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Dan Starkey takes on the mantle of William Hope Hodgson's supernatural detective, Thomas Carnacki, in this collection of enhanced audiobook readings: 'The Gateway of the Monster', 'The House Among the Laurels', 'The Whistling Room', 'The Horse of the Invisible', 'The Searcher of the End House' and 'The Thing Invisible'. Directed by Scott Handcock.

Mysterious deaths and disappearances on a doomed ship on its final voyage. Another ship appears out of nowhere, then vanishes. A single survivor of the Mortzestus gives his account of terror and haunting on the high seas in this classic tale by master writer William Hope Hodgson.

Following in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words & a Shovel I, Fariha Róisín's poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young, queer, Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously, this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Róisín and her mother, her platonic and romantic heartbreaks, and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.

ghost composer is a luminous work of prose poetry that moves through the aftermath of substance-use disorder with unflinching tenderness. It traces the hidden architecture of a life—brilliance threaded with isolation, ambition shadowed by addiction, love complicated by divorce, alternative family structures, the bizarre dysfunction of authority, and the quiet fractures of abandonment. It examines the science and inheritance of dependency, the machinery of the hospital protocol, and the moment when procedure eclipses instinct.

Dark Poems is a collection of poetry from the archives of burgeoning poet D.K. Mckenzie. Forty vivid poems all forged from the dark realms of the psyche. Each poem offers a poignant and sometimes heartbreaking outlook on the topics of life, death, relationships, and everything in between.

Silas House is known throughout the South as a quintessential person of letters—a novelist, music journalist, environmental activist, columnist, and the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky. His first full-length collection of poetry blends his Appalachian upbringing with his ongoing relation to the natural world. Poems of praise for community and the collective appear alongside others tinged with nostalgia and grief when House keenly observes the loss of rural America as he once knew it.

The sailing ship Mortzestus is far from shore when the wind drops away and a mysterious mist surrounds the ship. As the days drift by, the observant sailor Jessop spots something half seen creeping over the taff rail. Then men in the rigging are attacked, a man disappears, and everyone starts to get scared. Then Jessop sees something below the water following the ship....

Winner of the 2026 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award 2025 National Book Award Finalist Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Finalist 2026 APALA Literature Awards - Asian American Poetry Winner Ms. Magazine’s Best Poetry of 2024 and 2025 Electric Literature’s Best Poetry Collections, 2025 NPR’s Books...

This book is about the ghost dance to send the evil ones back to where they came from.

The silence after the last goodbye. The ghost of a name on your phone screen. The slow, quiet work of rebuilding a heart you thought was broken for good. This collection of 101 modern poems captures the entire emotional journey of love and loss—from the raw, initial pain of heartbreak to the difficult process of healing, and finally, to the triumphant peace of finding yourself whole again.

Life is many things and all the in-between. How big and wide will you live your life? Or will the fear of this day cause your experience to be narrowed, smaller? Starvation is not always about the stomach. It is all about the view.

From the author of Musings, Woolgathering, & Ghosts comes a second volume of poetic prose and her own blend of Haiku and imagery, that will bring extraordinary insight into everyday life for everyone.

This audiobook includes 30 classic and contemporary poems dealing with haunting, ghosts, superstition, murder, and death.

I have wondered at the many ways life turns me inside and out, every day of my life. I do my best to see life with depth and breath. A broader lens of what I see day to day. With practice and intent, I try to find the uncommon in everyday life. Simply living my daily experiences can in itself become a form of art. For the most part, this book has come together aroused by thoughts and feelings from my everyday life. Some are deeper, more insightful. Others are lighter and more playful. Some are haunting, with vivid memories that follow me through my life.

There's a Ghost in this Machine is all about uncovering and bringing to light the untold history of Sonoma County, California from the early history of the Gravenstein Apple industry to the history of the destruction and resurrection of one of California's largest watersheds the Laguna de Santa Rosa.