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Villipede Publications' first horror and dark speculative fiction anthology will tenderly caress your amygdalae and viciously twist your imagination. With fifteen short stories and four poems from both established and upcoming authors, this haunting collection will force readers to reevaluate their thoughts on what darkness really is: something we're all born of yet perpetually trying to flee; a malevolent force that desires our servitude or destruction-or something that simply wishes to lock us in its cold, scaly, fathomless grip. Or perhaps, even, it's an asylum for our jittery minds and confused hearts-a place of solace where humans may patiently inspect their primal natures and desires . . . a place where the barriers between monster and man begin to shift and break down. The authors' origins span the breadth of the globe: the UK, Greece, Australia, Sweden, the US-and their stories are just as diverse. While the styles and subject matter of the stories may differ greatly, what is consistent is the dedication each author has harnessed to create unique fiction and scenarios of bewitching caliber. Holding Darkness Ad Infinitum in your trembling hands, you may find yourself faced with a simple ultimatum: Do you turn around and embrace the darkness of your own free will . . . or will it embrace you first? Contents: LONGBOAT - Becky Regalado, IN THE WALLS - Adam Millard, LOVE GRUDGE - Dot Wickliff, EARTH, RISEN - Pete Clark, SMUDGE - Jonathan Templar, THE HIGH PRIEST - C. Deskin Rink, STEALING DARKNESS - Geoffrey H. Goodwin, THE WESTHOFF VERSION - Patrick O'Neill, THE BURNING MAN - Tony Flynn, BLESS ME FATHER - Lisamarie Lamb, A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS - Lawrence Salani PILING UP - Kallirroe Agelopoulou, DOOR TO INSANITY - Mathias Jansson, BRANNIGAN'S WINDOW - John Mc Caffrey, THE SONG THAT CRAWLED - Adam S. House, HUNGRY AS THE WIND - Jonathan Moon, THE GOOD MAN - David Dunwoody, THE UNDERTAKER'S MELANCHOLY - Sydney Leigh, THE TUNNEL RECORD - J. Daniel Stone WITH ARTWORK FROM: Wednesday Wolf, David Shearer, Justin Wheeler, Mark Thompson (Monstark Studios), Eric Ford, Dennis Anderson (Dennis A!), Luke Spooner (Carrion House), Adam Domville, Stephen Cooney, and Matt Edginton.

The Director has just completed his magnum opus, going to extraordinary lengths with people's lives and money to make the film he believes will be one of the first significant works in the Slave State's cinematic cannon. Everyone anticipates Klopp to be a major success-but the Writer has something else in mind... 'A masterpiece.' -Seb Doubinsky * * * 'Someday soon people are going to be naming him as one of their own influences. He's worth checking out.' -INTERZONE magazine * * * 'Truly excellent prose!' -Albedo One * * * 'Reading Kelso is like sticking your head in a blender but retaining consciousness: a joy ride.' -Fur-Lined Ghetto

The Absence of Light is a dark prose novel written by 25-year-old J. Daniel Stone. The story involves two groups of friends--one group a metal band and the other a clan of ghost hunters--who clash after a night of rocking out in a seedy downtown club in NYC. With his fascinating ability for mapping out interesting characters, and a natural ability at setting a gloomy mood, Stone successfully takes his readers through the problems that everyday people face within the boondocks via a small Pennsylvania mining town dusted in anthracite, to the frightening throes of the ever-changing face of New York City with an authenticity that is rarely found in first novels. His words will resonate like a hangover long after you read them.

This science fiction anthology features eleven original short stories from nine established and emerging authors. Each story is accompanied by a black-and-white illustration created by one of four artists. (See the complete list of authors and artists below.) The stories span the breadth of the science-fiction genre, from cyberpunk to alien contact to genetic manipulation to social dystopia. Some investigate the "hard" technological side of SF, while others explore the genre's "softer" social implications. While the majority of the content is suitable for most readers, some stories contain harsh language, mild violence, and adult situations that may be unsuitable for younger readers. Authors: Alex J. Kane, Martin L. Shoemaker, Grayson Bray Morris, Jasmine Michaelson, Ben Godby, David Tallerman, Matt Edginton, S.C. Wade, Rob Oxley. Artists: Eric Ford, Scotty J. Carpenter, Nick Gucker, Matt Edginton.

When Ryan and his crew kidnap Edric Samuels, the teenage son of a billionaire, it doesn't take long for fractures to appear in their carefully constructed plan. The walls close in and the once good friends are suddenly at each other's throats. Things look bad-but they're about to get a whole lot worse. Edric is not an ideal prisoner, and soon pacifying the boy is their only option. Sometimes they use a needle, other times, their fists. But what his captors don't know is that each time he falls down the rabbit hole, Edric's nightmares are training him to be a killing machine. Are these hallucinations from the drugs . . . or are they something much darker? Once set on this path of revenge, Edric won't stop until his enemies are hollow shells of blood and bone.

EIGHTEEN HAUNTING VISIONS . . . FROM A MIND ADROITLY TWISTED In this debut collection of short fiction from Kurt Fawver, one of the horror world's rising stars, you will find a melange of lost souls, cosmic terrors, wondrous abysses, and even some good old-fashioned murder. You will be taken to the end of humanity, to dystopian futures and personal hells. You'll meet conquering gods and unholy messiahs, invisible babies and talking chairs, interdimensional monsters and the monsters we sometimes see all too clearly in the mirrors before our own faces. The stories in Forever, in Pieces will immerse you in loneliness and loss, life and death, love and obsession, and, above all, the shadowed-and often terrible-veil of eternity. "Kurt Fawver's stories are nasty little shockers that dare to dream big. And he isn't afraid to follow those big and totally mad ideas through to their horrific conclusions. Yeah, Kurt is a little messed up, and Forever, in Pieces is a promising debut."-Paul Tremblay, author of In the Mean Time and Swallowing a Donkey's Eye "From the most far-flung reaches of space, time and imagination, Fawver presents a parade of original and startling visions."-David Dunwoody, author of Unbound & Other Tales "A poignant and genuinely unnerving debut collection. Exquisite in every possible way. Kurt Fawver is a virtuoso of short-form literature, and Forever, in Pieces is his magnum opus."-Adam Millard, author of Dead Line "Forever, in Pieces is aptly titled, for this book offers readers unnerving glimpses into our eternal fears, both staggeringly cosmic and painfully intimate. Kurt Fawver's tales are gruesome and poignant. An impressive debut."-Richard Gavin, author of At Fear's Altar "With Forever, in Pieces, Kurt Fawver creates a collection perfectly balanced between beautiful and vicious, clever and dark. Like love stories for the dead, it calls to your soul to just keep turning pages."-Jonathan Moon, author of Heinous and Hollow Mountain Dead "Kurt Fawver's Forever, in Pieces is a searing and unapologetic exploration of futility. His very purpose in the tragically beautiful arrangement of his words is to prove that 'On every level, we are not meant to overcome; we are meant to fall apart'-and his thoughtful, captivating stories illustrate this truth in an impeccably somber literary performance."-Shawna L. Bernard, editor of Cellar Door and Ugly Babies

Benjamin Card's first collection of short stories, in the vein of YA, contemporary fantasy and horror, and psychological drama. In the title story, Angelo and his wife Kimberly have been having marital issues for some time. Things take a catastrophic turn when one morning an invisible entity in the sky claims Kim's unconditional love...and that of every other female on Earth. Now the women are shouting, crying, and ripping each other apart to earn the love of this mysterious and seemingly non-existent being in the sky. And Angelo, along with every man in the world, needs to figure out a way to snap the women back to reality before it's too late. These ten subtly unnerving stories all dig deep into the uninhibited recesses of the mind. In "Blind Date", a man discovers that his dream girl may live in a different dimension; "I'll Spend It With You" is a brief glimpse of the afterlife, where two dead lovers may be forced to spend eternity separated; and in the nerve-twisting "Late-Night Snack", young Dennis is constantly visited by his demon-possessed father during the night. Jennifer Serling, niece of the legendary Rod Serling, provided the foreword.

A visceral meditation on the transitory nature of identity and its trappings, MOUTH, ROME probes the boundaries of the conscious and unconscious minds, vivisecting the expression of self and the facades of moral congruity often magnetized to it. A disjointed yet razor-keen work of psychological subterfuge in the age of meaninglessness.