Featured Story - Henry

Welcome to the Gothic realm. Alex Woodroe has passionately and carefully curated a powerful volume of gothic stories, written by an amazing and diverse group of contemporary writers.

Within the pages of A Quaint and Curious Collection of Gothic Tales, the reader will encounter stories of pain and suffering, ghosts, curses, unspoken secrets, greed, murder, and one of the creepiest collections of dolls ever seen.

Come on in; enter the parlor, find a place by the fire, and experience the beautiful, dark, and occasionally heartbreaking stories told by the authors as they continue the Gothic tradition pioneered by the likes of Shelley, Radcliffe, Brontë, and others.

Featured Story - Maddalena

An anthology of 206-word horror stories/flash fiction showcasing some of the freshest horror writers out there today.

There are 206 bones in the adult human skeleton. Our writers gave us 206-word stories, one word per bone. We, Bag of Bones Press, have selected and published 206 of these absolute beasts for your enjoyment.

According to Dante, sin is the misdirection of love - the human will, or essentially, the direction of our beings. Love the Sinner is an examination of just how those sins can kaleidoscope into horrific consequences creating a distorted and deadly landscape. These stories stand stark before you in full glaring misstep and macabre to show the human psyche in all its twisted reality.

From grief and its rage to medical meddling to ensure a new world order to bloody revenge within a quantum leap, these stories seek to solidify one absolute man is the scariest monster.

This book was initially compiled in honor of Black Women in Horror during February (Black History Month) and March (Women in History Month) and is an extension of a series that started out as a project for Women in Horror Month back in February 2013. At the time, Women in Horror Month was in February, although now many celebrate it during March, which is Women in History Month. Sumiko Saulson put together 2013, 2014 (60 Black Women), 2017 (80 Black Women), and 2018 (100 Black Women) editions as a project for Iconoclast Productions. The 2023 (160 Black Women) edition was assembled as a Black Women in Horror Month project with Kenya Moss-Dyme. Includes an essay by Kai Leakes.and introduction by Kenya Moss-Dyme

Featured Story - The Marriage

Encyclopocalypse Publications invites you to their debut anthology of terrifying folklore.

This collection of macabre myths and lurid legends feature tales of Perchta and watchers, sirens and Squonks from some of the most exciting and diverse voices in modern horror.

You'll be titillated and terrified and aching to read more. Brought to you by Janine Pipe in the first of their Legends and Lore series.

The Tarot holds mystery, prediction, and unsettling omens to those who practice, divine, or are keen to. Each card in the Major Arcana holds a position in our own lives, the many facets and personas we used to make it through this world. Sometimes those personas can break us, break others, or our spirit. At times, those facets can plunge us into despair, fear, and terror. A turn of the cards weaves CLAIRVIOLENCE through space and time to delve into the stories of those shaken by life-shattering choices that threaten to tear their very souls apart. A warring couple is forced to reconcile during what they believe is the end of the world, a young man is drawn into the evil prison of an elderly woman, and a dead woman’s curse travels miles and decades to bring her killer to justice. CLAIRVIOLENCE unearths the hellish tales that lie beneath the exterior of a charmed and quiet life.

Out October 21st - Presale Available!

Story, “Come Back”

From pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, via the powerful figure of Santa Muerte, to racism in the Bronx, this anthology of speculative stories and essays by Latin American writers, about Latin American life and beyond, is an engrossing and important read.

This vibrant anthology presents a selection of speculative stories and fascinating essays highlighting the many voices, mythologies, folklore and storytelling prowess of authors from Latin American countries or writing in the traditions of the Latin American diaspora.

Edited by the wonderful V. Castro, Mexican-American speculative, horror and sci-fi writer extraordinaire and author of Mestiza Blood and The Queen of the Cicadas, the authors featured are: Hector Acosta, Alyssa Alessi, Gustavo Bondoni, David Bowles, Arasibo Campeche and Carra Flowers, Dr. R. Andrew Chesnut, Angel Luis Colón, Rios de la Luz, Ivette N. Diaz, Laura Diaz de Arce, J.F. Gonzalez, L.P. Hernandez, Pedro Iniguez, Ruth Joffre, S. Alessandro Martinez, Juliana Spink Mills, Vanessa Molina, Mo Moshaty, Richie Narvaez, Wi-Moto Nyoka, Daniel A. Olivas, Monique Quintana, A.E. Santana and Richard Z. Santos. These are complemented by new stories selected from open submissions.

Spanning the many cultures of the region, stories range from those that explore heritage and the importance of ancestors to ones that imagine new worlds and futures, but at their core they all celebrate and give agency to oft-underrepresented Latin American characters and concerns, while the book will help counter the lack of contemporary Latin American literature.

Mo Moshaty - Sinister Sanctums: The Role Toxic Nostalgia and the Patriarchy Play in Religious Horror Films
Toxic nostalgia is not a new phenomenon, and instances of an undying past refusing to perish and plaguing the present can be found throughout history. However, examined in Toxic Nostalgia on Screen, in the early years of the new millennium, it has acquired further meaning and not just applies to a dangerous longing for the past, but a way of being in the present world. Here in our modern time, undead memory is not just a remembrance of the past that is visited upon the present with negative implications, but the embodiment of monstrous imagined histories and ideologies that dictate the way we live today so that tomorrow is not the future, but a never-ending return to the past.

Mo Moshaty - Vampire Vagabonds: Revealing Regional Haunts in American Vampire Lore.

Examining the figure of the vampire within the framework of uniquely American environments — both physical and immaterial — the book delves into the questions relating to American geography, identity, racial and ethnic tensions, American colonial past and its urban and environmental history. With contributions from a diverse and international team of authors, the collection follows the vampire across the geographical and ideological landscape of the US to consider what cultural and historical environments have gone towards creating the contemporary undead and why the post-Trump America of the twenty-first century is a truly vampiric one.

 This timely and truly innovative volume will resonate firmly with scholars and students of popular culture, film and media studies, horror, American studies and urban and environmental studies.

Essay, “Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma and Religious Fanaticism”

Darkest Margins is a collection of 24 essays from leading and up-and-coming genre writers exploring expressions of liminality and liminal spaces in the horror genre across cinema, literature, television, art, and video games. Taking in anthropological, psychological and architectural liminality and accompanied by four stunning pieces of original artwork, these essential academic and engaging essays undertake what has not been done in this scale before: to explore, map, analyze, and discuss those rights of passage states of ambiguity or disorientation in physical waypoints in a wide variety of works across more than a century of horror media.

Essay: Haunted Thresholds: Liminal Horror and the Psychological Disintegration of Women from Post-Partum, Grief, Trauma, and Religious Fanaticism