High Strange Horror


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What is "High Strange"? It's the men in black erasing your UFO research. It's a corporate takeover by bio-occult horrors. It's losing your edge, and finding it again at the bottom of the cosmos. It's your television telling you to eat your government-approved genetically-modified breakfast cereal. It's the unexplained lights in the sky and the faceless gray woman haunting your dreams. It's ancient legends working under contract. It's the forbidden film playing at a haunted movie theater. It's the medical staff making sure you stay crazy. It's the 19th round of mini golf with a disembodied pirate. It's the outer reaches of human experience. Where conventional reality ends, High Strange begins. Over a dozen authors mine the deepest reaches of consciousness and Fortean phenomena. Are you ready to see what lies beyond the veil? On the Weird and the Damned (introduction) by Jonathan Raab Investigations by Michael Bryant So You've Lost Your Edge. Now What? by Charles Martin and Will Weinke Frosty Pyramid Treats by Jonathan Raab The Dead Wait by Toni Nicolino The Keepers by David A. Owens Night Dog by Matthew M. Bartlett The Pirate-Ghost of Hole 19 by Doctor Gaines The Lights Are Off by Christopher Fraser Púca by C.R.J. Smith Delve by Matthew D. Jordan Brought Low by J. Howard Shannon Black-Eyed Children, Blue-Eyed Child by Billy Lyons The Vampire Sea by Amberle L. Husbands Ascendance by Julie Godard Cats by Jake Skillings The Projectionist by Mer Whinery Excerpt from Look For Me by Colin Scharf I Want to Believe (post-script essay) by Colin Scharf




Folk Horror


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Interest in the ancient, the occult, and the "wyrd" is on the rise. The furrows of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man), Piers Haggard (Blood on Satan's Claw), and Michael Reeves (Witchfinder General) have arisen again, most notably in the films of Ben Wheatley (Kill List), as has the Spirit of Dark of Lonely Water, Juganets, cursed Saxon crowns, spaceships hidden under ancient barrows, owls and flowers, time-warping stone circles, wicker men, the goat of Mendes, and malicious stone tapes. Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange charts the summoning of these esoteric arts within the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond, using theories of psychogeography, hauntology, and topography to delve into the genre's output in film, television, and multimedia as its "sacred demon of ungovernableness" rises yet again in the twenty-first century.




Jason Strange: Full Moon Horror


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Three boys are getting text messages from their friend Adam. The weird thing is, Adam is dead!




Basement of the Undead


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Three boys discover zombies in their school basement.




Jason Strange: The Graveyard Plot


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As Damon helps pack up his sickly grandfather’s belongings, he stumbles upon a strange map that leads directly to a nearby graveyard.




The Demon Card


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When thirteen-year-old Mark Dannon finds the DeathBringer character in his new pack of Epic Heroes cards, the fantasy card games he plays with his friends start turning into a dangerous reality.




The Weird


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From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




23 Crow's Perch


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Henry's already a little creeped out by his new apartment when one of the former tenants pays him a late-night visit.




Encounters with Flying Humanoids


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A cryptozoologist provides historical cases, evidence, and first-person accounts of sightings of flying humanoids, including the Mothman, the Van Meter Creature, and the Houston Batman.




The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales


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The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales collects eight stories of literary dark fiction. Tense and terrifying, these masterful stories by Eric LaRocca explore the shadow side of love. You Follow Wherever They GoBodies Are for BurningThe Strange Thing We BecomeThe Trees Grew Because I Bled ThereYou're Not Supposed to Be HereWhere Flames Burned Emerald as GrassI'll Be Gone by ThenPlease Leave or I'm Going to Hurt You