Steve Rasnic Tem

Blood Kin is told from the dual points of view of Michael Gibson and of his grandmother Sadie. Michael has returned to the quiet Appalachian home of his forebears following a suicide attempt and now takes care of his grandmother--old and sickly but with an important story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed race group of mysterious origin) while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and empathic powers she but barely understands. In...

Presents twenty-one stories--four published for the first time--that explore fundamental fears including death, loss, grief, and aging.

Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches. Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects dropping swiftly over the houses of the neighborhood, passing through walls and windows as if by magic, or science. The creatures, like a deck of baroquely ornamented cards, fanning themselves from one hidden world into the next....

Original horror stories written to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the horror magazine, Cemetery Dance.

"Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way "natural" in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire"--

A collection of weird and fantastic fiction edited by S.T. Joshi. "Weird fiction" is a term used for the works of authors such as Lovecraft, Bierce, Poe, and many others. This collection of short stories by authors writing today has been built around the common theme of "the Weird Place". While honoring the works of the classics, the styles represented are as varied as the authors chosen by Joshi.