Strange Days

My name’s Bill Ryder. Five years ago, I helped banish magic and monsters to the shadows. I thought it was over, that I was finished with all that supernatural crap. Turns out I was dead wrong.

Strange Days is a collection of 12 short stories, most of them originally written in the 2000s. Some of them are horror, some just scary, others are sad, surreal, and maybe even a bit sarcastic at times, but if they all have something in common, it's that every single one of them is strange: The black tree: a bizarre children's game beneath a mysterious tree triggers a series of disturbing events. - "The tree would provide." The rotting infant: an earthquake in a small town unearths something that wasn't meant for this world. - "I did my best to be gentle with the child, and even if I ...

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Bloomsbury presents 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak, read by Alix Dunmore. Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from...

Witty, offbeat, and lavishly illustrated in black-and-red, in this irresistible and markedly singular diary, Emily the Strange grapples with a wicked case of amnesia while on a mysterious mission with her black cat posse. A collectable and gifty paper-over-board treat perfect for fans of...

When was two-year-old Caylee Anthony murdered? Why is it not an accidental death, by drowning or otherwise? Why was she murdered? How was she murdered? Treachery deals with each of the unprecedented 31 days between June 16th 2008 and July 16th 2008, when Casey Anthony kept up the appearance that her two-year-old daughter Caylee was still alive, but was she?

Are you ready to step into the wonderfully strange and enchanting world of Japan? This book is your ultimate guide to uncovering the hidden, bizarre, and fascinating facts about Japan’s rich culture, quirky history, and unique everyday life. From the bustling streets of Tokyo to the serene temples of Kyoto, 100 Weird Fun Facts About Japan will take you on an unforgettable journey through a country where the unusual is celebrated, and the beautiful is often unexpected! Packed with fun facts, eye-opening insights, and delightful surprises, this book explores the weird, wonderful, and ...

My name’s Bill Ryder and I’m having a hell of a week. Magic is back, my new roommate is a blob of yellow snot, and my friend Sally has been entombed alive in solid rock. Oh, and I’m dead again, or undead anyway. Life’s not quite finished taking a dump on me yet, though, because now something is hunting vampires in New York City. A smarmy-ass wizard has been called in to investigate – one who’s got a closet full of skeletons and eyes for my girlfriend.

A Short, Strange Story for Every Day of the Year is a quiet collection of 365 brief, uncanny stories—one for each day—meant to be read slowly, not devoured. Each entry is based on something real, plausible, or historically documented: a forgotten incident, a peculiar human habit, a bureaucratic oddity, an unexplained coincidence, or a moment that never quite fit into the official record. These are not horror stories, and they are not trivia. Nothing jumps out. Nothing explains itself too loudly. Instead, each day offers a small, contained story—calm, observational, and slightly ...

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My name’s Bill Ryder and, despite being a legendary predator of the night, I’m not having the best of days. My girlfriend is trapped in another dimension, my apartment’s being staked out by werewolves, and to top it all off I’m flat broke. Too bad there’s no rest for the wicked. Monstrous beasts of biblical proportions have been unleashed upon the world, leaving me with a mighty big question. How the hell is one poor-ass vampire supposed to stop something the size of a battleship?

Weird Day Trips from Savannah Savannah is famous for mossy squares, ghost tours, pretty balconies, old cemeteries, and streets that look like they have been hiding secrets since before air-conditioning. But the real weirdness does not stop downtown. In Weird Day Trips from Savannah, the road leads beyond the historic district into barrier islands, brick forts, haunted cemeteries, shrimp towns, marsh trails, alligator country, lighthouse legends, Gullah Geechee heritage, beach oddities, and Lowcountry stories too strange to leave out. Visit Bonaventure Cemetery, Tybee Island, Fort Pulaski, ...

Sceptics dismiss all such encounters—but what if they are wrong? What unconventional causes could be behind such astounding experiences, and what are the huge implications? Will new AI-enhanced revelations turn humanity’s entire understanding of reality upside down? Strange demonstrates that it is time to take a new and important look at anomalous phenomena.

Atlanta is surrounded by normal-looking roads that lead to very abnormal places. In Weird Day Trips from Atlanta, you’ll leave the traffic behind and explore Georgia’s strangest nearby adventures: a trail filled with doll heads, a lake people swear is cursed, a hospital where Cabbage Patch Kids are “born,” a fake Bavarian mountain town, a Bigfoot museum, gold-rush ghost stories, zombie filming towns, vampire filming towns, accidental canyons, vanished monuments, historic cemeteries, quirky small towns, movie locations, mountain getaways, and roadside oddities that sound completely ...

Denver may look like a normal mountain city, but the day trips around it get weird fast. This funny travel guide explores Colorado’s strangest short adventures from Denver, including haunted hotels, dinosaur tracks, cliff divers, frozen dead man legends, alien watchtowers, handmade castles, giant red rocks, ghost towns, odd museums, mountain towns, and a few roadside surprises that sound completely made up. Inside, you’ll find strange stories, quirky stops, useful trip ideas, and enough “wait, that’s real?” moments to make your next Colorado getaway feel less like a normal ...

Outwardly paranormal experiences are happening almost every day around the globe to very sensible ordinary people in startling numbers. These constitute crucial evidence of a remarkable and unexplained world that is too often denied by the hard scientism of mainstream thinking. This book...

Washington, D.C. may be famous for monuments, museums, marble buildings, and very serious-looking statues, but the real weirdness starts when you leave the city. Weird Day Trips from Washington, D.C. is a funny, story-packed travel guide to the strange, haunted, historic, and downright bizarre places hiding within a few hours of the nation’s capital. This is not another polite guidebook about where to stand for the perfect monument photo. This is for travelers who want ghost stories, cryptid legends, battlefield hauntings, mysterious graves, underground music, fossil shark teeth, strange ...