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A collection of fantasy stories, many from New York Times–bestselling authors, featuring mythical dragons.
Dragons are creatures of legend. Of magic. Of wisdom, nature, and the power of creation. They have been in every culture and mythology since the beginning of time. Writers are creatures of legend. With magic, wisdom, and the power of creation at their fingertips. They, too, are in every culture and have been creating their own mythologies...
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And you thought Hell was weird . . . Longtime contributor to the Hellboy mythos Christopher Golden brings together a crew of luminaries including Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba HoTep) and China Miéville (King Rat), cross genre sensation Barbara Hambly (The Windrose Chronicles), celebrated mystery writer Ken Bruen (The Dramatist), bestselling science fiction and fantasy novelist Tad Williams (Otherland), and a bevy of other skilled storytellers eager to spin...
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NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue one hundred and seven of NIGHTMARE! This month, we have original short fiction from Ally Wilkes ("Where Things Fall From The Sky") and B. Narr ("Cadaver Dogs"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("Now Will You Listen") from...
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Dim Shores Presents is a new bi-annual anthology series spotlighting some of the best new writing in speculative fiction. Weird horror, strange science fiction, and dark fantasy rub shoulders with each other here, weaving a tapestry of uncanny beauty and fearful wonder.
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An executive learns the secret of the ragman and the ominous subway in the dark city where they both work. A grieving employee at a mysterious factory receives an...
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Following the success of the 1996 illustrated novel Hellboy: The Lost Army, Dark Horse commissioned writer Christopher Golden to gather some of the brightest creative lights in horror and mystery fictionBrian Hodge, Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy A. Collins, Greg Rucka, Chet Williamson, legendary horror/humor cartoonist Gahan Wilson, and many more to produce a prose anthology of Hellboy short stories, presenting original tales of the world's greatest paranormal...
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LOOMING LOW VOLUME II presents 22 wondrous and unsettling tales that represent some of the best writing from the new golden age of strange literature.
LOOMING LOW VOLUME II is the follow-up anthology to the award-winning Looming Low Volume I (2017). Lead Editor Justin Steele (The Children of Old Leech, Strange Aeons), cover artist Yves Tourigny, and fourteen authors are back from Volume I alongside eight authors new to the series.
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Blizzard Entertainment and Dark Horse Books are proud to present the third installment of their bestselling World of Warcraft Chronicle series! Like its predecessors, Volume III features beautiful full-color artwork by Peter Lee, Emily Chen, Stanton Feng, and other fan-favorite artists, as well as intricately detailed maps and spot art by Joseph Lacroix. Bolster your knowledge of Warcraftlore with this striking third volume!
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One city. Four stories. Gabriel harbors a secret that torments him. A secret so dark it could never be uttered aloud... or so he thought. Candace, Gared, and Sheila are three souls searching for their place in the world when one bag converges their paths and changes the course of their lives forever. Sam is a man in the wake of a midlife crisis. While others would turn to more conventional methods, Sam employs a rather unique sort of coping mechanism....
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There I sat in this dilapidated run down shack. It's in the middle of the night and I had to light a fire in the hearth so that I could see better. Now I'm sitting on a wobbly stool. In front of me is a low laying bed with a small figure in it. It was covered all the way to its chin. I watched as my shadow danced on the wall and splayed across the bed and the lonely figure. I can't believe that I came all this way in the pursuit of knowledge. I sat...
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Mlord, where have ye been since the ball last night? The whole servant staff has been looking for ye, said a very worried servant of the young prince. Robert, I was out with a maiden, the prince said in a matter a fact-ly tone. He had come in very late in the afternoon the next day after the royal ball. He had a certain glow about him with his clothes wrinkled from lying on the floor for a good majority of the day while he was bedding a willing young...
11) Arising
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Darkness comes. A world hangs in the balances. The Time of the Prophecy has begun. Lorshin A cursed soul, wracked by guilt, plays a dangerous game with the Dark Cadclucan Hiding and hunted, the Guardian of the Stone of Existence is the last of his kind remaining in the world. Sgarrwrath He is the ancient evil relentlessly seeking the eternal object of his forbidden desire and the means to dominion. And a Disruption A Human whose face shines like the...
12) The Foster Kids
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As Kerry Rider sat on the rickety top bunk, she noticed dust on the road, crap had wasted the chance to sneak out, but probably for the best as she wouldn't have had time to sneak back in any way! As Kerry sat there watching the car an unease crawled up her spine, something wasn't cool, all of a sudden all four doors opened up. What the hell!! Two boys got out of the back seat, the taller one reaching back in to grab..... what! Another one! Three...
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His home and village lay smoldering at the edge of the ocean. With the tides washing away the remains of the dead, Rex'azul sets out to find vengeance for his family. Along the way he encounters a long lost friend that leads him into a forgotten realm, where the vengeance he has so long sought after is entwined with an ancient Prophecy to determine the fate of the remainder of his kind, the Sherkanas. All the while fending off an ancient evil that...
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A collection of some of the best original short fiction published on Tor.com in 2013. Includes stories by Dale Bailey, Leigh Bardugo, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, and Genevieve Valentine.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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Welcome to Afton, Georgia, populationnearly zero. A terrible fl u has swept through the sleepy, southern town leaving almost all the residents deadbut not for long. Soon the streets are teeming with flesh hungry ghoulsa bit of a downer for the senior class of Afton High. Scared and shivery Rabbit, monosyllabic Saito, all star athlete Matt Garcia, Joy Blessing the Jesus freak, punk rock Julie Westbrook and smart ass Eric Salzburger were just weeks...
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As part of an experiment, George, an American fighter pilot, discovers Atlantis in an alternate universe. He finds himself imprisoned in a pyramid and escapes to find unthinkable horrors from an alien race. Luckily, he gains the help of Oliver, an alien ally, and together they discover an even greater dangera plot to destroy and enslave all mankind. Meanwhile, the Earth itself is in imminent danger due to its impending rendezvous with the center of...
17) The Bacchae
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A bold new translation of Euripides' shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet Robin Robertson, with a new preface by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn
Thebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine and ecstasy. Drawn by the god's power, the women of the city have rushed to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing with frenzied abandon.
Pentheus, the...
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Vampirella Archives volume 43
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More thrilling horror and excitement in another masterpiece collection of vintage Vampirella classics! Take another journey into frightening and gory tales brought to you by a host frighteningly talented writers and artists. Also featuring classic reprinted covers by the likes of Enrich and Ken Kelly. Stories and art by virtuoso talents like Jose Gonzalez, Esteban Maroto, Len Wein, Neil Adams and many more!
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A mystical artifact from the ancient past, the relic known only as the Mask imbues its wearer with nearly limitless power…face-stretching, mallet- forming, clock-smashing power. Slap the Mask on your mug and nothing is beyond your reach-or the reach of a pie bomb-which is why every crook, grifter, creep, hood, miscreant, scofflaw, and other words in the thesaurus are out to get their mitts on it. The hunt for the valued vizard (thanks again, thesaurus!)...
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Vampirella Archives volume 29
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Continuing Dynamite Entertainment's masterpiece collections of the classic Vampirella magazine. Capturing all the sexy macabre that the 1970's had to offer. Creators who wrote and drew these wonderfully dreadful tales include Jose Gonzalez, Auraleon, Jeff Jones, Doug Moench and many more!
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