July 23, 2025
We are excited to announce a new deal for Traps and Specters, a collection of horror stories and novelettes by Philip Fracassi…
“Traps and Specters is an impressively literate and wildly imaginative collection featuring a truly remarkable range of work… Fracassi’s a hell of a writer.”
– Bentley Little
A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman.
From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, disturb, and ensnare readers in a dark web of twisted tales.
In these pages you’ll find talking corpses and deadly tombs, misguided exorcists, technology gone wrong, blood-soaked prison riots, and enough vengeful spirits and haunted objects to fill a grave.
With an introduction by bestselling author Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl), Traps and Specters will chill, thrill, entertain, and leave you gasping in shock and terror at the horrors waiting within.
“From subtle horror / science fiction hybrids, to stories that reveal the horrors behind the purchasing of a new mattress, and references to the Gordon Riots and visions of William Blake, Traps and Specters is an impressively literate and wildly imaginative collection featuring a truly remarkable range of work. As an author who’s been around for awhile, I’m tempted to call Philip Fracassi an up-and-coming talent. But he’s not up-and-coming. He’s already here. And he’s a hell of a writer.”
– Bentley Little
“Eclectic and eerie, fantastical and fearsome, this collection is unlike anything else you’ve ever read. Traps and Specters is sure to be one of the standout books of 2026.”
– Gwendolyn Kiste, four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Haunting of Velkwood and Reluctant Immortals
Philip Fracassi is the author of the novels A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time Travel, among others. The New York Times called his work “terrifically scary.”
Philip lives in Los Angeles, California, and is represented by Elizabeth Copps at Copps Literary Services.
pfracassi.com