In a grim, divided city where violence spawns literal monsters, a mob boss’s driven daughter seeks to prove herself by hunting these Others, while a young Other created to feed on human sin begins to resist his nature. When their paths intersect they form a tense, unlikely alliance that forces both to confront what really makes someone a monster as darker forces rise and the line between predator and protector blurs.

A compact collection of macabre, often humorous short tales that play with suspense, irony and the uncanny; the pieces range from flash-length jolts to longer weird fiction, each probing human fears, obsessions and absurdities and frequently ending in clever, sometimes chilling reversals.

A long-married woman’s quiet life is shattered when she uncovers a hidden cache of evidence showing her husband’s secret life as a killer, forcing her to confront betrayal, fear, and the moral and practical consequences of exposing a man she thought she knew; the story follows her mounting dread and difficult choices as the marriage is redefined by violence, secrecy, and the unsettling realization that ordinary domestic life can conceal monstrous truths.

Set in a dark, pulsing Mexico City, this gritty urban fantasy follows a young vampire who flees the provinces into the metropolis and becomes entangled with a small-time thief and violent blood-dealing factions; as rival clans and corrupt humans clash over supply, power and survival, the story unfolds as a noir-tinged exploration of hunger, migration, class and the brutal compromises required to live in the city’s shadowy margins.

A wry, compassionate physician who specializes in treating vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural patients in modern London is jolted into a dangerous investigation when one of her patients is violently killed; using medical skill, stubborn curiosity, and a ragged band of supernatural and human allies, she navigates occult politics, long-buried secrets, and rising prejudice to uncover the truth, balancing day-to-day care, personal loyalties, and the darker forces that threaten her community.

A cunning, penniless thief is drawn into a perilous journey after a botched job leaves him trapped by debt and danger; forced into uneasy alliances, he must navigate a savage, monster-haunted world full of ruthless cultists, strange magics, and ancient, hungry powers. Relying on quick wits, petty schemes, and reluctant loyalties, he fights to survive long enough to seize a chance at freedom, in a darkly comic, brutal fantasy that balances bawdy humor with violent stakes and unexpected tenderness.

A Pennsylvania state trooper recounts his squad's decades-long guardianship of a battered vintage Buick that behaves as if it's a portal to another world—sporadically producing strange materials and creatures and defying all attempts to study or power it. The men's mixture of curiosity, duty, and private grief turns the car into a focal point for questions about friendship, mortality, and the limits of human understanding when confronted with the truly inexplicable.

After a sudden death a man awakens in a vividly imagined afterlife where reunion with loved ones, memory and the landscapes of a painter’s imagination shape heaven; when his grieving wife chooses to end her life and becomes trapped in a personalized hell of guilt and despair, he refuses to accept permanent separation and embarks on a perilous journey through layered realms, aided by spiritual guides, to bring her back—exploring themes of love, loss, redemption, and the way consciousness shapes the hereafter.

A brilliant, incarcerated cannibal becomes the linchpin in two separate, harrowing FBI investigations: one in which a veteran profiler is drawn back to hunt a remorseless serial killer whose savagery and escalating obsession threatens innocent lives, and another in which a determined young trainee must outwit a twisted abductor to rescue a kidnapped woman. Both cases force agents into psychological warfare with manipulative, violent minds, exposing trauma, obsession, and the thin boundary between hunter and hunted as they race to prevent further murders.

Рианнон кажется самой обычной женщиной: у нее есть парень, который ей изменяет, непризнанная работа и любимая собачка. Она составляет списки тех, кого хотела бы убить, от грубого кассира в супермаркете до водителя, который ее подрезал, от соседки-клептоманки до начальницы, называющей ее дорогушей. Иногда она переходит к действиям; никто не заподозрит тихую секретаршу, которая однажды обезвредила и обесчленила напавшего на нее человека.

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been a Florida theme park where fun is guaranteed. After a hurricane isolates the park, rescuers arrive five weeks later to find a scene of horror and viral photos of heads on spikes and human remains in gift shops. Presented as a fact-finding investigation with first-person interviews, the book reconstructs how mostly college-aged employees who surrendered their devices split into rival tribes that compete for resources, status, and even human flesh.

A scientist involves an unwilling participant, a prostitute, in a top secret experiment to unlock her enormously intelligent and creative potential. He observes dramatic changes in her cognitive abilities and behavior as the procedure progresses. The results suggest capabilities and consequences that are both inspiring and frightening. Implications extend beyond the individuals involved to raise questions about the future of the entire human race.

In a bleak, ash-choked world ravaged by an unspecified catastrophe, a father and his young son journey on foot toward the coast, pushing a cart of their meager possessions and eking out food while avoiding bands of desperate, violent survivors; along the way they struggle with exposure, starvation, and the moral dilemmas of preserving their humanity, the father's fierce protectiveness and the boy's innocence providing fragile sources of hope as they travel through ruins and confront the costs of survival.

In Vienna in 1911 Gustav Klimt finds a woman's body in the Danube canal and, while sketching her, she coughs and proves alive. Back at his studio Klimt and his model Wally tend the nearly feral woman who cannot remember who she is, and he names her Judith. She recalls being stranded in the Arctic a century earlier, locked in a crate by Victor Frankenstein and visiting the Underworld. Many people pursue her, including Geoff, a giant croissant eating devil dog of the North.

In a bleak, ash-choked postapocalyptic landscape, a nameless father and his young son travel south along a ruined highway, scavenging for food and warmth while avoiding marauders and the desperate, cannibalistic remnants of humanity; the father struggles to protect his child and teach him compassion and moral restraint even as their hope dwindles, and their bond—love, fear, and relentless determination—becomes the story’s central pulse amid pervasive loss and the question of what it means to remain human.

Emily Brand, a physicist, makes a major energy discovery and then disappears. Her research partner dies in a plane crash and a brutally ambitious oil executive, David Lucci, uses NARCON to prevent her from going public. He resorts to torture, blackmail, and murder to make her pay for what she did to him over twenty years ago.

A lonely eighth-grade half-vampire struggles to keep his true nature secret while navigating bullies, a loyal friend, and the humiliations of middle school; as mysterious threats and his own violent urges intrude on everyday life, he must confront painful secrets from his past and make difficult moral choices about who he will become.

The novel is set in the sequestered, eccentric, amiably self-indulged WASP world of Old Hampton, Long Island. The Hampton sisters are rich, desirable, and single, yet their shabby-genteel shorefront estate reeks of murder and madness. Lydia is a gentle recluse and amateur ornithologist. Emily is a star amateur tennis player and budding novelist whose amorous manipulations take her and her lovers between Manhattan's fast-paced publishing world and the leisurely country club of Old Hampton.