In this volume, you’ll find stories of vampires lording over the zombie apocalypse, gunslingers fighting their way through haunted mining towns, dragons at the end of the world, and the death of an author.Īt the intersection of pulp horror, weird fiction, and a general love for fantasy, The Death of an Author is a kinetic collection, with offerings both for those who enjoyed Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts and for new readers as well. Edwards offers tales of fantasy and horror, all-too human and all-too terrifying. Edwards presents stories that should be savored like a fine liquor, tales hauntingly crafted with notes of darkness, a touch of madness, spiced with melancholy, and given just one insubstantial twist of hope.” -Peter Rawlik, author of The Peaslee Papers

A compelling and essential collection.“S.L. Piper wields incisive prose with empathy and deep intuition, carefully dissecting the monstrous bodies herein and spilling their stories onto the page. “In Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Hailey Piper masterfully crafts a resolutely modern gothic, unearthing the rotten, the broken and the strangely beautiful. We are so pleased to announce that the novella “Recitation of the First Feeding” has made the The 2021 Bram Stoker Awards® Final Ballot in the Superior Achievement in Long Fiction and has co-won Best Collection at the Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards 2022.

Including two new short stories and a never-before-published novelette, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy digs deep inside and clings to the beating nightmare heart you always knew was there. And try to “Forgive the Adoring Beast” as it scavenges a world of dead gods for tokens of bloody affection.

Superstitions thrive even in the distant future and across the stars when a colony shuttle mounts a witch trial in “Hairy Jack”. “The Law of Conservation of Death” dictates that a ghost pursue his prey across her every reincarnation. The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in “We All Scream”. Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine.

Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro