SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The third volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: So Quiet, So White – Patrick Barb Roger Grimsby, a small-town curmudgeon known for his ‘80s horror paperback cover art, believes an ancient, bloodthirsty entity with ties to his family may have reemerged. But how does this connect to his wayward grandson, who prying police detectives and grieving parents blame for a recent knife attack massacre at a nearby summer camp? So Quiet, So White is cosmic folk horror that balances the act of creation through destructive forces, with the Grimsby family at the fulcrum. Prepare for bloodshed, and the beauty found within. Imago Expulsio (The Red Animal of Our Blood) – J.A.W. McCarthy Shauna’s infatuation with the enigmatic painter she meets at art school escalates into unwavering devotion when she learns about the mercilessly brutal cat and mouse game that has consumed Elise’s life. She vows to protect her, to keep her safe—but how far will she go to keep her promise? A self-portrait vomits viscera and the sinister secrets that lie at the heart of the decadently deranged Imago Expulsio (The Red Animal of Our Blood), where body parts and gore become fine art. “A real kick in the head, combining the urgency of the short form with the characterization, texture and nuance of longer works. Both authors deserve recognition for the maturity and ingenuity of their writing.” S.P. Miskowski, I Wish I Was Like You

The Canterbury Nightmares is a collection of stories from the edge of the abyss. Combining the essence of Chaucer’s pilgrims on their journey to a shrine, with what appeared to be the end of a global pandemic, these tales were born in a time when personal connections were few, breathing the air in a grocery store felt unsafe, and the country was dissolving into seemingly irreparable divisions. Eleven travelers heading out to visit The Grand Canyon. All of them have their reasons. All of them have their losses, and their pain. All of them are dark. From an old man taking a promised journey with his wife, to a congregation that has lost its way, from different backgrounds and cultures, to different ways of dealing with grief, loss, and isolation, this book will take you places you do not expect. Contents: The Old Man's Tale – Steve Rasnic Tem The Liberation of Brother Buffalo – Michael Boatman Think of the Family – Ai Jiang To See Her in Sepia – Scott J. Moses The Preditor's Tale – Terence Taylor The Wife of Wrath's Tale – John B. Rosenman The Secret Place: A Knight’s Tale – Stephen Mark Rainey The Sacred Clarion – S. A. Cosby The Tour Guide's Tale – Anna Tambour Every Form of Person – J. A. W. McCarthy Vending Machine Girl – Eric LaRocca

Death. Murder. Betrayal. An inevitable undoing. The selfish and terrible actions of humans rarely go unpunished in a world where Fate is a cruel mistress and Karma can be more vengeful than a woman scorned. Hell is real, and it exists here on Earth as several characters in the stories contained within can attest as they face war, jealousy, domestic violence, and supernatural forces. Some face Hell on a literal level as others discover it is one of their own making. None were prepared for the reality of their consequences. Authors Michael Barron, Eric M. Battaglia, Eddie Cantrell, Michael R. Collins, Patrick Hackeling, Matthew Lett, J.A.W. McCarthy, Karen Metcalf, Ben Nein, Liam Quinn, RL Schumacher, Caleb Stephens, C.J. Thomson, Jackie Valacich, and J.S. Watts weave together dark tales that question how far one is willing to push to get what they desire and explore the consequences of those more interested in themselves than their fellow men and women.

For the past six years, Ronnie has worked selling merch for a perpetually touring band. Late nights, sweaty clubs, dingy motel rooms, endless roads-as rough as it's been, there is no other way of life for this band of hungry succubi leaving bodies in their wake. Until she meets the enigmatic Helene. Helene is just as restless, just as lonely, and just as full of secrets. With Helene in tow, Ronnie and the band make their way across the Pacific Northwest, trying to outrun not only their mistakes, but the mysterious disease stalking the band, a disease that devours succubi from the inside out. The hunger is as endless as the road, but maybe Ronnie doesn't always want to sleep alone.

Eine neue Technik erlaubt es, noch nach dem Tod geliebter Angehöriger lebensechte Erinnerungsfotos mit ihnen anzufertigen. Eine perfekte Androidin entwickelt ganz andere Vorstellungen von Schönheit als ihr Schöpfer. Nach der Invasion der Erde müssen die Menschen den Außerirdischen ihre Erinnerungen verkaufen. Eine Behandlung gegen das Altern führt zu unerwarteten Nebenwirkungen. Ein Unternehmen stellt Wegwerfandroiden für spezielle Anlässe her, deren Überreste nach Überschreiten der dreißigtägigen Haltbarkeitsdauer im Garten kompostiert werden können. Ein Alien-Auftragskiller sorgt auf ganz spezielle Art für die Sühne für einen Völkermord. Dieser Band versammelt die fünfzehn besten internationalen Science-Fiction-Geschichten von 2023 und 2024, ausgewählt nach dem Sichten hunderter Stories. Geschichten, die aufrütteln, schockieren oder im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes unter die Haut gehen. Sie zeigen kein glückliches Utopia, sondern eine Zukunft, deren Bewohner sich den Herausforderungen einer sich rasant verändernden Welt stellen müssen oder sich in Ausnahmesituationen wiederfinden, in denen sie sich entscheiden müssen, was sie als Menschen ausmacht.

A town where people go missing and inexplicably return as cruel versions of themselves. A not-quite-human mother races against time to build a new body for her ailing daughter. Lovesick ghosts inhabit the body parts of living people in a world where the only other choice is amputation. A woman takes extreme measures to combat the repercussions of a childhood hazing ritual gone wrong. Obsession. Selfishness. Cruelty. Doppelgängers. In these dark, speculative stories-six reprints and six never before published, including the novelette "Girls Tied to Trees"-J.A.W. McCarthy explores how far humans and the not-quite-human will go to tame the darkness in their world and within themselves.

An anthology of 23 weird and haunting short stories on the borderlands of horror.

Death is permanent. This is the falsehood that we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. It's the lie that we tell our children so they don't carry their kitten's corpse to the old cemetery deep in the forest. It's the myth that we wrap ourselves in so we can ignore the gut-wrenching terror of what really follows deaththe unfathomable unkno