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A Warhammer Horror anthology Unexplained deaths terrify the crew of a tank. A strange instrument beguiles its audience. A man fears for his sanity within a plague-riddled hive. This grim collection of unspeakable cosmic horrors and arcane menaces unveils the subtle darkness that lurks within the souls of mankind and the sinister forces tormenting them. READ IT BECAUSE Experience bite-sized chunks of terror in a collection of spine-chilling short stories that will shine a light on the very darkest corners of the Warhammer worlds. DESCRIPTION A bitter sacrifice haunts the forest of a backwater planet; in a plague-riddled hive, a man faces a harrowing choice; an instrument of singular beauty beguiles a failing musician… There is darkness within the beleaguered souls of those who suffer the worlds of Warhammer. Whether it’s the arcane menaces of the Mortal Realms, or the cosmic nightmares of the 41st Millennium, none are immune to the evil that preys upon the desperate, exploits the cruel and seduces the unfulfilled. The third in the series of Warhammer Horror anthologies, Anathemas includes more razor-sharp tales of terror and insanity from the imaginings of David Annandale, C L Werner, Jake Ozga, Lora Gray and many more. CONTENTS A Threnody for Kolchev by Darius Hinks Vox Daemonicus by James Forster The Thing in the Woods by Paul Kearney Hab Fever Lockdown by Justin D Hill Voices in the Glass by Richard Strachan Skin Man by Tim Waggoner These Hands, These Wings by Lora Gray A Deep and Steady Tread by David Annandale Mud and Mist by John Goodrich Suffer the Vision by Jake Ozga The Funeral by Darius Hinks The Shadow Crown by C L Werner Runner by Alan Bao Miracles by Nicholas Wolf
Authors
Lora Gray is a writer and artist from Northeast Ohio. Their fiction and poetry can be found in Shimmer, Strange Horizons, and The Dark, among other places. Lora is a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America, a graduate of Clarion West, a recipient of the Ohio Arts Council's Individual Excellence Award for Fiction Writing, and a Rhysling Award nominated poet. As an illustrator, Lora has provided cover and interior art for various novels, anthologies, and comic books and has been a featured instructor for the Cleveland Museum of Art's MIX series. Lora also works as dance instructor and occasionally moonlights as a musician. In their free time, Lora can be found wrangling a very smart cat named Cecil.
Paul Kearney was born in rural County Antrim, Ireland, in 1967. His father was a butcher, and his mother was a nurse. He rode horses, had lots of cousins, and cut turf and baled hay. He often smelled of cowshit. He grew up through the worst of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland, a time when bombs and gunfire were part of every healthy young boy's adolescence. He developed an unhealthy interest in firearms and Blowing Things Up - but what growing boy hasn't? By some fluke of fate he managed to get to Oxford University, and studied Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. He began writing books because he had no other choice. His first, written at aged sixteen, was a magnificent epic, influenced heavily by James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Robert E Howard, and Playboy. It was enormous, colourful, purple-prosed, and featured a lot of Very Large Swords. His second was rather better, and was published by Victor Gollancz over a very boozy lunch with a very shrewd editor. Luckily, in those days editors met authors face to face, and Kearney's Irish charm wangled him a long series of contracts with Gollancz, and other publishers. He still thinks he can't write for toffee, but others have, insanely, begged to differ. Kearney has been writing full-time for twenty-eight years now, and can't imagine doing anything else. Though he has often tried.
