Based on the award-winning digital series-meet the ''cosmetic genetics'': friends, lovers, and situational enemies who form a vibrant, unexpected harmony of comedy, romance, and drama.

Hector "Zario" del Rosario is excited to begin life as an openly gay man in Los Angeles, but he can''t keep his straight housemates out of his love life. After an intense breakup, his college friend Alexander organizes a high-stakes bet to find new romantic prospects for Zario.

Ellington Gomez has his hands full, usually with an assortment of beautiful women, but when he receives an SOS from his gay younger brother Marshall, it becomes clear that a little change might be the best thing for them both.

Jericho "Jay" Kim doesn''t like staying in the same place long enough for the smell to stick, so when he moves in with struggling actor Sunji Spencer, he figures eight months, twelve tops. Only when Zario moves in does Jay manage to find an increasing amount of reasons to stay.

Pretty Dudes: The Novel brings Zario and his friends into a rich, textured new medium, combining their kaleidoscopic experiences into bold, ever-changing patterns of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are three personal narratives:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomously racist white husband. Each woman grows increasingly fascinated with the other''s lifestyle, drawn deeper into an arrangement that moves from precarious to tragic.

Written by Nella Larsen and published in 1929 during the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, Passing is a mesmeric tale of race, identity, sexuality, and obsession.

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This edition of Nella Larsen''s Passing is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumor with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

With She, H. Rider Haggard polished the literary "lost world" odyssey. Coming upon an underground civilization more ancient than the world of pharaohs, a group of adventurers catch the attention of Ayesha, the sorceress queen.

Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection. Collect each volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.

"Hateful day when I received life!" I exclaimed in agony. "Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"

A scientist and his creation-who is the monster and who is the man? 

Mary Shelley created a genre with Frankenstein, giving the world a new form of terror. When Victor Frankenstein brings forth life, all that follows is death.

Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection. Collect each volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.

Nella Larsen''s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen''s name to memory, it is beneficial to look at the other writings she published over her short career, collected here in Beyond Passing: The Further Writings of Nella Larsen. Contained within are her autobiographical novel Quicksand, and three short stories "Freedom," "The Wrong Man," and "Sanctuary."

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This collection of Nella Larsen stories is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

After graduating high school in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia, Kimberly Hamilton prays that her future in Atlanta will bring something interesting and not-so-perfect. Mere minutes after graduation, Kim finds herself at the crossroads of life and eternity. Accepting God''s offer to continue her life on earth leaves her body capable of things she''s only seen in movies. Discovering several similarly powered individuals, some mysterious and some malevolent, Kim and her friends set out, from the streets of Atlanta to the skies above Annapolis, to discover what it means to be blessed, cursed, or maybe just...peculiar.

Princess Irene lives in a large castle with only servants for company, with her father the king away often on royal business. One night, the princess and her nursemaid Lootie run afoul of nasty goblins and are saved by a young miner named Curdie. Curdie and Irene find themselves in frequent need of each other from that very moment, most of all when Curdie discovers that the goblins plan to kidnap the princess. Add in one beautiful fairy grandmother and The Princess and the Goblin more than earns its reputation as a classic fantasy tale for all ages.

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This edition of George MacDonald''s The Princess and the Goblin is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

"It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful."

The three self-contained novels in William Hope Hodgson''s "elemental" horror trilogy do not share central characters or locations, instead-through transcribed testimonies and "found" manuscripts-they weave narratives of growing dread and unease among sailors in peril, haunted house residents, and unknown monsters from the deep. Enjoy the unspoken horrors of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.

The preservation of his youth demands the perversion of his existence.

In his creeping, controversial tale of Dorian Gray and his Faustian bargain to remain beautiful and young forever, Oscar Wilde portrays a damning philosophical tale of society, sexuality, and moral sensibilities. This book collects Wilde''s original and revised published editions.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"Here is foam from a mad dog''s lips, gather''d beneath the moon''s eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!"

Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth took the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a "triple decker" novel, The Lancashire Witches, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed by the Chattox and Demdike families.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?"

Is it possible to hunt a supernatural predator without becoming its prey? With Dracula, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece that changed vampire lore forever. After Count Dracula sets sail for England from his native Transylvania, the countryside is soon afflicted with sickness, giant wolves, and suspicions that a vampire stalks the night.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

Based on the award-winning digital series-meet the ''cosmetic genetics'': friends, lovers, and situational enemies who form a vibrant, unexpected harmony of comedy, romance, and drama.

Hector "Zario" del Rosario is excited to begin life as an openly gay man in Los Angeles, but he can''t keep his straight housemates out of his love life. After an intense breakup, his college friend Alexander organizes a high-stakes bet to find new romantic prospects for Zario.

Ellington Gomez has his hands full, usually with an assortment of beautiful women, but when he receives an SOS from his gay younger brother Marshall, it becomes clear that a little change might be the best thing for them both.

Jericho "Jay" Kim doesn''t like staying in the same place long enough for the smell to stick, so when he moves in with struggling actor Sunji Spencer, he figures eight months, twelve tops. Only when Zario moves in does Jay manage to find an increasing amount of reasons to stay.

Pretty Dudes: The Novel brings Zario and his friends into a rich, textured new medium, combining their kaleidoscopic experiences into bold, ever-changing patterns of humor, heartbreak, and hope.

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are three personal narratives:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

A landmark anthology of full-length works by Black American women writers of the 19th century including Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Mary Weston Fordham-edited and with an introduction by C.S.R. Calloway.

Shadows Uplifted collects and celebrates the vibrant and diverse work of these often unsung Black female writers, meticulously preserving their words while making them newly accessible to modern readers of all genders and backgrounds.

Collected here for the first time in a single volume are:

"Let us continue to uplift such shadows in our history, allowing them their corporeal bodies, flesh, blood, and melanated skin. Let us continue to uplift Black women: supporting and honoring their stories, their art, and their existence." - C.S.R. Calloway

In 1920s Harlem, Irene Redfield has a chance reunion with her childhood friend Clare Kendry. Irene is shocked to discover that Clare has been passing as white, sharing a young daughter with a venomously racist white husband. Each woman grows increasingly fascinated with the other''s lifestyle, drawn deeper into an arrangement that moves from precarious to tragic.

Written by Nella Larsen and published in 1929 during the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, Passing is a mesmeric tale of race, identity, sexuality, and obsession.

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This edition of Nella Larsen''s Passing is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumor with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.

With She, H. Rider Haggard polished the literary "lost world" odyssey. Coming upon an underground civilization more ancient than the world of pharaohs, a group of adventurers catch the attention of Ayesha, the sorceress queen.

Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection. Collect each volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.

"Hateful day when I received life!" I exclaimed in agony. "Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?"

A scientist and his creation-who is the monster and who is the man? 

Mary Shelley created a genre with Frankenstein, giving the world a new form of terror. When Victor Frankenstein brings forth life, all that follows is death.

Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection. Collect each volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.

Nella Larsen''s 1929 novel Passing is hailed today as a significant literary work of Harlem Renaissance, though for several decades it, like all of her works, was out of print. As history rights a wrong and recommits Larsen''s name to memory, it is beneficial to look at the other writings she published over her short career, collected here in Beyond Passing: The Further Writings of Nella Larsen. Contained within are her autobiographical novel Quicksand, and three short stories "Freedom," "The Wrong Man," and "Sanctuary."

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This collection of Nella Larsen stories is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

After graduating high school in the small town of Brunswick, Georgia, Kimberly Hamilton prays that her future in Atlanta will bring something interesting and not-so-perfect. Mere minutes after graduation, Kim finds herself at the crossroads of life and eternity. Accepting God''s offer to continue her life on earth leaves her body capable of things she''s only seen in movies. Discovering several similarly powered individuals, some mysterious and some malevolent, Kim and her friends set out, from the streets of Atlanta to the skies above Annapolis, to discover what it means to be blessed, cursed, or maybe just...peculiar.

Princess Irene lives in a large castle with only servants for company, with her father the king away often on royal business. One night, the princess and her nursemaid Lootie run afoul of nasty goblins and are saved by a young miner named Curdie. Curdie and Irene find themselves in frequent need of each other from that very moment, most of all when Curdie discovers that the goblins plan to kidnap the princess. Add in one beautiful fairy grandmother and The Princess and the Goblin more than earns its reputation as a classic fantasy tale for all ages.

With a growing number of titles under its Magna Releases banner, CSRC Storytelling promotes and provides positivity, power and presence in print, restoring literary classics across genres and making them newly accessible to modern readers. This edition of George MacDonald''s The Princess and the Goblin is a CSRC Storytelling Magna Release.

"It was a place shunned by the people of the village, as it had been shunned by their fathers before them. There were many things said about it, and all were of evil. No one ever went near it, either by day or night. In the village it was a synonym of all that is unholy and dreadful."

The three self-contained novels in William Hope Hodgson''s "elemental" horror trilogy do not share central characters or locations, instead-through transcribed testimonies and "found" manuscripts-they weave narratives of growing dread and unease among sailors in peril, haunted house residents, and unknown monsters from the deep. Enjoy the unspoken horrors of The Boats of the "Glen Carrig," The House on the Borderland and The Ghost Pirates.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil," cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.

The preservation of his youth demands the perversion of his existence.

In his creeping, controversial tale of Dorian Gray and his Faustian bargain to remain beautiful and young forever, Oscar Wilde portrays a damning philosophical tale of society, sexuality, and moral sensibilities. This book collects Wilde''s original and revised published editions.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"Here is foam from a mad dog''s lips, gather''d beneath the moon''s eclipse, ashes of a shroud consumed, and with deadly vapor fumed. These within the mess I cast-stir the caldron-stir it fast!"

Historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth took the court records of the 1612 Pendle witch trials and turned them into a "triple decker" novel, The Lancashire Witches, centered around the claims of necromancy allegedly committed by the Chattox and Demdike families.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.

"What shall I do? What can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?"

Is it possible to hunt a supernatural predator without becoming its prey? With Dracula, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece that changed vampire lore forever. After Count Dracula sets sail for England from his native Transylvania, the countryside is soon afflicted with sickness, giant wolves, and suspicions that a vampire stalks the night.

Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia brings together the most influential monsters and original gothic stories in one blood-curdling collection.