A COLLECTION  by David Case
CATEGORY  Horror
PUBLICATION DATE  March 2026
FRONT COVER ART  Les Edwards
BACK & INTERIOR ART  Randy Broecker
PAGES 342
ISBN  978-1-80394-250-6

EDITION
Trade Paperback 

ABOUT THE BOOK

“Let us hear more of David Case . . . The field needs more from the author of ‘The Hunter’, a modern classic worthy to stand beside ‘The Most Dangerous Game’.”
—Ramsey Campbell

Taking its title from the author’s World Fantasy Award-nominated zombie apocalypse novella, Pelican Cay and Other Disquieting Tales is the final original collection from one of the genre’s most acclaimed—if not prolific—authors of macabre fiction. Illustrated throughout by Randy Broecker, this new paperback edition includes two additional stories that were only previously available in the deluxe, signed hardcover edition.

In these powerful narratives of psycho-sexual torture and vengeance, a husband reveals how he let his wife suffer a horrible fate...an ominous mound and a pile of women’s clothes are the only clues to an amnesiac’s past...an explorer discovers that his captor’s have only a limited menu...the loss of a soldier’s family leads to a terrible revenge...and we learn the surprising origin of one of the most famous creatures in the pantheon of monsters... 

Edited by multiple award-winner Stephen Jones, who also supplies the personal Introduction, Pelican Cay and Other Disquieting Tales is a volume of David Case’s macabre and sardonic stories that is destined to stand alongside his other compilations of superlative dark fiction, and reveals an author who was still at the peak of his literary prowess and not afraid to push the boundaries of fantastic fiction...

CONTENTS

• Introduction: A Case of the Shudders by Stephen Jones
• Pelican Cay
• Penny Wise
• Reflection
• Skulls
• The Cannibal Feast
• The War is Over
• The Cave
• Penny Wise (variant)
• Twins