Veniamo a fumarci le aurore boreali. Noi ci fumiamo le aurore boreali, e tu farai lo stesso. Il lupo Fenris ringhiava. Gli alberi si spogliavano e un vento li abbatteva in direzione esterna; Tunguska, un'altra volta. Il ringhio si emanava da una caverna in un canyon, su un pianeta lontanissimo da stelle conosciute, espanso a riecheggiare ancora e ancora esternamente, corrompendo e annerendo polvere e gas e ghiaccio e ogni altra cosa che toccasse. Non come ululato, ma squillo risonante da un corno appartenente a un dio... Le mirabolanti avventure dei fratelli Tooms, giovani eredi di un'immensa e misteriosa multinazionale, attraverso lande ghiacciate, tra sonde spaziali, improbabili spie, super-cattivi e orrori siderali, in una spirale di pazzia e umorismo, un pulp lovecraftiano dalla mente di Laird Barron.

Ci sono strane cose che sopravvivono ai margini della nostra stessa esistenza, che ci seguono al limite della nostra percezione, ci osservano dal buio che incombe oltre il calare della notte, solo un passo al di là del confortante calore delle luci. Neri portenti, strani culti, e cose anche peggiori attendono nell'ombra. I Figli dell'Antica Sanguisuga sono fra noi da tempo immemorabile, dall'alba dell'umanità ci accompagnano...

Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction. No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity. Chiefly derived from early 20th-century pulp fiction, its remit includes ghost stories, the strange and macabre, the supernatural, fantasy, myth, philosophical ontology, ambiguity, and a healthy helping of the outre. At its best, weird fiction is an intersecting of themes and ideas that explore and subvert the Laws of Nature. It is not confined to one genre, but is the most diverse and welcoming of all genres. Hence, in this initial showcase of weird fiction you will discover tales of horror, fantasy, science fiction, the supernatural, and the macabre. Contributing authors include Jeffrey Ford, Sofia Samatar, Joseph S. Pulver Sr, John Langan, Richard Gavin, and W. H. Pugmire.

More Americans were killed during the years 1861-1865 than any other date in history. Men shattered, women lost, families broken. In Shades of Blue and Gray, editor Steve Berman offers readers tales of the supernatural - ghost stories that range from the haunts of the battlefield to revenants on the long march home. Yank. Rebel. Both finding themselves at odds in flesh and spirit.

LAIRD BARRON HAS EMERGED as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year's best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards. His debut collection, The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, was the inaugural winner of the Shirley Jackson Award.

He returns with his second collection, Occultation. Pitting ordinary men and women against a carnivorous, chaotic cosmos, Occultation's eight tales of terror (two never before published) include the Theodore Sturgeon and Shirley Jackson Award-nominated story 'The Forest' and Shirley Jackson Award nominee 'Lagerstatte.' Featuring an introduction by Michael Shea, Occultation brings more of the spine-chillingly sublime cosmic horror Laird Barron's fans have come to expect.