Shadows in the Stacks - Vincent Cava V

If books have no power, why are they trying so hard to keep them from people?

4,240 unique book titles were targeted for censorship or banning in 2023 alone.

Shadows in the Stacks was published to raise funds for the Books Unbanned Initiative through the Library Foundation SD. All proceeds from sales go to the Library Foundation SD.

This collection of terrifying tales was edited by Vincent V. Cava, James Sabata, and Jared Sage, with a foreword by Laurel Hightower, and features all-new stories from...

• Kevin David Anderson, "The Unburied Box"
• Zachary Ashford, "By This Phantom Hand"
• S.A. Bradley, "Blunt Force Trauma"
• Bridget D. Brave, "Burlesque!"
• Kel Byron, "Long, White, and Wriggling"
• Vincent V. Cava, "Benchman Financial's Debt Relief Program"
• Clay McLeod Chapman, "Nathan Ballingrud's Haunting Horror Recs"
• Rebecca Cuthbert, "The Taste of Other People's Teeth"
• Alexis DuBon, "Atmospheres of Pressure"
• Jamie Flanagan, "Moira"
• Douglas Ford, "When They Come for You"
• Evelyn Freeling, "Box Full of Strange"
• Ai Jiang, "A House of One's Own"
• Lucy Leitner, "Immaculate Deception"
• Jonathan Maberry, "We All Go Through Changes"
• J.A.W. McCarthy, "Unnecessary Necromancy"
• Tim McGregor, "In Every Dream Home a Heartache"
• John Palisano, "Las Envies"
• James Sabata, "Doom Scroll"
• William Sterling, "Satanic Panic: On Ice!"
• Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, "Deface the Music"