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When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine - Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

John Langan, author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning novel The Fisherman, returns with ten new tales of cosmic horror in Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies. In these stories, he continues to chart the course of 21st century weird fiction, from the unfamiliar to the familial, the unfathomably distant to the intimate.

Against the backdrop of Auschwitz-Birkenau's ever-present brutality, Felcia tends to the plants needed for one of the Reich's most ambitious experiments—one that could tip the war in favor of the Nazis. When Sabina Kupka discovers the horrifying nature of her father's job at a coal mine run by Nazis, she agrees to work with an increasingly defiant resistance. What starts small but significant soon propels her into a frontline role—dangerous enough to cost her her life if caught.

The words still rang in Agnes Markx’s head as she left the Judenramp and the hive of activity around the train behind. As a nurse assigned to Block 10, she realizes the stories of the horrors transpiring here weren’t exaggerated. Now an unwilling accomplice in the Nazi doctors’ medical experiments, she vows to save as many women under her care as possible.

Esmeray Hamilton was born to be married, both theoretically and practically. When the day of her meticulously planned wedding arrives, she defies her destiny and ultimately, the man who was waiting for her at the altar, by running away right into someone else's arms. Or rather—the hood of someone else's car.

You're about to enter a post-truth world. A world dominated by artificial intelligence. A cruel exam separates members of the Establishment from the Plebeians. A pass ensures an easy life, and a failure… well, let’s not talk about that now.

In a near-future world divided by social status and technological advancement, Dex, a street-smart young man, stumbles into a high-stakes security job at Cambridge University. Meanwhile, Haruki, a privileged woman, grapples with an unexpected pregnancy and her rebellious daughter Yoshiko seeks refuge in an off-shore colony. As their lives intertwine, they uncover a conspiracy that could reshape their world.

A thriller about a fictional serial killer who came before Jack the Ripper. This story contains factual and fictional characters, factual and fictional places, mild sexual references, and some violence.