A southern gothic ghost story.

Fireflies hated my land, hated and feared it. If brought onto it, they’d flee. If they couldn’t flee, they’d die. But under no circumstances would my parents’ grave ever see their light.

Jacob Logan hasn’t been home in years.

With his parents dead, his career a thousand miles away, there didn’t seem to be a reason ever to go back. But things change, and the time has come for him to return to a place, a life, he’d long ago turned his back on.

It’s time to go back to a house that may not let him leave a second time.

Richard Dansky’s first original novel is a compelling story about one man’s struggle to honor the past without being destroyed by it, and finding the courage to face the future.

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A tale of revenge that grows into something more, Last Dragon is a literary fantasy novel in the tradition of Gene Wolfe and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

My fingers are like spiders drifting over memories in my webbed brain. The husks of the dead gaze up at me, and my teeth sink in and I speak their ghosts. But it’s all mixed up in my head. I can’t separate lines from lines, or people from people. Everything is in this web, Esumi. Even you. Even me. Slowly the meat falls from the bones until only sunken cheeks and empty space between the filaments remind me that a person was there, in my head. The ghosts all fade the same way. They fade together. Your face fades into the face of my husband and the dying screams of my daughter. Esumi, your face is Seth’s face, and the face of the golem.

So begins the most startlingly original fantasy novel in decades.

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Two interwoven memoirs of love, loss, and family with a haunted, frightening edge.

“The kind of . . . story that reminds you what fiction is capable of being, of doing, of making, for the reader and for the author.”

—Neil Gaiman on the original novella.

In 2000, American Fantasy Press published an unassuming chapbook titled The Man on the Ceiling. Inside was a dark-and-light, surreal, discomfiting and redemptive story of the horrors and joys that can befall a family. It was so powerful that it won the Bram Stoker Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award—the only work ever to win all three. Now, Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem have reimagined the story, expanding on the ideas to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, how they hold a family together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and how they find love.

Loosely autobiographical, The Man on the Ceiling has the feel of a family portrait painted by Salvador Dali, where story and reality blend to find the one thing that neither can offer alone: truth.

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An action-packed tale of believable superheroes.

Devil’s Cape blends the gritty Louisiana noir of James Lee Burke with the unforgettable characters and horror of Stephen King—all within a gripping story of superhuman heroes reminiscent of Alan Moore’s Watchmen or NBC’s mega-hit Heroes.

If New Orleans has earned its “Sin City” nickname for its debauchery, then its nearby sister Devil’s Cape has earned its “Pirate Town” moniker for the violence and blatant corruption that have marred the city since its founding. In Devil’s Cape, corruption and heroism walk hand in hand, and justice and mercy are paid for in blood. It is a city like no other.

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On the surface, Cross County, Ohio, seems like the ideal rural community. A town of small family-owned businesses surrounded by woods and farmland. A proud history going back to colonial times. Picture-perfect Americana.

But twenty years ago, a series of brutal slayings shook Cross County. The horror ended when Carl Coulter was tried, convicted, and executed for the killings. Since then, Cross County has been at peace, a quiet rural community like so many in the quiet corners of the Midwest.

But now the murders have started again. Is this a copycat killer, or has Cal "the Cutter" somehow managed to reach beyond the grave?

It's up to Joanne Talon, a survivor of her own childhood drama and the first woman to serve as Cross County's sheriff, to catch the killer before the carnage spreads. Her long-time friend, local reporter Dale Ramsey, and Marshall Cross, reigning patriarch of Cross County's "first family" have their own reasons for helping Joanne.

And neither are telling all they know.

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Friday the 13th of October
1307

A fateful day for the powerful Order of the Temple.

Arrested by the King of France, betrayed by the Holy Father, the Templars will cease to exist.

And Ian Graham, twenty-first century television personality, has just found himself in 1307 -- and an initiate of the Order.

He has ten weeks to escape death or torture -- if he can find his way home.

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