Format: Softcover, 386 pages
Publisher: Apex Publications, May, 2010
ISBN: 9780982159682
The destructiveness of passion, both earthly and supernatural, makes cities bleed and souls burn across worlds, through endless time. Experience the spiritual side of the zombie apocalypse in "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles" and transcend both hell and nirvana in "Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's Damnation." Look into "The Mad Eyes of the Heron King" to find the beautiful brutality written in the moment of epiphany or "Go and Tell it On the Mountain," where Jesus Christ awaits your last plea to enter heaven if there is a heaven to enter when all is said and done.
Horror's top authors and promising newcomers whisper tales that creep through the mists at night to rattle your soul. Sky beyond salvation and damnation with thirty stories and poems that reveal the darkness beneath belief. Place your faith in that darkness; it's always there, just beyond the light.
Table of Contents:
Introduction by Maurice Broaddus
The Story of Belief-Non by Linda D. Addison (poem)
Ghosts of New York by Jennifer Pelland
I Sing a New Psalm by Brian Keene
He Who Would Not Bow by Wrath James White
Zen and the Art of Gordon Dratch's Damnation by Douglas F. Warrick
Go and Tell It on the Mountain by Kyle S. Johnson
Different from Other Nights by Eliyanna Kaiser
Lilith by Rain Graves (poem)
The Last Words of Dutch Schultz/Jesus Christ by Nick Mamatas
To the Jerusalem Crater by Lavie Tidhar
Chimeras & Grotesqueries by Matt Cardin
You Dream by Ekaterina Sedia
Mother Urban's Booke of Dayes by Jay Lake
The Mad Eyes of the Heron King by Richard Dansky
Paint Box, Puzzle Box by D.T. Friedman
A Loss For Words by J. C. Hay
Scrawl by Tom Piccirilli
C{her}ry Carvings by Jennifer Baumgartner (poem)
Good Enough by Kelli Dunlap
First Communions by Geoffrey Girard
The God of Last Moments by Alethea Kontis
Ring Road by Mary Robinette Kowal
The Unremembered by Chesya Burke
Desperata by Lon Prater (poem)
The Choir by Lucien Soulban
Days of Flaming Motorcycles by Catherynne M. Valente
Miz Ruthie Pays Her Respects by Lucy A. Snyder
Paranoia by Kurt Dinan (poem)
Hush by Kelly Barnhill
Sandboys by Richard Wright
For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer by Gary A. Braunbeck