With a foreword by John Langan!

Modern horror’s King of Pain, the World Fantasy Award-and Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff, joins Bad Hand Books with a collection of cosmic-horror novellas: All the Stars Die.

Coming Q3 2025. Here’s just a taste of what to expect.

• “After the Cut, the Blood”: Talent doesn't always go hand-in-hand with desire, but two musical brothers take a dark path toward forcing the issue.

• “Her Mouth is filled with Secret Soup”: A boy's initial contact with a turn-of-the-century travelling medicine show reveals it’s not just selling, it’s conscripting labor.

• “Fin de Siècle”: An early 20th-Century occultist millionaire acquires the world's biggest telescope, not to see stars and planets but to open a doorway between worlds.

• “In the Dim Meadows, Desolate”: The old gods aren't dead and neither is their need for the love of man, but is the love he offers now enough?

• “All the Stars Die One by One”: NASA finally uncovers the true relationship between the earth and the moon, one that brings all mankind together at last.

• “Tell Me What it Means to Me”: Guilt and shame unites the people of a fractured small town together in one place ... Midnight Land.

"With this outstanding story collection, All the Stars Die, John Taff tears holes in the firmament of the universe, revealing the terrors of what we cannot see. A wonderfully eerie, haunting, and awe-inspiring read." ― Alma Katsu, author of Fiend

“In the age-old tradition of the ultimate entertainment, John Taff is a storyteller. It’s old school and it’s new. It’s haunting but has hope. Not because Taff wraps his stories in bows, but because he’s so damn good you can’t help but feel lifted. The dialogue is off the charts, the voice is as welcoming as a plush couch found in haunted woods. Nobody is doing what Taff does. If you read him at fifteen, he’d be the guy who got you into books. If you read him now, you’ll renew your vows.” ― Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Incidents Around the House

"A powerful and original take on cosmic horror that, despite revealing the dreadful darkness beyond the stars, remains richly and painfully human, bound up in suffering, loss, and regret." ― Brian Evenson, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Song for the Unraveling of the World