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Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II

Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.

The bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns with a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. From monsters to mutilation, Never Whistle at Night is back for revenge.

Featuring stories by:

Jessica Doe • P.C. Verrone • Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. • Jim Terry • Jessica Johns • A.J. Eversole • Sonia Marie Barry • Shane Hawk • Stephen Graham Jones • Alicia Elliott • Mat RudeWalker • Shaawan Francis Keahna • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Jake Arrowtop • Alina Pete • Debra Magpie Earling • Joshua Whitehead • Tommy Orange • Ramona...

A Dark Matter by Peter Straub, Tananarive Due

A Dark Matter

Peter Straub, Tananarive Due

The incomparable master of horror and suspense returns with a powerful, brilliantly terrifying novel that redefines the genre in original and unexpected ways.

The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely...

Maisy Bell Is Missing by Kirsty Manning

Maisy Bell Is Missing

Kirsty Manning

Intrepid reporter Charlotte "Charlie" James investigates the mysterious disappearance of a well-connected American tourist, unaware of the trouble that awaits her ...

At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Ritz Hotel in pre-War Paris, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day-trip. But when Maisy doesn’t return to the Ritz the following day, alarm bells ring and...

Mothersucker by Kim Bohyun, Archana Madhavan

Mothersucker

Kim Bohyun, Archana Madhavan

A chilling international debut following a vampire who targets men who have harmed women—in the present, past, and future—and the woman-led task force entrusted with solving the murders

"A haunting portrait of grief and pain and the lengths a mother will go to to protect her child." —Monika Kim, author of Molka and The Eyes Are the Best Part

When a man’s body is discovered in a park outside of Seoul, Detective Noh...

Don't Say Palestine by Assal Rad

Don't Say Palestine

Assal Rad

A searing indictment of Western media that lays bare how the "free press," long tasked with speaking truth to power, instead became a vital part of the machinery that enabled the genocide in Palestine

If you’re not writing the truth about crimes against humanity, you’re culpable in them.

Activist and Middle East historian Assal Rad is known as the “headline fixer” for her powerful posts that illustrate how mainstream Western media’s coverage...

The Best Short Stories 2026 by Tommy Orange, Jenny Minton Quigley

The Best Short Stories 2026

Tommy Orange, Jenny Minton Quigley

The prestigious annual anthology features prize-winning stories by an international array of talented writers, including Weike Wang, Colm Tóibín, Louise Erdrich, Samanta Schweblin, Jenny Xie, Kevin Wilson, Brandon Taylor, and Catherine Lacey.

Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's edition contains twenty prizewinning stories chosen from the thousands published in magazines over the previous year. Guest editor Tommy Orange has brought his own refreshing perspective to the prize,...

You Don't Need a Smartphone by August Lamm

You Don't Need a Smartphone

August Lamm

In this revelatory manifesto, anti-tech activist August Lamm gives you the courage and confidence to ditch your smartphone once and for all.

“The essential guide to putting down your phone — and coming back to real life.”

—Catherine Price, #1 NYT bestselling author of How to Break Up With Your Phone

When I owned a smartphone, my life was bad. I knew this. What I did not know was that I had a...

Crooked Cross by Sally Carson

Crooked Cross

Sally Carson

A thrilling, long-lost British novel—never before published in the U.S.—that warned of Hitler's rise through the story of an ordinary German family during six fateful months in 1933; it has been hailed as "a surprise breakout success" and "a word-of-mouth jaw-dropper" in the UK.

The Klugers are a tight-knit family living in a picturesque mountain village in Bavaria. As 1932 draws to a close, Herr Kluger is dismayed by the growing...

Class Act by John Berendt

Class Act

John Berendt

From the bestselling, iconic author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes an irreverent and essential style guide—from boxers to button downs, turtlenecks to tuxedos

For more than a decade, beloved author John Berendt wrote a series of smart, sophisticated columns for Esquire on matters of manners and men's clothing. Class Act brings together over fifty of these updated and revised pieces, as well as two new additions,...

Jane Austen's The Watsons by Claudia Gray, Jane Austen

Jane Austen's The Watsons

Claudia Gray, Jane Austen

From New York Times bestselling author and creator of the beloved Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney mystery series comes a continuation of Jane Austen’s famous unfinished novel

The unsung heroine of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons is a privileged girl living with her wealthy aunt and uncle absent any meaningful contact with her birth family. Then her life abruptly gets turned upside down: Her uncle dies, and her aunt remarries...

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