Böcker av Carol Gyzander

15 horror stories and 5 poems about women, written by 5 women, facing down the grim tipping point of humanity and offering a glimpse of the hope to come. Horror stories about women, written by women. This anthology focuses on the strength of women faced with adversity. It explores many ways in which societal structures and personal action - including mistreatment of the environment and other people, particularly women - can reach a tipping point, creating unexpected changes, empowering women around the world. It contains fifteen interlaced stories and five poems from five authors in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand - all women who were nominated for the 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award(R) for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction: Lee Murray, Cindy O'Quinn, Kyla Lee Ward, Anna Taborska and Carol Gyzander. The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

On the European front, there are worse things stalking the battlefield than enemy soldiers.A laid-off ad exec's second career takes a turn for the bloody.The halls of Shy Rock High welcome the Class of 2005-but why so few attendees to this shadowy gala?The stories in this anthology are the glimpses of the dark places between the forest and a dream. They are the shadows seeking dusty trinkets on a forgotten shelf. They invite the reader into a world where a grieving mother gives her lost daughter one last bubble bath. Tangle & Fen is an anthology of dark fiction, featuring tales from the borderlands of horror, speculative fiction, and the nightmare fears that linger even after you turn on the lights.

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend. They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, and some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us.These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.***What is legend? What is truth?A monster is said to lurk beneath the waters of Lake Erie. Jane and her twin brother Rob are haunted by just that. As children, they lost half their family to a terrible boating accident. They haven't left dry land since. Only, at the age of sixteen, they allow friends to lure them onto the lake.But should they have held their ground?When something nearly swamps their boat, years of secrecy are swept away and the children's father shares their family history with the supposed Monster of Lake Erie. Will the tale bring closure or just more tragedy?