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Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2017-07-26
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 1250162602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA horror tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1429968400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA glorious retelling of the Russian folktale Marya Morevna and Koschei the Deathless from Catherynne M. Valente, set in a mysterious version of St. Petersburg during the first half of the 20th century Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has never before been seen through the eyes of Catherynne Valente, whose modernized and transformed take on the legend brings the action to modern times, spanning many of the great developments of Russian history in the twentieth century. Deathless, however, is no dry, historical tome: it lights up like fire as the young Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the revolution, to Koschei's beautiful bride, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and games of lust and power. All told, Deathless is a collision of magical history and actual history, of revolution and mythology, of love and death, which will bring Russian myth back to life in a stunning new incarnation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 0765392704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella! John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He’s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he’s hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth. As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. He’s infected with an alien presence, and he’s spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: P. H. Low
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2024-07-09
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0316569224
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGorgeous and devastating, P. H. Low’s debut fantasy is a richly reimagined tale of Captain Hook’s origin, a story of cruelty, magic, lost innocence, and the indelible power of stories. Jordan was once a Lost Boy, convinced she would never grow up. Now, she’s twenty-two and exiled to the real world, still suffering withdrawal from the addictive magic Dust of her childhood. With nothing left to lose, Jordan returns to the Island and its stories—of pirates and war and the heartlessness of youth—intent on facing Peter one last time, on her own terms. If that makes her the villain…so be it.
Author: Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 613
ISBN-13: 1250171253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the World Fantasy Award Worlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo. "A fresh new story going up at Tor.com is always an Event."—Charlie Jane Anders Since it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print. This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program. TABLE OF CONTENTS: “Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders “Damage” by David D. Levine “The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn “The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin “A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee “Waiting on a Bright Moon” by JY Yang “Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley “About Fairies” by Pat Murphy “The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys “Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Corwin “Reborn” by Ken Liu “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov “The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky “The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg van Eekhout “Ponies” by Kij Johnson “La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey “Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny “The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley “The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica “In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar “The Witch of Duva” by Leigh Bardugo “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill “This World Is Full of Monsters” by Jeff VanderMeer “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson “A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star” by Kathleen Ann Goonan At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Erewhon Books
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1645660249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw’s first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe’s highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda... and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again. In space, everything hungers. Maya has died and been resurrected into countless cyborg bodies during her dangerous career with the Dirty Dozen, the most storied crew of criminals in the galaxy before their untimely and gruesome demise. Decades later, she and her team of broken, diminished outlaws must get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission and to rescue a missing and much-changed comrade . . . but they’re not the only ones in pursuit of the secret at the heart of the planet Dimmuborgir. The highly evolved AI of the galaxy will do whatever it takes to keep humanity from regaining control. As Maya and her comrades spiral closer to uncovering the AIs’ vast conspiracy, this band of violent women—half-clone and half-machine—must battle both sapient ageships and their own traumas, in order to settle their affairs once and for all.
Author: Kelly Robson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2017-01-04
Total Pages: 43
ISBN-13: 0765392798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novelette! "A Human Stain" by Kelly Robson is a disturbing horror novelette about a British expatriate at loose ends who is hired by her friend to temporarily care for his young, orphaned nephew in a remote castle-like structure in Germany. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1250759420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA USA TODAY BESTSELLER! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and World Fantasy Award Finalist! An August Derleth Award Nominee! An Indie Next and October LibraryReads Pick! 2022 RUSA Reading List: Horror Winner! A Most Anticipated Read on Goodreads, Tor.com, Crime Reads, BookRiot, The Nerd Daily, and more. Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists. A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It’s the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding. A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested. But the house has secrets too. Lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart. And she gets lonely down there in the dirt. Effortlessly turning the classic haunted house story on its head, Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a sharp and devastating exploration of grief, the parasitic nature of relationships, and the consequences of our actions. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 1597806315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fights to survive their descent; An American band finds more than they bargained for in Mexico while scouting remote locations for a photo shoot; A young student’s exploration into the origins of a mysterious song leads him on a winding, dangerous path through the US’s deep south; A group of kids scaring each other with ghost stories discovers alarming consequences. The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in horror short fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Mark Morris, Kaaron Warren, John Langan, Carole Johnstone, Brian Hodge, and others. For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the tenth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction: Summation 2017—Ellen Datlow Better You Believe—Carole Johnstone Liquid Air—Inna Effress Holiday Romance—Mark Morris Furtherest—Kaaron Warren Where’s the Harm?—Rebecca Lloyd Whatever Comes After Calcutta—David Erik Nelson A Human Stain—Kelly Robson The Stories We Tell about Ghosts—A. C. Wise Endoskeletal—Sarah Read West of Matamoros, North of Hell—Brian Hodge Alligator Point—S. P. Miskowski Dark Warm Heart—Rich Larson There and Back Again—Carmen Maria Machado Shepherd’s Business—Stephen Gallagher You Can Stay All Day—Mira Grant Harvest Song, Gathering Song—A. C. Wise The Granfalloon—Orrin Grey Fail-Safe—Philip Fracassi The Starry Crown—Marc E. Fitch Eqalussuaq—Tim Major Lost in the Dark—John Langan Honorable Mentions About the Authors Acknowledgment of Copyright About the Editor
Author: Cassandra Khaw
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Published: 2023-05-02
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1250830923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Khaw’s poetic prose and stylish approach to gore make it a blood-soaked, unforgettable gem.” —The New York Times From Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth, comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. A Best Horror Book of 2023 (The New York Times, Library Journal) • An Best Book of 2023 (NPR) • An Indie Next Pick You may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three “saints” who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive. “This brilliant novella is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review “With this brilliantly constructed tale...Khaw cements their status as a must-read author.” —Library Journal, STARRED review Also by Cassandra Khaw: Nothing But Blackened Teeth A Song for Quiet Hammers on Bone The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
