James Patterson is once again supporting independent booksellers with a revival of his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program.Patterson has pledged a personal contribution of $300,000, to be distributed in a...

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Zachary Gillan Short stories, like weird fiction—or, weird fiction, like short stories—thrive in the productive ambiguity of spaces opened and never closed. The advantage of short stories, Joanna W…

John Langan, author of Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Look for Lost in the Dark and Other …

A list of six superior, single author collections, from the last 10 years that I think deserve to be moved up to the top of your TBR pile.

Here we go again! Putting together this year brings me such joy and I hope you find something beautiful here, too. Sometimes, it can seem as if no one reads anymore but making this list reassures m…

I didn’t publish a lot of new stories in 2025, but I had fun with the ones I did, including the two (and a half) stories in the Starlight Theater Halloween Double-feature zine that I did with…

Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection. Look for Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle at independent booksellers everywhere, and most online retailer…

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Summary: Get ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore! From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade…

Body Horror Cosmic Horror Cults / Religious Horror Folk Horror Occult Supernatural TL;DR: A linked cycle where cults, beetles, and underworlds elbow each other for the mic, then harmonize into a si…

A glimpse inside the dark and twisted horror of modern publishing...