KRANKENHAUS is an anthology that peers beneath the clean scent of disinfectant and into the fevered underbelly of the medical world, where healing and horror may be manifested in the same breath. From spectral nurses and haunted ICUs to deranged surgeons and impossible experiments, these stories uncover the truth that hospitals are not places where life conquers death, but the last gasp before the eventual sickness of life catches up with it.

A photographer discovers that an abandoned hospital’s cold spots move with intent. A nurse begins to hear heart monitors as a symphony begging for perfect rhythm, and answers its call. A surgeon in the year 2097 finds herself consumed by the very virus she came to cure. A grieving wife tends to her comatose husband, unaware that she herself has long since died. And somewhere, in the cryogenic depths of Sub-Level 3, the frozen unborn begin to stir.

From the ghosts of Florence Nightingale’s wards to dystopian clinics that strip women of memory and choice, KRANKENHAUS gathers the world’s most chilling tales of medical and metaphysical dread. Here, vitality falls prey to violation, compassion festers into obsession and the human body, ever fragile and terrified, becomes the final haunted house.

So take a deep breath. The doctor will see you now.

Authors featured in KRANKENHAUS:
Andrea Tillmanns, C S Dixon, Carly Whitehouse, Chad Anctil, Charlotte Poitras, Cliff Hansen, Cornelio S Lopez IV, Daniel DiQuinzio, Donovan Douglas Thiesson, Ed Ahern, F. Malanoche, Heddy Johannesen, Ismim Putera, Issy Jinarmo, JB Corso, Jeff Seeman, Jessica Gleason, Kevin Patrick McCann, Krzysztof T. Dabrowski, Louise Gillespie, Maekawa Kirin, Milan Kovačević, Olivia Arieti, Raayan, Raymond Brunell, Ricardo D. Rebelo, Richard Stimac, Rosalind Trotter, Sarah Das Gupta, Simon Mohsin, Soter Lucio AND W. J. Manares