Books by Bracken MacLeod

War on Christmas

by Dana Cameron, Cat Rambo, Chris Hayes, Bracken MacLeod, Kari Maaren, Paul Michael Anderson, Helen Marshall, David Demchuk, Neil Gaiman, John C. Foster, David Nickle, Karl Schroeder, Robert Dawson, James Edward O'Brien, E.E. King, Kate Heartfield, Ed Kurtz, Thomas Pluck, Don Bassingthwaite, Peter Darbyshire, Andrija Popovic, Alethia Kontis, Joanna Parypinski, Chris Sumberg, Kathryn Hore, Thomas Vaughn, Matt Moore, Alex Colvin, Noah Wareness, Gord Zajac

Product Description


Ho ho oh hell, is it that time of year again? Already? When the muzak starts cranking out lousy Casio versions of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” non-stop? When the flavor du jour switches from pumpkin spice to eggnog every damned thing? When the world gets all twinkley and glittery and your eyes just want to roll out of your skull from the sparkle overload? When the clatter and jangle of the Salvation Army bell-swingers standing outside every shop entry and exit makes you want to put your ears out with an icepick?
Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: “Remember the Reason for the Season” as if the reason isn’t the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?
Seriously, is it that time of year again already?
Well, if that’s got you feeling like Krampus, you’ve come to the right place. We don’t give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don’t take prisoners.


About the Author


Sandra Kasturi is a writer, poet, book reviewer, editor, and the publisher of ChiZine Publications, winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Sandra’s work has appeared in various venues, including Taddle Creek; Prairie Fire; Contemporary Verse 2; Shadows & Tall Trees; Evolve; Chilling Tales; A Verdant Green; Star*Line; The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts; 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin; Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out; Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers Mutants and Freaks; Gods, Memes & Monsters; Ellen Datlow’s Black Feathers; and The Sum of Us. Sandra is the author of two poetry collections: The Animal Bridegroom (with an introduction from Neil Gaiman) and Come Late to the Love of Birds. She is currently working on her third poetry book, Snake Handling for Beginners, a story collection, Mrs. Kong & Other Monsters, and a horror novel, Wrongness.
Craig Wolf’s fiction has appeared in Transversions, Triangulation: Dark Glass, Cinema Spec, and Book of Shadows, among others. He has published one collection of odd fiction, Pressure Points, and a short horror novel, Trespass. His newest novel, Queen of All the Nightbirds, will be a ChiZine Publications release in 2019. He is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA, fictioneers in Oklahoma City, and his two favorite words are ‘bah’ and ‘humbug.’

War on Christmas An Anthology of Tinseled Mayhem

by Neil Gaiman, David Demchuk, Helen Marshall, Dana Cameron, Bracken MacLeod, ChiZine Publications Staff

Ho ho oh hell, is it that time of year again? Already? When the muzak starts cranking out lousy Casio versions of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" non-stop? When the flavor du jour switches from pumpkin spice to eggnog every damned thing? When the world gets all twinkley and glittery and your eyes just want to roll out of your skull from the sparkle overload? When the clatter and jangle of the Salvation Army bell-swingers standing outside every shop entry and exit makes you want to put your ears out with an icepick?

Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: "Remember the Reason for the Season" as if the reason isn't the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?

Seriously, is it that time of year again already?

Well, if that's got you feeling like Krampus, you've come to the right place. We don't give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don't take prisoners.

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories

by Stephen Graham Jones, Seanan McGuire, Paul Tremblay, Nathan Ballingrud, Richard Kadrey, Joyce Carol Oates, Garth Nix, Ellen Datlow, Alice Hoffman, Ford Madox Ford, Pat Cadigan, Jeffrey Ford, Aliette de Bodard, Indrapramit Das, Brian Evenson, Nick Mamatas, Lee Thomas, Carole Johnstone, Bracken MacLeod, Alison Littlewood, Dale Bailey, Richard Bowes, Siobhan Carroll, F. Marion Crawford, Terry Dowling, Gemma Files, John Langan, Vincent J. Masterson, M. Rickert, M. L. Siemienowicz, A. C. Wise

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the genre—including stories from award-winning, bestselling authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay.

Everyone loves a good ghost story, especially Ellen Datlow—the most lauded editor in short works of supernatural suspense and dark fantasy. The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories is her definitive collection of ghost stories.

These twenty-nine stories, including all new works from New York Times bestselling authors Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Seanan McGuire, and Paul Tremblay, span from the traditional to the eclectic, from the mainstream to the literary, from pure fantasy to the bizarrely supernatural. Whether you’re reading alone under the covers with a flashlight, or around a campfire with a circle of friends, there’s something here to please—and spook—everyone.

Contributors include: Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Vincent J. Masterson, A.C. Wise, M. Rickert, Seanan McGuire, Lee Thomas, Alison Littlewood, M.L. Siemienowicz, Richard Kadrey, Indrapramit Das, Richard Bowes, Nick Mamatas, Terry Dowling, Aliette de Bodard, Carole Johnstone, Dale Bailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Bracken MacLeod, Garth Nix, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Gemma Files, Paul Tremblay, Nathan Ballingrud, Pat Cadigan, John Langan.

Let Not Your Sorrow Die

by Bracken MacLeod

Macabre desire.
The grotesque unease of longing.
Violence anticipated, violence realized.

Featuring sixteen pieces of short fiction--including three previously unpublished stories--Let Not Your Sorrow Die shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human.

In the Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best short fiction, a desperate girl and her father search for change in the cold night and instead discover even darker tragedy in the "Back Seat."

A priest struggles to keep faith in his parishioners' goodness, but when a child confesses a terrible secret to him, he is overwhelmed by "A Short Madness."

One antique collector's grim acquisition is an elderly woman's gateway to a last encounter with lost love at the end of a lonely life burdened by "The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted."

In "Memories of Me You," an amnesiac sifts through recollections pieced together by a man's desire to craft the perfect woman, finding instead her true identity in deconstruction.

An enforcer for an outlaw biker gang must fight to survive the wild force unleashed by a desperate man's final act in "Pigs Don't Squeal in Tigertown."

From grisly atrocity tourism and the looming threat of the surveillance state to the inevitability of a hiker's idyllic ending and the uncertainty of a final girl's future, acclaimed author Bracken MacLeod brings to haunting life the fears of "random" violence, isolation, unwelcome connection, beginnings, endings, and all the terrors in between.