A lyrical horror novel of obsession, never-endinghatred and fear, and a mother's undying love. An undying mother's undying love.Cruel yet kind, talented yetterrifying, hypnotically compelling yet repellent, the vampire"mother," Aunt Sally—who was born a slave and died only to riseagain—created a horde of monsters. When humans discovered that vampires werereal, she incinerated her flock to save herself.Now Aunt Sally is determined to find and destroy her enemies:After Jess lost her daughter to one of Aunt Sally'screatures, she and others touched by Aunt Sally's evil fled across the U.S.This "found family" wants nothing more than to live a normal life,but it is not to be. One harrowing day, Aunt Sally arrives on their tiny islandhome. Blood and death, triumph and betrayal follow in her wake. Even a humancan be a monster when the time is right. And even a monster can feel love andloss. Glen Hirshberg's...

There are people who collect coins, baseball cards, flashlights. They trade and sell them at conventions, flea markets, antique malls. Those are not the people Nadine and Normal (a.k.a. The Collector) serve, and those places are not where you'll find them. Their quests have led them to decidedly less familiar characters and locales: A music obsessive who gives a little more than fandom—and takes a little more than music—from the artists he loves. A bouquiniste stall along the Left Bank of the Seine that has remained locked—for good reason—for 150 years. A box full of View-Master reels showing tiny photographs of places—some of which don't exist. A former Nazi-in-training, haunted—to the point of life-crippling paralysis—by a taste. But now, Nadine lives sequestered in the Northern California woods, caring for the Collector, who has slid into early-onset dementia. One day, against her better...

Black Leg by Glen Hirshberg is dark fantasy about a man on jury duty who while waiting to be called encounters a fellow possibly juror, a night watchman who insists on recounting multiple eerie encounters while on the job.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In his powerful novel, Motherless Child, Bram Stoker Award–nominee Glen Hirshberg, author of the International Horror Guild Award–winning American Morons, exposes the fallacy of the Twilight-style romantic vampire while capturing the heart of every reader. It's the thrill of a lifetime when Sophie and Natalie, single mothers living in a trailer park in North Carolina, meet their idol, the mysterious musician known only as "the Whistler." Morning finds them covered with dried blood, their clothing shredded and their memories hazy. Things soon become horrifyingly clear: the Whistler is a vampire and Natalie and Sophie are his latest victims. The young women leave their babies with Natalie's mother and hit the road, determined not to give in to their unnatural desires. Hunger and desire make a powerful couple. So do the Whistler and his Mother, who are searching for Sophie and Natalie with the help of Twitter and the musician's...

Freedom is Space for the Spirit by Glen Hirshberg is a fantasy about a middle-aged German, drawn back to Russia by a mysterious invitation from a friend he knew during the wild, exuberant period in the midst of the break-up of the Soviet Union. Upon his arrival in St. Petersburg, he begins to see bears, wandering and seemingly lost.

Three-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to Good Girls, the standalone sequel to Motherless Child.Still in college, Rebecca is the "responsible one." She keeps her friends from getting too crazy—though Human Curling is kind of out there. She's a safety valve for Joel, her foster father, and helps out at Halfmoon House, which he runs with his wife, Amanda—Rebecca's foster mother, who makes sure her children able to protect themselves. To take care of themselves. Mostly Rebecca takes care of everyone else. She works at the university's crisis center, doing whatever she can to help the troubled souls who call the hotline. Until the night he calls. Jess has lost so much: her job, her home...her daughter Natalie, no longer human thanks to the creature who called himself the Whistler. She tried desperately to save Natalie, but in the...