Stranded on a desert island, a young man yearns for objects from his past. A local from a small coastal town in England is found dead as the tide goes out. A Norwegian whaling ship is stranded in the Arctic, its crew threatened by mysterious forces. In the nineteenth century, a ship drifts in becalmed waters in the Indian Ocean, those on it haunted by their evil deeds. A surfer turned diver discovers there are things worse than drowning under the sea. Something from the sea is creating monsters on land. In The Devil and the Deep, award-winning editor Ellen Datlow shares an all-original anthology of horror that covers the depths of the deep blue sea, with brand new stories from New York...
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” — H. P. Lovecraft This statement was true when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it remains true at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The only thing that has changed is what is unknown. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this “light” creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year, edited by Ellen Datlow, chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog...
A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret.. Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor [i][b]Ellen Datlow[/b][/i] ("[i]Lovecraft Unbound[/i]") to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within. [i]Supernatural Noir[/i] is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including [b]Brian Evenson[/b], [b]Joe R. Lansdale[/b], [b]Caitlin R. Kiernan[/b], [b]Nick Mamatas[/b], [b]Gregory Frost[/b], [b]Jeffrey Ford[/b], and many more.