An AMAZON ORIGINAL SHORT STORY Slow Horses x The X-Files: From the acclaimed author of Red London and Red Widow comes a heart-pounding thriller about a dispirited spy who gets a chance to find the truth as he tackles the mystery of unexplained aerial phenomena.
When CIA officer Craig Norton glimpses an unexplainable object in the sky over Mongolia, he can’t quite believe it. Frankly, he isn’t sure Langley will either. Despite his misgivings, Craig reports the sighting in a cable to headquarters detailing the incident.
Fast-forward fifteen years. Craig is still reeling from the report that tanked his career and his personal life. That fleeting moment on the Mongolian steppe made him a pariah at the Agency, and he still hasn’t recovered. At this point, he doubts he ever will.
But when the navy confirms on national television reports of unexplained aerial phenomena, Craig finds himself pulled back into the fold. Assigned to a CIA task force investigating sightings of unexplained aerial phenomena—including his own—Craig stumbles upon a mystery that could strain global relations and expose an international cover-up.
For a spy humbled by his own instincts, the search for the truth could finally mean a chance at redemption—or place him directly in the path of a dangerous conspiracy.
“A potent, enthralling mix of high-level espionage and the winding darkness of conspiracy thrillers like The Parallax View and the X-Files, BLACK VAULT pulls you in like quicksand – deceptively at first, but once you notice, it’s far too late to move away. Alma Katsu is an unforgettable talent.” – Alex Segura, bestselling author of Secret Identity
COMING August 10, 2023 AVAILABLE NOW on Kindle and Audible
Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents a terrifying and chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu and many more.
Even though many celebrate the winter solstice as a time of joy, a darker tradition of ghost tales and horror stories resides in the long winter nights. This anthology of all new stories will scour the world for the unholy, the dark, the dangerous, the horrific aspects of a time when families and friends come together—for better and worse.
Alongside Christmas celebrations, around the world are Makara Sankranti in the Hindu calendar in India, Yalda Night in Iran, Chanukah, the Roman Saturnalia, the Krampus, Dongzhi (solar term) in East Asia where sunlight passes through the 17 arches of Seventeen Arch Bridge, Summer Palace, Beijing, the pagan festival of Yule, St. Lucia’s Day in Scandinavia, the Druidic tradition of Alban Arthan, Soyal for Hopi Indians, Peruvian solstice festivals, and even Christmas in Antarctica at the research stations.
COMING October 24, 2023. AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER
WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction
Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella
My first story with AMAZON ORIGINAL STORIES:
Germany, 1945. In the waning days of World War II, the Nazis have been all but defeated. Uwe Fuchs, never a fighter, feels fortunate to have avoided the front lines as he cared for his widowed mother.
But Uwe’s fortune changes when Hans Sauer, the village bully, recruits him to join a guerilla resistance unit preparing for the arrival of Allied soldiers. At first, Uwe is wary. The war is lost, and rumor has it that Hans is a deserter. But Hans entices him with talk of power, brutality, and their village’s ancestral lore: werewolves.
With some reluctance, Uwe joins up with the pack and soon witnesses their startling transformation. But when the men’s violent rampage against enemy soldiers takes a devastatingly personal turn, Uwe must grapple not only with his role in their evil acts but with his own humanity. Can he reclaim what this group of predatory men has stolen from him?
Or has he been a monster all along?
“This novelette may be my favorite of Alma Katsu’s work. Dark, desperate, and intimate, it’s a grisly World War 2 horror story and a terrifying look at how easy it is to let the world turn you into a monster. A must read.” —Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Road of Bones and All Hallows
“I don’t know what it is about World War II and werewolves, but they might be the chocolate and peanut butter of horror, and Alma Katsu is the perfect writer to give them to us.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of My Heart is a Chainsaw and The Only Good Indians
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An anthology of original new horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award winners Vince Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from underrepresented backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, “other”
Offering original new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Fears will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to celebrate fear of “the other.” Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual preference, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren’t part of the dominant community—and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what’s different, as foolish as that may be, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it’s much larger than you think.
In Other Fears, horror writers from a multitude of underrepresented backgrounds will be putting a new, terrifying spin on what it means to be “the other.” People, places, and things once considered normal will suddenly appear different, striking a deeper, much more primal, chord of fear. Are our eyes playing tricks on us, or is there something truly sinister lurking under the surface of what we thought we knew? And who among us who is really of the other, after all?
I have a story, “Waste Not”, in this anthology. “Whether she’s weaving horror into historical fiction or telling short tales crackling with vivid, brutal life, Alma Katsu is a devoted stylist and builder of tension,” says Paste Magazine.
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Dark Stars is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today’s most noteworthy authors, with an introduction by bestselling author Josh Malerman and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell.
Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection features 12 original novelettes showcasing today’s top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new terrifying stories from award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices like Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Usman T. Malik, and Alma Katsu, with seasoned author John F. D. Taff at the helm. An afterword from original Dark Forces contributor Ramsey Campbell is a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection.
Enter if you dare, dear reader, and discover what horrors await in Dark Stars…
I have a story, “The Familiar’s Assistant”, in this anthology. Said The Line-Up: “And if you’re looking for a remarkable vampire story, then you’re in luck because I can’t recommend “The Familiar’s Assistant” highly enough… this story seems to be headed in one direction, only to end up in places that feel at once fresh yet inevitable. A well-written and unnerving vampire tale to be sure.”
WINNER OF THE STOKER AND SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY! Edited by Lee Murray and Geneve Flynn. Almond-eyed celestial, the filial daughter, the perfect wife. Quiet, submissive, demure. In Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women, Southeast Asian writers of horror both embrace and reject these traditional roles in a unique collection of stories which dissect their experiences of ‘otherness’, be it in the color of their skin, the angle of their cheekbones, the things they dare to write, or the places they have made for themselves in the world. Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women is a dark and intimate exploration of what it is to be a perpetual outsider. I wrote the foreword.
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Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities, and Other Horrors (edited by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey)
I wrote the foreword to this amazing collection of stories and poems that investigate the relationship between man and monster, monster and self. Stories by Josh Malerman, Victor LaValle, Ramsey Campbell, Theodora Goss, Laird Barron, and more.
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Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery
I have a story, “Gold Among the Black”, that looks at what drives someone to want to become a witch. HEX LIFE is an anthology of stories about witches, all written by women.
“Such a good author list, you can bet every story in this collection will be amazing.” — SYFY
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