Rule One: You can only travel to a point within your lifetime.
Rule Two: You can only travel for ninety seconds.
Rule Three: You can only observe.
The rules cannot be broken.

In this electrifying science fiction thriller from acclaimed author Philip Fracassi, a scientist has unlocked the mysteries of time travel. This is not the story you think you know. And the rules are only the beginning.

Tense, fast-moving, surprsing, and above all else, entertaining. - Owen King, New York Times bestselling author

A clever premise digs its heels into a sci-fi thriller that breaks into a fast gallop from the first page - exciting, haunting, compelling stuff. - Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents

Scientist Beth Darlow has discovered the unimaginable. She's built a machine that allows human consciousness to travel through time--to any point in the traveler's lifetime--and relive moments of their life. An impossible breakthrough, but it's not perfect: the traveler has no way to interact with the past. They can only observe.

After Beth's husband, Colson, the co-creator of the machine, dies in a tragic car accident, Beth is left to raise Isabella--their only daughter--and continue the work they started. Mired in grief and threatened by her ruthless CEO, Beth pushes herself to the limit to prove the value of her technology.

Then the impossible happens. Simply viewing personal history should not alter the present, but with each new observation she makes, her own timeline begins to warp.

As her reality constantly shifts, Beth must solve the puzzles of her past, even if it means forsaking her future.

Part Crichton, part Bradbury, and all Fracassi, The Third Rule of Time Travel further demonstrates why Fracassi is one of the best writers working today, regardless of genre. - Tyler Jones, author of Midas

No One is Safe! presents fourteen stories of macabre, pulpy terror-a book filled with futuristic noir mysteries, science fiction thrillers, alien invasions, and old-school horror tales that will keep you up late into the night. Inside these covers, you'll discover haunted dream journals and evil houses, birthday wishes gone wrong, a neighborhood cat that cures any disease, a flesh-eating beach, and mysterious skeletons on a hidden moon base. You'll meet wise-cracking detectives, suburban vampires, murdered movie stars, and monsters of the deep. Don't get too attached to the characters you'll meet on these pages because anything can happen, and no one is safe.

Behold the Void is a collection of nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980's and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.

Revenge takes a monstrous form when a scorned lover acquires bizarre, telekinetic powers; a community swimming pool on a bright summer day becomes the setting for a ghastly nightmare of sacrifice and loss; a thief does bloody battle with a Yakuza for the soul of a horse god; a priest must solve the mystery of a century-old serial killer or risk the apocalypse; a newly-married couple discover that relationships-gone-bad can be poisonous, and deadly; a child is forced to make an ultimate choice between letting his parents die or living with the monsters they may become; and when a boy is trapped on a beach at low tide, he must face death in many forms - that of the rising water coming to consume him and the ghost of his dead mother who wants him back, reaching for him with dark, longing arms.... The book features an introduction by acclaimed horror author Laird Barron.

Old-school horror. ―STEPHEN KING

The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Philip Fracassi.

An Esquire Best Horror Book of 2023! - A British Fantasy Award finalist for Best Horror Novel!
A sublimely chilling story. --Library Journal, STARRED review

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys.

Early twentieth century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania.

Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family.

Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon, boys begin acting differently, forming groups. Taking sides.

Others turn up dead.

Now Peter and those dear to him must choose sides of their own, each of them knowing their lives -- and perhaps their eternal souls -- are at risk.

Old-school horror. ―STEPHEN KING

The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Philip Fracassi.

An Esquire Best Horror Book of 2023! - A British Fantasy Award finalist for Best Horror Novel!
A sublimely chilling story. --Library Journal, STARRED review

St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys.

Early twentieth century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania.

Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future...a family.

Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon, boys begin acting differently, forming groups. Taking sides.

Others turn up dead.

Now Peter and those dear to him must choose sides of their own, each of them knowing their lives -- and perhaps their eternal souls -- are at risk.

Beneath a Pale Sky collects eight stories of horror, including two original novellettes, that will take you from the high-security ward of a mental hospital to the top of a Ferris Wheel on an ocean pier. These stories will bury you in the rubble of an earthquake, pull back the veil on a soul's journey into the afterlife, and turn a small midwestern town into the secret domain of cross-dimensional gods. Combining old-school horror with the modern weird, Philip Fracassi will take you places you've never been before, and show you sights you won't soon forget.The supernatural intrudes upon a wedding; a pier becomes the site of tragedy; a collapsed building is only the start of the nightmare for those trapped in the ruins; a scientist who makes the discovery of a lifetime, only to find out that what he's unearthed has dire consequences not only for himself, but for all of mankind.

When Jim's big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers-along with their broken father and Jack's menacing best friend-decide to charter an ocean fishing boat to celebrate Jack's new freedom. Once the small crew is far out to sea, however, a mutant species rises from the deep abyssal darkness to terrorize the vessel and its occupants. As the horror of their situation becomes clear, the small group must find a way to fend off the attack and somehow, someway, return to safety; but as the strange parasitic creatures overrun them, they must use more extreme-and deadly-measures to survive.

On his 59th birthday, Tyson Parks-a famous, but struggling, horror writer-receives an antique

desk from his partner, Sarah, in the hopes it will rekindle his creative juices. Perhaps inspire him

to write another best-selling novel and prove his best years aren't behind him.

A continent away, a mysterious woman makes inquiries with her sources around the world,

seeking the whereabouts of a certain artifact her family has been hunting for centuries. With the

help of a New York City private detective, she finally finds what she's been looking for.

It's in the home of Tyson Parks.-

Meanwhile, as Tyson begins to use his new desk, he begins acting... strange. Violent. His writing

more disturbing than anything he's done before. But publishers are paying top dollar, convinced

his new work will be a hit, and Tyson will do whatever it takes to protect his newfound success.

Even if it means the destruction of the ones he loves.

Even if it means his own sanity.

Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker-nominated author of the story collections Behold the Void (named Collection of the Year from This Is Horror) and Beneath a Pale Sky (named Collection

of the Year by Rue Morgue Magazine). His novels include A Child Alone with Strangers, and the upcoming Boys in the Valley. Philip's work has been translated into multiple languages, and his stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, and Black Static. The New York Times calls his work terrifically scary.

Not since The Shining has the descent of a writer into madness been so masterfully rendered on the page. - Ross Jeffery, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Tome

A high creep factor chiller with a sinister edge that had me reading well past my bedtime. Frightening and fun, and deliciously original! - James A Moore, author of the Blood Red trilogy and Cherry Hill.

Fracassi takes the familiar traps-love, obsession, power-and gives them new teeth. It's dark fun twisted tightly around a story of human frailty...He's doing for the desk what King did for the car. - Jeff Terry, THE JEFF WORD

Fracassi's page-turning thriller offers unapologetic horror raised to the next level with strong characterization, great pacing, and visceral details that ensure we experience unspeakable dread alongside the book's protagonist. I think I went a little insane while reading it. --Norman Prentiss, author of Haunted Attractions with your Other Father and The Apocalypse-a-Day Desk Calendar

Stylish, atmospheric, and chilling, GOTHIC is an affectionate ode to the horror greats, and an effective reminder that Philip Fracassi is destined to become one of them. One of my favorite reads of the year so far.- Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy

GOTHIC is the literary equivalent of the abyss gazing right back at you from the hellish depths of its pages. Don't lean in too close, lest you fall into this nightmarish novel and never find your way out again. - Clay MacLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters

A diabolical novel! Fracassi pens this one with furious, devilish glee. Readers--and writers--of horror fiction will love it. - Ronald Malfi, author of Come with Me and Black Mouth

A Child Alone with Strangers starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer--one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places. --Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters

When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods--using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone--there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.

Brimming with dark humor, violence, and mystery, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre is a blood-soaked slasher sure to keep readers guessing until the very last page.

Rose DuBois is not your average final girl.

Rose is in her late 70s, living out her golden years at the Autumn Springs Retirement Home.

When one of her friends dies alone in her apartment, Rose isn't too concerned. Accidents happen, especially at this age!

Then another resident drops dead. And another. With bodies stacking up, Rose can't help but wonder: are these accidents? Old age? Or something far more sinister?

Together with her best friend Miller, Rose begins to investigate. The further she digs, the more convinced she becomes: there's a killer on the loose at Autumn Springs, and if she isn't careful, Rose may be their next victim.

Also by Philip Fracassi:
Boys in the Valley

A thrilling new novelette by the author of Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time Travel, and Gothic.

A haunted jukebox at an out-of-the-way dive bar not only lures patrons, but then doesn't allow them to leave.

Nobody is safe in a Fracassi story. - Laird Barron

DON'T LET THEM GET YOU DOWN is a deeply dark novel about depression and the madness inside each one of us.

When Peter Radcliffe loses his wife it will take more than pills and therapy to help him find his way back to a world where normality reigns and the desperate are left alone to fend for themselves, to reacclimate into a savage world... or perish trying.

A broken love story about self, despair, and the lengths we'll go to find our way back.

Who is the mysterious stranger chasing a bounty hunter across a Wild West terrain?

Why is a famous boxer so scared before the biggest fight of his career?

Why is a man suddenly finding bits of his body are vanishing?

And why are two others so frightened of Christmas?

Find out in another clutch of stories by award-winning and # 1 bestselling author Paul Kane (Hooded Man, Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell, Before, Tempting Fate), including one of his PL Kane crime mysteries, a brand new modern Carnacki adventure and an early bonus tale only just uncovered. With an introduction by award-winning author and screenwriter Philip Fracassi (Gothic, Boys in the Valley), cover photography from Michael Marshall Smith (The Straw Men, The Intruders), plus the script and audio download for Bounty, this book is bound to set you on the right-or should that be wrong?-road.

****

Paul Kane is a first-rate storyteller, never failing to marry his insights into the world and its anguish with the pleasures of phrases eloquently turned. - (Clive Barker - Bestselling author of The Hellbound Heart, Abarat, Mr B. Gone, and The Scarlet Gospels)

Paul Kane's lean, stripped-back prose is a tool that's very much fit for purpose. He knows how to make you want to avoid the shadows and the cracks in the pavement. - (Mike Carey - Bestselling author of the Felix Castor series of novels and The Girl With All the Gifts, Fellside, The Boy on the Bridge, and Infinity Gate as M.R. Carey)

Kane finds the everyday horrors buried within us, rips them out and serves them up in these deliciously dark tales. - (Kelley Armstrong - Bestselling author of Bitten, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Spell Bound, Thirteen, and The Boy Who Cried Bear)

Paul Kane is a name to watch. His work is disturbing and very creepy. - (Tim Lebbon - New York Times bestselling author of The Cabin in the Woods, The Silence, and Among the Living)

His stories not only, at his best, put him neck and neck with Ramsey Campbell and Clive Barker, but also in the company of greats like Machen and MR James. You don't rest easily after reading a Paul Kane story, but strangely your eyes have been somewhat opened. - (Stephen Volk - BAFTA winning screenwriter of Gothic, Ghostwatch, Afterlife, The Awakening, and Midwinter of the Spirit; author of The Parts We Play, The Dark Masters Trilogy, and The Good Unknown)

He stands out as one of the better writers I've read. - (Eternal Night)

Wonderfully dark and satisfying. - (Dark Side Magazine)

Kane is best when taking risks with his bizarre flights of imagination. - (SFX Magazine)

Kane is a highly regarded author whose influence can be felt across the genre, with a large and notable body of work behind him. - (Starburst Magazine)

The hype is very real... Fall under the thrall of the new king of horror. - (Mass Movement Magazine)

A legendary horror writer. - (This is Horror)

A Child Alone with Strangers starts out as a slow burn procedural with supernatural elements and inexorably cranks itself into a pulse-pounding symphony of eldritch horrors and all-too-human violence. Philip Fracassi is the best sort of horror writer--one who is unafraid to hunt for light in even the darkest places. --Shaun Hamill, author of A Cosmology of Monsters

When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods--using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however, is that this ancient being has its own reasons for wanting the interlopers gone--there is something hidden beneath the house, tucked away in the dark, damp root cellar . . . waiting for its return.