The guerilla war against the Second Alliance and its plans for a European apartheid intensifies in this second volume of John Shirley's A Song Called Youth. "Almost anyone could be a fascist under the right circumstances. If they get scared enough....
John Shirley's phenomenal first collection of short stories, Heatseeker's stories were originally published from 1975 through 1988 in a wide range of publications including Oui, The Mississippi Review, and OMNI. Chosen by the Locus Reader's Poll as o...
IT COULDN’T HAPPENED AGAIN Not in your lifetime, you say. Not in this, the first quarter of the 21st century. If that’s what you think, you’d better take another look around. Media manipulation has become mind control … and mind control, a...
NEVER MESS WITH THE CITY Club owner Stu Cole and rocker Catz Wailen are struggling to keep Stu’s club afloat in the face of a Mob harassment. Then they are visited by a strange manifestation … a brutal avatar of the city of San Francisco, crysta...
A near-future where technology and ancient spiritual secrets merge into something very strange... something as strange as a silicon embrace. America has suffered ecological breakdown and the Second Civil War. But the balkanization of the U.S. -- alon...
Some nightmares are strangely sweet, unnaturally appealing. Some dark places gleam like onyx, like the sixteen stories in John Shirley's Black Butterflies, stories never before collected, including the award-nominated 'What Would You Do for Love?' Th...
"...And the Angel with Television Eyes" explores the region where fantasy meets reality. This surreal journey of self-discovery and transformation at once questions the nature of our world, and redefines it in the context of 21st century pop culture ...
When Slim Purdoux finds out his son has died from contaminated drugs, his main focus becomes hunting down the dealer who sold the illegal substance, and in the meantime is falsely accused of starting a shooting spree at work....
Hidden from mortal eyes are the angels and demons that coexist with mankind ... supernatural beings who seek to influence our lives for better and for worse. Amoral and irreverent renegade occultist and paranormal detective John Constantine is blesse...
John Shirley takes us on a journey from the mildly bizarre to the downright weird and then some in this, his latest collection of short fiction. The book incorporates some of Shirley's classic stories along with some revised and hard to find material...
Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.
They are dropped onto a dreamli...
Erupting on the screen in a blaze of blood and guts in 1987, the film Predator quickly became a favorite, spawning a host of sequels, games, and novels. In Predator: Forever Midnight, John Shirley casts his malevolent eye upon the canon. The year i...
Who better than Batman to protect the dangerous city of Gotham, where even the cops are crooks? But the latest imminent terror might be too much for the burgeoning Caped Crusader, who is still carving out a place for himself in the minds of Gotham's ...
Tonsell-by-the-Stream, a sleepy little village outside of London, is suddenly swallowed down into the earth through the hellish machinations of an ancient, ominous force. At the behest of an extraordinary supernatural agent -- and in exchange for the...
Do you ever think that the human world is hopelessly out of balance, blighted, off track, and the only hope is some kind of apocalypse, some sort of end of the world that would allow the human race a new beginning, a fresh start without...ah...certai...
Taking the fall for his younger brother, Richard Candle went from being cyber cop to condemned criminal. After four years of UnMinding-, his mind suppressed, his body enslaved-he's released to discover his brother has slipped back into the underworld...
CLASSIFIED: APPARENT SUPERNATURAL Subject: Gabriel Bleak. Status: Civilian. Paranormal skills: Powerful. Able to manipulate AS energies and communicate with UBEs (e.g. "ghosts" and other entities). Psychological profile: Extremely independent, pot...
Comet Press presents Sick Things: An Anthology of Extreme Creature Horror, a follow-up to the infamous Vile Things: Extreme Deviations of Horror. Sick Things is the ultimate collection of extreme creature horror with 17 deviant and gore-soaked storie...
Your favorite award-winning, critically acclaimed, and best-selling authors unite to tell stories set in the Dungeons & Dragons world, filled with desperate dragons and cruel elves, honorable demons and fickle gods, wild magic and the sharpest of st...
In this collection of darkly funny, disquieting stories, John Shirley brings his substantial talent to bear on human morality through the absurd, violent blunderings of his characters. In Extremis features more than twenty of Shirley’s most intense...
WHAT KIND OF MAN MAKES A LIVING IN HELL? His name's Roland. Soldier class, a former mercenary, he's on a full-time mission to scrape a living out of the most dangerous planet in the galaxy. Is he qualified? He's well armed, he's ruthless, and h...
The guerilla war against the Second Alliance and its plans for a European apartheid intensifies in this second volume of John Shirley’s A Song Called Youth trilogy. From its beginning, thwarting the Second Alliance has been the first priority of th...
Resident Evil: Retribution in will be released in 3D on September 14, 2012. It is the fifth installment in the massively successful Resident Evil film series, based on the hugely popular Capcom survival horror video game series Re...
Everyone already knows that. But the General of an army of Psycho Soldiers takes on this planetary hell headfirst, planning to enslave all of the Borderlands. And that General . . . is a Goddess. The General Goddess, Gynella, is a cunning maniac who ...
Mixing outlaw humor, SF adventure, and cutting social criticism, Shirley draws upon his entire arsenal of narrative and commentary. The title essay, “New Taboos” is his prescription for a radical revisioning of America. A new novella, A State of ...
One of the darkest, edgiest, boldest writers around, John Shirley lays down an adrenalized yet artful prose that fairly skids across the page, dragging the reader along into shadowed corners of terror and desire. Yet while it's thrilling, there's psy...
From award-winning author John Shirley comes an inventive whodunit featuring the master of mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. When Nicholas Fogg, an unsuccessful private investigator, dies on the job, he learns that the afterlife is not what he ex...
There once was a man who lived a life so strange, it had to be true. Only he could see what no one else can: the darkness inside, the real monster within. And he's the one who must stop them. This is his calling. This is his duty. This is the life...
Desire can take any form, can become any fantasy… but it must be fed with life. When a strange woman appears in a small coastal California town, death follows. Only Corey -- in love with the beautiful, intelligent, quiet Angela who seems unable to ...
The second volume in a thrilling new Lovecraftian horror anthology series featuring spine-tingling tales from Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Shirley, and moreEditor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V...
Further explore the world of Watch Dogs with a new story, an entirely digital novel project created inside Ubisoft in collaboration with John Shirley, prolific author and pioneer of the cyberpunk movement John Shirley naturally transcribed...
Author John Shirley turns his pen to the Wild West and the legendary Wyatt Earp! WYATT IN WICHITA fuses historical fact with fiction, following the adventures of the young Wyatt Earp. Following the tragic loss of his first wife in the Missouri of ...
The world is at war against things that slink and gibber in the darkness, and titans that stride from world to world, sewing madness and death. War has existed in one form or another since the dawn of human civilization, and before then, Elder terror...
Centuries before the Human-Covenant War would rage across the galaxy, a similar conflict erupted between the Prophets and the Elites -- two alien races at odds over the sacred artifacts left by the powerful Forerunners, who disappeared eons ago. Alth...
This collection of gritty and intense short stories compares the horrors of the real world to those of the supernatural. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award, and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year....
Saturday night in sleepy ultraconservative Salton, Oregon has turned terrifying. For thirteen weeks a killer has struck and a young woman has been viciously murdered. With all-American gumption and a lack of concern of legal niceties, the town has ta...
Acclaimed novelist John Shirley has written novels and tales that span the spectrum of imaginative literature, from science fiction to psychological terror to supernatural horror. One of the writers that inspired him to become a writer was H. P. Love...
In this exciting new Ralph Compton western, a man without a memory meets an unforgettable ally: the one and only Bat Masterson. Riding into the town of Smoky River on a mangy mule, Dane looks as broken down as his old mount. His Stetson is ragged,...
In this roller-coaster new installment in bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a young cowhand faces a trial by fire on his way to a new home and an old love. Fresh from a successful trail drive, cattle hand Seth Coe is fe...
For decades, John Shirley has been a leading author of weird fiction, with an impressively wide range. His work stretches from science fiction to supernatural horror to psychological terror and everything in between. Here, in two new and unpublished ...
Zero is a young film maker who believes his whole life and career are mapped out before him. That is, until the night he and his friends walk into a rock club ... and are caught in a dazzling trap that spans worlds.They are dropped onto a dreamlike p...
The first book in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed co-author of the Sundown Riders western series. GOLD FEVER. BLOOD FEVER. From the battlefield of Shiloh to the prisoner camp at Slocum, former Union soldie...
A routine rescue mission leaves a team of US soldiers, rescued hostages and a prisoner trapped above Earth in a suborbital craft, in this cinematic action-packed near-future thriller, perfect for fans of Tom Clancy and Jack Carr"This is the kind of b...
The latest in a thrilling new western series from John Shirley, the acclaimed author of Prairie Fire, Kansas. FOLLOW THE LEADER -- OR MEET YOUR MAKER They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. But it’s hard to know what�...
Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility...
Unleash Your Inner Rebel with Forbidden Futures #11: Your Gateway to the World of Punk Literature! Dive headfirst into a realm of literary rebellion with Forbidden Futures #11: the ultimate key to unlocking the captivating kaleidoscope of punk subgen...
Civil War veteran Cleve Trewe locks horns with a ruthless cattleman who’s hungry for land, thirsty for power -- and out for blood . . . BLOOD IN SWEET RIVER After a long, hard journey west, Cleve Trewe is ready to settle down. He’s got his beauti...
The moment I saw the letter I felt an ominous sensation. It was addressed to me: Vladmir Horescu. There was nothing really outwardly extraordinary about the letter’s envelope. It was of linen paper, hard to find nowadays. Why did I hesitate to open...
No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; ...