“To desert radio—the signals we send out into the abyss—and to everything that answers.”

The California desert hides a lot of things. For Gloria, it is a place to get away from her past and her addictions. Gloria expected to find a quiet place, where salt flats and dunes stretch on and the night sky is littered with stars. What she didn’t expect to find was an oasis, a community, and a job as a late-night DJ on a rock-and-roll radio station.

There is strangeness in the desert. Missing persons. Ancient petroglyphs. Distorted voices on the radio. Ghostly dogs. And more. Government conspiracies, weird rituals, and unfathomable entities that have been visiting the area for centuries.

Sure, the people in the desert are little bit strange, a little bit paranoid. But they’re survivors, just like Gloria.

Things are about to get very weird.

Twenty-something Justin Erasmus doesn’t know how he ended up in the mountains of Missoula, Montana on a commune with Adrian, his hookup from the other night. What he does know is that Adrian might help him find his estranged sister, Helen, since he and the other members of the group are devoted followers of her from afar, by way of her podcast and certain mysterious other communications. Justin himself only has hazy memories of Helen from when they were kids; he remembers her locked in a dog cage in his family’s living room and how, as though she were made of smoke, she reached her arms out to him through the bars before being sent away. A voice is telling him he needs to find her again.

But as his feelings for Adrian grow and the commune starts to feel more like home, Justin discovers he’s not the only person trying to find Helen. A shadowy government organization called The Aversion Project with a mysterious magic of their own are bent on eradicating Helen: her magic, her free thinking, her free-love community and free-living movement in favor of a more rigid, orderly, heteronormative world–and soon they’re knocking on their door… and invading their dreams. If Justin is going to find his sister and remain with his beloved new community, he’ll first have to deal with the ominous figures haunting his sister and found family.

From Shirley Jackson Award winner and author of A Hawk in the Woods, Carrie-Edmund Laben comes Smoke Season, a novel in the tradition of Arthur Machen.

A boy becomes fascinated with an elderly, insect-eating neighbor; inhuman bodies begin to wash ashore in a small coastal town; a closed rest stop that played host to a horrific crime may be a gateway to another world; the exhumation of a magician’s grave reveals an empty coffin…

Travel to subterranean realms with Orrin Grey in his latest collection, Notes from Underground: The Hollow Earth Story Cycle. These seven uncanny tales include works featured at Pseudopod and in The Best Horror of the Year, as well as the new novelette “Leandra’s Story,” and together form a linked story sequence of cosmic horror and masterful strangeness.

A garishly painted figurine contains a terrible curse; the ten-year anniversary of a sensational horror film shot in an abandoned mine reveals stunning secrets; endnotes for a book review uncover a strange high-tech pathogen; a man witnesses something uncanny and unexplained as his friend succumbs to a watery death; a seasick woman aboard a ferry is pursued by a barnacle-covered specter; a professor reveals the mysterious connection between Joseph Conrad and Peter Pan; a man encounters the ghost of his lost sister in a liminal space between the land and sea; an academic meets a mythical creature on a mysterious island.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with thirteen new tales of cosmic horror in Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

Includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Victor LaValle.

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 of Grey’s best writing on film, from Saturday-matinee schlock to award-winning classics, as he explores the silver screen through insightful reviews and enlightening essays.

Titles considered under Grey’s lens include The Andromeda Strain, The Dunwich Horror, The Mad Magician, Pacific Rim, Suspiria, Tremors, and many more.

As the house lights begin to dim, sit back and get ready to clutch your popcorn. The show is about to begin…

With strange aeons… where twin suns sink and towers rise behind the moon… in dark and lonely places when the stars are right… from the deadly light amidst black seas of infinity… unto a world which now trembles…

Yes, it’s cosmic, it’s mythos, it’s Lovecraftian/Chambersian, it’s overwrought language and indescribable horrors. But it’s also twisted takes and irreverent pastiches, with weird kids and lovelorn sequels. It’s ancient times, different histories, and distant futures. It’s cats and cults and candles, odd architecture, mysterious tomes.

It’s a collection of sixteen stories by Splatterpunk Award-winning author Christine Morgan, inviting you to take a peek…

AROUND ELDRITCH CORNERS

Magical mailman kills God in this novel of cosmic horror/occult ritual from Scott R. Jones, the author of Stonefish.

YOU ARE IN DANGER. You are afflicted with a mind parasite that feeds on your suffering and destroys your families so it can have something to drink from your ruined energetic body. To burn it out is the only way and it is the fire of your personal apocalypse, or revealing, that will perform this cleansing action. Contact me in any way you can should you require further help in this matter. I am here for you as a fellow human being, with a nervous system and feelings like yours, and as a practicing sorcerer, beyond feeling anything…

A young boy’s father becomes obsessed with interplanetary visitors; an adolescent’s game reveals devastating possible futures; twin siblings receive a visit from an aunt they don’t remember in the wake of their mother’s disappearance; a grieving widow finds herself drawn into a crypt and the companionship of other mourners left behind; a group of teenage girls at summer camp discover something powerful—and hungry—in the woods; a writer reeling from a splintered relationship attends an infamous theatre devoted to macabre spectacle and fear, discovering forbidden desire and malevolent designs…

From Lambda Literary Award and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Robert Levy (The Glittering World) comes debut collection No One Dies from Love: Dark Tales of Loss and Longing, featuring twelve tales of horror and desire, love and loss, including the critically acclaimed novella “Anaïs Nin at the Grand Guignol.” Featuring an introduction by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Paul Tremblay.

Senator William Esquival is in a rush to save his family’s life. Fleeing political persecution, William takes his family from the capital and flees to the family stronghold of Rio Rojo, a town known as the birthplace of William’s ancestor, a powerful former dictator whose legacy haunts the nation of Antioch. But even as the Esquival family seeks refuge, the country continues to fray around them. As Antioch bleeds, ancient hatreds, secrets, and ghosts pour from its wounds.

From S. L. Edwards comes debut novel In the Devil’s Cradle, a captivating haunted house story where the house is an entire country, a nation coming apart due to influences both internal and external, both natural and supernatural.

When it comes to short fiction, Orrin Grey is a magician, a practitioner of an arcane art inspired by the likes of Méliès, Welles, and Bradbury. Through literary legerdemain and stylistic sleight-of-hand, he takes the well-told weird tale into a realm of the supernatural, the uncanny, the theatrical, and, most importantly, the entertaining. And entertainment is what you’re sure to find in this collection of stories, provocatively entitled How to See Ghosts & Other Figments. Through the magic of the written word, you will see ghosts. And so much more! The strange! The sinister! The superlative!

Orrin Grey returns with eighteen haunting stories of the strange and supernatural. How to See Ghosts & Other Figments also includes extensive story notes and an introduction by Silvia Moreno-Garcia.