Cosmic Horror

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that att...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham AwardOne of Granta_x0092_s Best Young British NovelistsFrom the acclaimed author of Boy, Snow, BirdThere_x0092_s something strange about the Silver family house in the closedoff town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it_x0092_s been home to four generations of Silver women_x0097_Anna, Jennifer, ...

Two terrifying classics by _x0093_the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction_x0094_ (The Washington Post) Thomas Ligotti_x0092_s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced by the strange terrors of Lovecraft and Poe and by the brutal absurdity of Kafka...

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steepbanked, fastmoving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear ...