WOULD YOU SELL YOUR HAND FOR A MILLION DOLLARS?

Regan “Roz” Osbourne is broke. Her ex-boyfriend won’t take no for an answer, and no one is taking her art work seriously. So when a mysterious stranger offers her a million dollars and safety from her unstable ex in exchange for her left hand, she can’t afford to refuse.

Immediately following the amputation, she’s racked with insufferable phantom limb pain. Desperate for relief, she enrolls in an experimental drug trial. But this drug has a peculiar side effect—she develops a psychic connection to her missing limb. She soon discovers that Chicago’s longdormant Phantom Strangler is now wearing her hand and is using it . . . to kill.

Cover Design: Maryann Appel

Illustration: vpanteon / ziggymaj BE

Don’t awaken what sleeps in the dark.

In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the West, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain’s diary, a settler who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s. But Lavinia and the settlers who had come west in search of prosperity discovered something more than silver in the depths of the mine, something monstrous that does not want greedy prospectors disturbing the earth. Whispers of curses and horrid creatures haunt the diary, and now, over 150 years later, trapped in the abandoned mine, the women discover they’re not alone . . .

“Engrossing, atmospheric, and shot through with claustrophobic horror, this is the kind of story you can get lost in.”

—Paulette Kennedy, author of Parting The Veil

Hardcover ISBN 9780744306118 | $25.99 | Releases 10/11/2022

Jo Kaplan is a Los Angeles based writer and professor. She is the author of the haunted house tale It Will Just Be Us and also writes under the name Joanna Parypinski. Her work has appeared in Fireside Quarterly, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien, Haunted Nights edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, and Bram Stoker Award nominated anthology Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College.