Weird House

Every haunted house has a story. Some have several, and none of them agree. Why do footsteps cross empty hallways? Who keeps knocking from inside sealed rooms? Why does the furniture move when nobody is watching—and why do so many ghosts seem determined to stay in houses with terrible plumbing? STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF HAUNTED HOUSES opens the doors to centuries of eerie legends, famous investigations, clever hoaxes, unexplained disturbances, and genuinely strange events. Travel from ancient haunted dwellings and gloomy English manors to American mansions, abandoned prisons,...

Canals, crooked houses, hidden churches, floating cats, tulip madness, and enough bicycles to make you question your life choices. Welcome to Weird Amsterdam. This is not your typical Amsterdam travel guide. It is a funny, story-driven journey through one of Europe's most fascinating cities, where medieval engineering, bizarre history, secret places, and wonderfully strange traditions hide around nearly every canal corner. Walk from Amsterdam Centraal Station into a city that somehow stands on millions of wooden piles driven into swampy ground. Discover why houses lean at impossible angles,...

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...

He died believing his own name would be forgotten within a generation. Today it sits on the same shelf as Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain. Howard Phillips Lovecraft spent forty-six years convinced he had accomplished nothing of lasting value. He died nearly penniless in a Providence hospital ward, known to a few thousand readers of pulp magazines nobody expected to outlive the decade. He had no idea that the god he invented in a cheap magazine story would one day be recognized by people who had never read a word he wrote, or that writers, filmmakers, and game designers would spend the next ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

“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 gothic...

Coffee has started revolutions, fueled wars, inspired smugglers, terrified rulers, powered armies, created fortunes, destroyed sleep schedules, and convinced otherwise reasonable people to spend fifteen minutes preparing one cup before sunrise. STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF COFFEE follows the world’s favorite caffeine delivery system from legendary dancing goats in Ethiopia to the coffeehouses of the Ottoman Empire, Europe’s suspicious first encounters with the “devil’s drink,” colonial plantations, cowboy campfires, wartime instant coffee, espresso machines, decaf ...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

One massive Algernon Blackwood collection — the Willows, the Wendigo, John Silence, the Centaur, and dozens more haunted woods, empty houses, and occult novels. Algernon Blackwood wrote the strangest kind of fear: not gore, but the feeling that the forest, the river, or the night itself has noticed you. This omnibus gathers his great weird tales, nature-horror, ghost stories, and mystical novels into one Virtual Voice–ready volume. Inside this complete collection: The Willows — two men camp on a Danube island where something in the trees keeps moving closer The Wendigo — a hunting ...

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...

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....

Enter a haunting world of cosmic terror, gothic mystery, and supernatural suspense in this classic collection featuring The Last Test, The Shunned House, and Landor’s Cottage by H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe...

Christmas dinner has always been a little strange. Before the turkey, cookies, and suspiciously indestructible fruitcake arrived, people celebrated winter by roasting boars, decorating peacocks, drinking enormous bowls of punch, and occasionally storing the holiday carp in the family bathtub. Nothing says Christmas spirit quite like discovering your dinner swimming beside the soap. STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE WEIRD HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS FOOD serves up the hilarious, surprising, and sometimes completely baffling stories behind the foods people eat during the most overfed season of the year. ...