Dark Stars,edited by John F.D. Taff, is a tribute to horror’s longstanding short fiction legacy, featuring 12 terrifying original stories from today’s most noteworthy authors.

Within these pages 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 inDark Starsrun 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.

Dark Starsfeatures all-new stories from the following award-winning authors and up-and-coming voices: Chesya Burke, Ramsey Campbell, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Caroline Kepnes, John Langan, Livia Llewellyn, Josh Malerman, Usman T. Malik, Priya Sharma, and John F.D. Taff. Created as an homage to the 1980 classic horror anthologyDark Forces, edited by Kirby McCauley,Dark Starsfeatures an afterword from original contributor Ramsey Campbell–a poignant finale to this bone-chilling collection.