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Rene Descartes Does Not Exist (The Abyss Laughs Book 1) by A.R. LaBaere (Author), H. P. Lovecraft (Editor), Robert W. Chambers (Editor), Karl Edward Wagner (Editor), & 6 more

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Do you dare to know What lurks in the Maze? What is A.R. LaBaere’s secret? Poe, Lovecraft, Ligotti. You should BUY NOW because of its chilling puzzle.

★★★★★

•New Weird Fiction

•Experimental Horror Fiction

•Poetry

•Retellings of Classic Authors

•A sequel to Lovecraft’s works

Rene Descartes Does Not Exist by A.R. LaBaere

One reviewer describes this most unusual work:

★★★★★

“At first it is truly maddening and seems like it goes on forever

This is an audacious experiment in Cosmicism and disoriented terror. It repeats, falls over itself, reinvents, creates layers of complex meaning and uses grammatical mistakes in a creative way.

At first it is truly maddening and seems like it goes on forever, but by the time he is in the section about the King in Yellow, it really takes off and puts the reader into and absolutely cosmic sense of despair.

This is a book for advanced readers in the Lovecraft-Chambers tradition, who will understand the subtle references and be able to read in unending stream of consciousness mode.

I have to admit that after hitting the halfway point, I fell in love with it after a whole series of challenges to my sanity and ability to suspend disbelief.

I am hearing that the author wants to take it out to one million words….that would be amazing.

Well worth the price.”

★★★★★

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From Rene Descartes Does Not Exist

“….Rene Descartes Does Not Exist peals with the undercurrent of plangent chimes in a forgotten gloaming… There persists a revelation which cannot be defined, but which is captured by the crude eyes of certain dolls. Within are Tsalalic, broken staircases which lead to nowhere, untidy, resistentialist galaxies of dark stars… A Ligottian antinovel, a surrealist literary criticism of House Of Leaves, Psalms Of The Silent, Fictional Observers, and Untidy Starving Shadows, it creaks and creeps… Suspirias susurrise among howling passages… The pages resonate with groaning undercurrents of masking things which are what they would not be, a mask for pandemonium… Within are phantasms, mirrors, burrowing universes… The unheimlich volume is a Borgesian unreality of lambent crookedness, a resistentialism of untidy tailor’s dummies which resonates with the eidolon of murmuring, garish laughter… It is crookedly peculiar…The words are upside-down, tenebrously untidy, a cosmic incantation, the tome a grimoire, a The King In Yellow of magick, a doppelganger… The manuscript tolls queer thoughts, things monstrous… vaguely, vacantly glimpsed… Unlighted candles migrate within That unheimlich volume, a Babel of lambent unreality which resonates with eidolons of laughter… A Mimicrying, metafictional criticism of House Of Leaves, The King In Yellow, Cosmicism, The Thing, and The Untidy Starving Shadows, the tome creaks and creeps… It resonates with twin mirrored Houses, untidy, unfamiliar shapes in the darkness… It is very strange; the words are clandestine, unreal, tenebrously untidy, as though… the work were hazy, a foggy, peculiar looking-glass- curious words that seemed to keep some secret, monstrous if one only knew.

Crucial Notification Regarding This Eighth Hundredth, Exhaustive Edition

Eighth Hundredth And Final Edition

Rene Descartes Does Not Exist has been released within its final edition as of The Seventh Of February, Two Thousand And Twenty-One.

This final edition is the eighth hundredth edition of the work. No material has been destroyed or significantly altered from the work’s original publication as The Abyss Laughs. Alterations to the work now accompany a significant increase of the work’s length….”

CHILLING

YOU SHOULD BUY IT NOW

★★★★★

Sci-fi Fantasy

Fantasy of Future God Paperback – March 16, 2021 by Lindsay Virgilio

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“…between God and humans there is something called the Spiritus Mundi, a spirit that serves as a repository for all human memory. It is every idea, every lesson, and every spark of ingenuity shared among every living person, also every trauma, every fire, disaster, plague, every deception, pollution, and brutality. It is all known experience. Imagine there is a line drawn from every mind up into the body of the spirit, feeding slivers of every human experience into one immense energy. Few people ever realize they are connected-it is not easy to sense-but if one finds their bond then all the knowledge of the living world lies at their fingertips. Just imagine…”

In a world born after the Apocalypse angels and immortals walk alongside mankind and Death is a country that lies beyond a desert where the sun never sets. In this new world love comes at a price and history is preserved in the stars beyond the motion of Time. But this glittering young Earth is fragile and its integrity rests upon the memory of one woman who was never meant to die, yet too human to live forever.

Horror Western

Starving Zoe (Splatter Western Book 5) by C. Derick Miller

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To most, 1865 was an eye-opening year. The American Civil War was officially over and the soldiers fortunate enough to survive the bloody conflict returned home to collect the pieces of their former lives. To young Arizonan, Robert Jack, the fateful desert homecoming marked the end to all he once knew. 
Forgiveness is overrated. Death is final. Revenge, however, dances between the fine lines of mortality and eternity.
Love always finds a way.

(All Splatter Western books are stand-alone stories. Read them in whatever order you please!)

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Pearly’s Smokin’ Cotton Candy Heart: A Short Horror Story by Dona Fox

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Pearly’s first trip to the circus with his dad and little sister was magical. He’d never had cotton candy, and he vowed not to eat his; he’d keep it forever. He felt a kinship with the clowns, and he almost understood the strange symbols on their costumes. He even dared a quick touch. On the runway, Dad just couldn’t manage to toss the ball and win a kitten for Lucy until a clown pulled Pearly between the tents and offered to make it happen, for a price. 

“Would you like to be a clown, Pearly?” 

Then everything went sideways.

Young Adult Fantasy

Mageborn: An absolutely gripping fantasy novel (The Hollow King Book 1) by Jessica Thorne

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‘50 bajillion stars… I loved this book so much… It broke my heart into a million pieces and put it all back together again.’ Faemance Book Blog, 5 stars

In the name of the crown I arrest you and charge you with the crime of being an unregistered and unsworn mageborn. You will yield up your magic for the greater good, or face certain death…

Raised on the streets, orphan Grace Marchant has always questioned the harsh laws of the Kingdom of Rathlynn. Confronting Prince Bastien Larelwynn – keeper of a dark, golden and deadly magic – was never her plan, but when her closest friend is the next mageborn taken away to the shadowy dungeons, she has no choice but to act.

Deep in the castle, Grace discovers that the Queen of Rathlynn has a devastating plan to use the mageborn’s stolen powers to cement her rule forever. Begging the coldly handsome Prince Bastien to spare her friend’s life, Grace is surprised to see a flicker of compassion in his obsidian black eyes, and the fire in her blood calls out to him… but if he senses the luminous mageborn power secretly unfurling within her like liquid sunlight, it’s only a matter of time before she too will be imprisoned.

But Grace is shocked when Bastien, with a mysterious smile, keeps any knowledge of her powers to himself. Despite his duties to the realm, Bastien pities the mageborn, and the two hatch a plan that could change everything.

As raging fire melts blackest ice, passion and desire quickly quiet her fear and suspicion. But with her golden mageborn light growing stronger every day, Grace must ask herself if she can really trust her former enemy… and with betrayal at every turn, will they save the mageborn and get out alive?

A dark and addictive fantasy read, perfect for fans of Graceling and Sarah J. Maas.

Read what everyone’s saying about Mageborn:

‘Wow, wow, wow!… A showstopping book that was hard to put down… An addicting adventure you will not want to miss out on.’ NetGalley Reviewer

‘I mean, wow!… Be prepared for plot twists!!!… I highly recommend giving this book a read! I can’t wait for the next book in the series!!!!’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘Captivating… I simultaneously wanted to power through it but didn’t want it to end… it’s fantastic. It’s brilliant. I love it… I have several notes in my Kindle app from emotional scenes where it’s purely emotive responses of “”AWEEE””, “”OMGGGG“”, “”WTF IS THIS?!”… a beautiful piece of fantasy fiction that should be on everyone’s tbr list.’ Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars

‘I was hooked… there is heartbreak from the very beginning… I was going through a rollercoaster of emotions – my heart felt like it had been ripped out, trampled on, and then trampled on some more for good measure… This book is certainly a page-turner, I read it over two afternoons.’ Goodreads Reviewer

‘I loved it… A brilliant start to this series which already has me asking and wondering…WHAT HAPPENS NOW? WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?… left me speechless… Brilliantly written and gripping. Highly recommend.’ Gemma’s Book Reviews

‘WOWIE! This book took me on a wild ride… Superb… I was truly engrossed from start to finish… Not to be missed.’ Belle in Pages

‘Really does pack a punch… I loved every minute of it… filled with action, adventure, and romance and it will have you at the edge of your seat so many times… This book has everything a fantasy reader will love… If I could give more than five stars I would. I absolutely loved it.’ Goodreads Reviewer

Horror Western

Boinking Bizarro by Death’s Head Press (Author), Brian Asman (Author), Danger Slater (Author), John Skipp (Author), & 6 more

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From the demented minds of Bizarro authors Danger Slater and Brian Asman comes Boinking Bizarro, an anthology of weird literary parodies. You’ve never seen the classics quite like this. We’ve taken that old, musty canon and dressed it up in lace, leather, and lipstick. Wowza!

In Boinking Bizarro, a glory hole attendant seeks to give his wife the family she deserves, a time-traveling professor gives blind poet John Donne a hand, a slick serial killer gets the tables turned on that ass, a PI delves into the mysterious goings-on at a whorehouse, the forgotten erotic ouevre of Alfred Horsecock is explored, a trip to Mars puts a cloned super-soldier in a seminally sticky situation, and how did they film the infamous orgy scene in that Stephan Kink clown movie, anyway? Dystopian futures, disaffected slang-spewing youth, sexy tortures, and rapidly-growing pubic hair abound! 

Plus, Pinnochio’s big dick energy. Which is like this whole thing in and of itself.

If you’ve ever wanted to lose your virginity to the acrid scent of your mother’s burning corpse, this is the anthology you’ve been waiting for! And if not, get fucked.

Stories by:
Brian Asman
Danger Slater
John Wayne Comunale
Autumn Christian
Gina Ranalli
Betty Rocksteady
Christine Morgan
John Skipp
Whit Slorp
Cody Goodfellow
Chad Stroup
Charles Austin Muir
Michael Allen Rose
Max Booth III
Lucan Mangum
Chandler Morrison
Amy Vaughn
Jessica McHugh

“Literature is just porn without the honesty”–Charles Buttkowski

horror

The Silence in the Void: Part 1: Sometimes They Fall (Night Sky Presents Book 3) by Dona Fox

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“Usually, they scream. But she fell silently to the hard-packed dirt below where she sprawled so beautifully, a spent flower tossed carelessly aside.”
Sometimes they fall is about intrigue, accidental deaths, and outright murder in the circus. Our narrator is Mason, a trapeze artist who is gradually losing his grip, both in his hands and on his mind. As he suffers the loss of those he holds most dear he struggles with reality and the resurrection of the dead.

Sci-fi Fantasy

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (The Best American Series ®) by Karen Joy Fowler (Editor), John Joseph Adams (Editor)

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From quiet, elegiac, contemporary tales to far-future, deep-space sagas, the stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Karen Joy Fowler for TheBest American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 demonstrate the vast spectrum of what science fiction and fantasy aims to illuminate, displaying the full gamut of the human experience, interrogating our hopes and our fears—of not just what we can accomplish or destroy as a person, but what we can accomplish or destroy as a people—and throwing us into strange new worlds that can only be explored when we shed the shackles of reality.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 includes Rachel Swirsky, Sofia Samatar, Charlie Jane Anders, Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, Maria Dahvana Headley, Kij Johnson, Catherynne M. Valente, Dexter Palmer and others

KAREN JOY FOWLER, guest editor, is the author of six novels and four short story collections, including We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves. She is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, and has won numerous Nebula and World Fantasy awards.

JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS, series editor, is the best-selling editor of more than two dozen anthologies, including Brave New Worlds and Wastelands. He is the editor and publisher of the digital magazines Lightspeed and Nightmare and is the editor of John Joseph Adams Books, a new science fiction/fantasy novel imprint from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Horror Western

The Magpie Coffin (Splatter Western Book 1) by Wile E. Young

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The year is 1875 and outlaw Salem Covington has spent the last twenty years collecting stories, possessions, and lives. Nicknamed “The Black Magpie” for his exploits during the war, Salem has carved a bloody trail across the western territories. Informed that his mentor, Comanche shaman Dead Bear, has been murdered. Salem vows vengeance on the perpetrators. Enlisting the help of an army scout and preserving the body of his mentor in a specially made coffin, he sets out in pursuit. But the choices of Salem’s past that earned him the moniker “Black Magpie” are riding hard behind him and the only weapon that can kill him might not be as far away as he thinks.

The Magpie Coffin is an unrelenting tale of revenge, with precise brutality and extreme violence.

(All Splatter Western books are stand-alone stories. Read them in whatever order you please!)

Dark Fantasy

The Lazarus Child: An action-packed Gothic vampire thriller (Blood Riders Book 3) by Jay Raven

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To save his missing daughter a distraught slayer must venture deep into the heart of darkness

Legendary vampire hunter Anton Yoska is on the edge, tormented by the rumour that the precious child he once thought dead is still alive and lost in a world of monsters.

One creature alone knows for sure what happened to Gretchen, but Terek Modjeski won’t divulge his secret – revelling in the twisted power over his long-time enemy. 

Despairing and drinking heavily, Anton stumbles from near disaster to near disaster as he puts his team in jeopardy, testing their friendship and loyalty to snapping point. 

Only the most desperate solution seems possible – to confront Terek in his maximum security cell and force the bloodsucker to end his game of cat and mouse. But making the cunning infernal talk will mean employing brutal methods that break every code Anton has ever lived by, making him as much of a demon as the leeches he hunts. 

Face to face with the taunting hate-filled vampire, the anguished slayer takes a decision that will change his destiny forever – sending him hurtling into danger to confront a terrifying truth about his lost child that risks not only his sanity but the future of mankind. 

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