David Nickle: 12 books

“Stark and creepy, Stoker winner Nickle’s first collection will delight the literary horror reader [with] 13 terrifying tales.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar...

Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2014 calendar year.   Featuring Kelley...

Orphan children destroy their nasty superintendent and create a clockwork replacement; a professor publishes a list of known vampires, but doesn’t get it quite right; a military drone achieves sentience—and an unfortunate conscience; self-replicating humanoid robots fall in love with humans; an...

Imaginarium 3: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing is a reprint anthology collecting speculative short fiction and poetry (science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, etc.) that represents the best work published by Canadian writers in the 2013 calendar year. Featuring Colleen Anderson,...

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Nina Allan, Tara Isabella Burton, Monica Byrne, Rebecca Campbell, P. Djèlí Clark, Indrapramit Das, Alix E. Harrow, N. K. Jemisin, Margaret Killjoy,...

"The Caretakers" by David Nickle is a strange tale about a group of people called to a meeting with their intimidating boss. The newest member of their organization is not so sure she wants to even be there. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A collection of genre-bending horror stories from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author is “sui generis in presentation . . . [by] a monumental talent” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A young man at loose ends finds he cannot look away from his new lover’s alien gaze. A young woman...

It’s the 1990s. The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is down for the count—and the Free World is getting ready for its first nuclear-free Christmas in decades. Only one thing in the world can ruin it. Santa Claus. Who can forget the horrifying events of “The Toy Mill” (Nickle...

A young woman’s personal demon becomes a coveted poltergeist in this horror novel “full of powerful imagery” by the Bram Stoker Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly). When Ann LeSage was a little girl, she had an invisible friend—a poltergeist that spoke to her with flying knives...

The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal—with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown...

The Bram Stoker Award–winning author “triumphantly returns to the world of Eutopia” in this “dazzling horror novel” of Nazis and demonic forces (Publishers Weekly, starred review). *At the dawn of the twentieth century, orphaned farm boy Jason Thistledown and black physician Andrew...

They were the beautiful dreamers. From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds. They slipped into the minds of Russia's enemies with diabolical ease, and drove...