BY REASON OF DARKNESS is the new acclaimed collection of dark and fantastic fiction by William P. Simmons! Features the author's best, award-recommended stories of supernatural horror, suspense, and dark fantasy, including those given Honorable Mentions in volumes of THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR. From chilling suggestive horror to daring, hard-edged suspense, this celebration of twilight people living midnight lives proves there is as much fear in a well placed whisper as in a scream. Featuring 23 stories, several of them new, BY REASON OF DARKNESS has already received praise from such macabre masters as Graham Masterton, Hugh B. Cave, and Al Sarrantonio.

A collection of strange, contemporary tales of chilling insight and black wit. Containing two stories that received Honourable Mentions in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2004," "Ugly Stories For Beautiful People" is an inter-linked collection of previously published and critically acclaimed short fiction. In the vein of Will Self, J.G. Ballard and Philip.K. Dick, these stories will at turns amuse, horrify and intrigue.

Here are twenty-one stories that will scare you to death; they are best read late at night, preferably while you’re alone. Try using a reading lamp that illuminates the page while throwing the rest of the room into shadows – shadows where anything could be hiding. Anything! Then, later, as you lie in the iron dark, waiting for sleep, you might start to wonder if there really are supernatural evils that might choose to come – for you. Pleasant dreams. Well, no – not really.

Annotation: A Dirge for the Temporal, Darren Speegle's second collection of fiction, bursts with sensations. A Dirge lingers on the dark mystery of the supernatural, creates the giddy feeling of fear mixed with excitement, that only comes from partial revelations, things half-glimpsed and misty. Like H.P. Lovecraft or Edgar Allen Poe, Speegle's stories belong to the twilight hour, just after the glorious reds and golds of sunset have slipped away giving warning that total darkness is quickly approaching.

With diverse contributions from scholars in English literature, psychology, and film and television studies, this collection of essays contextualizes Fringe as a postmodern investigation into what makes us human and as an examination of how technology transforms our humanity. In compiling this collection, the editors sought material as multifaceted as the series itself, devoting sections to specific areas of interest explored by both the writers of Fringe and the writers of the essays: humanity, duality, genre and viewership.