AN INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER OF UNIQUE BOOKS

Thank you for another great year! To celebrate, Written Backwards is offering a discount on eBooks December 10th through the 17th, simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom. Most anthologies are on sale for only $1.99 / £1.99, and a few books are absolutely free! (*December 10th through the 14th only).

$1.99: for a limited time, stock your digital readers with some of the best anthologies Written Backwards has to offer, including Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, the illustrated Chiral Mad 3, as well as Chiral Mad 2, the original Chiral Mad, the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Library of the Dead, and the critically-acclaimed dark science fiction anthologies Adam’s Ladder and You, Human. All for under 2 bucks.

Free: as a personal thank you, editor Michael Bailey is offering his standalone novelette, Our Children, Our Teachers, absolutely free, as well as Pellucid Lunacy, the first anthology ever published by Written Backwards. Get ’em while you can. 4 days only.

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4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders, but here’s the catch: every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even collaborated on the co-editing to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience!

The third act in the critically-acclaimed series contains 45 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, Scott Edelman, Richard Thomas, Richard Chizmar and Gene O’Neill, and with 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Erik T. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Mort Castle, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, Ann K. Boyer, John Skipp, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an intro and outro by Michael Bailey. Also features the Bram Stoker Award winning novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of Gord Rollo, Monica J. O’Rourke, Jon Michael Kelly, Meghan Arcuri, Christian A. Larsen, Jeff Strand, Gary McMahon, John Palisano, Jack Ketchum, and many others, with an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone.

An anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area’s most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golden books (urns) shelved from floor to ceiling in a glowing labyrinth of nearly countless rooms.

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.

Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by the always-impressive Orion Zangara, and an incredible introduction on humanness by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.

Absolutely free:

Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a standalone novelette by Michael Bailey, a high school in rural Brenden, Washington is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system, if gun control is not addressed properly.

An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty short stories by unknown and established authors around the world, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Amanda Larson, Lee Clark Zumpe, Amanda Pillar, Aaron J. French, and more. The first anthology ever published by Written Backwards.