Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients—until the day one of them starts...
Hav is like no place on earth. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the crusades and recaptured by Saladin, visited by Tolstoy, Hitler, Grace Kelly, and Princess Diana, this Mediterranean city-state is home to several architectural...
Ante Mortem — pre-death. That space between drawing the first breath, and the last… otherwise known as life.
Eleven stories for the eleventh hour. Snuggle in tight, have a glass of wine, light a candle. These stories have been given new...
Steve Martini has written a wonderfully crafted and clever courtroom thriller. We unquestionably have a new literary lion in the fictional crime genre.
—Vincent Bugliosi"In the tradition of great courtroom dramas, Steve Martini's Compelling...
“After the world died we all sort of drifted back to school. After all, where else was there for us to go?”
Lee Keegan’s fifteen. If most of the population of the world hadn’t just died choking on their own blood, he might be worrying...
One third of the angels rebelled and a bitter war followed. Some of the defeated rebels fled to Earth, becoming the bene elohim. There they raised mortal kingdoms. Avenging shining ones followed, and for a thousand years war raged. In the end,...
What happened to Benny Imura and his friends after they reached Sanctuary — and discovered that it was far from the miracle they had thought it would be? Jonathan Maberry shares a glimpse into a formative moment in an exclusive e-short story that...
How did Riot escape from the Night Church? How did she survive the Rot & Ruin — and the horrors of her own past? There’s only one way to find out….
Jonathan Maberry explores the origins of a fascinating new character in an exclusive...
Six people are gathered for a therapy group deep in the countryside. Six people who share a unique and terrible trauma: each one is the last survivor of an apocalypse.
Each of them was rescued from a parallel universe where humanity was...
In his debut collection How They Were Found, Matt Bell draws from a wide range of genres to create stories that are both formally innovative and imaginatively rich. In one, a 19th-century minister follows ghostly instructions to build a...