Imagine immersing yourself in a world of unimaginable horrors for a month. Now imagine doing it every year for 16 years. Horror critic Robert J Gannon does it ever year. The #31Days challenge is to watch and review a different horror property--film, TV series, book, game, play, etc.--every day for the month of October. In this newly revised and expanded collection of essays, Robert J Gannon celebrates the horror genre with a focus on film and television. #31Days features 65 essays and reviews covering everything from Don Coscarelli's "Phantasm" series to the anthology horror show "Masters of Horror." This non-fiction collection follows the spirit of Sketching Details, Robert's long-running entertainment media criticism website. Horror deserves the same level of respect and analysis as any other genre. Robert J Gannon has built a career out of analyzing and sharing a passion for genre fiction--horror, sci-fi, and fantasy--and he's ready to show the world in his debut non-fiction collection.

The #31Days challenge is back for another deep dive into the world of horror. Every day in October, media critic Robert J Gannon watches, analyzes, and publishes new articles and reviews inspired by different horror films, TV series, and books. This year, 32 new essays went up just at Sketching Details. Themes for the challenge included anthology films, films directed by women, documentaries, queer horror films, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre series. #31Days: A Collection of Horror Essays, vol. 2 features 64 original essays on horror media, including an entire series of essays on The Outer Limits completed in October. Come explore the terrifying world of horror, including Halloween Kills, Nothing but Broken Teeth, Deadhouse Dark, and No One Gets Out Alive. #31Days also includes recommendations for additional horror media for each title discussed in the collection. Full list of subjects: #Like A Classic Horror Story Blind Sun Body Bags Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker Deadhouse Dark Escape Room: Tournament of Champions Extended Cut Good Manners Halloween Kills His House In Search of Darkness Knife + Heart Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III Little Deaths Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau Lucky Lyle Nightbreed, The Director's Cut No One Gets Out Alive Nothing But Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw Seance Southbound Spookers Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation The Mortuary Collection The Old Ways The Outer Limits The Swarm The Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: A Family Portrait The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 The Wind Things Heard & Seen

From classic horror and pure suspense to Twilight-Zone-style dark fantasy, WHAT FEARS BECOME relentlessly explores our basic fears and leaves you with twisted endings that will make your skin crawl… This spine-tingling, international anthology contains contributions from the critically acclaimed online horror magazine, The Horror Zine, and features bestselling authors such as Bentley Little, Graham Masterton, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Elizabeth Massie, Ronald Malfi, Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Melanie Tem, Scott Nicholson, Piers Anthony, Conrad Williams, and many more. Edited by Jeani Rector of The Horror Zine and featuring a foreword by award-winning, bestselling author Simon Clark, it also contains deliciously dark delights from morbidly creative writers, poets and artists who have not yet made it big―but will very soon. Come and discover… WHAT FEARS BECOME

What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read? For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. The stories in this volume come from 19 countries on 5 continents and were originally written in 13 different languages. All 20 foreign language stories in this volume are appearing in English for the first time ever. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.

This is a collection of horror stories with surprise endings. If you don't like horror, please do not read this book. STORIES IN THIS BOOK CRAWLSPACE: Two reporters interview a strange humpbacked man in a house where gruesome experiments were conducted by previous owners. CONVERTIBLE BANDITS: Two travelers take a tip to save time by taking a shortcut on a lonely road not on their map. JUMPER: A patrol officer discovers a lovesick young man on a bridge contemplating suicide. THE ABHORRENT CLUB: A group of depraved multimillionaires sponsor a freak show for their annual event. DEAD: A young man killed in an automobile accident ten years ago visits his parents. BUG: A professor is propositioned by a student who offers him sex for an "A." VAMPIRE: After a woman and her son move to town, a serial killer begins a reign of terror. STRANGER IN THE RAIN: A stranger asks a man in the deserted pool area of a large resort hotel if he will have dinner with him. NO REST FOR THE DEAD: A gravedigger provides fresh cadavers for medical research and makes a killing. PANDORA'S BOX: A man learns the love of his life can only marry him if he promises never to open her black box. THE MONSTER NEXT DOOR: An apartment dweller is convinced his next door neighbor is a monster. THE WALL: A rich playboy discovers an island with an enormous wall, Japanese soldiers, and a village of pygmy cannibals. THE GREAT ZANDINI: A man hypnotized in a nightclub act becomes involved in a murder plot.

In this volume, you will encounter tales of ghosts, haunted houses, witchcraft, vampirism, lycanthropy, and sea monsters. Stories of cruelty and vengeance, of a body that refuses to be cremated, a deranged performer with one last shocking show, a frozen corpse that may not be dead. With stories ranging from frightening to horrific to weird to darkly funny, by a lineup of authors that includes both masters of horror fiction and award-winning literary greats, this is a horror anthology like no other. Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted, by: Charles Birkin • John Blackburn • Michael Blumlein • Mary Cholmondeley • Hugh Fleetwood • Stephen Gregory • Gerald Kersh • Francis King • M. G. Lewis • Florence Marryat • Richard Marsh • Michael McDowell • Christopher Priest • Forrest Reid • Bernard Taylor • Hugh Walpole 'The things were there and they were hiding in the slime; waiting ... waiting to clutch and claw and savage’ - AUNTY GREEN by John Blackburn ‘The sound that came from her throat, a small, pleading cry of terror, was cut off before she’d hardly had a chance to utter it’ - OUT OF SORTS by Bernard Taylor ‘The words filled her with an indescribable fear, and she turned to run; but her way was blocked by a figure, gigantic in stature​ – and its monstrous shape moved towards her, and she knew it was the incarnation of evil itself ’ - THE TERROR ON TOBIT by Charles Birkin

An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository, finding more than they anticipated; residents of a rural Wisconsin town defend against a legendary monster; a woman wracked by survivor's guilt is haunted by the ghosts of a tragic crash; a detective strives to solve the mystery of a dismembered girl; an orphan returns to a wicked witch's candy house; a group of smugglers find themselves buried to the necks in sand; an unanticipated guest brings doom to a high-class party; a teacher attempts to lead his students to safety as the world comes to an end around them... What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. Ellen Datlow knows what scares us; the twenty-one stories and poems included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best horror of the year. Legendary editor Ellen Datlow (Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe), winner of multiple Hugo, Bram Stoker, and World Fantasy awards, joins Night Shade Books in presenting The Best Horror of the Year, Volume One. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.