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Knock Knock

By: S. P. Miskowski

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Beautifully written and relentlessly suspenseful, it's a great book to curl up with on a cold winter's night. Just be sure to keep the doors locked and all the lights on!" -Lucy Taylor, THE SILENCE BETWEEN THE SCREAMS "...more than a great read; it is a fascinating meditation on the nature of horror. There are supernatural elements to the book, yes, but the setting (an impoverished, ruined logging town) and the main characters (three school girls with hopes and dreams made improbable if not impossible by their realities) are a beautifully rendered commentary on the cyclical nature of real-world human tragedy." -Molly Tanzer, A PRETTY MOUTH "Starting slowly the book builds to a crescendo, first giving us innocent children on a jaunt in the woods and then taking the story forward to where they are fallible adults, exposed to the machinations of the evil they have unwittingly released. Eventually the story achieves a momentum all its own, rushing headlong to a shattering finale, and the prose, which Miskowski uses with such care and accuracy throughout, in the final pages attains a fever dream intensity, so that we can't trace any clear divide between reality and the skewed perspectives of the characters, the two blurring into each other, everything viewed through a blood red filter and in the light cast by flickering flames." -Peter Tennant, Black Static "With her distinct voice, Miskowski takes you deep into the back woods of America, where shadows chase you and people do the unthinkable." -Angel Leigh McCoy, Wily Writers At the center of S.P. Miskowski's novel-length fairy tale are three restless girls, best friends stuck in the backwater of Skillute, Washington in the late 1960s. Their neighbors and families are petty or poor, or both. They warn the girls not to wander into the dense forest. Something evil lurks there, people say. The girls are not convinced. During a playful oath, they wander too far into the woods. Their mistake unleashes a malignant spirit that terrorizes Skillute for the next fifty years.

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061558070X

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The Worst Is Yet To Come

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The Worst Is Yet To Come

By: S.P. Miskowski

For most of her fourteen years, Tasha Davis has languished in the rural-suburban town of Skillute, Washington. Her parents offer plenty of comfortable--if stifling--emotional support, but what she needs is a best friend. In her final year at Clark Middle School, Tasha meets a strange, new classmate. Briar Kenny is the self-styled rebel Tasha wants to be, and the Davises are the kind of close-knit family Briar covets. A moment of unexpected violence spawns a secret between the two girls and awakens a mystery from the past. Unknown to Tasha and Briar, their secret also attracts something monstrous from a forgotten corner of Skillute. The town is haunted by its history, scarred with the lingering spirit of broken and scattered families, abandoned real estate ventures, and old scores never settled between neighbors. But there's more to the place than memory and legend. Beneath the landscape something malignant rages, and it will stop at nothing to find a route into the physical world.

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1947654470

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The Best of Both Worlds

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The Best of Both Worlds

By: S.P. Miskowski

In this companion novella to the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated The Worst Is Yet to Come, Roland and his sister Pigeon are the kind of people most visitors to the small town of Skillute never notice: ordinary, hardworking folk who keep to themselves. They obey the speed limit and pay their taxes on time. Yet something isn’t quite normal about these adult siblings who perform strange rituals in the basement and tend to their garden late at night. To their affluent new neighbors, caught up in a fantasy of pastoral family life, Roland and Pigeon might as well be invisible. Old acquaintances take them for granted, as though they’re part of the fragmented landscape. In truth, no one knows what secret worlds they may inhabit, whether stalking the living or speaking to the dead.

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1950305279

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Delphine Dodd

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Delphine Dodd

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Before the town had a name, people buried their dead on the mountainside. Now Mont des Morts exists only in memory, but its ghosts still haunt Delphine's family. First in a series of three novellas set in the world of Knock Knock. "All the skills that made Miskowski's novel such a success are equally evident in this story of magic and changing times." -Peter Tennant, Black Static "Delphine Dodd not only expands and illuminates the tragedy in the brilliant novel, "Knock Knock", but also further proves Miskowski possesses that talent most enviable in a writer: she makes you *believe*." -Simon Strantzas, author of NIGHTINGALE SONGS "Spanning a period from shortly before World War One through to the early Seventies, this is a story of rural life in Washington state. But, while rich in realistic detail, it also uses storytelling and dreams to produce a sense of a world of strange and alarming mysteries lying just beyond our own and always ready to break through... There are scenes that may horrify the reader, but that is because it looks clear-sightedly, without rancour, at cruelty, selfishness and deceit. And there is as much beauty here as there is horror, thanks to the author's finely-crafted prose." -David Longhorn, editor of Supernatural Tales "Miskowski doesn't merely craft 'atmosphere,' she generates gravity. Dark and compelling, Delphine Dodd is a singularity...pick it up and its pull is inescapable." -Ennis Drake author of TWENTY-EIGHT TEETH OF RAGE

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0615698182

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The Best of Both Worlds

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The Worst Is Yet To Come

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Mother

Tales of Love and Terror

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Mother

Tales of Love and Terror

Mothers are the hand the rock the cradle and the true rulers of the world. In this anthology of 33 stories and poems, we explore the powerful, dangerous, and transcendent nature of mothers. Through the most compelling voices in science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror today, we stretch the concept of motherhood to its limits and show a side of Mother that you've never seen before. Featuring award-winning authors and the most captivating new voices in speculative fiction, this is 300 pages of compelling, weird, and awe-inspiring tales that will have you rethinking everything you know about that most secretive of all women: Mother. Featuring: "The Sire," by Steven Rasnic Tem"Last Leaf of an Ursine Tree," by Hailey Piper"Of a Thousand Arms and More," by Ai Jiang"Passed," by Elizabeth R. McClellan"Mother Made Cake," by Nicoletta Giuseffi"Puerperium," by Donyae Coles"Pelican," by Gemma Files"Fracture," by Mercedes M. Yardley"When Auntie's Due," by Sarah Read"Vé'otsé'e (Warpath Woman)," by Shane Hawk"Stone's Blood," by Nick Bouchard"Shields," by Christina Sng"The Bone Child," by Ryan Cole"The Wives of Tromisle," by Dan Coxon"Duties Terrible and Dear," by John Langan"Worry Dolly," by Nadia Bulkin"(sub)Maternal Instincts," by K.M. Veohongs"720o," by Steve Toase"Number ONE," by Frances Lu Pai Ippolito"Here in the Cellar," by R. Leigh Hennig"She's Untouchable," by Renee Cronley"Lida's Beach," by Stephanie Nelson"Instruments of Bone and the Flesh Songs They Create," by Nikki R. Leigh"Transformative Love," by Tehnuka"The Withering Depths," by Todd Powell"Waiting for Mother," by Brian Evenson"Unchild," by Jonathan Louis Duckworth"Take Care," by S.P. Miskowski"Mother Trucker," by Wailana Kalama"The Last Sin," by Gabino Iglesias"Jacob's Mother," by Katie McIvor

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Book's by S.P. Miskowski

Knock Knock

Knock Knock

The Worst Is Yet To Come

The Worst Is Yet To Come

The Best of Both Worlds

The Best of Both Worlds

Delphine Dodd

Delphine Dodd

The Best of Both Worlds

The Best of Both Worlds

The Worst Is Yet To Come

The Worst Is Yet To Come

Mother

Mother

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