"Reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there." -John Barth
by Matthew Gregory Lewis “Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.” Well over 200 years old, The Monk details the fall of the most pious man the world knows. Ambrosia the hero-monk, the sinless man of God revered above all others, is softened by... Continue Reading →
by Various Authors (Stephen Jones - Editor) (on fairies) “But they can’t have memories. They don’t know their name. Don’t have a favourite smell or sound, a longed-for taste or a book in which they might lose themselves. They have nothing.” Peter Crowther – "The Artemis Line" Based on the tales of the brothers Grimm,... Continue Reading →
by Clive Barker “The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there’d be no show at all, then casting off its rags one by one.” Boone, a possible serial killer undergoing intense therapy, has his world turned upside down as the crimes come to light and he... Continue Reading →
by David Morrell “The truth was, even if I had his promise in writing, the studio’s lawyers could have it nullified if Wes claimed he’d been misled. This town wouldn’t function if people kept their word.” Somewhere in 2013, steeped in short stories and novellas, I began to get a better grip on where my... Continue Reading →
by Joe Hill “Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what men could think up.” On the anniversary of his girlfriend’s sadistic murder, a young man finds himself growing horns which cause those around him to speak more candidly and act much closer to their base instincts than allowed in civilized... Continue Reading →
by Nathan Ballingrud "Mankind had acquired an appetite for dying; doctors were merely shephards to the process." Consisting of 9 short stories, North American Lake Monsters won the 2013 Shirley Jackson award for best collection in May 2014. Particularly notable is the fact it beat Michael Marshall Smith's Everything You Need for the award, a... Continue Reading →
by Karl Edward Wagner “I was your friend, Curtiss.” “Writer’s don’t’ have friends. Only deadlines.” This is an excellent, dark collection that comes at you from an unsuspected angle, often due to a sense of gravitas permeating the stories. A black and white picture early in the book reveals about 9,000 truths of the writer... Continue Reading →
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon “Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and dream about it.” A young writer who was introduced to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books through our favorite booksellers, ‘Sempere & Sons,’ is tasked to write a specific, dangerous book by... Continue Reading →
by Charles Beaumont “I just lie awake at night and thank God that I’m bald.” Making your way through this gigantic book brings with it a revelation. You are not reading a book, you're staring directly into the imagination of one of our best speculative fiction writers, one of our best situational thinkers. As the... Continue Reading →
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