...the hottest names in horror all wrapped up in one blood stained book!" - Dane Hatchell, Bestselling Author of Resurrection X: Zombie Evolution Exclusive to Post Mortem Press and excerpt of Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee's The Woman - Novel AND Screenplay. Jonathan Maberry's Rare Urban Fantasy, Like Part of the Family. F. Paul Wilson's Genre Defining Classic, Soft. With nearly two dozen books in print during its first year, Post Mortem Press grew from a distraction against the worries of a corporate career gone awry to a successful independent publishing concern. We apparently did something unusual; we combined business acumen with a love of the written word and respect for the authors who create them. This book represents 15 of the best short stories published by Post Mortem Press in 2011. It also brings to the same pages the work of some of Post Mortem Press' authors favorite and influential authors within the horror genre. Includes original stories from Paul Anderson, Matt Ashcraft, TL Barrett, C Bryan Brown, Kenneth W Cain, Jason Downes, Nancy Rosenberg England, Scott Lange, Thomas Malafarina, Ricky Massengale, Nelson Pyles, Andrew Risch, Patrick Scalisi, Magen Toole, and Joseph Williams. Edited by Eric Beebe
... among the hot new voices in horror!"- Jonathan Maberry, NYTimes Bestselling Author Sometimes what lies in the shadows is best left without the benefit of light. Post Mortem Press presents eleven new tales of terror best read bundled up after dark. What lurks in these shadows is certain to bring a chill. Shadowplay brings chilling stories of things best left in the shadows from Patrick Scalisi, G Elmer Munson, Fred McGavran, Andrew Risch, Lawrence Vernon, Alexandro Rios, Yarrow Paisley, Jason Downes, Hal Kempka, Paul DeCirce, and SC Hayden. Introduction by Robert Essig.
... among the hot new voices in horror!"- Jonathan Maberry, NYTimes Bestselling Author Being alone, it's something that most of us feel at one time or another. Isolation and the sense of being separated from the rest of the world is one of the most terrifying of emotions for many of us. The terror of being alone is embedded into our makeup from the dawn of time and mankind's entry into the world. This collection of stories speaks to the many facets of isolation, of being alone and what it does to us. The horrors that can spring out of that darkness we are warned to not venture into is as infinite as the darkness itself.
... among the hot new voices in horror!"- Jonathan Maberry, NYTimes Bestselling Author An Anthology of New Horror Horror Fiction Beyond the obvious traits that separate humans from other animals the most basic difference is our awareness of our own inevitable death. Animals live their lives blissfully unaware that each passing day brings them closer to their ultimate demise. Humans, however, have an innate fear of death. Ten authors provide their unique perspective of death. Whether death comes from the supernatural, Mother Nature, the hands of another, or in a manner beyond simple description, each tale provides a glimpse into the manner of death. Each story has its own Means to an End. Includes stories from Paul Anderson, Matthew Dexter, Magen Toole, Alphonso Warden, Thomas Malafarina, Jeremy Bush, Bruce Memblatt, C Bryan Brown, KR Helms, and Marc Sorondo.
This book was written by 13 homicidal maniacs! I am talking dangerous, people. I am surprised anyone would actually allow them to have pens. These deviants make the Marquis de Sade look like Fred Rogers on Novocain, walking around in a cardigan giving out hugs and proclaiming, "I love everyone!" Now, of course these 13 writers are not really psychos, unless you listen to the hard-headed protestors out there who would swear differently. You know the ones who believe anyone that enjoys the horror genre are obviously disturbed individuals capable of unspeakable acts of depravity. If you have picked up this book, then you must be one of us. You may not know why, but the stuff that goes bump in the night has always held a strong grip on you, and you are drawn to it like a death's head moth to a flame. Well, you are in luck. Post-Mortem Press has collected a macabre tome of short horror fiction that is as diverse as it is frightening. This is a buffet of terror- so grab your fork and butcher knife and let's dig in!
The critically acclaimed journal from Post Mortem Press returns with its third issue. Contains New Fiction from ... * "The Floating Girls: A Documentary" - Damien Angelica Walters * "That Hideous Beauty" - Tom Piccirilli * "Stick Men" - Steve Rasnic Tem * An Excerpt from TOXICITY - Max Booth III * "A Ring of His Own" - Kenneth W. Cain * "To Sleep Long, to Sleep Deep" - Kristi DeMeester Poetry from ... * "In the Beginning" - Chris Shearer * "So What Caused This?" - John Grey * "The Nightmare Room" - Lauren Michaud * "In which I feel nostalgic after my mother's death" - Abigail Rizzo * "Mermaids Can't Fall in Love" - Stephanie Wytovich Movie and Books Reviews * Let's Talk About Strange... - Eric Beebe * The Motion Picture with Something to Offend Everyone! A Review of The Loved One - William D. Carl * Love & Metamorphosis: A Review of The Fly (1986) - James Newman * There's Nothing Scarier than Reality: A Review of The Sacrament - Jessica Dwyer * What Would YOU Do? A Review of Craig Spector's Turnaround - Paul Anderson * The Monster Next Door: A Review of Dan Wells' I am Not a Serial Killer - Donald Jacob Uitvlugt * A Review of Henry S. Whitehead's Voodoo Tales - Alex Friedman Ephemera * I Had a Thought Today - Harlan Ellison(r) * First-Hand Fear: The Found Footage Genre - Jessica Dwyer * The Slender Man: Meme Gone Psychotic - KT Jayne * The Strange into the Familiar: Reinventing Craig Spector - Paul Anderson * Isla de las Munecas - Mexico's Island of Dolls * We'll Start Tomorrow: Wish Fulfillment in Shaun of the Dead - Anton Cancre * RE: Animated - Kenneth W. Ca
Jamais Vu - The Journal of Strange Among the Familiar brings you the best in dark fiction, poetry, factual morsels, criticism, and more. ISSUE ONE - WINTER 2014 FICTION - "Photo Captions" - Gary Braunbeck - "Video Nasties" - Max Booth III - "Another Friendly Day In the Antique Trade" - Adam-Troy Castro - "Bait" - Michael Kelly - "Another Pleasant Valley Sunday" - by Jessica McHugh - "The Hydra Wife" - Sandra Odell - "Shiva" - Cameron Suey POETRY - "The Moors" - Marge Simon - "Death of the Crossing Guard" - Bruce Boston - "Eventually, You Become Immune" - Stephanie Wytovich - "Procrastination's Joy" - Matt Moore FEATURE ARTICLES - "I Had a Thought Today..." Harlan Ellison(r) - "The Strange & Uncanny In DOCTOR WHO" - Paul F. Cockburn - "The Medium As the Mirror" - Lydia Peever* - "Twisting Our Values: Culture & the Medium That Shapes It" - KT Jayne.* * Point-counterpoint special to this issue. FILM REVIEWS - "Only God Forgives" - Jessica Dwyer - "Antiviral" - Adam Shaftoe - "Spider Baby" - William D. Carl - "Let's Talk about Strange" - Eric Beebe BOOK REVIEWS - "Dark Roads: Selected Long Poems - 1971-2012" by Bruce Boston - Mary A. Turzillo - "The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" by Ramsey Campbell - Andrew J. Wilson - "Song of Kali" by Dan Simmons - Donald Jacob Uitvlugt As well as comics by Kenneth W. Cain and Jon Towers!
Zombies are a common metaphor. A metaphor that's closer to our reality than we care to admit. Inside this book you will find seventeen stories of personal loss set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse and painted in colors of blood red and nightmare black. These stories show us that which we fear. Sometimes in overt ways that demand the kind of unflinching attention only true shock can expect. Sometimes in more subtle ways that whisper rather than shout. In either case, the truth is the truth. We all fear loss. It is the most horrible monster we could possibly face. And because in our real lives we actually must face loss at some point, the metaphor of the zombie becomes that much more horrible. Brace yourself. Turn the page and let the cold and hungry dead whisper their secrets. These are stories about the ones we loved who were taken from us too soon and in ugly ways...and who have come back to lead us into the land of the dead. Into their land of Dead Souls. These Dead Souls all died. Then they came back. And they hunger for us. Seventeen Short Stories from: Matthew Ashcraft, Joseph Williams, Paul Anderson, M Shaw, Kenneth W Cain, Robert Essig, Andrew Risch, KT Jayne, Suzanne Robb, RJ Reising, Jessica McHugh, Anton Cancre, Ginny Gilroy, Jackie Gamber, Thomas Malafarina, C Bryan Brown, and Jason Downes. With an Introducton by Jonathan Maberry.
In the era of sparkling vampires, lovelorn werewolves, and fallen guardian angels, the idea of romance and fear has gotten a little muddy. Mon Cœur Mort aims to clear the water some. Combining romance and horror is far from a new concept. Who was that gently rapping tapping on Poe's protagonist's chamber door? Was it the lost Lenore or was it The Raven? Nevermore. The foundation of horror fiction is built upon fear. No greater fear exists than the loss of someone or something dear. Twenty-seven international authors bring us tales that range from humorous to horrifying, lyrical to lurid, touching to terrorizing. Regardless of tone, they all have one thing in common, they deal with the theme of otherworldly fear associated with love. In Mon Cœur Mort the vampires do not sparkle and the werewolves wear shirts in public. Each story speaks to our core emotions of love and fear.A chance encounter with the perfect girl. A walk down memory lane on a wedding anniversary. The final moments of life unraveling in time and reality. Revenge is served and the ultimate sacrifice is made, all in the name of love. But be warned, just as the stories may touch your heart, they might just rip it out of your chest.
Post Mortem Press presents four novellas ... Number Six by Joseph Williams Have you ever been to Hell? Zach hadn't. Not until he lost his job, girlfriend, car, and home over the course of just a few hours. In his quest to find solace in isolation and introspection, Zach finds depravity beyond any fathomable nightmare. Zach has found the true meaning of freedom discovering it's not as wonderful as he figured. Freedom has consequences, and God isn't always the only one with a plan for you Cemetery Tour by Robert Essig Three college students decide to spend their Spring Break taking a driving tour of cemeteries across the southwest of America. When they discover a dug up grave in one of the cemeteries their trip becomes much more than they had anticipated. Mistress of a Higher Purpose by Daniel Pearlman In 2035, bad luck tosses beautiful Rose Langley from a prison in New York to a strange environmentalist slave-camp run by scientists in Idaho. A series of abusive men have frustrated her deepest desire--to have a child of her own--but her jailers in Idaho miraculously offer her this, and freedom too. The price is gigantic, however. Enslavement by Nicholas Conley Addiction is an easy trap to fall into. It starts out small. It turns into a habit. Given enough time, it becomes enslavement. Six individuals, each suffering from their own individual addiction, are kidnapped one night and wake up on an empty, moving train. There are no exit doors, no outside contact, the train is an endless maze of identical compartments and the group is terrorized by monstrous "Grey-Men." As they struggle to understand the unseen force that's thrown them together, it becomes clear that there's only one way off the train; they must either overcome their dark histories and self-doubts, or drown in them.
This is a terrifically absorbing, thought-provoking and finely crafted anthology encompassing a grand thematic structure. Bravo!" - Creature Feature's Tomb of Dark Delights. "This anthology is packed with talented up and coming writers, who pay their dues to Lovecraft while keeping things appropriate for a contemporary readership.Torn Realities is a book that belongs in any horror fan's collection.... a great homage, a book Lovecraft would be proud of." - Bloody Disgusting.com Includes Genre Defining Classic Rawhead Rex from Horror Icon Clive Barker! This is not your typical Cthulhu anthology! Torn Realities deals with Lovecraft's themes of forbidden knowledge, the idea that we are essentially untethered from the workaday world. Torn Realities explores lunacy-inducing creatures predating the dawn of man- keeping Lovecraft's most famous theme (the idea of mind-boggling other gods) more general. The stories in this book actively seek the gray area in horror with tales of regular people in irregular situations. Contains 19 Lovecraft inspired stories from:JW Schnarr, Jamie Lackey , C. Deskin Rink, Philip Roberts, C.M. Saunders , Clive Barker, Brad Carter, Kathryn Board, James S. Dorr, Gerard Houarner, Kenneth W. Cain, Joseph Williams, Mitch Richmond, Lee Davis, Matt Moore, Jessica McHugh, Bob Mustin, Jeff Suess, and Allie Marini Batts.
At twelve years old, Avery Norton had everything: a boyfriend who was also her best friend, the entirety of Martha's Vineyard as her playground, and her very own garden to tend. By thirteen, it was all over.The discovery of a secret crypt in the basement starts the Norton family down many unexpected avenues, including one that leads to Avery's arrest for murder and her subsequent imprisonment in Taunton State Lunatic Asylum. Set in 1950s Massachusetts, Rabbits in the Garden follows Avery Norton's struggle to prove her innocence and escape Taunton with her mind intact.
Includes NEW ORIGINAL FICTION from Jack Ketchum & Lucy A. Snyder Jamais Vu The Journal of Strange Among the Familiar brings you the best in dark fiction, poetry, factual morsels, criticism, and more ISSUE TWO - SPRING 2014 FICTION Valedictorian - Steven Wolf Long Lonely Empty Road - Billie Sue Mosiman How the Sasquatch Mourn Its Dead - Brad Carter Oldies - Jack Ketchum Functionality - Lucy A. Snyder Karmic Interventions - William D. Carl POETRY Inevitable as the Incoming Tide - Rose Blackthorn Ink - Michael Bailey Ballet of Knives - Stephanie Wytovich Compassion of Erebus - Vincenzo Bilof FEATURES Velocerapture: The Rise of Monster Porn - Alexandra Christian Scary and the Hendersons: Bobcat Goldthwait talks Bigfoot and Found Footage Films - Jessica Dwyer On Meeting Chuck Palahnuik - Lucy A. Snyder Fitting the Strange into the Familiar: Q&A with Jonathan Maberry - Paul Anderson BOOK REVIEWS Vanguard of the New Weird - a review of Jeff VanderMeer's ANNIHILATION - Paul Anderson When Fairy Tales Attack - a review of Brom's KRAMPUS THE YULE LORD - Donald Jacob Uitvlugt FILM REVIEWS The Legend of Boggy Creek - Jessica Dwyer Let's Talk about Strange - Eric Beebe Who Killed Teddy Bear? - William D. Carl We Are What We Are - James Newman EPHEMERA The Art, Mystery, and Madness of Lydia Burris I Had a Thought Today ... - Harlan Ellison(r) Whiskey Rebellion - Jon Towers RE: Animated - Kenneth W. Cain
The ordinary writer often has trouble switching from novel to short story. But then again, Rock Neelly is no ordinary writer. Following up on his highly acclaimed "Purple Heart Detective" series, Neelly has penned a series of short stories that not only fill in gaps on some of the series' already well-defined characters, but also stand on their own as yarns worthy of attention. Reading a Rock Neelly story leaves you wanting to know the shipping date for the next one. -- Rick Robinson, 2017 Winner, Best Fiction, Hollywood Book Festival & 2013 International Independent Author of the Year The perilous life of a detective is definitely not a 9 to 5 gig. Every case offers a different way to die. You can't make a false step-and our wounded warriors only have one leg left between the two of them. The Purple Heart Detective Agency's Roddy O'Malley and Clayton Grace, decorated veterans of the Iraq War, now sleuths, know the mean streets of the City of Angels well and they'd thought they'd seen it all. But in these new adventures, each case is stranger than the last. Are they up to the task? Lives and loves in the noir world of underworld Los Angeles are hanging in the balance. The Babylon Blues has a clip full of new adventures with our favorite damaged private eyes, Roddy O'Malley and Clayton Grace. The soldiers turned detectives risk life and limb again and again, busting heads and cracking wise as they battle gang banger moguls, assassins, would-be vampires, and other cockroaches right out of the cracks in L.A.'s mean streets!Roddy and Grace are noir throwbacks to the time of Phillip Marlowe and Sam Spade, sleuths cut from the mold created by Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but with a modern twist-in a pinch these wounded warriors can turn to weaponry and buddies straight out of the U.S. Army.
Fifty-nine lies from 29 liars. Wait, what? You said 44 Lies by 22 Liars. Well, the editor's a liar too. It is not an insult to call an author a liar. I mean, let's face it, fiction authors are professional liars. They get paid to tell stories. Stories that we hope are not necessarily true. However, to be fair, authors of certain genres tell stories we wish were true, I think. Romance authors and utopian science fiction authors come to mind in the "wish they were true" category. Same goes with some literary drama. But who reads literary drama for fun? Not me. With the exception of four, I have met each one of these 30 glorious liars in person. Yes, I said 29. As the editor of this tome, I too am a liar. Besides, 59 Stories by 29 Authors doesn't have the same zing as 44 Lies by 22 Liars. You can't spot any of these professional liars as they cross the street. They don't look any different than your typical person. They have their fair share of odd haircuts, tattoos, misshapen heads and ancillary appendages, just like everyone else. Yet, they stand out in a different way. They can tell a story. In fact, they can tell stories so well that you forget you are being lied to. Flash fiction from ... J. David Anderson, Paul Michael Anderson, David Bernard, Max Booth III, C. Bryan Brown, Kenneth W. Cain, Brad Carter, Kyle Dickerson, Emma Ennis, Robert Essig, Teel James Glenn, Scott Goudsward, KT Jayne, Tally Johnson, MF Korn, Christian A. Larsen, Michael Matula, Josef Matulich, Jessica McHugh, P. Andrew Miller, Georgina Morales, Billie Sue Mosiman, g. Elmer Munson, Andrew Nienaber, Cynthia Pelayo, Nelson W. Pyles, Patrick Scalisi, Rob Smales, and Tim Waggoner.
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness’s deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton’s signature character and Steve McQueen’s restitution of the former’s legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.
Karma and Rebirth: Post Classical Developments explains the religious concepts most central to Asian philosophy, religion, and society, presenting articles representative of contemporary understanding and practice. The contributors look not only at the understanding of karma and rebirth in modern India, but also in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, Tibet, China, Japan, and the Western world. This broad treatment underscores the fact that karma and rebirth have become part of the religious history and cultural fabric of the Western world. The collection is divided into three sections. Part I deals with figures and movements of the Hindu renaissance in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part II on Buddhism deals with Indian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Japanese treatments of karma. Part III is devoted to the influence of karma and rebirth in the Western world through theosophy, new religious movements, and recent developments in psychology.
How can dedicated ethics committees members fulfill their complex roles as moral analysts, policy reviewers, and clinical consultants? The Joint Commission (TJC) accredits and certifies more than 19,000 health care organizations in the United States, including hospitals, nursing homes, and home care agencies. Each organization must have a standing health care ethics committee to maintain its status. These interdisciplinary committees are composed of physicians, nurses, attorneys, ethicists, administrators, and interested citizens. Their main function is to review and provide resolutions for specific, individual patient care problems. Many of these committees are well meaning but may lack the information, experience, skills, and formal background in bioethics needed to adequately negotiate the complex ethical issues that arise in clinical and organizational settings. Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees was the first book of its kind to address the myriad responsibilities faced by ethics committees, including education, case consultation, and policy development. Adopting an accessible tone and using a case study format, the authors explore serious issues involving informed consent and refusal, decision making and decisional capacity, truth telling, the end of life, palliative care, justice in and access to health care services, and organizational ethics. The authors have thoroughly updated the content and expanded their focus in the second edition to include ethics committees in other clinical settings, such as long-term care facilities, small community hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and hospices. They have added three new chapters that address reproduction, disability, and the special needs of the elder population, and they provide additional specialized policies and procedures on the book’s website. This guide is an essential resource for all health care ethics committee members.
This volume brings together eleven articles by a distinguished medieval scholar. The major emphasis is on legal thought that resulted from the revival of Roman law at Bologna and on the influence this thought had on medieval "constitutionalism." Includes such important studies as “A Romano-Canonical Maxim, Quod Omnes Tangit, in Bracton,” and “Status Regis and Lestat du Roi in the Statute of York.” Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocabularies, and art. His plays contain some of our most well-known lines (how often have you heard the phrase 'To be or not to be'?), yet whilst his poems may often feel less familiar than his plays they have also seeped into our cultural history (who has not heard of ''Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'?). In this Very Short Introduction Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry: the Sonnets; the two great narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece; A Lover's Complaint; and The Phoenix and Turtle. Describing Shakespeare's double identity as both poet and playwright, in conjunction with several of his contemporaries, Post evaluates the reciprocal advantages as well as the different strategies and strains that came with writing for the stage and the page. Tackling the debates surrounding the disputed authorship of Shakespeare's poems, he also considers the printing history of Shakespeare's canon, and the genres favoured by the bard. Exploring their reception, both with contemporary audiences and through the ages until today, Post explores the core themes of love and lust, and analyzes how the sonnets compare with other great love poetry of the English Renaissance. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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