Clay Chapman

A startling, witty and downright terrifying collection of 25 short stories from the "21st century's Richard Matheson" (Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman.), including the Shirley Jackson award-nominated Stay on the Line. Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Rachel Harrison and Eric LaRocca. They're feeding on you too. A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns, from the claustrophobia of the COVID-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own. Packed full of humanity, humour and, above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror's finest authors.

A chilling supernatural revenge novella from the acclaimed author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Delilah S. Dawson. At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and that's it. No friends, no family. When he's done with work, he returns home-a remote, single room apartment located above a garage-and that is where his true work begins. Winston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opus-The Butterfly Girls-is a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywhere-scribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks. Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his 'art' he has been murdering forgotten women. Poor souls who slip through the cracks of society, who no one's looking for. Mothers, sisters, daughters to someone, but no more. Winston takes their lives, their voices. But now he can hear them. They whisper to him. They talk of revenge. Winston Kemper might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.

A gripping, genre-bending novel about a mysterious new drug plaguing a small town and one girl who must uncover the terrifying truth behind the haunting side effects?or she will be next.At sixteen Kyra is still haunted by the horrors she saw as little girl living with her mother?s drug addiction. Years later, Kyra doesn?t always feel like she belongs?and disturbing dreams come to her at night.When a new party drug makes its way to her high school, Kyra?s life becomes an actual nightmare. A challenge spreads among the students thanks to a few videos circulating?and Kyra is unable to escape the inexplicably strange side effects.Everyone around her seems to be mysteriously changing, including the people she loves the most. Her brother has a new personality overnight. Her best friend suddenly feels like a stranger. The only other person who seems to be noticing the eeriness around them is Logan, the new boy at school. Like Kyra, he has steered clear of the party scene.But as strange occurrences begin to turn sinister, Kyra can?t shake the feeling that something unnatural is at play . . . as if something deadly spreading is in their veins. With Logan?s help, she decides to find out exactly what is behind the mysterious drug?before they?re next. As they begin to get closer to the truth, the line between Kyra?s past and her present blurs . . . and she will need to face the terrors inside herself to save everyone.

A house is more than just a place to lay your head at night. Sometimes, the walls remember. Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost. Featuring stories by: Chuck Palahniuk, Grady Hendrix, Kirsty Logan, Will Maclean, Irenosen Okojie, Alison Moore, Matthew Holness, Claire Fuller, Clay Macleod Chapman and Ally Wilkes.

A startling, witty and downright terrifying collection of short stories from the "21st century''s Richard Matheson" (Richard Chizmar, Chasing the Boogeyman.) Perfect for fans of Paul Tremblay, Rachel Harrison and Eric LaRocca.They''re feeding on you too.A father returns from serving in Vietnam with a strange and terrifying addiction; a man removes something horrifying from his fireplace, and becomes desperate to return it; and a right-wing news channel has its hooks in people in more ways than one. From department store Santas to ghost boyfriends and salamander-worshipping nuns; from the claustrophobia of the Covid-19 pandemic to small-town Chesapeake USA, Clay McLeod Chapman takes universal fears of parenthood, addiction and political divisions and makes them uniquely his own. Packed full of humanity, humour and above all, relentless creeping dread, Acquired Taste is a timely descent into the mind of one of modern horror''s finest authors.

1865. The Civil War finally reaches its gruelling end. Soldiers returning from the frontline come home broken, their minds shattered. An influx of patients overwhelms The Ashcroft Hospital, an asylum in upstate New York. Dr. John James Templeton is busy developing a radical new theory: spiritualism - the act of communicating with the dead - is its own form of therapy. What better way to draw out these mental maladies then with a little assistance from the other side? Templeton enlists Alicia Wilkinson, a medium who as a young girl established herself as a sought-after conduit capable of contacting the dead... but her own past continues to haunt her. These seance sessions become a cutting-edge form of ''spectral therapy,'' where patients are permitted to converse with, and perhaps expunge, their own maladies. By reaching out beyond the veil of our own world, these spirits aid in drawing out the illness of the patient. But something is changing in the patients. They are acting different... possessed, perhaps. Templeton''s experiment is a success. Too successful. It is up to Alicia to understand what is happening to the patients of Ashcroft... before it''s too late. Collects Seance in the Asylum issues #1 - #4.

Duch, to je nová droga, která umožňuje spatřit mrtvé. Druhý den poté, co se Silas dostane ven z protidrogové léčebny v Richmondu, ho jeho přítelkyně Erin nalezne v jejich domě mrtvého na podlaze. Předávkoval se a Erin se hroutí svět. „Chceš ho znovu vidět?“ Truchlící a zoufalá Erin, souhlasí s drogovou spiritistickou seancí. Látka má ale nedozírné vedlejší účinky, a jakmile ji jednou užijete, nenajdete cestu zpět.

Duch, to je nová droga, která umožňuje spatřit mrtvé. Druhý den poté, co se Silas dostane ven z protidrogové léčebny v Richmondu, ho jeho přítelkyně Erin nalezne v jejich domě mrtvého na podlaze. Předávkoval se a Erin se hroutí svět. „Chceš ho znovu vidět?“ Truchlící a zoufalá Erin, souhlasí s drogovou spiritistickou seancí. Látka má ale nedozírné vedlejší účinky, a jakmile ji jednou užijete, nenajdete cestu zpět.