“Henry Herz’s Combat Monsters is a beautifully curated assemblage of stories set in the many battles of World War II. Myths and monsters arise from all over the globe—North Africa, the Caribbean, Tanganyika, China, the Atlantic, Burma, Japan, and Europe—to battle, defeat, and save. Anchoring their stories with fascinating historical facts—the “Night Witches” all-female flight crew; an uprising led by a witch doctor; the horrors of Unit 731—seasoned slipstream authors and exciting new voices suit up, show up … and astonish.” —Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award
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- Combat Monsters
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Edited by Henry Herz
Introduction by Joshua Palmatier
Stories by Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell, Tori Eldridge, Harry Turtledove, Catherine Stine, Scott Sigler, Gaby Triana, Henry Herz, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Jonathan Maberry, Andrea Tang, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Jeremy Robinson, Tanya Huff, and David Mack
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Release Date: 2/11/25
Formats: Trade Paperback
Combat Monsters brings together twenty award-winning and bestselling speculative fiction authors who each bring their own spin on an alternate history of World War II.
New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during World War II included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju?
This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history. Dragons rise and fall, witches cast deadly spells, mermaids reroute torpedoes, and all manner of “monsters” intervene for better or worse in the global turmoil of World War II.
Together, Combat Monsters challenge the very definition of monstrous, with the brutality of war as a sobering backdrop.
- Combat Monsters
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Edited by Henry Herz
Introduction by Joshua Palmatier
Stories by Jane Yolen, Mary Fan, Eugen Bacon, Jeff Edwards, Peter Clines, Lee Murray, Bishop O’Connell, Tori Eldridge, Harry Turtledove, Catherine Stine, Scott Sigler, Gaby Triana, Henry Herz, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Jonathan Maberry, Andrea Tang, Kevin Andrew Murphy, Jeremy Robinson, Tanya Huff, and David Mack
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Release Date: 2/11/25
Formats: Trade Paperback
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- Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century
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Read by Neil deGrasse Tyson, André Santana, Pun Bandhu, Luzma Ortiz, Lauren Fortgang, Em Grosland, Kevin R. Free, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Meskimen, and Jaime Lincoln Smith
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Release Date: 10/29/24
Formats: Hardcover, Signed Hardcover
A USA Today bestseller!
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry takes readers on an entertaining and edifying tour of the universe.
In Neil deGrasse Tyson’s delightful journey through the cosmos, his fictional character Merlin responds to popular questions asked by adults and children alike. Merlin, a timeless visitor from Planet Omniscia in the Andromeda Galaxy, has observed firsthand many of the major scientific events of Earth’s history. Merlin’s friends include the most important scientific figures and explorers of all time—da Vinci, Magellan, Newton, Einstein, and Hubble. While Merlin occasionally recounts playful conversations with these luminaries, all questions are answered with authentic science, infused with wit, wisdom, and an occasional rhyme. With the help of intermittent humorous cartoons, Merlin clarifies the details of familiar phenomena like gravity, light, space, and time, and travels to distant stars and galaxies to describe what makes them tick, rotate, explode, and collapse.
Merlin’s Tour of the Universe is perfect for anyone who harbors burning questions on how the cosmos works.
- Merlin’s Tour of the Universe, Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century
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Read by Neil deGrasse Tyson, André Santana, Pun Bandhu, Luzma Ortiz, Lauren Fortgang, Em Grosland, Kevin R. Free, Bronson Pinchot, Jim Meskimen, and Jaime Lincoln Smith
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Release Date: 10/29/24
Formats: Hardcover, Signed Hardcover
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- Thriller
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Edited by Don Bruns
Stories by Don Bruns, Dahlia Rose, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Heather Graham, William Kent Krueger, Neil S. Plakcy, David R. Slayton, Rick Bleiweiss, and Jeffery Deaver
Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, and Gary Tiedemann
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Release Date: 7/11/23
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover
From Beat It to Billie Jean, the songs we know and love take on a brand-new, thrilling connotation in this anthology edited by Don Bruns.
In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes stories from Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, and David R. Slayton, among others.
With poignant, frightening, and intriguing stories from some of the best writers in the genre, this eerie collection is sure to keep you up at night—and maybe even haunt your dreams.
- Thriller
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Edited by Don Bruns
Stories by Don Bruns, Dahlia Rose, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Heather Graham, William Kent Krueger, Neil S. Plakcy, David R. Slayton, Rick Bleiweiss, and Jeffery Deaver
Read by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, and Gary Tiedemann
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Release Date: 7/11/23
Formats: Hardcover, Trade Print ARC, Trade Paperback, Signed Hardcover
