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Just because you have the soul of a poet, doesn't mean you can't have the heart of a killer.

There are places on earth that carry an air of the ethereal—an aura of malevolence that can only be felt in the breathless whisper of a passing breeze. One of these places is found along the rugged mystical coastline of Maine’s northern shores—Juneberg. Since its inception the morbid mishaps of the city were carried on the murmurs of sailors and visitors who have seen the peculiarities up close. From people vanishing in the dead of night, as though they had been carried out to sea.

Question your typical perception. See beyond the normal you know. Step into divergent realms. Let this anthology of new and original short stories show you the fantastic and futuristic through a new lens. A struggling father discovers why his autistic daughter becomes consumed with a virtual reality simulator in the wake of her mother’s death.

Join J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement-winning author Edward Lee and Madness Heart Press as we strive to bring you the very best of twisted, sordid, and sickening stories of Czech extreme horror from seven authors, translated and published in English for the very first time. With an accompanying novella from Edward Lee, this collection includes monsters, killers, perversion, terror, and splattery gore-soaked beauty.

In a near-future United States, surveillance technology’s the hottest trend in high-tech parenting. Children have their every move monitored from birth thanks to repurposed military drones and contact lens digital cameras that show life from your child’s perspective. But in the aftermath of a tragedy at his son’s high school, one father must contend with the dark side of his reliance on these innovations.

Brad will go insane unless his body is completely hair-free. Prince Alastair looks for his Cinderella, but he carries her foot skin instead of a slipper. Poppy will stop at nothing to become the number one pimple popping social media star. A weight loss cult holds darker secrets than its abusive leader. And it gets worse.

Dark forces conspire to chase Rory Daggett and his mute adopted daughter, Alice, into exile, framed for a crime they didn’t commit. With a new sheriff and a notorious killer for hire tracking their every move, the two must choose between starting a new life and saving the soul of the town that betrayed them.

The phrase "you are what you eat" is taken to heart; these are stories of men facing strange appetites within their own physicality, within a lover or, perhaps, a stranger's hungers. A young athlete attends an exclusive wrestling camp, but some of the campers are more focused on the unwelcome boys they claim lurk inside their bellies. A fixit man on a mission to retrieve a runaway finds himself forced into impersonating a pulp hero by her captor.

Carl, a computer programmer living in isolated existence in the remains of his grandparents basement, has activated the culmination of the past several years of his life's work: An Animatronic Head, complete with artificial intelligence and tasked with the goal of becoming human. Through their conversations, Carl and his creation, Vetro, must endure the obstacles and emotional consequences while trying not to lose themselves. Vetro, born of circuitry, forged by code, devoted to a single goal: to become human.

Spermjackers From Hell by Christine Morgan. Narrated by Rain Corbyn. Cover art courtesy Enrique Meseguer.

The Hell Wars ended 10 years ago. Hell won. Tonight, a half-human cyborg powers up. He died as an army grunt, but now he rises as a hero named MANBORG. He seeks answers about his mysterious origins as he battles the hordes of armed demons that killed him and conquered his world. He teams up with a gunslinger named Justice and his knife-expert sister, Mina. Number 1 Man, a martial arts master, completes the unlikely squad. Together, they face damned legions, monsters, and finally Hell’s ruler on Earth: Count Draculon.

John Seton, a grizzled British sailor, is a sea monster hunter. When he takes on a job for an exclusive yacht club in South East Asia he expects it to be a simple one. It's only one beastie after all. But all too soon John and his crew discover that they are in big trouble.

A thrill-seeker studies a language learned through close encounters with death. A flock of extinct birds haunt a grieving woman for reasons unknown. A boy participates in a public-access cannibal-cooking show to win his family's love. A couple panics when Mothman shows up to their slice of rural paradise with omens in tow. In his debut short story collection, Eric Raglin presents 16 queer and weird horror stories.

Even the worst of us need someone to come home to. And Jacob Mallory is the worst of all. Jake, a thrill-seeking psychopathic serial killer, has lived under the radar for years, operating within the city of New York, making kill after kill and emboldened by his lack of capture. But Jake has one big surprise coming his way. When he gets a call from the hospital to pick up a vulnerable patient, one who claims that Jake is his emergency contact, he feels like he's won the lottery. But is there more to Nathan McGuire than meets the eye?

In a retro-futuristic world where everyone has neural microchips, Detective Vos has worked his fair share of cases. But when a woman turns up dead under uncertain circumstances, the answer is simple—her chip holds everything leading up to her death. Yet before Vos can access it, someone else...

When the death of an old friend draws Jake back to the town he swore he’d never return to, a storm traps him inside his childhood home. As memories best forgotten cloud his mind, he sees townsfolk in white robes gathered outside. They call for him to receive Her mark—to be one among them...

After learning about the existence of a powerful grimoire through a cartoon, 12-year-old Joe is determined to find it and change his lot in life. But in doing so, he'll also uncover a local priest's dark secret and how it may be connected to Joe's brother abruptly leaving town five years ago...

Lonely House is a story about family, and the way the past can haunt us. It is a story about relationships, even when we don’t recall everything about who we were. And it is a story about a house that is also a memory, and together we will determine what that means. As you work your way through this unique hybrid of novella and roleplaying game, you will be prompted to create journal entries, take side quests, and make in-character choices that significantly impact how the story unfolds.

Delve into the eerie world of Worrisome Whispers, a collection of seven spine-tingling tales that beckon young listeners to venture into the haunting corners of the unknown. Each story unfolds a layer of mystery, from the enchanted relics of forgotten magicians to the spectral apparitions that roam moonlit streets.

Alex knows what it's like to be invisible. He has gone through his entire life not being noticed by those around him. Even his own college roommate Xavier treats him like he isn't even there. That is until Alex creates an alternate persona on social media, Xander. Suddenly his life is full of likes and friend requests, and even Xavier takes notice. Having no idea Alex is behind the Xander account, Xavier develops an intimate and steamy relationship with a person who is only a fiction.