Things Withered (35 page)

In a PERFECT world where everyone DESTROYS everything and eats HUMAN FLESH, one ZOMBIE has had enough: BUCK BURGER. When he rebels at the natural DISORDER, his marriage starts DETERIORATING and a doctor prescribes him an ANTI-DEPRESSANT. Buck meets a beautiful GREEN-HAIRED pharmacist fairy named FAIRY_26 and quickly becomes a pawn in a COLD WAR between zombies and SUPERNATURAL CREATURES. Does sixteen-year-old SPIRITUAL LEADER and pirate GUY BOY MAN make an appearance? Of course! Are there MIND-CONTROLLING ALBINOS? Obviously! Is there hot ZOMBIE-ON-FAIRY action? Maybe! WHY AREN’T YOU READING THIS YET?

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For thousands of years, Cross has wandered the earth, a mortal soul trapped in the undying body left behind by Christ. But now he must play the part of reluctant hero, as an angel comes to him for help finding the Mona Lisa—the real Mona Lisa that inspired the painting. Cross’s quest takes him into a secret world within our own, populated by characters just as strange and wondrous as he is. He’s haunted by memories of Penelope, the only woman he truly loved, and he wants to avenge her death at the hands of his ancient enemy, Judas. The angel promises to deliver Judas to Cross, but nothing is ever what it seems, and when a group of renegade angels looking for a new holy war show up, things truly go to hell.

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When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend—a poltergeist, that spoke to her with flying knives and howling winds. She called it the Insect. And with a little professional help, she contained it. But the nightmare never truly ended. As Ann grew from girl into young woman, the Insect grew with her, becoming a thing of murder. Now, as she embarks on a new life married to successful young lawyer Michael Voors, Ann believes that she finally has the Insect under control. But there are others vying to take that control away from her. They may not know exactly what they’re dealing with, but they know they want it. They are the ’Geisters. And in pursuing their own perverse dream, they risk spawning the most terrible nightmare of all.

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A yearly anthology from ChiZine Publications, gathering the best Canadian fiction and poetry in the speculative genres (SF, fantasy, horror, magic realism) published in the previous year. Imaginarium 2012 (edited by Sandra Kasturi and Halli Villegas, with a provocative introduction by Steven Erikson) was nominated for a Prix Aurora Award.

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Martin is going to Bible Camp for the summer. He’s going to learn archery and swimming, and he’s going to make new friends. He’s pretty excited, but that’s probably because nobody told him that this is a horror novel.

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A circus clown willing to give anything to be funny. A spectral gunslinger who must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. A lonely widower making a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife. A faded Hollywood actress out to deprive her ex-husband of his prize possession. A grieving mother who will wait by the railroad tracks for a ghostly train that always has room for one more. A young West Virginia miner whose only hope of survival is a bedtime story. These are just some of the characters to be found in
Tell My Sorrows to the Stones
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Celestial Inventories
features twenty-two stories collected from rare chapbooks, anthologies, and obscure magazines, along with a new story written specifically for this volume. All represent the slipstream segment of Steve Rasnic Tem’s large body of tales: imaginative, difficult-to-pigeonhole works of the fantastic crossing conventional boundaries between science fiction, fantasy, horror, literary fiction, bizarro, magic realism, and the new weird. Several of these stories have previously appeared in Best of the Year compilations and have been the recipients of major F & SF nominations and awards.

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HORROR STORY AND OTHER HORROR STORIES
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-926851-74-7]

NEXUS: ASCENSION
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-926851-87-7]

THE BOOK OF THOMAS: HEAVEN
ROBERT BOYCZUK [978-1-927469-28-6]

PEOPLE LIVE STILL IN CASHTOWN CORNERS
TONY BURGESS [978-1-926851-90-7]

THE STEEL SERAGLIO
MIKE CAREY, LINDA CAREY &; LOUISE CAREY [978-1-927469-04-0]

SARAH COURT
CRAIG DAVIDSON [978-1-926851-88-4]

A BOOK OF TONGUES
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-82-2]

A ROPE OF THORNS
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-97-6]

A TREE OF BONES
GEMMA FILES [978-1-926851-64-8]

ISLES OF THE FORSAKEN
CAROLYN IVES GILMAN [978-1-926851-98-3]

ISON OF THE ISLES
CAROLYN IVES GILMAN [978-1-927469-07-1]

FILARIA
BRENT HAYWARD [978-1-926851-73-0]

THE FECUND’S MELANCHOLY DAUGHTER
BRENT HAYWARD [978-1-926851-96-9]

IMAGINARIUM 2012: THE BEST CANADIAN SPECULATIVE WRITING
EDITED BY SANDRA KASTURI & HALLI VILLEGAS [978-1-926851-68-6]

CHASING THE DRAGON
NICHOLAS KAUFMANN [978-1-926851-80-8]

OBJECTS OF WORSHIP
CLAUDE LALUMIÈRE [978-1-926851-78-5]

THE DOOR TO LOST PAGES
CLAUDE LALUMIÈRE [978-1-926851-95-2]

THE THIEF OF BROKEN TOYS
TIM LEBBON [978-1-926851-84-6]

KATJA FROM THE PUNK BAND
SIMON LOGAN [978-1-926851-83-9]

BULLETTIME
NICK MAMATAS [978-1-926851-72-3]

SHOEBOX TRAIN WRECK
JOHN MANTOOTH [978-1-927469-05-7]

HAIR SIDE, FLESH SIDE
HELEN MARSHALL [978-1-927469-25-5]

NINJA VERSUS PIRATE FEATURING ZOMBIES
JAMES MARSHALL [978-1-927469-08-8]

PICKING UP THE GHOST
TONE MILAZZO [978-1-926851-99-0]

BEARDED WOMEN
TERESA MILBRODT [978-1-927469-02-6]

NAPIER’S BONES
DERRYL MURPHY [978-1-926851-93-8]

CITIES OF NIGHT
PHILIP NUTMAN [978-1-926851-85-3]

JANUS
JOHN PARK [978-1-927469-18-7]

EVERY SHALLOW CUT
TOM PICCIRILLI [978-1-926851-92-1]

BRIARPATCH
TIM PRATT [978-1-927469-00-2]

THE CHOIR BOATS
DANIEL A. RABUZZI [978-1-926851-76-1]

THE INDIGO PHEASANT
DANIEL A. RABUZZI [978-1-927469-17-0]

EVERY HOUSE IS HAUNTED
IAN ROGERS [978-1-927469-19-4]

ENTER, NIGHT
MICHAEL ROWE [978-1-927469-03-3]

REMEMBER WHY YOU FEAR ME
ROBERT SHEARMAN [978-1-927469-22-4]

CHIMERASCOPE
DOUGLAS SMITH [978-1-926851-81-5]

THE PATTERN SCARS
CAITLIN SWEET [978-1-927469-01-9]

THE TEL AVIV DOSSIER
LAVIE TIDHAR AND NIR YANIV [978-1-926851-75-4]

IN THE MEAN TIME
PAUL TREMBLAY [978-1-926851-91-4]

SWALLOWING A DONKEY’S EYE
PAUL TREMBLAY [978-1-926851-70-9]

THE HAIR WREATH AND OTHER STORIES
HALLI VILLEGAS [978-1-926851-89-1]

THE WORLD MORE FULL OF WEEPING
ROBERT J. WIERSEMA [978-1-926851-77-8]

WESTLAKE SOUL
RIO YOUERS [978-1-927469-06-4]

MAJOR KARNAGE
GORD ZAJAC [978-1-926851-86-0]

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