Bøger af Nathan Shumate

The editor and publisher of the Arcane and Space Eldritch anthologies now presents you with seventeen of his own short stories. From post-apocalyptic communities to existential wastelands, from black comedy to dark absurdism, from visceral shock to Lovecraftian dread, the seventeen unsettling stories in this collection are guaranteed to ensnare your imagination. "These tales are the macabre, elegant, folksy, wise, and macabre gift of a master storyteller, and not to be missed. Did I mention that they're macabre?" -D.J. Butler, author of Rock Band Fights Evil and Crécheling "Fun, exciting, all-around a good read... everything you'd expect from this writer." -Michaelbrent Collings, author of This Darkness Light and The Colony Saga "Not only exciting and creepy but deeply hilarious." -Dan Wells, author of I Am Not A Serial Killer and the Partials series

An office worker returns from bereavement leave to find his workplace changing before his eyes... A priest excites his village to the greatest show of devotion to their god ever seen... A mortician sees all of his immaculate handiwork destroyed when his clients start rising... These and twenty-seven more tales of the fantastic and macabre will excite your imagination and discomfort your dreams. Contributors: Thomas Allein, Paul L. Bates, Mark Beech, Dan Cavallari, Gemma Files, Milo James Fowler, Eric Francis, A.A. Garrison, S.K. Gilman, Brady Golden, Damien Walters Grintalis, Caitlin Hoffman, Van Aaron Hughes, D.T. Kastn, Bartholomew Klick, James Lecky, Christine Lucas, David McGillveray, Joe Mirabello, Jonathan S. Pembroke, Anthony J. Rapino, Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein, Christopher Slatsky, Frank Stascik, Josh Strnad, Max Vile, Fran Walker, S.M. Williams, Stephen Willcott, Jeremy Zimmerman

Private investigator Rennie Avalon's current job seems simple: to find and regain an antique book purloined from the collection of an elderly archivist. But nothing is ever that simple for Rennie. The book in question is no ordinary book: once the property of a high-ranking Nazi official with occult obsessions. The thief in question is no ordinary thief: a white supremacist who'll use any means necessary to accomplish his mission of hate. But Rennie Avalon is no ordinary private eye. Now with dangers looming on a literally apocalyptic scale, will her past experience dealing with the darkness be enough? Unavailable since its first appearance as an online serial in 2002, The Demon Cross is here presented for the first time in one volume, specially edited and revised for this edition. Also included is the first chapter of Brother's Keeper, the next Avalon & Company novel.

INNOCENT ILLUSTRATIONS, RECONTEXTUALIZED AGAINST THEIR WILL! Plumbing the depths of forgotten illustrations as grist for the mill, the cult webcomic CheapCaffeine is here presented in its first print collection. These first 300 cartoons introduce running gags and recurring characters-the Martian, the Egyptian embalmers, and of course the irrepressible Grievance Gorilla-in a daily dose of surreal, postmodern wit. And now, in semi-permanent dead tree format, accompanied by behind-the-scenes factoids and a smattering of bonus content!!1!, these moments of ephemeral non-sequitur humor can be gifted to luddite relatives, ensconced on the back of the toilet, or placed in studied casualness on a coffee table to impress attractive houseguests!