<div>The haunting debut novel by the Bram Stoker Award-winning author&mdash;&ldquo;think Henry James and Joyce Carol Oates with just a few paragraphs of Joe Lansdale&rdquo; (Tor.com). For the last few years, Veronica Croydon has been at the center of scandal, first as the younger woman for whom her famous professor left his wife, and then as his apparent widow. When a writer staying at the same vacation home as Veronica has the chance to hear her story, he jumps at it. What follows takes him to the dark heart of a father&#39;s troubled relationship with his only son, in a story that stretches from the Hudson Valley to Afghanistan; and from post-9/11 America to Victorian England. House of Windows is a haunting exploration of a marriage under strain from forces both psychological and paranormal. With its combination of literary complexity and chilling supernatural violence, it is widely considered a masterpiece of contemporary horror fiction. New introduction by Adam Nevill Reading Group Guide included &ldquo;John Langan is a writer of superb literary horror. Both House of Windows and The Fisherman are dark and unsettling contemporary masterpieces.&rdquo; &mdash;Peter Straub, New York Times bestselling author</div>

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<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>

Fearful Symmetries

<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 collection of &ldquo;mesmerizing tales, each one creepier than the next&rdquo; that go beyond the traditional vampire myths (Library Journal). When we think of vampires, an image instantly arises: fangs sunk deep into the throat of the victim. But bloodsucking is merely one form of vampirism. For this brilliantly original anthology, multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow solicited stories from many of the most powerfully dark voices in contemporary horror, who conjure tales that will chill readers to the marrow. In addition to the traditional fanged creatures, Datlow presents stories about the leeching of emotion, the draining of the soul, and other dark deeds of predation and exploitation, infestation, and evisceration . . . tales of life essence, literal or metaphorical, stolen. Seventeen stories by such acclaimed authors as Elizabeth Bear, Richard Bowes, Kathe Koja, Margo Lanagan, Carol Emshwiller, and Lisa Tuttle redefine the terror of vampirism.</div>

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