05-7]

HAIR SIDE, FLESH SIDE
HELEN MARSHALL [978-1-927469-25-5]

NINJA VERSUS PIRATE FEATURING ZOMBIES
JAMES MARSHALL [978-1-927469-08-8]

PICKING UP THE GHOST
TONE MILAZZO [978-1-926851-99-0]

BEARDED WOMEN
TERESA MILBRODT [978-1-927469-02-6]

NAPIER’S BONES
DERRYL MURPHY [978-1-926851-93-8]

CITIES OF NIGHT
PHILIP NUTMAN [978-1-926851-85-3]

JANUS
JOHN PARK [978-1-927469-18-7]

EVERY SHALLOW CUT
TOM PICCIRILLI [978-1-926851-92-1]

BRIARPATCH
TIM PRATT [978-1-927469-00-2]

THE CHOIR BOATS
DANIEL A. RABUZZI [978-1-926851-76-1]

THE INDIGO PHEASANT
DANIEL A. RABUZZI [978-1-927469-17-0]

EVERY HOUSE IS HAUNTED
IAN ROGERS [978-1-927469-19-4]

ENTER, NIGHT
MICHAEL ROWE [978-1-927469-03-3]

REMEMBER WHY YOU FEAR ME
ROBERT SHEARMAN [978-1-927469-22-4]

CHIMERASCOPE
DOUGLAS SMITH [978-1-926851-81-5]

THE PATTERN SCARS
CAITLIN SWEET [978-1-927469-01-9]

THE TEL AVIV DOSSIER
LAVIE TIDHAR AND NIR YANIV [978-1-926851-75-4]

IN THE MEAN TIME
PAUL TREMBLAY [978-1-926851-91-4]

SWALLOWING A DONKEY’S EYE
PAUL TREMBLAY [978-1-926851-70-9]

THE HAIR WREATH AND OTHER STORIES
HALLI VILLEGAS [978-1-926851-89-1]

THE WORLD MORE FULL OF WEEPING
ROBERT J. WIERSEMA [978-1-926851-77-8]

WESTLAKE SOUL
RIO YOUERS [978-1-927469-06-4]

MAJOR KARNAGE
GORD ZAJAC [978-1-926851-86-0]

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