R L Meza

A travel guide to hauntings and the haunted, to lands with their own power, and to the communities that spring from these strange realms. What you hold in your hands is a travel guide to the strange and surreal. From arcades along a boardwalk and jetties at the edges of tourist towns, to a rural village in Pakistan and hollows hidden deep within a forest in Pennsylvania, strange things can happen no matter where you are. You can become lost in a city crowded with people, haunted within your own home, and slip from one reality into another in the space of a step. With twenty-two stories by authors such as Brian Keene, Maurice Broaddus, Ai Jiang, Samit Basu, and KS Walker, editors Sheree Renée Thomas and Lesley Conner take readers on a tour of places where weird things happen. Places where ghosts are real, old gods are hungry, and towns are not as idyllic as they appear to be. Welcome to The Map of Lost Places. Enter at your own risk. Includes original fiction from: Ai Jiang Brian Keene Beth Dawkins Danian Darrell Jerry Dimitra Nikolaidou Fatima Taqvi Ferdison Cayetano Gabrielle Paniccia Jenny Rowe Joshua Lim K.S. Walker Lavie Tidhar & Nir Yaniv Maurice Broaddus Muhammed Awal Ahmed Octavia Cade Oliver Ferrie R.L. Meza Rebecca E. Treasure Rich Larson Samit Basu VH Ncube Vivian Chou With an introduction from Linda D. Addisona

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE THE ONES YOU LOVE?A remote cabin in A snowy forest could be the perfect place for Claire and Emma to work on their marriage and bond with their two children, if only it didn't come with so many memories of Claire's inhumane treatment at the hands of her abusive mother, and if only the strange abandoned schoolhouse nearby didn't have a dark history of its own. When their children go missing in a snowstorm, the two mothers must put their personal troubles aside and rely on one another to get them back, but nothing has prepared them to face the ever-growing horror that steps lightly in the storm.Soon the two mothers are forced to ask themselves, how far would you go to save the ones you love?Our Love Will Devour Us is a novel about the bonds of family, the depths of love, and things that hunger in the dark.