* Nobody’s Fool
* Shatterwrack at Breaklight
* The Man Who Walks Away Behind the Eyes
* The Robot is Running Away fron the Trees
* The Man Who Lost Red
* The Only Bird in Her Name
* The Last Elephant
* Spinners
* A Deadly Edge Their Red Beaks Pass Along
* Privateer’s Moon
* Time of the Star
* Coyote Struck by Lightning

Terry Dowling has been called “Australia’s finest writer of horror” by Locus magazine, and “Australia’s premier writer of dark fantasy” by All Hallows. In a similar vein, The Year’s Best Fantasy 4 recently said that Dowling is a “master craftsman” and “one of the best prose stylists in science fiction and fantasy”. Locus regards his first book, Rynosseros, as placing him among “the masters of the field”.

Winner of the 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Collection

First Australian publication

It’s Dark in Here…

Not just with the absence of light, but with things made for the dark, that work best when the wind is in the trees and the sun has gone from the sky.

There’s a carnival, of course – and such a one! – and a six-sided mirror room on a rainy evening. There’s a model of a ship made from bone, a hotel room with the hint of a clown’s face on the wall, a gun that grows its own bullets (you know they do!).

There’s a train, too, that train, called up by a harmless holiday prank. There’s the ultimate maze, a dream of blind gladiators, a truly unforgettable cabinet of wonders. Here you’ll find the most deadly tomb of all and, yes, revealed at last – the truth behind what ghosts really are! All waiting among these bits of darkling shimmer, in this sharp narrow place, this careful trap.

A trap? You see how it is. This is your next step on the lonely road. The next wrong door you open. The next game you play on the midnight board, with forgotten rules and the sharpest of pieces. How it’s to be done this time: with eighteen stories by one of the very best dark fantasy writers we have.

* The Daemon Street Ghost-Trap
* Downloading
* The Bullet That Grows in the Gun
* The Gully
* The Bone Ship
* Beckoning Nightframe
* Stitch
* La Profonde
* The Saltimbanques
* They Found The Angry Moon
* Clownette
* The Ichneumon and the Dormeuse
* The Quiet Redemption of Andy the House
* The Maze Man
* One Thing About the Night
* Jenny Come to Play
* Cheat Light
* Scaring the Train

“One of the best recent collections of contemporary horror.” – Carl Hays, American Library Assocation

“The everyday and ordinary show an unexpected malignant side in this collection of 18 uniquely disturbing tales of the fantastic. Dowling grounds his tales in mundane situations, then pulls back slowly to reveal (as the narrator of “Scaring the Train” calls them) “those moments of incidental framing reality where every commonplace surprises you.” In “Cheat Light,” a roll of film left in a pawnshop camera reveals images of an otherworldly origin. “Clownette” tells of a peculiar blotch on a hotel wall that proves to be something much worse than the harmless mildew stain it’s mistaken for. “Maze Man,” whose protagonist is trapped in an invisible maze that only he cannot penetrate, is one of several stories in which architecture motifs suggest alternate realities encroaching on our own. This selection of stories new and old makes for one of the year’s more satisfying dark fantasy reads.” – Publishers Weekly starred review

Includes an afterword by Robin Pen and an introduction by Sean Williams and Simon Brown.

Second edition of sold out 1999 collection.

# Foreword: Van Ikin
# “The Lady of Situations”
# “Amendment”
# “Never Seen by Waking Eyes”
# “A Single Shadow”
# “Transit”
# “Double Action”
# “Founding Fathers”
# “Salvation”
# “The Godfather Paradox”
# “A Sort of Walking Miracle”
# “The Vision of a Vanished Good”
# “Bestseller”
# “From Whom All Blessings Flow”

Second edition of sold out 1997 collection.
“Ghost Seas”
“The Tall Grass”
“The Dinosaur Season”
“Upstart”
“Two Women of the Prairie”
“Race Relations”
“The Electricity of Heaven”
“Dog in the Manger”
“Slices of Sylvia”
“Willow Beeman” (with Howard Waldrop)
“Haiti”
“Michael Bates Michael Bates Michael Bates Michael”
“Look Away”
“Edge of the Wind”

Steven Utley, one of the most promising writers of the seventies, quit at the end of the decade, disillusioned with science fiction. He spent the eighties pursuing other interests, including writing and drawing comic strips and collecting swing-era music. He returned to writing in the late eighties, writing stories unique and powerful, regardless of genre: western, horror, science fiction, history, love, mystery.

Ghost Seas is a collection of fourteen stories from the twenty-five year career of an extremely talented writer.

Lewis Shiner’s acclaimed collection, featuring the best stories by the World Fantasy Award-winning writer. This edition includes two stories previously uncollected in the sold out Subterranean Press edition.
+ Perfidia*
+ Love in Vain (read online here)
+ His Girlfriend’s Dog
+ White City
+ Language
+ Mystery Train
+ The War At Home
+ Kidding Around
+ Steam Engine Time (read online here)
+ Scales
+ Wild For You
+ Sticks (read online here)
+ Match (read online here)
+ Oz
+ Gold
+ Secrets
+ Jeff Beck
+ The Best Part of Making Up
+ Dirty Work
+ Flagstaff (read online here)
+ The Tale of Mark the Bunny (read online here)
+ Primes*
+ Castles Made of Sand (read online here)

*This edition also includes the novelette “Primes” and novella “Perfidia”.