They were three teenagers with the power to reanimate dead bodies, students at an elite and secretive school where they learned to hone their abilities and command the dead. And they just wanted to get laid. Because even teenagers with powers over the dead have hormones. What starts as an innocent booty call with a seemingly normal girl turns deadly as they unwittingly summon a dark force bent on slaughter. And as they try to fight the demons of their own conjuring, they find that commanding the dead just might be the easy part . . . it's commanding the living that's infinitely more complicated. About the Author Brian Rappatta's short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines, both online and in print. His recent publications include Shock Totem #1, Steampunk Tales #1, the first venue for original short fiction designed exclusively for the iphone, and the anthology Zencore: Scriptus Innominatus (the 7th volume of the Nemonymous anthology series, which was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Society Award for Best Anthology). His novelette, "Tongues," won 2nd place in the annual Writers of the Future competition in 2006. He is a graduate of the Odyssey Writers Workshop, where he studied with World Fantasy Award winner Jeanne Cavelos and #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin.

A collection of a half-dozen fantasy short stories and novelettes. In "Songs for the Lost," a young girl travels to the domain of the Lord of the Dead to reclaim the songs of her departed ancestors. In "Ghost Hands," a young member of a holy order of warriors agrees to become the ultimate soldier--by being bonded with a demonic spirit. In "A Gambit of Pawns," an infantry of eunuchs is called upon to fight an army of sirens. In "Prisons of Flesh and Stone," a young girl makes an unholy bargain with an Ancient sorcerer to protect her sister. And in "To Sift the Sacred," a magically gifted young undertaker seeks to compose a unique hymn of worship to his god: by arranging the bodies of the dead in the shapes of runes. These stories and more . . . a peek into a half-dozen different fantasy worlds. As a bonus, the paperback includes the novelette, "The Unweeded Garden."

Travis is an ordinary teenager eking out a dreary existence in a quiet midwestern town -- until one day his body starts to fade. He begins to experience a strange form of vampirism which compels him to draw nourishment from the lives of others, or else slowly fade from existence altogether. Horrified by his nature, he sets off across country for one last road trip thrill, resolved to commit suicide in a final blaze of glory. On the way he meets Pete, another of the afflicted, who is running from demons of his own. Together they head across the heartland of America, pursued by a nameless assassin who methodically exterminates young people of their kind due to the threat they represent to humanity. But dying is the least of their worries: they are desperately trying to find a way to combat their natures, lest they lose their grip on existence completely.

Anthology of short speculative fiction stories from Third Flatiron, considering different aspects of hope. Theme is inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson.

With a new forword by Dr Dale Townsend, this is a chilling selection of the most essential ghost short stories from the infamous pens of Charles Dickens, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Washington Irving (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), Algernon Blackwood, Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hope Hodgson (The Gateway of the Monster), M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Oscar Wilde (The Canterville Ghost), and other phantasmagoric authors.

A deluxe edition with a chilling selection of original and classic short stories. The new tales, many of them published here for the first time, are written by today's top authors, and they bring a modern twist to the outstanding mix of intrigue that lurks in the furtive imagination of E.F. Benson, Henry James, Wilkie Collins, Washington Irving , Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, and so many more within this outstanding collection.