“If you have time for only one terrifying tale this spooky season, make room for The Extra.” —The Wall Street Journal
“With The Extra, Annie Neugebauer spins a disturbing tale of paranoia, identity, and horror packed with twists you absolutely won’t see coming! Highly recommended!” —Jonathan Maberry
“An absolutely killer premise executed with such slithery, sinewy care. After finishing Annie Neugebauer’s The Extra, you’ll find yourself carrying an additional fear you definitely didn’t have before you started.”
—Nat Cassidy
“The Extra is a fantastic calling card for the author. This is a mood book. And the mood is unbearable, slow-boiling tension. One of the most nail-biting endings of the year. ”
—Grimdark Magazine
Ten people head out on a backpacking trip,
but the first night eleven set up camp.
Everyone remembers everyone else.
Who is the extra?
The Extra is novella #1 in The Outsiders Sequence.
Out now from Shortwave Publishing.
“The Extra is exceptional in every way: Extra unnerving, extra eerie, extra tense. Annie Neugebauer pedals in the same alpine paranoia as John Carpenter’s classic The Thing, manifesting a sense of dissociative anxiety that only mounts with every turn of the page.” —Clay McLeod Chapman
“Neugebauer’s The Extra is an exquisite and anxiety-inducing work of horror that had me vicariously stressed the heck out along with the protagonist. Worth every white hair it gave me.”
—Cassandra Khaw
“The Extra is something readers will tear through in one sitting with sweaty palms and a pounding heart. Neugebauer creates an atmosphere so thick that you could slice into it. Curtois’ The Laws of The Skies meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this minimalist but fucking terrifying sci-fi horror mystery.” —FanFiAddict
“Everything depends on the quality of what you write. And I like Annie Neugebauer’s very much. Very high quality.”
—Anne Rice
“Horror readers still unaware of Neugebauer’s mastery are in for a revelation.”
—Rue Morgue Magazine
“Annie Neugebauer is one of the most powerful authors writing today.”
—Richard Thomas
“Spine-chilling.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Readers will find themselves holding their collective breath as Neugebauer artfully builds the tension and crafts a fine story.”
—Locus Magazine
“Perfection.”
—MI Book Reviews
Annie Neugebauer is a novelist, blogger, nationally award-winning poet, and two-time Bram Stoker Award®-nominated short story author.
“I’m convinced Annie Neugebauer is an apothecary of dread, an archaic chemist capable of constructing disquieting tales that attack the very fabric of my being. The assortment of stories found within You Have to Let Them Bleed are agents of trepidation, fast-moving, panic-inducing narrative narcotics that only a master craftsman of horror could prescribe.”
—Clay McLeod Chapman
“From its opening notes, You Have to Let Them Bleed announces itself as a symphony of poetry and prose. A nightmarish treasury of shadowy gems, these tales will lurk in the back of the mind and haunt you in the cold hours. Neugebauer has woven a tapestry of darkness.”
—Angela “A.G.” Slatter
“The voice of a poet, the heart of a killer, and the fury of a pugilist—this collection of stories and poems will work you over and leave you spent. Blending horror with magic, loss with hope, and fear with love, Annie Neugebauer is one of the most powerful authors writing today.”
—Richard Thomas
The collector hunts the darkness for terrible beauty: macabre and marvelous stories worth displaying in their shadow boxes. Tour these horrors with them, but beware: if you’re not careful, you might find yourself lost in a labyrinth of fear.
A pickup artist is after your skin. A junk drawer opens into the abyss. The twin sons of an ill-fated magician plot against their abusive mother. A man wastes his life dreading an unseen entity. A senior water aerobics class takes a turn for the bizarre…
You Have to Let Them Bleed is a collection releasing on 2/17/26 through Bad Hand Books.
“Annie Neugebauer stuns in this exquisite collection in which poetry and lyrical prose stand side by side. Dripped with decadent dread, You Have to Let Them Bleed showcases a stellar range of styles, from Gothic to psychological and beyond. This is one of the best collections I’ve read this year.” —Cynthia Pelayo
“The stories in this superb collection find the unnatural in nature, chaos in order, and the frightening in the commonplace. Annie Neugebauer is one of those rare authors who can summon terror from a kitchen drawer, a shift of colors, or a coin rolling across a countertop, and You Have to Let Them Bleed places her in the top ranks of horror writers working now.”
—Lisa Morton
“Annie Neugebauer’s first collection You Have to Let Them Bleed is a great mix of the stories and poems she’s acclaimed for, where something as simple as a kitchen drawer becomes ominous. Her deft prose and tone-perfect imagery make this a best collection of the year contender.”
—John F.D. Taff
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