Traps and Specters: Stories by Fracassi, Philip

A new collection of short stories and novellas from Bram Stoker Award finalist Philip Fracassi, featuring an introduction by NYT bestselling author Matt Dinniman.

"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

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.

Author: Philip Fracassi
Publisher: Shortwave
Published: 09/22/2026
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
ISBN: 9798897320066

About the Author
Philip Fracassi is the USA Today bestselling, Stoker and British Fantasy-nominated author of the novels A Child Alone with Strangers, Boys in the Valley, The Third Rule of Time Travel, The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre, and others. The New York Times called his work "terrifically scary."

Philip lives in Los Angeles, California.

Matt Dinniman is a writer and artist from Gig Harbor, Washington. He is the author of the NYT bestselling Dungeon Crawler Carl series along with several other books about the end of the world.

He doesn't really hate Cocker Spaniels, and he plays bass in one band.