Mercy Loomis: 8 books

"I don't like poetry." You hear that a lot, usually from people who used to write poetry. Most of those people destroyed their own poems long ago. But poetry can be a time capsule. It can offer insight into the development of its writer both on a technical and on a thematic...

These five tales of Lovecraftian weird fiction might keep you up past your bedtime. SUCCOR THE CHILD: After viewing a sixth-grader’s bizarre chalk drawing, one impressionable townsperson begins to see more than just childish scrawls, and curiosity about the drawing’s subject becomes an...

Jake has never taken Kary seriously—in his mind, she's still his little sister's best friend. So when Jake discovers Kary's a witch, he doesn't take that seriously either, and dares her to put a love spell on him. But Kary's been waiting for this opportunity, and Jake gets a firsthand lesson on why it's dangerous to taunt a witch. Especially a sexy witch. Contains explicit sex.

Skinshifters, doppelgangers, gargoyles, vampires, mages, aethermancers…these men are definitely other. Four short stories and one novella explore what happens when other men love other men. Contains explicit sex. CRY WOLF: When a large, bold wolf starts appearing outside the fence while Wil’s...

When Katie agrees to spend a month in a haunted house as part of a reality TV show, she doesn't realize that she'll be under the watchful eye of more than just the cameras. This ghost is just a little too friendly. Contains explicit sex.

December, 1998. Robbie Barnes loves being a soldier, but the Army is a jealous mistress. Living with the fear of being outed as gay has put Robbie’s love life on the shelf. But when fellow soldier and best buddy Chi invites Robbie to come stay with him in Hawaii over Christmas, Robbie discovers...

In Haiti, the newly dead have nine days to make their goodbyes before the psychopomp Baron Samedi escorts them to their final reward. So when the ghost of a foreigner witnesses the raising of a zombie, he knows there isn’t a moment to lose. Can he figure out how to hijack a soulless body before the loa comes for him?

London, 1794. George Wickham has always been able to see the true natures of the creatures around him; it's just that up to now he's always been able to lie about it. When a truth spell and a conspiracy land Wickham in Bedlam asylum, he finds an unlikely ally and lover in vampire Thomas Thornton. But...