The Drowning Girl

In a brilliant, wide-ranging anthology, Strahan presents stories by authors as diverse as Karen Joy Fowler, Elizabeth Bear, and Paul Di Filippo. Ellen Klages contributes “Lotion,“ a story about imaginary numbers and the strange powers of math, in which a young girl discovers the magical potential of pure math. Ellen Kushner’s “Dolce Domum” is, perhaps, not about what its characters think it is. Bear’s “Swell” is a fairy tale about a musician seeking her voice, in which a mermaid’s gift is not as wonderful as at first glance it seems. Molly Gloss’ “The Visited Man” presents a lonely pensioner who lives upstairs from le douanier Rousseau and the relationship that develops after the painter brings the retiree a stray cat. As for the previous Eclipse anthologies, Strahan has picked stories whose authors care about both the craft of storytelling and the stories they tell. Each piece is distinctive and haunting.

"An extraordinary achievement" (Clive Barker) from the author of the acclaimed novel Threshold-this is the fiction debut that won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.

A collection of stories

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. Caitlín R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy in the pages of her award-winning second novel, Threshold (2001), then went on to write several more short stories and a novella about this unlikely heroine, each a piece of what has become an epic dark fantasy narrative. Alabaster finally collects all these tales into one volume, illustrated by Ted Naifeh (Gloomcookie, How Loathsome, Courtney Crumrin, Polly and the Pirates, etc.).

In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hottest paranormal authors delight, thrill and captivate readers with otherworldly tales of magic and mischief. In Jim Butcher's ' Curses' Harry Dresden investigates how to lift a curse laid by the Fair Folk on the Chicago Cubs. In Patricia Briggs' 'Fairy Gifts,' a vampire is called home by magic to save the Fae who freed him from a dark curse. In Melissa Marr's 'Guns for the Dead,' the newly dead Frankie Lee seeks a job in the afterlife on the wrong side of the law. In Holly Black's 'Noble Rot,' a dying rock star discovers that the young woman who brings him food every day has some strange appetites of her own.

Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection is sure to have readers coming back for more.

Приготовьтесь окунуться в завораживающий мир мастера современного ужаса – Говарда Лавкрафта! Ктулху, Шоггот, Йог-Сотот и прочие возвращаются во всей своей ужасающей красе. Монстры, созданные воображением великого Лавкрафта более полувека назад, оживают в историях современных писателей – Нила Геймана, Кейтлин Кирнан, Говарда Уолдропа и других. Все рассказы сопровождаются оригинальными иллюстрациями художника Джона Коулхарта.

Легионы поклонников Лавкрафта продолжают посещать причудливые пейзажи его мира и встречать неумолимых монстров. Присоединяйтесь к ним в этом путешествии… если, конечно, осмелитесь.

Впервые на русском языке!

This outstanding anthology of original stories — from both established award-winning authors and exciting new voices — collects tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft from authors who do not merely imitate, but reimagine, re-energize, and renew the best of his concepts in ways relevant to today’s readers, to create fresh new fiction that explores our modern fears and nightmares. From the depths of R’lyeh to the heights of the Mountains of Madness, some of today’s best weird fiction writers traverse terrain created by Lovecraft and create new eldritch geographies to explore . . .

DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.

This new volume of the world's most acclaimed Year's Best Horror series includes a masterful selection of the finest supernatural short stories and terrifying novellas from many of the biggest names and most exciting newcomers currently working in the genre. This is the very best of new short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre. Contributors include such names as Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman and Glen Hirshberg. This is required reading for any fan of ghoulish fiction.

Winner of the 2009 British Fantasy Award.

If the melt-down, flood, plague, the third World War, new Ice Age, Rapture, alien invasion, clamp-down, meteor, or something else entirely hit today, what would tomorrow look like? Some of the biggest names in YA and adult literature answer that very question in this short story anthology, each story exploring the lives of teen protagonists raised in catastrophe's wake—whether set in the days after the change, or decades far in the future.

New York Times

Arthur Conan Doyle’s is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzzle, and punish every crime.

For nearly as long, the macabre tales of have haunted readers with their nightmarish glimpses into realms of cosmic chaos and undying evil. But what would happen if Conan Doyle’s peerless detective and his allies were to find themselves faced with mysteries whose solutions lay not only beyond the grasp of logic, but of sanity itself.

In this collection of all-new, all-original tales, twenty of today’s most cutting edge writers provide their answers to that burning question.

Победитель премии Брема Стокера за лучший сборник!

Мрачные и захватывающие, эти двадцать рассказов о привидениях заставят вас дрожать от ужаса! Все истории о призраках написаны в традиционном стиле, но при этом каждый рассказ является уникальным переложением страшных городских легенд со всего мира.

Лауреат множественных премий Эллен Датлоу и номинант нескольких премий, автор и редактор Ник Маматас соединили в одну блестящую композицию работы Джеффри Форда, Рэмси Кэмпбелла, Джо Лэнсдейла, Кейтлин Кирнан, Кэтрин Валенте, Кит Рид, Екатерины Седиа и тринадцати других отличных писателей. Вместе они создали непревзойденную по глубине книгу, которая заставит читателей на всю ночь оставить включенным свет…

Джон Стивенс, известный составитель хоррор-антологий, предлагает вашему вниманию великолепную коллекцию жутких историй. Необъяснимое, странное, леденящее кровь и пугающее до дрожи – все виды ужаса собраны под одной обложкой. Бессонные ночи и мечущееся в панике воображение – вот что ожидает тебя, отважный читатель.

Плеяда классиков ужаса – Стивен Кинг, Деннис Этчисон, Юн Айвиде Линдквист, и многие другие выступают на этих страницах как авторы короткой прозы. Четырнадцать новелл – четырнадцать историй о том, чего стоит бояться.