End of the Road
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Ray screamed afresh when the heat of the flames burst upwards to crisp the hair on his exposed ankles.
He thrust his head back and exposed his throat. “Now!”
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jay Caselberg is an Australian author based in Europe. His work has appeared in multiple venues and several languages worldwide and includes horror, science fiction, fantasy, literary and mixes of all of them, including poetry, but generally with a dark edge. His novel Empties, billed as a novel of brutal psychological horror, is due soon. More can be found at his website: www.jaycaselberg.com.
Zen Cho is a Malaysian writer based in London. Her short fiction has appeared most recently in Esquire Malaysia, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Prime Books anthology Bloody Fabulous. She is a 2013 finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
S. L. Grey is a collaboration between Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg. Based in Cape Town, Sarah is a novelist and screenwriter and die-hard zombie fanatic. She writes crime novels and thrillers under her own name, and as Lily Herne she and her daughter Savannah Lotz write the Deadlands series of zombie novels for young adults. Louis is a Johannesburg-based fiction writer and editor. He was a bookseller for several years, and has a Master’s degree in vampire fiction and a doctorate on the post-religious apocalyptic fiction of Douglas Coupland. S. L.’s first novel, The Mall, was published by Corvus in 2011. The Ward came out in 2012 and The New Girl, the last of their Downside novels, in October 2013. They have also published a handful of short stories.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is a Filipino writer who currently lives and writes in the Netherlands. A graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop, she was the recipient of the Octavia Butler Scholarship in 2009. Rochita’s fiction has been published and anthologized online and in print and she was the first Filipino writer to be shortlisted for the BSFA short fiction award. Aside from writing a regular column for Strange Horizons, she also writes essays, reviews, commentaries and criticism. She is working on her first novel. Follow her on twitter (@rcloenenruiz) or visit her website at rcloenenruiz.com.
Helen Marshall is an award-winning Canadian author, editor, and bibliophile. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Chiaroscuro, Abyss & Apex, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Tor.com and has been reprinted in several Year’s Best anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories Hair Side, Flesh Side (ChiZine Publications, 2012) was named one of the Top Ten books of 2012 by January Magazine. It has been short-listed for an Aurora Award and a British Fantasy Sydney J. Bounds Award, and has been long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Prize.
Sophia McDougall was supposed to be an Oxford English literature academic before running away in 2002 to write fiction. She is the author of the bestselling Romanitas trilogy (published by Orion/Gollancz and twice shortlisted for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History), set in a contemporary world where the Roman Empire never fell. Her first novelfor children, Mars Evacuees, will be published by Egmont and Harper Collins US in 2014. Her short stories have been published by Jurassic London and NewCon, as well as Solaris. She also creates digital art and mentors aspiring writers.
Paul Meloy is the author of Islington Crocodiles and Dogs With Their Eyes Shut. His work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. He is the recipient of the British Fantasy Award, for his short story “Black Static”. He lives in Torquay.
Anil Menon’s short fiction can be found in a variety of anthologies and spec-fic magazines including Albedo One, Apex’s Digest, Interzone, LCRW and Strange Horizons. His novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet (Zubaan, 2009) was short-listed for the 2010 Vodafone-Crossword award and Carl Baxter Society’s Parallax Prize. Along with Vandana Singh, he co-edited Breaking the Bow (Zubaan, 2012), an anthology of spec-fic stories inspired by the Ramayana. He can be reached at iam@anilmenon.com.
Adam Nevill was born in Birmingham, England, in 1969 and grew up in England and New Zealand. He is the author of the supernatural horror novels Banquet for the Damned, Apartment 16, The Ritual, Last Days, and House of Small Shadows. He lives in Birmingham and can be contacted through www.adamlgnevill.com
Philip Reeve is the author of numerous books for children and young adults, including the Mortal Engines quartet, Fever Crumb, Larklight, Here Lies Arthur, Goblins, and Oliver and the Seawigs (with illustrator Sarah McIntyre). He lives on Dartmoor with his wife and son.
Vandana Singh is an alien currently living in the Boston area, where she writes science fiction and teaches physics at a small state university. She was born and raised in New Delhi, India, and acquired an early appreciation for science and the arts, later coming to the US for a Ph.D. in theoretical particle physics. Her stories have been published in numerous venues, including Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and anthologies such as Solaris Rising 2 and The Other Half of the Sky. She is a winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and many of her stories have been reprinted in Year’s Best anthologies.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew spends her free time on words, amateur photography, and the pursuit of unusual makeup. She has a love for cities, airports, and bees. Her fiction can be found in GigaNotoSaurus, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld and various anthologies.
Lavie Tidhar is the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama, of The Bookman Histories trilogy and many other works. He won the British Fantasy Award for Best Novella for Gorel & The Pot-Bellied God and a BSFA Award for his non-fiction, and was nominated variously for a Campbell, Sturgeon and Sidewise awards. He grew up on a kibbutz in Israel and in South Africa, but currently resides in London. His latest novels are Martian Sands and The Violent Century and, forthcoming, his comics debut, Adler.
Ian Whates currently has two published novel series, the Noise books (space opera) from Solaris, and the City of 100 Rows trilogy (urban fantasy with steampunk overtones and SF underpinning) via Angry Robot. He has also seen some 50 of his short stories appear in a variety of venues, two of which have been shortlisted for BSFA awards. His work has received honourable mentions in Gardner Dozois’ Years Best anthologies and appeared in Tor books’ Futures from Nature, which gathers the best stories published in the science journal Nature. Growing Pains, his second collection, appeared via PS Publishing in March 2013. Ian served a term as Overseas Regional Director for SFWA (the Science Fiction Writers of America) and, in June 2013, stepped down as chairman of the BSFA (British Science Fiction Association) – a position he had held since 2008. When not writing, Ian works as an editor, having edited titles in the long running The Mammoth Book of... series for Constable and Robinson and the on-going Solaris Rising series for Solaris. In his spare time he runs multiple award-wining publisher NewCon Press, which he founded by accident in 2006.
Rio Youers is the British Fantasy Award–nominated author of End Times and Old Man Scratch.His short fiction has been published by, among others, St. Martin’s Griffin, HarperCollins, and Cemetery Dance. His latest novel, Westlake Soul, was recently nominated for Canada’s prestigious Sunburst Award, and has been optioned for movie by Hollywood producer, Stephen Susco. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Lily Maye.
They gather in darkness, sharing ancient and arcane knowledge as they manipulate the very matter of reality itself. Spells and conjuration; legerdemain and prestidigitation – these are the mistresses and masters of the esoteric arts.
From the otherworldly visions of Conan Doyle’s father in Audrey Niffenegger’s ‘The Wrong Fairy’ to the diabolical political machinations of Dan Abnett’s ‘Party Tricks’, here you will find a spell for every occasion.
Jonathan Oliver, critically acclaimed editor of The End of The Line and House of Fear, has brought together fourteen extraordinary writers for this collection of magical tales. Within you will find works by Audrey Niffenegger, Sarah Lotz, Will Hill, Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem, Liz Williams, Dan Abnett, Thana Niveau, Alison Littlewood, Christopher Fowler, Storm Constantine, Lou Morgan, Sophia
McDougall, Gail Z. Martin, Gemma Files and Robert Shearman.
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HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR IS...
The tread on the landing outside the door when you know you are the only one in the house. The wind whistling through the eves, carrying the voices of the dead. The figure glimpsed briefly through the cracked window of a derelict house.
Critically-acclaimed editor Jonathan Oliver brings horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by Lisa Tuttle, Stephen Volk, Terry Lamsley, Adam L. G. Nevill, Weston Ochse, Rebecca Levene, Garry Kilworth, Chaz Brenchley, Robert Shearman, Nina Allan, Christopher Fowler, Sarah Pinborough, Paul Meloy, Christopher Priest, Jonathan Green, Nicholas Royle, Eric Bown, Tim Lebbon and Joe R. Lansdale.
“Jonathan Oliver is the hottest new horror editor to come out of the UK since Stephen Jones, and I have high hopes for House of Fear.”
– Jonathan Strahan, Locus award-winning editor of Swords and Dark Magic
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THIS IS THE HOTEL WHERE OUR NIGHTMARES GO...
It’s where horrors come to be themselves, and the dead pause to rest between worlds. Recently widowed and unemployed, Richard Carter finds a new job, and a new life for him and his daughter Serena, as manager of the mysterious Deadfall Hotel. Jacob Ascher, the caretaker, is there to show Richard the ropes, and to tell him the many rules and traditions, but from the beginning, their new world haunts and transforms them.
It’s a terrible place. As the seasons pass, the supernatural and the sublime become a part of life, as routine as a morning cup of coffee, but it’s not safe, by any means. Deadfall Hotel is where Richard and Serena will rebuild the life that was taken from them... if it doesn’t kill them first.
‘Tem’s Deadfall Hotel makes The Shining’s Overlook Hotel look like Butlins. Eerie, disturbing and yet strangely touching, you’ll check in but may never check out.’
Christopher Fowler, bestselling author of the Bryant and May Mysteries and Hell Train
‘Rasnic Tem is at the height of his powers with this effort.’
Fearnet.com
‘Truly brilliant.’
Denver Post
‘Steve Rasnic Tem is a school of writing unto himself.’
Joe R. Lansdale
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