У каждого свои страхи. Они стары как мир и вечны. Но прогресс не стоит на месте, и люди почти перестали бояться гнева богов природы. Теперь они боятся быть непонятыми, невинно осужденными, преданными и покинутыми теми, кого они любят, боятся не оправдать доверия или сделать неправильный выбор. Они желают отомстить, даже если придется прибегнуть к потусторонним силам. Душераздирающие истории от мастеров жанра заставят вас холодеть от страха и скрежетать зубами от гнева. Ведь ужас реален и кроется в мелочах и повседневности нашей жизни.

A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds... A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder... Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future... The Race weaves together story threads and realities to take us on a gripping and spellbinding journey.

Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were closest companions, but as they grow towards maturity, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing at the age of seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again. When Julie reappears, she tells Selena an incredible story about how she has spent time on another planet. Selena has an impossible choice to make: does she dismiss her sister as a damaged person, the victim of delusions, or believe her, and risk her own sanity in the process? Is Julie really who she says she is, and if she isn't, what does she have to gain by claiming her sister's identity? The Rift is a novel about the...

"The Art of Space Travel" by Nina Allan is a science fiction novelette. In 2047, a first manned mission to Mars ended in tragedy. Thirty years later, a second expedition is preparing to launch. As housekeeper of the hotel where two of the astronauts will give their final press statements, Emily finds the mission intruding upon her thoughts more and more. Emily's mother, Moolie, has a message to give her, but Moolie's memories are fading. As the astronauts' visit draws closer, the unearthing of a more personal history is about to alter Emily's world forever.

SPIN is a 2014 British Science Fiction Association Award winning story. Nina Allan is acclaimed as a short fiction author and SPIN brings you an opportunity to try her longer fiction. SPIN is a 20 thousand plus word novella which weaves Greek mythology, science fiction and alternate history into Layla Vargas'. journey across an alternate modern Greece. In the myth Arachne was the awesomely skilled weaver whose tapestries challenged the gods and eventually resulted in her being transformed into a spider. In Nina's novella Layla is our surrogate for Arachne and her fate and destiny, powers of prophecy and possibly those gods are implicit in her story and the stories of the people she meets.

Все мы сталкивались с потерянными письмами и исчезнувшими в почтовом Чистилище посылками, которые никогда не найдут своих адресатов. Признания в любви не будут прочитаны, а скромные подарки пропадут. Мы ничего не можем с этим поделать, кроме как проникнуть в Отдел Неприкаянных писем и услышать истории, которые нам прошепчут мастера литературы ужасов, триллера и фэнтези. Эксклюзивные рассказы лидера new weird Чайны Мьевиля, королевы интеллектуальной фантастики Джоанн Харрис, классика ужасов Рэмси Кэмпбелла, Адама Нэвилла, Майкла Маршалла Смита и других. Впервые на русском языке!

A superb collection of the year's most outstanding short crime fiction published in the UK. Jakubowski has succeeded, as ever, in showcasing the impressive breadth of crime writing, from cosy tales of detection to noir mayhem and psychological suspense and terror. There are puzzles to solve, nagging questions about the nature of the society in which we live, but, above all, there is an abundance of first-class entertainment. Last year saw a sixth Crime Writers Association Dagger award for the series – shared between Margaret Murphy and Cath Staincliffe – and an Edgar award for Peter Turnbull. All three award-winning stories are included in this volume. Lee Child makes his debut and there is...

“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...

This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, RJ Parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, F&SF, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.