Bram Stoker Award–winning collection

A collection of the National Book Award winner’s most “frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

“This devil’s half-dozen of dread and suspense is a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

In a flash, Emmy Fisher’s 15-year-old daughter Leah drowns one summer night—or at least that is what the police report says. In deep grief, Emmy needs time and courage before she can enter Leah’s bedroom. But when she does, she finds something at first bewildering, then unspeakable…

World-renowned investigative criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee collects 10 chilling true crime stories from the murderers themselves, describing some of the worst crimes known.

In this true crime memoir, a New Yorker writer investigates the life and career of his hit-man great-uncle and the impact he had on his family.

"Irresistible.... Scary, surreal, oddly funny.” —Chicago Tribune

In 1974, the brutal murder of Anita Fagiani Andrews, a 51-year-old former beauty queen and mother of two, shook the small, working-class town of Napa. Join author and retired judge Raymond A. Guadagni as he tells the story of the shocking murder, the investigation, and the subsequent trial over which he presided in 2011.

Angel Maturino Resendez is described by most who know him as a quiet, polite, soft-spoken man, a loving husband and father to a baby daughter. But law enforcement officials suspect that he might be responsible for upwards of eight grisly and random killings in the span of two years.

New York Times-bestselling author

As seen on Investigation Discovery: The complete story of murderous husband and father Robert Peernock—from the staged drunk driving accident that killed his wife but not his daughter to the sensational trial that followed.

From the eerie vestiges of the Sloss Furnaces to the unexplained performances in the Alabama Theatre, Birmingham is truly one of the South's supernatural hotbeds. Take a trip through the most haunted sites in Birmingham and the surrounding areas.