<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>Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others. With an introduction from Katherine Dunn Ladies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night&mdash;with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award&ndash;winning editor Ellen Datlow as the ringmaster. In Stephen Graham Jones&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Darkest Part,&rdquo; three men are driven to madness by the clown that has haunted them since one misguided Tunnel of Love ride during their childhoods. The deaths of three circus performers&mdash;two brothers and a beautiful fire dancer&mdash;become the burning obsession of an author who wrote a book about the tragedy in &ldquo;The Firebrand&rdquo; by Priya Sharma. &ldquo;Skullpocket&rdquo; by Nathan Ballingrud takes you to an alternate fantasy world where a well-respected ghoul from a town near Chesapeake Bay grieves the death of his one true love, a freak show attraction known as the Orchid Girl. Under the tent, you&rsquo;ll find more chilling stories by Genevieve Valentine, Robert Shearman, N. Lee Wood, Nick Mamatas, A. C. Wise, Terry Dowling, Joel Lane, Glen Hirshberg, Jeffrey Ford, Dennis Danvers, and Livia Llewellyn. &ldquo;To Datlow&rsquo;s credit a number of her selections take the dark carnival theme into provocative new territory. . . . Ballingrud&rsquo;s tale is a magnificent piece of storytelling. Accompanied by another 14 estimable acts, it makes admission into Nightmare Carnival well worth the price.&rdquo; &mdash;Locus &ldquo;There&rsquo;s not a bad story in the bunch.&rdquo; &mdash;Horror DNA</div>

Nightmare Carnival

<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>

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