Description:
Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction--cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and--a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry--weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known--occult detective tales. Here are all-original tales about people who peer into the shadows in order to solve a mystery. Sometimes successfully ... and sometimes the darkness wins. The stories range from nail-biting horror to very dark comedy, and there's a generous mix of short stories, flash fiction (shorter works of about 1500 words), and poems. The lineup is killer, as you'll discover, and the interpretations of what constitutes "occult fiction" is unique to each writer.
"The Eyrie" by Jonathan Maberry
"Dead Jack and the Mystery of Room 216" by James Aquilone
"Beneath the Scarred Pulpit" by Kenneth W. Cain
"Denizen of Deep Holler" by Jennifer Brody
"The Ephemera of Dreams" by Carina Bissett
"Forming Threads" by Jody Lynn Nye
"The Painted Unseen" by Taylor Grant
"Bull Runs" by Kevin J. Anderson
"Shimmer" by Keith Strunk
"Hold My Beer" by Jeff Strand
"La Silla Del Diablo" by Sofía Lapuente & Jarrod Shusterman
"The Three-Headed Problem" by Rachel Aukes
"Inception" by Brian Lumley
"Laurel Caverns" by Lisa Diane Kastner
"The Taxidermist" by Lyndsey Croal
"Within You, In Time" by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury
"Sins Will Find You Out" by Cavan Scott
"Night's Disease" by Colleen Anderson
Brief description:
Bronson Pinchot, Audible's Narrator of the Year for 2010, has won Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Awards, AudioFile Earphones Awards, Audible's Book of the Year Award, and Audie Awards for several audiobooks, including Matterhorn, Wise Blood, Occupied City, and The Learners. A magna cum laude graduate of Yale, he is an Emmy- and People's Choice-nominated veteran of movies, television, and Broadway and West End shows. His performance of Malvolio in Twelfth Night was named the highlight of the entire two-year Kennedy Center Shakespeare Festival by the Washington Post. He attended the acting programs at Shakespeare & Company and Circle-in-the-Square, logged in well over 200 episodes of television, starred or costarred in a bouquet of films, plays, musicals, and Shakespeare on Broadway and in London, and developed a passion for Greek revival architecture.