Brought to you by Penguin. NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING AMY ADAMS Are you looking for a book with bite? One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and...

Damian Stockwell was raised from birth to be a force for good. Trained to combat the evils of the world and blessed with the physique of a demigod, he travels the globe on a quest to confront evil and punch it in the face. At his disposal is a vast fortune, an endless array of gadgets, and an army of loyal allies. The year is 1937. A mysterious curse has possessed Stockwell's friend, and nothing will stop him from dishing out justice one fist at a time. From the bowels of the darkest jungle to the armpit of the Statue of Liberty, there is no place that evil can hide from Damian Stockwell.

For fans of comic fantasy, British pub humor, and stories where ordinary people face extraordinary nonsense with stubborn determination. Think The League of Gentlemen meets Bottom, if Richie and Eddie inherited an eldritch horror and tried to fix it with curry. Some reckonings arrive with fire and brimstone. This one arrives with vindaloo. Beneath an ordinary pub in Albrighton lurks the Hungry Table—an ancient entity that has survived wars, landlords, Thatcher, disastrous refurbishments, and pub quizzes so dire even the ghosts stopped attending.

In the summer of 1987, StarBright Shopping Mall is the place to be—until a masked killer with a bizarre fixation on butts turns it into a slaughtering ground. As the booty count rises, panic spreads faster than parachute pants on an ironing board. With a mix of laugh-out-loud humor and spine-chilling terror, this book will keep you on the edge of your seat, wondering, “Why did anyone write this?” and “Is my butt truly safe?”

When Brockleby Garden World launches its latest promotion — a mysterious new mulch dubbed “Zombie Compost” — no one expects the special offer to come with actual flesh-eating customers. Between pensioners armed with novelty flamingos, teenage shelf-stackers wielding leaf blowers, and a manager in denial about everything (including his haircut), things quickly go from compost to catastrophe. Now, a mismatched bunch of survivors must battle reanimated bargain-hunters, botanical chaos, and a soundtrack of 1950s swing music while trapped in the UK's most middle-class apocalypse.

There is something strange happening in Placidville! It is 1962. Kathy Anderson, finally fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, quits and heads to New York and the fame and footlights of Broadway. She stops off to visit her parents and old friends in Placidville, the all-American, middle-class, blissfully normal Midwest small town she grew up in. But she finds things are strange in Placidville. Has Kathy entered a zone in the twilight? Did she reach the limits that are outer? Has she fallen through a mirror that is black? Or is it just - just - politics as usual?

In this darkly-comic retelling of the Prodigal Son parable, Jesus talks of a man who must overcome strange horrors in order to convince his family he is real. "Prodigal Son" by Daniel M. Lavery is one of 9 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire S2...