Dark Stars is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short-fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today's most noteworthy authors, with a foreword by best-selling author Josh Malerman (Bird Box) and an afterword by Ramsey Campbell.

Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthology, Dark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley, this collection contains 12 original novelettes showcasing today’s top horror talent. Dark Stars features all-new stories from award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices like Stephen Graham Jones, Priya Sharma, Usman T. Malik, Caroline Kepnes, and Alma Katsu, with seasoned author John F.D. Taff at the helm. An afterword from original Dark Forces contributor Ramsey Campbell is a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection.

Within this book, you’ll find tales of dead men walking, an insidious secret summer fling, an island harboring unspeakable power, and a dark hallway that beckons. You’ll encounter terrible monsters - both human and supernatural - and be forever changed. The stories in Dark Stars run the gamut from traditional to modern, from dark fantasy to neo-noir, from explorations of beloved horror tropes to the unknown - possibly unknowable - threats.

It’s all in here because it’s all out there, now, in horror. 

The contributors:

Josh Malerman, Bram Stoker Award finalist, author of Bird Box

Stephen Graham Jones, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Mapping the Interior and USA Today best seller The Only Good Indians

Priya Sharma, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Ormeshadow

Alma Katsu, Bram Stoker Award finalist and Locus Award-winning author of The Hunger

John Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman

Caroline Kepnes, New York Times best-selling author of You, Hidden Bodies

Usman T. Malik, Bram Stoker Award winner and Nebula Award finalist

Chesya Burke, author of more than 100 published stories of horror and dark fantasy

Livia Llewellyn, multiple Shirley Jackson Award finalist

Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Experimental Film

John F.D. Taff, Bram Stoker Award finalist and author of The End in All Beginnings and The Fearing

Ramsey Campbell, multiple World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award winner