Weird House

A collection of twenty-six shocking, awe-inducing short stories! A doctor tells a patient they can speak only one thousand words before their life ends. Someone’s boyfriend turns into a can of mackerel. A woman is in her sixth year of pregnancy. This mysterious world is full of laughter and...

A mythmaker of the highest order, China Miéville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Miéville’s Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole...

A magnificent city existing on the ringes of the past, and on the brink of destruction, Viriconium Available to American readers for the first time, this landmark collection gathers four groundbreaking fantasy classics from the acclaimed author of Light. Set in the imagined city of Viriconium...

Outlaws chase silver. Cults summon gods. The desert takes the rest... Imagine taking Sergio Leone, Bone Tomahawk, Blood Meridian, DUNE, Mad Max, and Hellraiser, throwing them in a blender, and seasoning the dish with Seth Hobbs' signature worldbuilding. You might get a glimpse of the dark epic that awaits you. Haggins "Hard Bargain" Daggerbie is a notorious train robber with a pitch-black past. To cross a merciless wasteland and reach the Far West Coast, he and his gang of hardened criminals must embed themselves as scouts within a massive army expedition led by the ruthless Colonel Pathus....

China Miéville doesn’t follow trends, he sets them. Relentlessly pushing his own boundaries as a writer—and in the process expanding the boundaries of the entire field—with Embassytown, Miéville has crafted an extraordinary novel that is not only a moving personal drama but a gripping...

So consider this your permission slip to leave Boston for the day and go looking for the strange stuff. Pack comfortable shoes, bring a jacket even if the weather report is smugly optimistic, assume parking will be weird, and never trust a historic town that looks too pretty. In New England, the cuter the street, the higher the chance someone nearby is selling ghost-tour tickets. The road out of Boston does not lead away from history. It leads deeper into it — past witches, writers, mill workers, murder legends, sea captains, philosophers, soldiers, inventors, rich people with ...

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—year. The London that comes to life in Kraken is a weird metropolis awash in secret currents of myth and magic, where criminals, police...

In the deepest, darkest depths of space, the stars are cold, malevolent eyes looking across a vast graveyard of the unknown, the unnameable, and the undead. Here the planets are tombs and the moons haunted catacombs. And here are extraterrestrial nightmares beyond imagining. There is no benevolent first contact. No utopian worlds. Only alien horrors.

Following Perdido Street Station and The Scar, acclaimed author China Miéville returns with his hugely anticipated Del Rey hardcover debut. With a fresh and fantastical band of characters, he carries us back to the decadent squalor of New Crobuzon—this time, decades later. It is a time of...

On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt: the giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one’s death and the other’s glory. But no matter how spectacular it is, Sham can't...

A thriller of war that never was—of survival in an impossible city—of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Miéville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new...

If you think Chicago is weird, just wait until you leave the city. Weird Day Trips from Chicago is a funny and fascinating travel guide to the strangest places you can reach from the Windy City in a day or a long weekend. From the Home Alone house in Winnetka to the Bahá’í Temple in Wilmette, from the Leaning Tower of Niles to Route 66 giants, haunted streets, prison walls, movie cars, giant mailboxes, and dunes hiding futuristic World’s Fair homes, this book takes you far beyond the usual “nice little getaway.” Inside, you’ll discover weird roadside attractions, haunted towns, ...

The Erstwhile brings readers back to the singular world and mind of B. Catling, continuing the groundbreaking storytelling of his hit The Vorrh. In London and Germany, strange beings are reanimating themselves. They are the Erstwhile, the angels that failed to protect the Tree of Knowledge, and...

Poisoned. Shot. Attacked. Left for dead. And still moving. On a freezing night in 1916, a group of Russian aristocrats attempt to eliminate the one man they believe is destroying their empire: Grigori Rasputin — the mystic who bewitched the royal family and terrified the nobility. But killing him turns out to be far more complicated than anyone expected. Told with sharp wit and cinematic tension, this 5,000-word short story drops you straight into the chaos of Rasputin’s final night. No long biography. No slow buildup. Just the unbelievable events as they unfolded moment by moment, ...

“Steve Hudgins is a Horror Meister to reckon with!” VICTOR MILLER – Writer of Friday the 13th If you like quick reads, this is the author for you! Steve Hudgins uses a screenplay/novel hybrid writing style that keeps the descriptive portions of the story brief, allowing the narrative to push forward at an extremely fast pace. IT LIVES IN THE ATTIC A true jigsaw puzzle of horror that comes together before your eyes! On the isolated outskirts of a quaint, charming town, there is a long, lonely gravel driveway. At the end of the driveway stands an ancient, mansard roofed Victorian...

A groundbreaking collection of stories, including four never-before-published tales, from the award-winning author of Perdido Street Station What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old paradigms with fiercely imaginative works of startling...

A genius with a brush. A menace with a blade. A single night that shattered everything. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was already infamous in Rome for his temper, his brilliance, and the trail of chaos he left behind. Patrons loved him. Rivals feared him. Friends never fully trusted him. He was the sort of man who could paint a saint with breathtaking tenderness in the morning and find himself in a tavern fight before sunset. But one night, deep in one of Rome’s narrow alleys, Caravaggio crossed a line even he could not outrun. This taut, immersive 5,000-word short read drops you into...

POCKET UNIVERSE ADVENTURES: THE GALLEY In 1802, Tommy Bracken cooks below deck on the Persephone, where heat, salt, and routine are the only things keeping men human. Then the crew stops asking for seconds. A wreck drifts alongside. And Tommy realizes something out there isn’t just hungry. It’s watching. He survives the voyage, but the world doesn’t go back to normal. On shore, Tommy and Wallace build a place with a simple promise: a room where people eat like they matter. The Galley becomes a refuge, then a rumor, then a magnet—drawing in the bruised and brilliant, the cautious and...

E. Nesbit is best known for her children's books such as The Railway Children, the Psammead series, and the stories of the Bastable family. She was also a poet and wrote many works for adults, including short stories in the genre of the supernatural and the macabre, eight of which are included in this collection.

Bear witness to the ghosts and dark gods of Motor City, revealed by the light of a fiery cityscape. It’s the night before Halloween and Detroit is burning in a celebration of arson and vandalism.