Kathe Koja

SHEBANG is lit by ancient bonfires and buzzing like a methane moped. In a community on the ragged edge of nowhere, sharp and solitary Ailey Esper works on her history of a doomed and dangerous hero-- but surprising love and very dark power are waiting for her there, along with a bad news herbalist, a pure-hearted goatkeeper, and a historian with his own sharp past. A near-future myth about love, revenge, and the animal that lives inside us all.

As Tess Bajac welds jagged scraps of salvage metal into brutal, beautiful forms, she dreams that her sculptures might one day move. Bibi Bloss is a dancer in search of sensation, her practice drifting from movement toward a more dangerous kind of performance – one etched directly into the body. When Tess and Bibi’s paths cross, a partnership sparks which quickly becomes defined by obsession and need. As their collaboration grows more intense, both their work and relationship are remade in a dangerous new form. As Bibi pursues perfection, others join in her acts of risk and surrender. More blood is shed with each new work, culminating in a daring final performance that demands the ultimate sacrifice. Skin is a haunting exploration of artistic devotion and desire, a descent into the brutal intimacy between artist and muse, and an unflinching examination of how far the body – and the heart – can be pushed before it finally breaks.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award 1992 Winner of the Locus Award 1992 Shortlisted for the Phillip K. Dick Award Nicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears... It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole. Then a mouse... Now from down the hall, the black hole calls out to Nicholas every day and every night. And he will go to it. Because it has already seared his flesh, infected his soul, and started him on a journey of obsession - through its soothing, blank darkness into the blinding core of terror...

When the world ends, chaos begins- -for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bit- -for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world- -and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends. Dark times. Dark dreams. DARK MATTER The third and final book in the DARK FACTORY series.

Tess burns. Bibi cuts. Together they create chaos, love, pain, and unstoppable art, in SKIN, the story of a partnership that sparks like flying metal and bleeds like a breaking heart. A classic of queer horror, with a brand new introduction from Eric LaRocca.

From Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kathe Koja comes a fiercely poetic homage to Emily Bront 's supernatural masterpiece Wuthering Heights, where love is relentless and the dead are never gone. Cathy Earnshaw. Catherine Linton. Mother. Daughter. They never saw each other alive. In Catherine the Ghost these two young women confront loss, captivity, and the dark edge of eternity itself, to claim their full existence and share their power. With hauntings that escape the page and passion that bleeds them red, a tale that transcends the material plane as an eerie comfort that ghosts keep loving long past the grave. This modern gothic punk feminist remix of Emily Bronte's classic Wuthering Heights is a ghost story told from the POV of Catherine Earnshaw's restless spirit from beyond the grave. Passionate & haunting, a dark delight for fans of the original tale, gothic ghost stories, & die hard cult fan base of Kathe Koja, who has built a legacy with her intense speculative & horror fiction ever since her award winning debut, The Cipher, winner of the Stoker and Locus awards. With artful interior illustrations & classy French flaps, this short novel is a collector's edition that is sure to delight fans of Bront , ghost stories, feminist retelling of classics & generations of Kathe Koja fans for years to come.

DARK FACTORY opened the doors to a reality-bending dance club, an online immersive portal, and the feeling that the whole world is on the brink of something new. DARK PARK takes you there.DARK PARK follows visionary filmmaker Sergey Kendricks as he tracks Ari Regon and Felix the DJ through the fever and chaos of stardom and celebrity culture, while Max Caspar quests deeper into the unstable gaming landscape of Birds of Paradise: pursued and idolized by fans, acolytes, haters, and schemers, all dazed by beauty and searching for the end of the world.DARK PARK is the encore to DARK FACTORY, Kathe Koja's wholly original novel from Meerkat Press, that combines her award-winning writing and her skill directing immersive events, to create a story that unfolds on the page, online, and in the reader's creative mind. www.Darkfactory.club

In a display of sheer badassery, Forbidden Futures Magazine presents "All Female Action" - an issue that will leave you breathless and craving more Editor LISA MORTON sets the tone with her powerful editorial "Weird Women & Other Anomalies." S.P. MISKOWSKI shows us that defensive driving has a whole new meaning in "M." STEFANIE ELRICK takes us on a visionary journey with "All That Creepeth." MEHITOBEL WILSON calls forth the Sea-Monkeys in "In Our Shallows, We Are Small." ANYA MARTIN boldly confronts the Living Oracle in "Conjure, Green Goddess." JESSICA MCHUGH reads the fine print before signing up for the House of Tomorrow in "Always A Bride." MOLLY TANZER uncovers the secret of the cat people in "A Judgment Made Can Never Bend." KATHE KOJA delivers a powerful punch to the old-school with "Myths And Legends." ELIZABETH RAYNE reveals the eerie origins of a mysterious mummy in "Relics." AVE ROSE tempts us with ultimate decadence in "That Book." EMMA ALICE JOHNSON shows us the true meaning of beauty and danger in "A Centauress Walks Into A Battle." And lastly, BETTY ROCKSTEADY demonstrates the consequences of meddling with the unknown in "When She Came, Everything Fell Apart." Plus, don't miss Uncle Krust's irreverent and unapologetic "Guide To Men."

Welcome to Dark Factory! You may experience strobe effects, Y reality, DJ beats, love, sex, betrayal, triple shot espresso, broken bones, broken dreams, ecstasy, self-knowledge, and the void. Dark Factory is a dance club: three floors of DJs, drinks, and customizable reality, everything you see and hear and feel. Ari Regon is the club's wild card floor manager, Max Caspar is a stubborn DIY artist, both chasing a vision of true reality. And rogue journalist Marfa Carpenter is there to write it all down. Then a rooftop rave sets in motion a fathomless energy that may drive Ari and Max to the edge of the ultimate experience. Dark Factory is Kathe Koja’s wholly original new novel from Meerkat Press that combines her award-winning writing and her skill directing immersive events to create a story that unfolds on the page, online, and in the reader's creative mind. www.Darkfactory.club

Fascism didn't die in 1945. Its grave was only temporary. Rising again, this undead ideology shambles into the present, gathering power and spreading destruction wherever it goes.This monster stalks the pages of ANTIFA SPLATTERPUNK, in which sixteen horror writers explore fascism's many terrors: police wielding strange bioweapons against the public, white supremacists annihilating their enemies through dark magic, and TV personalities vilifying all who defy the rising fascist tide.But these stories are resistance: Nazi-killing demons, Confederate-slaying witches, and everyday people punching fascists in the teeth. Among the gore is a glimmer of hope that one day this monster will return to its grave and never rise again.

The spirits of the dead exist, and they want to communicate. First appearing in the late 1800s, spiritualism became a religious movement that swept the nation. Under the assumption that the dead live on in the afterlife, spiritualists believed that contact with the dearly departed was not only possible, but something those who crossed over longed for. Contact was usually made through a medium, a person who claimed to have the ability to speak with the dead. There Is No Death, There Are No Dead is a horror anthology that tackles all aspects of the spiritualist movement: from the true believers to the nay-sayers, the hoaxes to hauntings, the real mediums to the scam artists. From ghosts to possessions, from profound loss to insurmountable grief, these short stories explore limitless genres (historical fiction, Gaslamp mystery, modern horror, and everything in between) with a diverse cast of characters challenged at every corner. There Is No Death, There Are No Dead includes new work from some of the most talented and respected authors in the horror and dark fantasy genres, featuring stories from Gemma Files, Helen Marshall, Kathe Koja, Lee Murray, David Demchuk, Lisa Morton, Gwendolyn Kiste, S.P. Miskowski, Seanan McGuire, Catherine Lord, Chesya Burke, Nadia Bulkin, Michelle Belanger, and Laird Barron, and edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Jess Landry and Aaron J. French. The dead are speaking. Will you hear? Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Locus Awards, finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and named one of io9.com's "Top 10 Debut Science Fiction Novels That Took the World By Storm." With a new afterword by Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker and Rag. "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says, "We're not." But no one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole.

From the award-winning author of The Cipher and Buddha Boy, comes Velocities, Kathe Koja’s second electrifying collection of short fiction. Thirteen stories, two never before published, all flying at the speed of strange.

Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymous with the body horror subgenre and the term "Cronenbergian" has been used to describe the stark, grotesque, and elusive quality of his work. These eighteen stories bring his themes and ideas into the present, throbbing with unnatural life.A yoga group brings transcendence and bodily transformation. A woman undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery is subjected to outlandish techniques. A young man discovers the reality-warping potential of a bootleg horror VHS. A mother comes to terms with the monstrous appetites of her newborn child.Being terrified is just the beginning.Become one with us and take a deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool...This is THE NEW FLESH.With an Introduction by Kathe KojaFeaturing: A Bad Patch - Brian Evenson Red Lips in a Blue Light - Sara Century Descrambler - C.M. Muller Lackers - Leo X. Robertson Hekati Yoga - Max D. Stanton Convex - Emma Alice Johnson Seminar - Cody Goodfellow Emergence - Bruno Lombardi Genital Freak - Katy Michelle Quinn Elk: An Oral History of an Abandoned Film (1987) - Jack Lothian The Taint is Saintly with Her Welcome - Mona Swan LeSueur & Fiona MaeveGeist - Typhoid Ananya - Madeleine Swann A Future of Violence - Charles Austin Muir Orificially Compromised - Ryan Harding 15. Limbs - Alex Smith A New Mother's Guide to Raising an Abomination - Gwendolyn Kiste The Human Clay - Brendan Vidito Reborn of Ash - Sam Richard "Fetish technology. Pleasure technology. Sinister technology. Incomprehensible technology. Inhuman technology. Technology plus velocity, velocity plus death, death plus technology." - From the Introduction by the legendary Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, Skin, and Under the Poppy.

Kit Webster is hiding a secret. Carma, his best friend, has already figured it out, and pushes him to audition for the high school play, "Talk." When he's cast as the male lead, he expects to escape his own life for a while and become a different person. What he gets instead is the role of a lifetime: Kit Webster. In the play, Kit's thrown together with Lindsay Walsh, the female lead and the school's teen queen. Lindsay, tired of the shallow and selfish boys from her usual circle of friends, sees something real in Kit - and wants it. But Kit's attention is focused on Pablo, another boy in school. The play is controversial; the parents put pressure on the school to shut it down. And when Kit and Lindsay rally to save Talk, they find themselves deep into a battle for the truth: onstage, and inside themselves.

Because all my life had been a chrysalis, with you, Ada and Marshall and our house; even though we did other things and saw other people, the summers at the lake, and all those homeschoolers' parties, it was still always just - us. Hilly and her brother, Ivan, have been homeschooled by their parents. All their lives it has been just the two of them - Ivan and Hilly, brother and sister, pilot and copilot. Until Hilly breaks out of their cozy cocoon to work on the local high school literary magazine as an extracurricular activity. Ivan feels betrayed: it's no longer just the two of them. And when Hilly goes into a depression after the suicide of a friend she has made at the magazine, she drifts even further away from Ivan. Hilly's parents insist that she see a psychotherapist. Ivan steps in to help manage Hilly's recovery by taking her to and from her appointments but compounds the betrayal by establishing his own relationship with the manipulative therapist. Through the alternating voices of Hilly and Ivan, and drawing on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus, Kathe Koja explores the souls of two teenagers caught in a world where love takes you deeper than you ever dreamed you'd go.

Having anger and trust issues of her own, Rachel finds comfort in a stray dog she meets while working at an animal shelter, but Rachel soon learns that her knew acquaintance has similar problems and so they must work extra hard together to make a bond and become true friends. Reprint.