Stories We Tell After Midnight

As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying family secret.From a film set in the Arizona desert, to an overgrown rambling old house in the Florida swamps, to the dusty streets of a small Mexican town, the stories in this volume plunge the reader into the shadows of a world almost forgotten by modern fables of cold science and bright sunlight. They are the brushed over voices who call a warning to those who would comfort themselves in the thought that monsters aren't real, and those things can't happen here. Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2 offers up tales of revenge, of hunger, and of the horror that stalks you just beyond the glow of your cell phone light, but only to those who dare turn the page... Table of ContentsBedtime Tales Nicola Lombardi / trans. J. WeintraubBaby Gray Gregory L. NorrisIron Teeth Jude ReidVictoria Jay CaselbergFamily Line Michele Tracy BergerPrimary Manifestations Laura E. PriceCameraman Joe ScipioneSeek, Don't Hide Liam HoganHey Diddle Diddle Jeff SamsonThe Cleaning Lady Samantha BryantWhisper Wood Eddie GenerousLast Shot Tim JeffreysFalse Confession Joseph RubasThe Curse of the Cucuy Pedro IniguezThe Cut-Mouth Woman and Me Elizabeth Davis(and I feel fine) EJ SidleMouths to Feed Solange HommelRed Rover, Red Rover Larina WarnockCell Phone Lights T.M. StarnesLamina Eliza MasterThe Terrible Teddies Priya SridharThe Thing All These Relationships Have in Common Is You DeAnna KnipplingField Trip J.L. KnightThe Bugs Come Out at Night Mike Sullivan

A changeling binds a young girl to a mirror and takes her placeA salesman pursues closing a deal until it costs him everythingAn ancient Duchess graciously invites you on a tour of her orangerieThis is the world of Crone Girls Press. Here, the shadows keep their secrets and the moon hides from deeds cast in her glow. In these pages, the Fae walk as human, the dead burn with their anger at the living, the creatures that live in the dark places of the wrong zip code creep out of the shadows and into the kitchen. Stories We Tell After Midnight is a collection of short horror fiction from established names in the genre as well as a number of debut authors.

A married couple on holiday in Venice are caught up in a sinister series of events. A lonely schoolmaster is impelled to investigate a mysterious American couple. A young woman loses her cool when she confronts her father's old friend on a lonely island. A party of British pilgrims meet strange phenomena and possible disaster in the Holy Land. A scientist abandons his scruples while trying to tap the energy of the dying mind. Collecting five stories of mystery and slow, creeping horror, Daphne Du Maurier's Don't Look Now and Other Stories showcases her unique blend of sympathy and spinetingling suspense. "Daphne du Maurier is in a class by herself."-New York Times

The #1 New York Times bestselling WORLDWIDE phenomenon Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction | A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best Books of the Year "A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your spirits."—The Washington Post The dazzling reader-favorite about the choices that go into a life well lived, from the acclaimed author of How To Stop Time and The Comfort Book. Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.

A changeling binds a young girl to a mirror and takes her place...A salesman pursues closing a deal until it costs him everything...An ancient Duchess graciously invites you on a tour of her orangerie...This is the world of Crone Girls Press. Here, the shadows keep their secrets and the moon hides from deeds cast in her glow. In these pages, the Fae walk as human, the dead burn with their anger at the living, the creatures that live in the dark places of the wrong zip code creep out of the shadows and into the kitchen. Stories We Tell After Midnight is a collection of short horror fiction from established names in the genre as well as a number of debut authors.Table of ContentsWelcome by Rachel A. Brune"The Orangery" ~ Jane Hawley"L'appel du vide" ~ M. P. Giddings"In Memoriam" ~ Elizabeth Donald "Kitchen Spirits" ~ Nicholas Belardes"Mirrors" ~ J. Summerset"Gatekeepers" ~ Cristel Orrand"Enter the Wolf" ~ Adam N. Leonard"The Soul Within" ~ Jennifer Nestojko"Gobbl'uns" ~ Thea Brune"Have You Come To Let Me Out?" ~ Tina Riddle"It Has to Cool First" ~ Carol Gyzander"Creature From the Blue Lagoon" ~ Dexter Rowland"Uncle Charlie" ~ Christy Mann"Wrong Turn" ~ Adam Messer

In this contemporary retelling of The Canterbury Tales, a group of teens on a bus ride to Washington, DC, each tell a story—some fantastical, some realistic, some downright scandalous—in pursuit of the ultimate prize: a perfect score. Jeff boards the bus for the Civics class trip to Washington, DC, with a few things on his mind: -Six hours trapped with his classmates sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. -He somehow ended up sitting next to his ex-best friend, who he hasn’t spoken to in years. -He still feels guilty for the major part he played in pranking his teacher, and the trip’s chaperone, Mr. Bailey. -And his best friend Cannon, never one to be trusted and banned from the trip, has something “big” planned for DC. But Mr. Bailey has an idea to keep everyone in line: each person on the bus is going to have the chance to tell a story. It can be fact or fiction, realistic or fantastical, dark or funny or sad. It doesn’t matter. Each person gets a story, and whoever tells the best one will get an automatic A in the class. But in the middle of all the storytelling, with secrets and confessions coming out, Jeff only has one thing on his mind—can he live up to the super successful story published in the school newspaper weeks ago that convinced everyone that he was someone smart, someone special, and someone with something to say. In her debut novel, Kim Zarins breathes new life into Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in a fresh and contemporary retelling that explores the dark realities of high school, and the subtle moments that bring us all together.

Bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry is back with a powerful novel about the stories we tell and the people we trust. Eve and Cooper Morrison are Savannah's power couple. They're on every artistic board and deeply involved in the community. She owns and operates a letterpress studio specializing in the handmade; he runs a digital magazine featuring all things southern gentlemen. The perfect juxtaposition of the old and the new, Eve and Cooper are the beautiful people. The lucky ones. And they have the wealth and name that comes from being part of an old Georgia family. But things may not be as good as they seem. Eve's sister, Willa, is staying with the family until she gets "back on her feet." Their daughter, Gwen, is all adolescent rebellion. And Cooper thinks Eve works too much. Still, the Morrison marriage is strong. After twenty-one years together, Eve and Cooper know each other. They count on each other. They know what to expect. But when Cooper and Willa are involved in a car accident, the questions surrounding the event bring the family close to breaking point. Sifting between the stories—what Cooper says, what Willa remembers, what the evidence indicates—Eve has to find out what really happened. And what she's going to do about it. A riveting story about the power of truth, The Stories we Tell will open your eyes and rearrange your heart.