Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts debuts a meteoric new voice in modern dark fiction. In these tales, you’ll discover the humanity of horror, and the traumas that birth ghosts of all kinds. From inner demons to the bloodied fields of war, Edwards maintains his unique voice while whispers of classic writers such as Arthur Machen and Thomas Ligotti shine through. Edwards enters the contemporary dark fiction crowd with a standout collection that is likely to cement his position amongst the modern greats. With a new introduction to the second edition by Mer Whinery,the original introduction by Gwendolyn Kiste, and artwork by Yves Tourigny. “Armed with a taut understanding of power and the damage that power can do, Sam’s stories are conscientious, unsparing, and a reflection of the world we’ve broken. A writer with a vision to watch.” — Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy “Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts by S.L. Edwards is a startling debut collection whose author has unflinching insight into the political and the personal, into the human and the inhuman alike. A true standout among the new voices in modern Horror. Fans of Nadia Bulkin will find a lot to love here.” — Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination and Where Night Cowers

This book contains the best, the clearest excerpts of the first lyrics of Reverend Bogeyman.

An unsentimental vision of the west, new and old, comes to life in a gritty new collection of stories by the author of Snow, Ashes In Ghosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy explores the hardscrabble lives and terrain of America's least-populous state. Beyond the tourist destinations of Jackson Hole and Yellowstone lies a less familiar and wilder frontier defined by the tension wrought by abundance and scarcity. A young runaway with a big secret slips across the state border and steals a collie pup from the Meeker County fairgrounds. A chorus of trainmen details a day spent laying rail across the Wyoming Territory, while contemporary voices describe life in the oil and gas fields near Gillette. A traveling preacher is caught up in a deadly skirmish between cattle rustlers and ranchers on his way from Rawlins to the Indian reservation on the Popo Agie River. Locals and activists clash when a tourist makes an archaeological discovery near Hoodoo Mountain. With spirited, lyrical prose, Hagy expertly weaves together Wyoming's colorful pioneer and speculator history with the notoften- heard voices of petroleum workers, thrill-seeking rock climbers, and those left behind by the latest boom and bust.

In this companion novella to the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated The Worst Is Yet to Come, Roland and his sister Pigeon are the kind of people most visitors to the small town of Skillute never notice: ordinary, hardworking folk who keep to themselves. They obey the speed limit and pay their taxes on time. Yet something isn’t quite normal about these adult siblings who perform strange rituals in the basement and tend to their garden late at night. To their affluent new neighbors, caught up in a fantasy of pastoral family life, Roland and Pigeon might as well be invisible. Old acquaintances take them for granted, as though they’re part of the fragmented landscape. In truth, no one knows what secret worlds they may inhabit, whether stalking the living or speaking to the dead.

This is a superb collection of ghost tales from the hills of Wisconsin's driftless region, the southwest area untouched by the last of the glaciers. The region has a rich legacy of folktales, passed down from generation to generation, that are sure to entertain.

“S.L. Edwards presents stories that should be savored like a fine liquor, tales hauntingly crafted with notes of darkness, a touch of madness, spiced with melancholy, and given just one insubstantial twist of hope.” —Peter Rawlik, author of The Peaslee Papers In his second short story collection, S. L. Edwards offers tales of fantasy and horror, all-too human and all-too terrifying. In this volume, you’ll find stories of vampires lording over the zombie apocalypse, gunslingers fighting their way through haunted mining towns, dragons at the end of the world, and the death of an author. At the intersection of pulp horror, weird fiction, and a general love for fantasy, The Death of an Author is a kinetic collection, with offerings both for those who enjoyed Whiskey and Other Unusual Ghosts and for new readers as well.

The blue and gold historical markers inform travelers, but only enough to pique their curiosity. In Howard Ford's SURE SIGNS, Stories Behind the Historical Markers of Central New York, he relates the explorations of the French, Dutch, English, and the rebels and their battling with each other and the Iroquois for control of New York. Setting up homes and shops on the frontier, developing roads, canals, steamboats, and railroads, frontier medicine, colleges and schools, liberalizing laws, the origin of the Mormons, the Oneida Community, the Code of Handsome Lake, the Chautauqua Institute, the long fights for women's suffrage and the abolition of slavery, are stories which reveal toil and trouble and present our heritage. During the siege of Fort Stanwix, the rebels raided the British-Indian siege line depleted by those gone to ambush Herkimer at Oriskany. Along with the ruse then sprung on the British by Benedict Arnold, it aided the ensuing victory there and at Saratoga. When a British ship shelled Sackets Harbor in 1812, the Americans had only twenty-four-pound shot to fire back from a thirty-two-pound caliber cannon, and had to use scraps of carpet as wadding to make a tighter fit to get a better range. But both British and American fire still fell short. When the British fired a thirty-two-pound ball, the Yanks happily retrieved and fired it back, severing the mast of the Admiral's flagship who declined further embarrassment and sailed away. Hiram Sibley, of Rochester and Western Union, had strung telegraph line across the US and wanted to extend it to Russia via the Bering Straight. During right-of-way negotiations, the Russians, surprised at the project's cost, said that all their west coast property was not worth that much. This remark inspired deliberations for the purchase of Alaska after the Civil War. Three hundred pages of stories are studded with the relevant markers and at book's end is a complete list of all the markers and their location by county.