Want to see something weird? Embrace the odd. Satisfy your curiosity. Surrender to wonder.
From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.
Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between the ordinary—and the imaginations of some of today's masters of dark and thrilling fiction.
A travel writer learns the terrible secrets at a hotel that's not at all as it seems.
A disfigured woman and her daughter explore methods of weaponizing beauty.
Drifters ride the rails seeking something wondrous that could change their fates forever.
A strange creature that holds our very existence in its hands shapes the lives of two lovers to touching and devastating effect.
A young man helps his grandfather—and something much more monstrous—atone for bargains made during wartime.
Featuring Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Brian Kirk, Hal Bodner, Stephanie M. Wytovich, John Langan, Erinn L. Kemper, John F.D. Taff, Patrick Freivald, Lucy A. Snyder, Brian Hodge, Kristi DeMeester, Christopher Coake, Sarah Read and Richard Thomas. Foreword by Josh Malerman. Illustrations by Luke Spooner. Cover art by John Coulthart. Brought to you by Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor Doug Murano and Crystal Lake Publishing. Tales from the Darkest Depths.
“Imagine that you walk into a used book store that you’ve never been in before. It’s packed to the ceilings with tall shelves groaning under the weight of piles of garish paperbacks and years of dust and fingerprints. You wander around until you find that hidden corner in every good used book shop, where the dark stuff hides, where the stories pull you in and you lose hours finding out what uncanny things are hidden in this place.
That is basically this book in a nutshell.