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Una defensa del recuerdo, del deseo y de la escritura como única trinchera contra el paso del tiempo.¡Adelante, Cronófobos! es una novela fragmentaria, híbrida y confesional que orbita en torno a la obsesion con el tiempo, la perdida y la imposibilidad de fijar lo vivido. Narrada en forma de diario, carta, ensayo intimo o evocacion memorialistica, la obra reconstruye la vida emocional e intelectual de un joven escritor a traves de escenas de infancia, relaciones familiares, pasiones lectoras, duelos personales y fantasias metafisicas. El narrador, con una voz a la vez hiperlucida y vulnerable, traza un mapa de la cronofobia, del temor a que todo pase, se borre, se olvide, e intenta resistirla mediante el acto mismo de la escritura.Entre la muerte de un gato, las reliquias familiares y los ecos de un amor perdido, el protagonista dialoga con su hermana, Amanda (cientifica, escultora, figura mitologica privada), con su tio muerto (aspirante a escritor) y con los autores que lo acompañan (Leopardi, Salinger, Proust, Josep Pla), construyendo una enciclopedia personal de la perdida, donde conviven lo tragico, lo humoristico y lo radicalmente intimo. El texto es tambien un artefacto cultural sobre una generacion marcada por la nostalgia digital, el duelo anticipado, los vinculos liquidos y la herencia del fracaso.¡Adelante, Cronofobos! es una novela tan melancolica como brillante, donde la memoria se convierte en un territorio magico. Una defensa del recuerdo, del deseo y de la escritura como unica trinchera contra el paso del tiempo.

A dark and unsettling queer adult horror from the award-winning author of The City Beautiful. Perfect for fans of Eric LaRocca and Stephen Graham Jones.Ten years ago, the quiet mining town of Coalfield, Pennsylvania was thrust into the national spotlight when a boy at a local foster home was found brutally murdered. After the foster mother was arrested on suspicion of murder, the four remaining children were dragged in front of a court to explain what truly happened. There, Elliot Wolffjust eight years-oldtestified.What emerged were disturbing tales of child abuse, the sacrifice of animals and infants, and strange rituals performed in the woods and mines of the town. And the Dragon, always the Dragon, a specter who lurked in the shadows of the home.Now on the cusp of adulthood, Elliot is still struggling to move on from the trial. He still finds his thoughts circling Coalfield, thoughts that he pours into writing music or drowns out with various substances.Then, he is approached by Dean Corvin, a washed-up grindhouse director filming a documentary on the Satanic Ritual Abuse allegations at Coalfield. While sitting in front of a camera and rehashing his trauma is the last thing Elliot wants to do, Dean makes him an offer he cant refuse, an offer that might finally allow Eliot to escape his aunts stifling house and start over somewhere far away.But Elliot isnt the only survivor joining the documentary: the other survivors are there, too, and each one has different memories of what happened.The first few days of filming are strange, with bizarre dreams and memories resurfacing that he had long thought lost to time. As Elliot begins to reenact his final days at Coalfield Childrens Home, he begins to wonder if there may be a grain of truth to the lies he told on the stand. If something sinister and otherworldly really did happen to them.If the Dragon is still out there, and intends to keep the past buried.

A dark and explosive epic fantasy of betrayal, revolution and dark magic pacts, as the Little Mermaids granddaughter marches to war, perfect for fans of H. M. Long and Samantha Shannon.The fairy tale mermaid Arielle might have gotten her happily-ever-after, but her granddaughter Yemi is having a much harder time. Her father, the king of Ixia, was assassinated years ago, her mother is slowly dying of a poisoned wound, and she faces whispers and slights from her own people. Yemi has been raised as the shield of the kingdom and is soon to inherit the throne, but she cannot shake her fury at how Ixia has treated her family after all theyve sacrificed. Only her patient mother and steadfast personal bodyguard (and fiancee), Nova, help Yemi rein in that fury... most of the time.When the kingdoms discontented rumblings reach a fever pitch, a coup erupts and Yemis throne is usurped, stripping her of her family and forcing her into exile. Now, only one being has the power to help her: Ursla.

A veces amar es dar el paso que más cuesta.Esta antología reúne historias donde el amor se abre paso entre dudas, silencios y decisiones que ya no pueden aplazarse. En el marco de San Valentín, sus protagonistas descubren que hay sentimientos que no entienden de planes ni de certezas, solo de valentia.Cada relato propone un viaje distinto: amores que se construyen paso a paso, vinculos que renacen tras una distancia larga, encuentros fortuitos que dejan huella y verdades que, al fin, salen a la luz. Historias intimas, cercanas y emocionales, unidas por la promesa de que nunca es tarde para volver a creer.Porque el amor verdadero siempre acaba siendo escuchado.

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khawa man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.

James Sallis collection of five novellas.James Sallis is a superb writer - TimesJames SallisWorlds Edge presents five masterful novellasDayenu, Carriers, Settlers, Allotments, and Reconstructionexploring fractured societies, human resilience, and the fragile intersections of morality and survival. Salliss prose, as sharp as it is evocative, captures the nuances of his dystopian and near-future settings, resonating with themes of dislocation and identity. Widely regarded as a pivotal voice in contemporary US fiction, Salliss work aligns with literary giants such as Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, weaving the poetic bleakness of the former with the incisive character studies of the latter. These stories draw readers into a world both intimate and unyielding, where existential questions lurk beneath stark, elegant narratives.

When the war is over, we can live at Woodspring...Since the house was built in 1810, the Danes have always lived at Woodspring. Over the generations it has given them shelter, solace and joy.War brings change, and the next three generations of the family will lead very different lives, at home and abroad. Peace is shattered, pain is unavoidable, loves are found and lost, but Woodspring is constant, and will always draw them back....

This propulsive, gorgeously-written fantasy romance will pull you into a dazzling world of dancing and danger, fae and fairytales, and a love that endures against all odds.Musical and immersive, this stunning debut is perfect for fans of The Night Circus and The Moonlight Market.London, 1986. Trix, a young dancer in the British Classical Ballet Company, has been striving for years to make a name for herself in the competitive and unforgiving world of elite ballet. Aleksander Sander Sylvan is the companys mysterious, meteoric rising star, whose talents are like nothing anyone has seen before.An eleventh-hour illness among the cast of The Sleeping Beauty changes everything; Trix and Sander are thrown together in the lead roles, surprising everyone with their chemistry. Soon the pair become the companys star attraction, their sizzling on-stage partnership fuelling speculation about their private lives. Trix knows shes falling for Sander, but relationships have always been difficult for her, and as they grow closer, she cannot help but wonder about his past. Who is Sander really? Why wont he talk about his family, or where he comes from?On the opening night of Romeo & Juliet at the very height of their fame, Sander vanishes without trace. With only a cryptic note to go on, Trix begins to wonder if the magic of the ballets they danced together has invited something truly strange and wondrous into the mortal world.

Arwyn, our favorite artist and Sea Wicche, is trying unsuccessfully to deal with two new descriptors: murderer and mother.The gallery is open, and the sorcerer is gone. Arwyn and the whole Corey clan should be celebrating. Instead, theyre mourning a huge loss and now dealing with the Council of Wicches over a poisoning.Lessons have begun with Dad. All the things a little faeling should have already learned, Arwyn is now being taught. And just in time, as the queencryptically and rather terrifyinglytold Arwyn that she has plans for her.While trying to juggle all of that, and work on a huge order of glass octopuses, Arwyn is also drawn into another deadly police investigation. Send Arwyn your good thoughts because she really needs a nap. "A supernatural mystery with a well-developed protagonist...and a swoon-worthy love interest." Kirkus Reviews on Bewitched: The Sea Wicche Chronicles

In 2009, young Isla Blake disappeared from her sisters birthday party in Northumberland and she was never found.Fifteen years later, when an updated E-fit image of what Isla would look like now goes viral, everyone begins to suspect that the unassuming Ruby must be Isla Blake.Enveloped in a swarm of media attention and publicity, including that of Islas parents Keira and Finn, Ruby is thrust into the centre of a case she had never thought she would be a part of.As the case unfolds and Ruby begins to question her own identity, the same questions plague her over and over again. Is she Isla? If so, who took her? And what exactly happened to Isla all those years ago?

When Im Dead is nigh-on impossible to put downBookPageOne girl murdered. Another one missing. And a medical examiner desperate to uncover the truth.Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughters best friend. Yet just hours later, she makes the devastating discovery that her own daughter, Chloe, has vanished. A morbid trail of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth disturbing details about Chloe and her secret transgressions.Amidst the noise of navigating her newfound grief and reconciling the sins of her past, an undeniable fact rings true for Rowan: karma has finally come to collect.

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

What a Time to be Alive! So lettuce remember Liz Truss, relive the last days of the Tories, meet the guy they called No-Drama Starmer, and succumb to hyper-resistant superbug Nigel Farage. Travel stateside to meet our supranational Silicon Valley overlords, Donald Trump and his cavalcade of henchmen - then head for infinity and beyond with Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos. Experience testing times for misunderstood men in television, create wonder in every moment with Meghan, and relive the horror of the Gwyneth Paltrow ski massacre trial. Truly, these are times that make you want to put your hands over your eyes, even when your hands are already over your eyes. The only thing to do is read Marina Hyde and howl with laughter.This countrys foremost living satirist.VogueHydes columns are the solid-silver lining of Britains political shitstorm. Caitlin Moran

Witness macabre ceremonies, malicious creatures, and elder gods emerging in this companion anthology to Shadows Over Innsmouth and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 17 short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, and curated by award-winning anthologist Stephen Jones.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, A. G. Slatter, and many more. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.The final volume in the original trilogy that began with Shadows Over Innsmouth and Weird Shadows Over Innsmouth. Witness a macabre ceremony conducted by moonlight, kid detectives unearthing a sinister supernatural secret, and a skilled harpist lulling the old gods back to sleep beneath the seaalong with an Innsmouth poem by H. P. Lovecraft himself and a "posthumous collaboration" between the author and August Derleth.Featuring 17 short horror stories from some of todays top Lovecraftian writers, curated by World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones. This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Including stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Adrian Cole August Derleth John Glasby Brian Hodge Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Kim Newman Reggie Oliver Angela Slatter Michael Marshall Smith Simon Kurt Unsworth Conrad Williams

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.In this companion to the acclaimed anthology Shadows Over Innsmouth, World Fantasy Award-winning editor Stephen Jones assembles some of todays most talented horror authorsthe finest of the modern Lovecraftian acolytes.Return to Innsmouth with these 12 haunting horror stories and encounter a scientist who stumbles upon a secret cult, a thief whose heist goes horrifically awry, and a magician who usurps a prophecy only to bring about something much, much worseplus H. P. Lovecrafts previously discarded draft of The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Introduction and Contributor Notes, along with additional artwork exclusive to this printing.Featuring stories from: H. P. Lovecraft Ramsey Campbell Hugh B. Cave Basil Copper John Glasby Caitlin R. Kiernan Brian Lumley Richard A. Lupoff Paul McAuley Kim Newman Michael Marshall Smith Steve Rasnic Tem

Its late summer 1984, and Babs Dionnes hometown of Waterville, Maine is on the verge of collapse. A strike at the paper mill has dragged on for a year, pitting neighbour against neighbour, leaving everyone broke and exhausted. As head of the union local, Babs has presided over Little Canadas decline. Shes sworn off violence since killing a man when she was a teenager, and has stuck to this vow even as its become clear that only violence can save their community. When Babs best friend Rita returns home after five years away, she is shocked by the state of things. And as the strike comes to a head, Rita notices something else: the men may be broken, but the women are furious, ready to do whatever necessary to take back Little Canada. They just need Babs to be the fearless woman who emerged from the woods fifteen years ago, drenched in blood. They need Babs to face what she already knows: that the only way to fix things is to assume control. Completely. Mercilessly.

The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town.From the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, an intense, claustrophobic literary horror that is perfect for fans of Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Tremblay.Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isnt long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that its quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.The nightmarish second installment of a new trilogy of provocative, disruptive and brutally poetic queer horror set in a small New England town.From the Bram Stoker Award finalist and Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke, an intense, claustrophobic literary horror that is perfect for fans of Agustina Bazterrica, Mariana Enriquez and Paul Tremblay.Ten years after the devastating massacre that occurred on Christmas morning in 2003 and the community of Burnt Sparrow, NH struggles to move forward. Meanwhile, Rupert Cromwell and Gladys Esherwood find themselves trapped in End House and suffering unbearable monotony day in and day out. When a town courier named Pierce arrives at End House and introduces Rupert to a secret organization known as The Perdido Society, Rupert discovers a deeply intricate and intensely sinister web of secrets spreading through the town. It isnt long before more blood is spilled, shameful transgressions are revealed, and temptations are finally satisfied.Captivating and profoundly unnerving, this is the story of two lost souls who are sent on an odyssey into the depths of depravity only for them to discover that its quite easy to turn monstrous, to become the thing you once despised. Lyrical, nihilistic and brutally poetic, this is shocking, unflinching, must-read horror from an author at the top of his game.

They gather at Saints Climb, the only house on an island off the Somerset coast. Seven men with nowhere else to be at Christmas. Father and son George and Xavier Starvely; James, a taciturn archaeologist uneasy with the living; Victor, a French widower; Rick, the groundskeeper; and Chris and Nathan, the two men who want to make a documentary about this place and its extraordinary collection of medieval art. And the housekeeper Marianne, who seems to find peace in serving. Erected around the stone labyrinth built into the floor by monks, Saints Climb is a house heavy with loneliness.Xavier Starvely is a successful academic with a real life elsewhere. Yet he is wracked with guilt over the fragmentary memories of a childhood tragedy, and when his guests arrive on the island for Christmas, the deaths begin afresh.A labyrinth is different from a maze. There are no false turns or dead ends: there is only one winding path, which, followed faithfully, will always lead to the centre. What will each find at the centre of the labyrinth? And can it save them?

From the author of the Mirror Visitor quartet, a new, heart-stopping adventureEveryone has an Instinct. And everything is perfect.In a world ruled by "We" each person has a role, a direction, a mission assigned by their Instinct. No choice. No deviation. No freedom. But when some students disappear into silence, Claire, who has always felt out of place, and Goliath, determined to become a Saint before time runs out, find themselves questioning everything. As they follow forbidden trails, escape a murderous Archangel, and discover that "We" is not at all what it seems, all their certainties will be shattered.

Stories of the submerged lands of Ys and Lyonesse, the phantom islands of the Atlantic, the Kappa water spirits and Mayazakis inspirational Yakushima island, the Inuit of the Arctic islands and their tales of selkies and transformation, Mami Wata the black mermaid who accompanied the slave ships to the Outer Banks, the taniwha sea monsters of Aotearoa, flooded Valleys in Wales and the Seneca Nation, the flood monsters of Kiribati, life of Bardsey Island, how water and people are called Vai across the Pacific Islands, Tove Janssons Finnish island, Whaling tales from New England, the fairy people of the dry islands of the Cajun swamps, the tale of the Moriori people of Rehoku, tales from Hermit Islands and Floating Islands, and of course the mermaids of Haiti, the Philippines and the Arabic islands. The stories highlight issues of rising sea levels, water pollution, displaced people, isolation, mismanaged fishing and legal rights of water.