Scott Edelman

Eight-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated writer Scott Edelman's stories have been called "utterly uncompromising," "smooth and inviting, colorful and vivid," and "horror writing at its best"-and after reading his new collection Things That Never Happened, you'll come away agreeing his fiction is "captivating, alarming, astonishing."Stories in this collection include: -"A Judgment Call for Judgment Day" - Journey back to a World War II battlefield where an angel and demon debate the worth of a soldier's soul-"Survival of the Fittest" - Travel to the Galapagos Islands with a haunted man who tries to exorcise his past-"It's Only a Story" - Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein in a tale that gives a Stranger Things vibe to that long-ago night when Mary Shelley birthed The Creature-And many more Gathering 13 of Edelman's eeriest tales from a 40-year career, Things That Never Happened truly-as has been said of his writing-"autopsies the mess of the beating human heart."

They're set to wow you in theaters, but who are the Kree warriors known as Starforce? Get to know Captain Marvel and her space-faring allies with these classic adventures Ronan the Accuser makes first contact between the Kree and the Earth - and may be judge, jury and executioner for the Fantastic Four Kree Scientist Dr. Minerva targets Avengers sidekick Rick Jones for abduction Carol Danvers takes on her fi rst costumed identity as Ms. Marvel Captain Atlas confronts the cosmic protector Quasar, Korath the Pursuer clashes with Captain America - and the Starforce battles the Avengers Finally, Carol and Cap face Bron Char of the Kree Lunatic Legion COLLECTING: FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) 65, MARVEL SUPER-HEROES (1967) 12, MS. MARVEL (1977) 1, CAPTAIN MARVEL (1968) 52, QUASAR 9, AVENGERS (1963) 346, CAPTAIN AMERICA (1998) 8, MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 399

Zombies spar with humans for dominance of a post-apocalyptic Manhattan in the Stoker-nominated "A Plague on Both Your Houses." The King returns to prove that rock 'n' roll will never die in "The Elvis Syndrome." And a dying boy is the catalyst for a deal with a decidedly different devil in "Making Peace with the Leader." These and ten more nightmarish tales form a bizarre baker's dozen in Scott Edelman's acclaimed horror collection."Like some creature out of Star Trek, Scott Edelman projects a zone of distortion that elevates all existence within its influence to the realm of the surrreal." --Adam-Troy Castro, from his introduction"Scott's delight in metafictional excursions, his blend of caustic humor with unstinting empathy, and his willingness to face all terrors unflinchingly--these traits constitute a unique voice in the field. If, as Scott avers in his Afterword, he can't get used to the notion that perhaps 'somebody up there likes me, ' he's surely in trouble now, for this volume will earn him the admiration of thousands of mere mortals as well as the blessings of those gods." --Paul Di Filippo"Scott Edelman's stories are utterly uncompromising, bleak, furious, penetrating, overflowing by turns, they reconstruct and re-enact familiar tropes in a fashion never less than astonishing and original. A major writer in the making." --Barry Malzberg"Edelman has a truly, deliciously twisted imagination. Buy it, read it. It'll keep you up most of the night, but that's what horror is for, isn't it?" --Mary A. Turzillo

It’s a wonder humanity ever survived into the twenty-first century. Even Neanderthals knew to bury the dead beneath stones to prevent corpses from rising. Ancient civilizations feared slain warriors would return from battlefields, medieval physicians worried that bodies would rise from plague pits, many cultures buried the dead at crossroads to prevent the dead from walking. In Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages, editor Steve Berman has collected stories that reveal the threat of revenants and the living dead is far from recent. From the Bronze Age to World War II, this anthology guides us through millennia of thrills, chills, kills, carnage, horror, and havoc wreaked throughout history by the walking dead.