Sisterhood and The Leaves of a Necronomicon fiction anthologies available now in print

Posted by Michael O'Brien on 31st Oct 2022

Two Chaosium fiction releases are available now in trade paperback!

Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories

Sixteen horror stories by some of the genre's leading female voices.

In churches and convents and other religious communities, sisterhood takes many forms, forged and tested by such mundane threats as disease and despair, but also by terrors both spiritual and existential—Satan’s subtle minions and the cosmic nightmare of the Cthulhu Mythos. Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories presents sixteen horror stories by some of the genre’s leading female voices. Their settings range around the globe and across the centuries, from 6th century Ireland to 17th century Virginia to Indonesia in the recent past.

Contributors include such award-winning and critically acclaimed authors as Nadia Bulkin, Livia Llewellyn, Molly Tanzer, Sun Yung Shin, Gemma Files, Kaaron Warren, Damien Angelica Walters, and Selena Chambers.

Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories

Edited by Nate Pedersen
Cover art by Liv Rainey-Smith
CHA6058
ISBN 978-1-56882-464-2
264 pages - trade paperback

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Table of Contents:

“The Wine of Men” by Ann K. Schwader
“From an Honest Sister, to a Neglected Daughter” by Monica Valentinelli
“Étaín and the Unholy Ghosts” by Lisa Morton
“The Barefoot Sisters of Saint Beatriz of the Mountain” by Kali Wallace
“Unburdened Flesh” by Penelope Love
“Only Dead Men Do Not Lie: The Trials of the Formosans” by Kaaron Warren
“Jane, Jamestown, The Starving Time” by Sun Yung Shin
“Dorcas and Ann: A True Story” by Molly Tanzer
“The Resurrected” by S. P. Miskowski
“The Low, Dark Edge of Life” by Livia Llewellyn
“The Anchoress” by Lynda E. Rucker
“Siūlais ir Kraujo ir Kaulų (Of Thread and Blood and Bone)” by Damien Angelica Walters
“Gravity Wave” by Nadia Bulkin
“The Veils of Sanctuary” by Selena Chambers
“The Sisters of Epione” by Alison Littlewood
“Red Words” by Gemma Files

The Leaves of a Necronomicon

"What will you discover when you meet this gallery of fools and villains and dreamers?"
—Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.

The Necronomicon. For centuries, scholars of the occult have sought out the darkly fabled tome, hoping to gain insight into the secret workings of the universe—or unbridled power. Instead, the book rewards their pursuit with madness and devastation.

Under the guidance of Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., The Leaves of a Necronomicon traces the impact of a single copy of the mysterious work on its owners and those around them as it passes from hand to hand across the decades.

The history is told in braided novel form, with chapters contributed by a gathering of outstanding horror and dark fantasy authors, including S. P. Miskowski, Michael Cisco, Damien Angelica Walters, Nick Mamatas, Anna Tambour, and Jeffrey Thomas.

The Leaves of a Necronomicon

Edited by Joseph S. Pulver Sr.
Cover design by Inkspiral Design
CHA6059
ISBN 978-1-56882-408-6
256 pages - trade paperback

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Table of Contents:

Introduction: From Hand to Hand . . . to Hand— by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
Chapter 1: The Bookmaker by Nate Pedersen
Chapter 2: The Collector of Rare Editions by Donald Tyson
Chapter 3: Down to a Sunless Sea by Allyson Bird
Chapter 4: Dawn Watch by Daniel Mills
Chapter 5: Liquor City by Nick Mamatas
Interlude: In Waves by S. P. Miskowski
Chapter 6: Eyes on Fire by Cody Goodfellow
Chapter 7: Horrors Worse than Hell by Robert M. Price
Chapter 8: Laying the Words by Don Webb
Interlude: Mysteries Don’t Sleep by Anna Tambour
Chapter 9: The Sun Saw by Mike Allen
Chapter 10: American Ghost by John Claude Smith
Chapter 11: Flickering I Roam by E. Catherine Tobler
Chapter 12: Sewn into Pieces, Stitched into Place by Damien Angelica Walters
Chapter 13: Too Many Pages by Simon Strantzas
Chapter 14: 11:00 by Nikki Guerlain
Chapter 15: Void Kiss by Michael Cisco
Interlude: Letter Found Sitting atop a Rare Old Handbook of Dark Portent by Anna Tambour
Chapter 16: And I Watered It in Fears by Sunny Moraine
Chapter 17: Miles and Kathrine at the Crimson by Michael Griffin
Chapter 18: Passages for the Dying and the Dead by S. P. Miskowski
Chapter 19: Ménage à Trois by Ross E. Lockhart
Chapter 20: The Persuader by Jeffrey Thomas
Afterword: Over the Moon by Anna Tambour

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