Peel Back the Skin, and Other Stories
Author: Amy E. Payne
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13:
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Peel Back the Skin
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Publisher: Grey Matter Press
Published: 2021-12-03
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey're among us. They live down the street, in the apartment next door and oftentimes in our own homes. They are the real monsters. And they stare back at us from our own bathroom mirrors. Peel Back the Skin is a powerhouse anthology of horror from Bram Stoker Award-nominated editors Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson that strips away the human mask from the real monsters of our time -- mankind. Featuring a star-studded cast of award-winning authors from the horror, dark fantasy, speculative fiction, transgressive, bizzaro, extreme horror and thriller genres, Peel Back the Skin is the next game-changing release from Grey Matter Press. Including fifteen all-new works of fiction from Jonathan Maberry, Ray Garton, Tim Lebbon, Graham Masterton, Yvonne Navarro, Ed Kurtz, Durand Sheng Welsh, James Lowder, Joe McKinney, Lucy Taylor, Charles Austin Muir, Erik Williams, Nancy A. Collins, John McCallum Swain and William Meikle. Praise for Peel Back the Skin: "Peel Back the Skin investigates the horrific behavior of humanity, but does not revel in it. The entertainment is dark and pulpy, but never exploitive. Peel Back the Skin reveals why horror is necessary today." -- Karl Wolff, New York Journal of Books "Every single story in the book is in a class of its own. Thematically, Peel Back the Skin is a thing of brilliance, each story complementing or enhancing the stories around it. Top-notch, accessible and entertaining dark fiction." -- Shane Douglas Keene, This is Horror "This collection of short stories serves both to entertain and provoke thought. I can recommend this collection of spooky delights as a great way to spend a few fall nights." -- Michele Galgana, FANGORIA Proudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated independent publisher. Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive
Fleshy Sensoria and Other Stories
Author: David Farrow
Publisher: David Farrow
Published: 2021-05-31
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe universe of the Neverglades grows bigger than ever in this collection of terrifying short stories, including four brand new tales never before seen on Reddit. Written for the r/NoSleep format, these stories are like found objects: snippets of various lives at their eeriest. A Southern boy falls afoul of a teenage psychopath. A high school student obsessed with beauty sees her inner ugliness manifest. A controversial doctor unleashes a terrible force in his quest to look behind the veil of death. A lonely man at an isolated outpost starts receiving strange broadcasts on his radio. A prominent scientist opens a door into a terrifying apocalyptic world. With metafictional elements that make the reader a participant in each story, the tales in "Fleshy Sensoria" are real in the sense that only the most immersive dreams can be. You may have a hard time waking up.
Origin of the Lights and Other Stories
Author: Ian Madison Keller
Publisher: Rainbow Dog Books
Published: 2022-05-22
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1956386106
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin a neko girl as she falls in love with a swan girl in a version of Steampunk London. See how a mail carrier deals with finding out she's a Chihuahua shifter. Go on time-traveling adventures with an old mouse woman. Run the Iditarod with an unfortunate Chihuahua. Attend magical college with a hopeful horse mage. Go on a camping trip with a transgender white-tailed deer, and more in this magical, furry collection of previously published short stories by author Ian Madison Keller. Includes "Milk and Brass", "The Monster in the Mist", "Northern Delights", "Suddenly, Chihuahua", "The Church Mouse", "Bucking the Trend", "The Pine Lesson", "The White Deer", "Fate's Answer", "Cyrano's Companion", "The Fish and the Candles", and "Origin of the Lights."
The Dinner Lady and Other Stories
Author: Ann Renard
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 178803273X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Geoffrey was fortunate, he didn't have children. He had been married once before but she had had an affair, Sarah, the little tart. Jeannie wasn't like that, she was trustworthy and went to church. He doubted there would be much competition there...” The Dinner Lady and Other Stories is a collection of short stories which brings characters to life with plenty of humour, and a touch of fantasy thrown in. This collection shows how, in everyday situations, people think, interpret behaviour, language and gestures differently. The consequences of these misinterpretations, without establishing the truth or facts, can be damaging in the long term to a relationship – which readers will discover as they reach each tale’s conclusion. From a business woman putting all her energy into work, to an unendurable bereavement, to the private life of a dinner lady, these tales span a wide variety of subject matter with very different, but equally intriguing characters. The Dinner Lady and Other Stories is ideal for today’s hectic lifestyles, and makes for easy reading in a train, bus queue, or during a coffee break.
Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories
Author: David Peak
Publisher: Trepidatio Publishing
Published: 2021-04-02
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1950305635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhantom limbs, porous realities, and strange reflections shifting in black glass. The thirteen stories included in this decade-spanning collection explore how memory affects place and place memory, the traumas that haunt bodies like ghosts, and the desperation of needing to be seen and understood by others. Only in pulling back the bloody veil of this world may we be so blessed to see things as they really are—and not as we wish them to be. David Peak builds stories that are intricate structures, impossible monuments to human darkness. To read them is to feel something tap against a secret part of us, a hidden bone that refuses to be forgotten. —Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy David Peak writes like a black-winged emissary from the Void, and Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories is a travelogue behind the walls, beneath the surface, and through the worm-tunnels that pierce a dying world’s heart. From fever dreams and haunted houses to fissures in reality and the emptiness beyond, no one else captures the aspects of the abyss like David Peak. —Gordon B. White, author of As Summer’s Mask Slips and Other Disruptions
Love Is Like Water and Other Stories
Author: Samia Serageldin
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009-09-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0815651295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLike the author of this remarkable collection of thirteen linked stories, the protagonist, Nadia, was born and raised in Egypt, educated in England, and immigrated to the United States. Samia Serageldin draws her characters out with subtlety and control, moving from the narrator’s grandmother’s garden house in Cairo to the suburbs of North Carolina, yielding powerful portraits of cultural dislocation, faith, and multigenerational conflicts. As the narratives shift in time and place, they unfold through memory. In "The Zawiya," Nadia reflects on the change in women’s space from the coiffeur’s salon to a religious pulpit as she revisits a childhood ritual. In the title story, Nadia offers a vivid sketch of her grandmother Nanou, "a force of nature" who, as an early widow, single-handedly raised six children and ran the household. At a time when few women experienced such independence, Nanou had a potent influence on the young narrator. Told with compassion and clarity, Serageldin’s stories reveal one woman’s exploration of identity, finding it in both the sweeping backdrop of Egyptian history and the quotidian exchanges with friends and family.
Greasy Lake and Other Stories
Author: T.C. Boyle
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1986-05-06
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1101462183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMythic and realistic, farcical and tragic, The Washington Post Book World says these masterful stories mark T. Coraghessan Boyle's development from "a prodigy's audacity to something that packs even more of a wallop: mature artistry." They cover everything, from a terrifying encounter between a bunch of suburban adolescents and a murderous, drug-dealing biker, to a touching though doomed love affair between Eisenhower and Nina Khruschev.
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Author: Ken Liu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-03-08
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 1481424378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFeatured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories. This mesmerizing collection features many of Ken’s award-winning and award-finalist stories, including: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary” (Finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards), “Mono No Aware” (Hugo Award winner), “The Waves” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species” (Nebula and Sturgeon Award finalists), “All the Flavors” (Nebula Award finalist), “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King” (Nebula Award finalist), and the most awarded story in the genre’s history, “The Paper Menagerie” (The only story to win the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards). Insightful and stunning stories that plumb the struggle against history and betrayal of relationships in pivotal moments, this collection showcases one of our greatest and original voices.
The Gabble and Other Stories
Author: Neal Asher
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: 2013-11-08
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 159780522X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Science Fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called ‘The Polity’, and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe. No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont.
