YOU HAVE TO LET THEM BLEED

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 brings together the best horror fiction by two-time Bram Stoker Award finalist and nationally award-winning poet Annie Neugebauer. Together with eight new poems, this nineteen-story collection will draw you into the lovely darkness, lure you deeper into the heartbreaking and gruesome, and leave behind its own collection of horrors to fill the shadows of your mind.

You Have to Let them Bleed will be out through Bad Hand Books in spring 2025. Pre-order the paperback with a signed book plate!

THE EXTRA

A university backpacking trip heads into the wilderness with all ten hikers accounted for. But after a strange EMP during a rainstorm kills their flashlights, the number of participants changes—to one extra. Matt, leading this trip of students and staff, remembers every one of the eleven people now present. There is no obvious interloper. An insidious mystery ensues as Matt attempts to quietly uncover who the extra is and why they’re here masquerading as one of the group. Because one thing is certain: he came here with ten people, and only ten people are going back home.

The Extra will be out through Shortwave Publishing on September 9, 2025. Preorder now in paperback or ebook.

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