<div>The timeless adventure of a Nordic warrior’s battle against a terrifying monster is brilliantly reimagined in this novel based on the Neil Gaiman film. King Hrothgar and his soldiers have become the prey of the vengeful outcast monster Grendel. On the verge of final defeat, the great warrior Beowulf offers a ray of hope. Beowulf is called to a land of monsters to triumph where so many have failed . . . or to die as so many of the brave before him. Set in medieval Scandinavia, this grand epic has endured for centuries, told and retold across generations and continents. Now acclaimed author Caitlín R. Kiernan offers a bold new version for modern readers, based on the screenplay by #1 New York Times–bestseller Neil Gaiman and Academy Award®–winning screenwriter Roger Avary.</div>

Beowulf

<div>Winner of the World Fantasy Award: New twists on classic fairy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin McKinley, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, and more. Long ago, when we were children, our dreams were inspired by the fairy tales we heard at our mothers&rsquo; and grandmothers&rsquo; knees&mdash;stories of princesses and princes and witches and wondrous enchantments, by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and from the pages of 1001 Arabian Nights. But, as World Fantasy Award&ndash;winning editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling remind us, these stories were often tamed and sanitized versions. The originals were frequently darker&mdash;and in Silver Birch, Blood Moon, they turn darker still. Twenty-one modern Grimms and Andersens&mdash;masterful storytellers including Neil Gaiman, Nancy Kress, and Tanith Lee&mdash;now reinvent beloved bedtime stories for our time. The Sea Witch gets her say, relating the story of &ldquo;The Little Mermaid&rdquo; from her own point of view. &ldquo;Thumbelina&rdquo; becomes a tale of creeping horror, while a delightfully naughty spin is put on &ldquo;The Emperor&rsquo;s New Clothes.&rdquo; Author Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan transports Snow White to a dark, gritty, industrial urban setting, and Patricia Briggs details &ldquo;The Price&rdquo; of dealing with a royal and unrepentantly evil Rumpelstiltskin. Rich, provocative, and unabashedly adult, each of these tales is a modern treasure, reminding us that wishes have consequences and not all genies have our best interests at heart.</div>

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<div>Stories of dark desire and wicked payback from Jonathan Lethem, Joyce Carol Oates, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Richard Christian Matheson, and more. From Shakespeare to Poe, revenge has always been one of the great themes in literature. This anthology contains eighteen stories of ruthless vengeance. A philanderer spends a night with one nameless woman too many. A second-rate music video talent turns down a chance at superstardom and escapes a deadly contract. A comedy duo realizes that retribution is no laughing matter. And a single woman must face the shocking reasons for her solitary lifestyle. Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow commissioned these and fourteen other tales from some of the most talented authors of our time to make up Lethal Kisses. Available for the first time in the United States, this is a collection of eighteen horrifying tales on evening the score. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Lethal Kisses

<div>Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: &ldquo;Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories&rdquo; (Hellnotes). A World Fantasy Award nominee, &ldquo;this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today&rdquo; (BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Ca&iacute;tlin R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Michael Marshall Smith, Kaaron Warren, and other masters of all things spooky and suspenseful. In tales that crisscross the boundaries of fear and imagination&mdash;from a haunted courtyard in New Orleans to a remote Arctic research station&mdash;swamp monsters, pool-cleaning robots, and cannibalistic spirits wreak chaos and terror across the pages. You&rsquo;ll be invited to a prom where a psycho hides inside a sparkly dress or rented tux; on a trip aboard a train to a destination that teems with ghosts; and into the darkest recesses of a human mind, the most fertile ground for the blossoming of true evil. &ldquo;Datlow&rsquo;s &lsquo;experimental&rsquo; crowdfunded horror anthology is nicely unthemed. . . . This is an excellent anthology for horror fans, with a nice range of tones and styles and some intriguing new voices.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;[Fearful Symmetries] not only goes beyond expectations, it raises the bar high above into the horror heavens. . . . A melting pot of distinct voices and styles that leave you wanting more.&rdquo; &mdash;Hellnotes &ldquo;One of the best horror anthologies I&rsquo;ve ever read.&rdquo; &mdash;Thirteen O&rsquo;Clock</div>

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Fearful Symmetries

<div>&ldquo;Readers who know Lovecraft&rsquo;s legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly (starred review) Here are nineteen Lovecraftian stories&mdash;both new and rediscovered&mdash;that take their cues from the mythos of the iconic horror writer. Today&rsquo;s masters of supernatural thrills celebrate H. P. Lovecraft&rsquo;s oeuvre with tales of weird fiction and cosmic horror, collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow. In &ldquo;Commencement&rdquo; by Joyce Carol Oates, a university begins its annual ceremony of renewal with three renowned scholars whose lifetime achievements are fodder for the student body. A couple desperate to have another child turn to the darkest rituals of folklore and mythology in &ldquo;Catch Hell&rdquo; by Laird Barron. And Holly Phillips&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cold Water Survival&rdquo; trails a group of Antarctic explorers who encounter vast, unexplainable shapes in the ice&mdash;a danger to humanity awakening from its frozen slumber. Rounding out the collection are more spinetingling tales from Brian Evenson, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Marc Laidlaw, Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear, Dale Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Bowes, Anna Tambour, Amanda Downum, Joel Lane, William Browning Spencer, Michael Cisco, Lavie Tidhar, Simon Kurt Unsworth, Michael Shea, Gemma Files, and Nick Mamatas.</div>

Lovecraft Unbound

<div>Sixteen tales that combine the otherworldly with hardboiled crime fiction&mdash;from Joe R. Lansdale, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Paul G. Tremblay, Melanie Tem, and others. Here are the femme fatales, the tough guys, the down-on-their-luck detectives&mdash;but with a twist. Collected by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow, these stories of the murderous and macabre will take you onto the dark streets of worlds unlike our own, where the monstrous stalk their prey. At the behest of a beautiful blonde client, a small-town East Texas private eye is drawn into a case of grave robbing by someone&mdash;or something&mdash;with an unholy interest in &ldquo;Dead Sister&rdquo; by Joe R. Lansdale. Elizabeth Bear&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Romance&rdquo; takes partygoers on a wild ride when the centerpiece of a birthday celebration turns out to be a haunted merry-go-round. After robbing a pawnshop, a group of small-time crooks get their shocking comeuppance as they flee the scene in &ldquo;The Getaway&rdquo; by Paul G. Tremblay. &ldquo;Little Shit&rdquo; by Melanie Tem follows a college student with a very unique skill set as she makes money on the side taking down criminals. Supernatural Noir also includes bone-chilling tales from Lucius Shepard, Laird Barron, Brian Evenson, Gregory Frost, Richard Bowes, Jeffrey Ford, Lee Thomas, Tom Piccirilli, Nate Southard, Nick Mamatas, and John Langan. &ldquo;This anthology has some of the most exciting fiction published in 2011. This is fiction that will make you uncomfortable, that will haunt you, that will show up in your dreams. . . . Horrifyingly wonderful.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy Literature</div>

Supernatural Noir

<div>Fourteen original stories inspired by the influential horror writer, including tales by Laird Barron, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, Gemma Files, and Brian Evenson. Compiled by Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow, these original stories of the supernatural employ H. P. Lovecraft&rsquo;s trademark terror of the cosmic unknown. A fresh generation of writers have been set free to play in his playground, exploring new themes and new horrors. In &ldquo;Oblivion Mode&rdquo; by Laird Barron, a revenge-fueled woman and her ragtag band confront a vampiric baron. Rumored to have belonged to a Donner Party survivor, a jade figurine winds its way through many different hands and centuries, spreading evil along the way in Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan&rsquo;s &ldquo;Excerpts for An Eschatology Quadrille.&rdquo; In Gemma Files&rsquo;s &ldquo;Little Ease,&rdquo; a pest exterminator meets a woman researching Enochian&mdash;the language of angels&mdash;and makes a horrific discovery in the walls of a building. A woman&rsquo;s new pair of bifocals comes with a warning she should take seriously in &ldquo;Glasses&rdquo; by Brian Evenson. Also included are tales by Siobhan Carroll, Orrin Grey, Richard Kadrey, A. C. Wise, Brian Hodge, Stephen Graham Jones, John Langan, Maria Dahvana Headley, David Nickle, and Livia Llewellyn. &ldquo;The power of this anthology shows in that it&rsquo;s not only a must for Lovecraft fans, but for any fan of solid, mature, and mind-boggling weird fiction, courtesy of one of the finest editors in the industry.&rdquo; &mdash;New York Journal of Books &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t need to be a fan of H.P. Lovecraft to enjoy the quality storytelling in this book. If you are, though, you might enjoy it even more.&rdquo; &mdash;Horrible Book Reviews</div>

Children of Lovecraft

<div>A Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning anthology featuring twenty stories based on local legends and ghost stories from around the world. Wherever you&rsquo;re from, there are local stories of ghosts, unexplained phenomena, or some thing that people are afraid to talk about. You can dismiss them as old wives&rsquo; tales, and yet they stay with us, haunting our everyday lives. In Haunted Legends, these tales are brought disturbingly to life by some of the best horror and dark fantasy writers in the world. Among the contributors are award-winners Ramsey Campbell, Caitl&iacute;n R. Kiernan, and many others. Here are stories from America&rsquo;s big cities and small towns, as well as far-flung corners of the globe. Discover the fox spirits of Vietnam, the specter of communism still haunting Russia in the form of Comrade Beria&rsquo;s ghost, the famed vampires of Rhode Island, a haunted amusement park in the Pacific Northwest, the Indian ghost city of Fatehpur Sikri, and more.</div>

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