In this second installment of the hit series we meet more authors, more monsters and find ourselves through the looking glass and out the other side, courtesy of editors Suzie & Bruce Lockhart 2nd.
Nobody expected that a cartoon show featuring magical ponies would draw an eager, cosplay-happy following of grown men. But the Bronies are here, and they show no sign of going away any time soon. In Bronies Gone Wild, some of today's most unusual practitioners of fiction take the fandom to the next level, cutting neigh-sayers down to size with every flash of the rainbow blade. Friendship is magic-and so, sometimes, is murder!
We are at the gates of Babylon now. There's very little else I can tell you, except that you will hear people talk of your developing your own 'voice'. That's shorthand for your own distinctive style of writing. It comes from endless writing, developing itself as you go without you realising it.
If I've gone the tiniest way toward helping you achieve that, this journey to Babylon and the chats we have had along the way will have been more tha...
Does the afterlife really define a resting place? Do all dearly departed find an existence alongside serenity? Binding the temple of one's soul does not always secure the evil intentions festering and awaiting liberty beyond the shroud. Read to find out what really lies beneath the constraints of merciless cessation.
Join a host of authors on a trip down the rabbit hole. These are fairy tales as they were meant to be read, with one eye open and through gaps in your own trembling hands, as you try desperately to convince yourself that there will be a happy ending by the bottom of the page... but there won't be...
We have classic stories reimagined, new ones that bend and twist the senses, and variations on a theme that will send you on a nightmare trip to ...
The undead stand defiant before the dawn, determined to outlive and outrun the end of forever. One final time we shall know their pain and suffering for ourselves.
It's time to run with the wild ones and break loose from the pack, as over twenty authors from around the world unleash their tales of the undead harlot.
Dare you brave such epically depraved circumstance one final time?
Horrified Press summons an international cast of authors and poets to imagine the myths, religion and technology of ancient Egypt from all-new perspectives. Fracking awakens an ancient-and futuristic-form of plague. Canopic jars travel through time and space. Pyramids may not be as static as they appear. A young woman is handed the keys to supernatural revenge-but at the cost exacted by a fanged goddess. Forget Boris Karloff and Brendan Fraser...
Summer has shed its kin by the time October comes to town. Frost is in the air, twilight lingers and the nights loom over the shortened days. Nature displays the dying of the year with a explosion of color. The nights are darker and the stars are clearer. Belief is, that the wall between the worlds is at it's thinnest during this season and on the 31st of October it's even possible to cross over in both directions. We simultaneously hope and d...
On the last day of planet Earth, a love-struck couple cling to each other as the world burns. They survive only to greet a new dawn - one filled with violent mutations and terrifying consequences - conceived from the ashes of humanity's defeat.
Can our heartfelt protagonists stay together Until The End, or will the harsh realities of a new world tear them apart?
Join over 20 authors from around the world as they lay down for us a truly frigh...
THIS IS BLACKOUT CITY - MY CITY - A DANGEROUS CITY WHERE NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS TO BE, AND THE PEOPLE HERE ARE NOT WHO THEY SEEM TO BE. THE DOUBLE CROSS IS NOT ONLY A GAME BUT THE NORM. STAYING ALIVE IS SURVIVAL, STAYING SANE IS A NECESSITY.
- JOE SMOKE, PRIVATE DETECTIVE, CIRCA 1970
Nightmare Stalkers & Dream Walkers attempts to invade the dream world, bringing back the weirdest and most terrifying tidbits-all for the amusement of the reader. The authors in these pages have dared to draw from their dream worlds, beating a path through the wilderness of the human subconscious in order to take us to places better left unexplored. But that's okay. Fiction can't hurt us. Neither can dreams. This much we know. We believe it. A...
Life, death and transformation can be viewed as those stages of reality most unavoidable, or as the very different rooms we must enter one after the other. Long Dead Before Dying is a collection of eighteen short stories which examine what happens when the transition from one to the other is disrupted or even foregone. What becomes of those who die badly, or not at all? What's the fate of human beings who continue to grow after the heart stops...
Desert creatures of the night, visionaries, fallen angels and rebellious titans. How much must one immortal woman face in order to share an existence alongside her reclusive husband? Is her life really a blessing or simply a curse forevermore? Dr. Nautica Crosse defines the true meaning of love within her world of desperation and her crusade against the grim reaper. An entity she would only submit to while clenching his heart. Love is composed...
The world has never seen a phenomenon like President Donald J. Trump. How a trashy billionaire with no government experience pushed his way into the most powerful job on earth is a question nobody can really answer. The authors of Trumpocalypse propose some reasons he walks among us-is he really a berserk android? They prophesy what terrors may await-lifestyle cannibalism? A new spate of witch burnings? Worse? Trumpocalypse is a time capsule p...
Winner of the P & E Readers Poll 2013 - 2nd place for best anthology of the year. Welcome to the dreaded night realm... lingering just beneath your eyelids, where the hellish things borne of fear eagerly await your arrival. Prepare to be whiplashed to the darkest regions of 32 wicked minds, and forced to stare into their collective abyss. This world is chock-full of the stuff dreams are made of, but more than likely, if you find yourself in th...
Horror Anthology 'Dark in the Limelight'. Fame and fortune, success and celebrity - it's what we all aspire to. But should we? What is the price of fame? Is it all it seems? Or does something sinister lurk in the limelight?
Prepare to get lost, as the time-traveler and his assistant venture into dark space. It's time for authors from around the world to unofficially pay homage to the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, and unleash their own tales of futuristic terror.
Extraordinary people marked 'not normal' come from all different walks of life. For far too long, a shroud of darkness was thrown over those who've had boundless potential to transcend greatness, shunned and cast out through the misjudgment forced upon them. People enduring isolation from being trapped inside their own minds. People labeled with an ASD-Autism Spectrum Disorder. Seeds of greatness cannot be cultivated through judgment and conde...
Halloween is a mere nine days away when Skullface wakes in his unmarked grave. He forces his way out and begins to question why he was there, who he is, what did he do to be buried in such a place. The Isle of Wight is a reasonably large place, there are many secluded corners which is just as well, Skullface needs them to kill, to drink the blood and eat the flesh to 'survive'. He justifies this by argument, the two sides of his mind are in co...
