African American Horror

Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to the white master’s daughter, Violet. Her daydreams are filled with poetry and faraway worlds, while she spends her nights secretly roaming through the forest, consumed with grief over the sudden death of her older sister, Minnie. When wealthy guests arrive from New Orleans, hinting at marriage for Violet and upending Junie’s life, she commits a desperate act.

Jewell Parker Rhodes follows up her acclaimed Voodoo Dreams with a present-day mystery surrounding the gifts of an ancestor of the Voodoo Queen. Doctor Marie Levant can't explain why she's drawn to New Orleans, or why it's comforting and unsettling at the same time. And she can't shake her haunting dreams. But when she delivers a dead woman's baby, Marie knows malevolent forces are at work, and it's up to her to stop them.

Clara, a single, promiscuous woman who struggles with many challenging personal issues, calls on God during one of the worst tragedies of her life. However, Clara does not get the answer she desperately seeks.

With heart-stopping stories by Zane, Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes, Joy M. Copeland, Robert Fleming, Terence Taylor, Francine Lewis, Brandon Massey, and 12 other established or up-and-coming writers, Dark Dreams is a must-have contemporary anthology for fans of the supernatural.

In the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century, crusading African American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett bravely reported on the scourge of white supremacist violence that had personally impacted her own life and work. Her reporting exposed and riled the South, enlightened uninformed Northerners, and captured international attention. Southern Horrors and The Red Record offer extensive accounts of the lynching, cruelty, and hate that African Americans faced in the early years of the Jim Crow South.

These ain’t your mama’s Carpathians. In Iceland, the vampires are tall, blond, and environmentally-minded. They have protected their homeland for millennia from the insidious wearing of "dead man's trousers". The Necropants. Flayed from the skin of a corpse and steeped with magic runes, the long-hidden, but now discovered Necropants are but a precursor to the utter destruction of Iceland's pristine wilderness. Can Saber Evangelista look past profit and embrace her role in saving one of the world's last unspoiled wilderness areas? Find out now.

From the author of Fleshbags and The Ghost Toucher comes nine tales to scare, tantalize, puzzle, and make you laugh. Through different times and realities, see how the people change within the same four walls.

Since the massacre at Heavenly Hope, the once breathtaking home has been empty, with no one daring to come close to it; until the Blackwells were made an offer they couldn’t refuse. Moving into the smaller house at the foot of Heavenly Hope, the smell of fear nearby revealed the creatures were still alive and starving for the taste of fresh blood. With the creatures again on the attack and threatening to expand their feeding to the people of the cities, they need to be stopped for good.

Melody Stallworth, a 37-year-old hefty heiress who had it all. An ample bank account, a beautiful home, and family and friends who adored her. One would think she has it all, but one thing was missing...her one true love. She had all the qualities any sane man would fawn over. Growing tired of her failed attempts at relationships, she seeks revenge on the men who have hurt her, and the penalty is death.

Jacob is an old man who has secluded himself in an apartment convinced that something is after him. As he retells strange coincidences throughout his life, maybe he's right.

Delbert Thompson lived all by himself on a farm deep in the country and never bothered anyone until a group of teen's car broke down about a half mile down the road from Delbert's farm. The teens were only looking to use Delbert's phone to get help, but Delbert was in no mood for company, so the teens picked the wrong door to knock on for help. Delbert was sitting in his rocking chair on his front porch whittling a piece of wood when he stopped what he was doing and noticed a group of people headed his way.