Anthologies

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“In twenty-nine separate but ingenious ways, these stories seek permanent residence within a reader. They strive to become an emotional or intellectual cargo that might accompany us wherever, or however, we go. . . . If we are made by what we read, if language truly builds people into what they are, how they think, the depth with which they feel, then these stories are, to me, premium material for that construction project. You could build a civilization with them.” —Ben Marcus, from the Introduction Award-winning author of Notable American Women Ben Marcus brings us this engaging and comprehensive collection of short stories that explore the stylistic variety of the medium in America today. Sea Oak by George Saunders Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Do Not Disturb by A.M. Homes The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender The Caretaker by Anthony Doerr The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis The Father’s Blessing by Mary Caponegro The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders by Aleksandar Hemon People Shouldn’t Have to be the Ones to Tell You by Gary Lutz Histories of the Undead by Kate Braverman When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine by Jhumpa Lahiri Down the Road by Stephen Dixon X Number of Possibilities by Joanna Scott Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace The Sound Gun by Matthew Derby Short Talks by Anne Carson Field Events by Rick Bass Scarliotti and the Sinkhole by Padgett Powell

A prestigious new anthology series, Best American Fantasy is guest edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, with Matthew Cheney serving as the series editor. This inaugural volume showcases the best North American fantasy short fiction from the preceding year.

As a special feature in this volume, MOME proudly features a 45-page Jim Woodring graphic novella, "The Lute String." This story, previously published only in Japan, features Woodring's signature characters—Frank, Pupshaw, and Pushpaw—in a universe-bending saga that finds the trio in a very unexpected world of flying, shrieking demons and bulbous-faced monsters.MOME is an accessible, reasonably priced quarterly running approximately 120 pages per volume, mostly in color, and spotlighting the most exciting new storytellers in comics along with special surprises. MOME is quickly earning a reputation as one of the premier literary anthologies on the shelves, and the only one comprised almost entirely of comics.

Since 1998, McSweeney's "Quarterly Concern" has been emerging from various kitchens, attics and an old laundromat roughly four times a year - or definitely at least three. In those ten years, almost 100,000 stories have been submitted, usually in manila envelopes, mostly from unknown names living in unfamiliar corners. Approximately 400 of those stories were selected for publication. Eighteen of them appear here, wildly diverse in style and subject, from some of the finest writers of today and tomorrow. Several typos have been removed.

The thrilling short story collection featuring Jeff VanderMeer, Karen Traviss, and Eric Nylund—part of the expanded universe based on the New York Times bestselling video game series Halo ! When humanity expanded beyond the safety of Earth to new stars and horizons, it never dreamed what dangers would be encounter there. When the theocratic alien juggernaut known as the Covenant declared war upon the fragile human empire, millions of lives were lost—but millions of heroes also rose to the challenge. In such a far-reaching conflict, not many tales of the brave have a chance to become legend. This collection of eleven stories dives into the depths of the vast Halo universe, not only from the perspective of those who fought and died to save humanity, but also from those who vowed to wipe it out of existence.

Last Drink Bird Head is a variation on a surrealist writing game: we gave the phrase to over 70 writers and asked them “Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?” The results run the gamut from the hilarious to the terrifying, with each writer bringing their signature style and voice to the enterprise. All proceeds on Last Drink go to ProLiteracy.org. WHAT IS PROLITERACY? Help promote worldwide literacy through the ProLiteracy organization. ProLiteracy “champions the power of literacy to improve the lives of adults and their families, communities, and societies. We envision a world in which everyone can read, write, compute, and use technology to lead healthy, productive, and fulfilling lives.” For more information, visit ProLiteracy.org. Contributors: Daniel Abraham, Michael Arnzen, Steve Aylett, KJ Bishop, Michael Bishop, Desirina Boskovich, Keith Brooke, Jesse Bullington, Richard Butner, Catherine Cheek, Matthew Cheney, Michael Cisco, Gio Clairval, Alan M. Clark, Brendan Connell, Paul Di Filippo, Stephen R. Donaldson, Rikki Ducornet, Clare Dudman, Hal Duncan, Scott Eagle, Brian Evenson, Eliot Fintushel, Jeffrey Ford, Richard Gehr, Felix Gilman, Jon Courtney Grimwood, Rhys Hughes, Paul Jessup, Antony Johnston, John Kaiine, Henry Kaiser, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tessa Kum, Ellen Kushner, Jay Lake, Tanith Lee, Stina Leicht, Therese Littleton, Beth Adele Long, Dustin Long, Nick Mamatas, JM McDermott, Sarah Monette, Kari O’Connor, Ben Peek, Holly Phillips, Louis Phillips, Tim Pratt, Cat Rambo, Mark Rich, Bruce Holland Rogers, Nicholas Royle, G Eric Schaller, Ekaterina Sedia, Ramsey Shehadeh, Peter Straub, Victoria Strauss, Michael Swanwick, Mark Swartz, Alan Swirsky, Rachel Swirsky, Sonya Taaffe, Justin Taylor, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jeffrey Thomas, Scott Thomas, John Urbancik, Genevieve Valentine, Kim Westwood, Leslie What, Andrew Steiger White, Conrad Williams, Liz Williams, Neil Williamson, Caleb Wilson, Gene Wolfe, Jonathan Wood, Marly Youmans, and Catherine Zeidler

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction, science fiction, fantasy, and magical realism. Neil Gaiman, “Orange” Aimee Bender, “The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, “The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Francine Prose, Kelly Link, Jim Shepard, Lydia Millet, and many other extraordinary writers make up this thrilling celebration of fairy tales—the ultimate literary costume party. Spinning houses and talking birds. Whispered secrets and borrowed hope. Here are new stories sewn from old skins, gathered by visionary editor Kate Bernheimer and inspired by everything from Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” and “The Little Match Girl” to Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard” and “Cinderella” to the Brothers Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rumpelstiltskin” to fairy tales by Goethe and Calvino and from China, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Norway, and Mexico. Fairy tales are our oldest literary tradition, and yet they chart the imaginative frontiers of the twenty-first century as powerfully as they evoke our earliest encounters with literature. This exhilarating collection restores their place in the literary canon.

The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2011 contains twenty unforgettable stories selected from hundreds of literary magazines. The winning tales take place in such far-flung locales as Madagascar, Nantucket, a Midwestern meth lab, Antarctica, and a post-apocalyptic England, and feature a fascinating array of characters: aging jazzmen, avalanche researchers, a South African wild child, and a mute actor in silent films. Also included are essays from the eminent jurors on their favorite stories, observations from the winners on what inspired them, and an extensive resource list of magazines. Your Fate Hurtles Down at You Jim Shepard Diary of an Interesting Year Helen Simpson Melinda Judy Doenges Nightblooming Kenneth Calhoun The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kálmán Once Lived Tamas Dobozy Ice Lily Tuck How to Leave Hialeah Jennine Capó Crucet The Junction David Means Pole, Pole Susan Minot Alamo Plaza Brad Watson The Black Square Chris Adrian Nothing of Consequence Jane Delury The Rules Are the Rules Adam Foulds The Vanishing American Leslie Parry Crossing Mark Slouka Bed Death Lori Ostlund Windeye Brian Evenson Sunshine Lynn Freed Never Come Back Elizabeth Tallent Something You Can’t Live Without Matthew Neill Null For author interviews, photos, and more,  go to www.ohenryprizestories.com A portion of the proceeds from this book will go to support the PEN Readers & Writers Literary Outreach Program.

A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret... Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within. Supernatural Noir is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including Brian Evenson, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Gregory Frost, and Jeffrey Ford.

Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. This month, We have a pair of connected fantasy stories by husband-and-wife creative duo J.T. Petty and Sarah Langan ("Family Teeth, Part 5: American Jackal" and "Family Teeth, Part 6: St. Polycarp's Home for Happy Wanderers"), along with fantasy reprints by Brian Evenson ("An Accounting") and Kelly Link ("Catskin"). Plus, we have original science fiction by D. Thomas Minton ("Dreams in Dust") and Ken Liu ("The Perfect Match"), and SF reprints by Yoon Ha Lee ("Swanwatch") and Marta Randall ("Lazaro y Antonio"). For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is "Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang, and of course we have our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, along with feature interviews with bestseller Tad Williams and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz. Plus, we have an excerpt of the new Dresden Files novel, Cold Days, by Jim Butcher.

The New Black is a collection of twenty neo-noir stories exemplifying the best authors currently writing in this dark sub-genre. A mixture of horror, crime, fantasy, science fiction, magical realism, and the grotesque—all with a literary bent—these stories are the future of genre-bending fiction. Table of Contents: Foreword by Laird Barron Stephen Graham Jones, "Father Son, Holy Rabbit" Paul Tremblay, "It's Against the Law to Feed the Ducks" Lindsay Hunter, "That Baby" Roxane Gay, "How" Kyle Minor, "The Truth and All Its Ugly" Craig Clevenger, "Act of Contrition" Micaela Morrissette, "The Familiars" Richard Lange, "Fuzzyland" Benjamin Percy, "Dial Tone" Roy Kesey, "Instituto" Craig Davidson, "Rust and Bone" Rebecca Jones-Howe, "Blue Hawaii" Joe Meno, "Children Are the Only Ones Who Blush" Vanessa Veselka, "Christopher Hitchens" Nik Korpon, "His Footsteps are Made of Soot" Brian Evenson, "Windeye" Craig Wallwork, "Dollhouse" Tara Laskowski, "The Etiquette of Homicide" Matt Bell, "Dredge" Antonia Crane, "Sunshine for Adrienne"

2015 World Fantasy Award nominee! "This is an excellent anthology for horror fans, with a nice range of tones and styles and some intriguing new voices." - PW "This anthology, born out of a Kickstarter and published by ChiZine, is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today." - BuzzFeed Fearful Symmetries is a 2014 Bram Stoker Award Winner for Best Anthology and is a Shirley Jackson Award Nominee! From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful, terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world. Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall, and linger in forests deep. Come see what burns so bright. . . .

Title: The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror Binding: Paperback Author: PaulaGuran Publisher: PrimeBooks

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." So begins H. P. Lovecraft’s essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature,” arguably the most important analysis of horror ever written. Yet while hordes of writers have created works based on Lovecraft’s fiction, never before has an anthology taken its inspiration directly from the literary manifesto behind his entire mythos . . . until now. Like cultists poring over a forbidden tome, 18 modern masters of horror have gathered here to engage with Lovecraft’s treatise. Rather than responding with articles of their own, these authors have written new short stories inspired by intriguing quotes from the essay, offering their own whispers to the darkness. They tell of monsters and madmen, of our strange past and our weirder future, of terrors stalking the winter woods, the broiling desert, and eeriest of all, our bustling cities and our family homes. This collection is a unique contribution to the booming Lovecraft/Cthulhu craze that will stand out from the pack due to its one-of-a-kind premise.

The incantation is one of the most ancient and best-known techniques of verbal magic, utilizing vocal modulation and the complex poetics of the word to conjure spirits or occult power. Other literary forms, such as the epic, koan, psalm and cipher may also participate in the arcana and power accessed by the arts of the occult. Yet fiction, largely considered entertainment ―or in its ‘higher’ forms, philosophy― seldom transcends its secular associations. Occult Fiction, as an emerging literary form, is a verbal magic realized in both form and function. Not only does it give voice to discarnate entities, it also vivifies them into presence through the flesh of the reader. Having conjured the entic to form, such work generates an embodied state of alienating power within the reader, a possession of sorts which eclipses consciousness and allows sensorial contact with the otherworldly. As the inaugural Occult Fiction Anthology from Three Hands Press, Penumbrae contains twelve tales exemplifying this rubric, some of which have drawn their art from the experiential alembic of occult operations. Among its authors are Kenneth Grant, Don Webb, Richard Gavin, Patricia Cram, Michael Cisco and Sun Yung Shin.

A sin-eater plies the tools of her dangerous trade; a jealous husband takes his rival on a hunting trip; a student torments one of his teachers; a cheap grafter is selling artifacts form hell; something is haunting the departure lounge of an airport . . . The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Laird Barron, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Genevieve Valentine, and more. For over three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the seventh volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

***Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award*** ***Finalist for the World Fantasy Award*** ***Finalist for the British Fantasy Award*** 'The Dying Season,' by Lynda E. Rucker, Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award. 'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. 'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best Horror of the Year. 'Underground Economy,' by John Langan, reprinted in the Best New Horror. 'The Lake,' by Daniel Mills, reprinted in Best New Horror. 'Seaside Town,' by Brian Evenson, reprinted in Year's Best Weird Fiction. 'Seven Minutes in Heaven,' by Nadia Bulkin, reprinted in Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror. 'Camp,' by David Nickle, reprinted in Wilde Stories: The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. Edited by Simon Strantzas, "Aickman's Heirs" is an anthology of strange, weird tales by modern visionaries of weird fiction, in the milieu of Robert Aickman, the master of strange and ambiguous stories. Editor and author Strantzas, an important figure in Weird fiction, has been hailed as the heir to Aickman's oeuvre, and is ideally suited to edit this exciting volume. Featuring all-original stories from Brian Evenson, Lisa Tuttle, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Michael Cisco, and others.

A modern bestiary of made-up fantastical creatures organized from A to Z, along with an ampersand and an invisible letter, featuring some of the best and most respected fantasists from around the world, including Karen Lord, Dexter Palmer, Brian Evenson, China Mieville, Felix Gilman, Catherynne M. Valente, Rikki Ducornet, and Karin Lowachee. Full table of contents: A: “The Auricle” by Gio Clairval B: “Bartleby’s Typewriter” by Corey Redekop C: “The Counsellor Crow” by Karen Lord D: “Daydreamer by Proxy” by Dexter Palmer E: “Enkantong-bato” by Dean Francis Alfar F: “The Figmon” by Michael Cisco G: “The Guest” by Brian Conn H: “Hadrian’s Sparrikan” by Stephen Graham Jones I: “Ible” by Brian Evenson J: “Jason Bug” by Joseph Nigg K: “The Karmantid” by Karen Heuler L: “The Liwat’ang Yawa and the Litok-litok” by Rochita Loenin-Ruiz M: “Mosquito Boy” by Felix Gilman N: “Nothus Barathruma (Homo sapiens sapiens+)” by Reza Negarestani O: “Orsinus Liborum” by Catherynne M. Valente P: “Pyret [py:ret] by Karin Tidbeck Q: “Quintus” by Michael Ajvaz R: “Rapacis X. Loco Signa” by Lisa L. Hannett S: “Snafu” by Micaela Morrissette T: “Tongues of Moon/False Toads” by Cat Rambo U: “The Ugly-Nest Rat” by Eric Schaller V: “The Vanda” by Rikki Ducornet W: “Weialalaleia” by Amal El-Mohtar X: “The Xaratan” by Rhys Hughes Y: “Yakshanatariksh” by Vandana Singh Z: “Zee” by Richard Howard &: “The Ampersand” by Karin Lowachee : “The “ by China Mieville

Rikki Ducornet is a magical surrealist, postmodern fabulist, multi-talented artist and poet, and author of several novels ripe with epicurean vocabulary, vivid and outrageous imagery, fantastically arcane trivia and erudition, and Rabelaisian re-imaginings of history, among them the Carteresque hellfire of The Stain , the Lewis Carroll homage and wonder-of-wonders The Jade Cabinet , and the beautiful, slowly unfurling heart-attack, Netsuke . Across her career, spanning four decades, Ducornet has pursued her inexhaustible obsession with Eros, the violence of the Marquis de Sade and other monsters, and the enchantment of the wunderkammern. The fourth VP festschrift, including critical essays, personal memoirs, fiction homages, and two in-depth interviews, explores Ducornet's passions and obsessions, with particular attention to her novels, illuminating the unforgettable work of a "linguistically explosive" author whose "vocabulary sweats with a kind of lyrical heat" (NY Times). CONTRIBUTORS: Forrest Aguirre, Ricco Barbels, Mary Caponegro, Robert Coover, Rikki Ducornet, Tammy Dasti, Michael J. Emmons, Brian Evenson, Allan Guttmann, Randall Heath, Lily Hoang, Joanna Howard, Laird Hunt, Carolyn Kuebler, Nadine Mainold, Steven Moore, Warren Motte, Tod Rise, Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Eleni Sikelianos, Raymond L. Williams, and Igo Wodan. "For those who know her, Rikki Ducornet's very name signifies enchantment and her works induce a state of rapture." -- Michael Silverblatt, KCRW Bookworm "The Complete Butcher's Tales is one of my all-time favorite books, but I love Rikki Ducornet's entire body of work. This festschrift, this wonderful book, is above all a place to think about Rikki -- to shine a bright, grateful light on her Vision. The contributors have done a miraculous job celebrating the work of an unspeakably beautiful, significant artist, thinker, and friend." --Kate Bernheimer, author of Horse, Flower, Bird

An elderly man aggressively defends his private domain against all comers—including his daughter;a policeman investigates an impossible horror show of a crime; a father witnesses one of the worst things a parent can imagine; the abuse of one child fuels another’s yearning; an Iraqi war veteran seeks a fellow soldier in his hometown but finds more than she bargains for . . . The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year’s best offerings in short fiction horror. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Adam L. G. Nevill, Livia Llewellyn, Peter Straub, Gemma Files, Brian Hodge, and more. For more than three decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing. Night Shade Books is proud to present the ninth volume in this annual series, a new collection of stories to keep you up at night. Table of Contents: Summation 2016 - Ellen Datlow Nesters -- Siobhan Carroll The Oestridae -- Robert Levy The Process is a Process All its Own -- Peter Straub The Bad Hour -- Christopher Golden Red Rabbit -- Steve Rasnic Tem It's All the Same Road in the End -- Brian Hodge Fury -- DB Waters Grave Goods -- Gemma Files Between Dry Ribs -- Gregory Norman Bossert The Days of Our Lives -- Adam LG Nevill House of Wonders -- C.E. Ward The Numbers -- Christopher Burns Bright Crown of Joy -- Livia Llewellyn The Beautiful Thing We Will Become -- Kristi DeMeester Wish You Were Here -- Nadia Bulkin Ragman -- Rebecca Lloyd What’s Out There? -- Gary McMahon No Matter Which Way We Turned -- Brian Evenson The Castellmarch Man -- Ray Cluley The Ice Beneath Us -- Steve Duffy On These Blackened Shores of Time -- Brian Hodge Honorable Mentions

Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul. Table of Contents: Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth” A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts” Michael Wehunt — “In Canada” Brian Evenson — “The Second Door” Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths” Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin” Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin House, 1935” Damien Angelica Walters — “This Unquiet Space” Sunny Moraine — “We Grope Together, and Avoid Speech” Brooke Warra — “Heirloom” Lucy A. Snyder — “That Which Does Not Kill You” Simon Strantzas — “Doused by Night” Kaaron Warren — “We Are All Bone Inside” Lisa L. Hannett — “Outside, a Drifter” Kristi DeMeester — “The Small Deaths of Skin and Plastic” Scott Nicolay — “When the Blue Sky Breaks” Craig Laurance Gidney — “Mirror Bias” Anya Martin — “Boisea trivittata” Michael Cisco — “Rock n’ Roll Death Squad” S.P. Miskowski — “Alligator Point” Jeffrey Thomas — “Stranger in the House” Christopher Slatsky — “SPARAGMOS” Richard Gavin — “Banishments” Michael Griffin — “The Sound of Black Dissects the Sun” Nadia Bulkin — “Live Through This” Gemma Files — “Distant Dark Places” Edited by Justin Steele and Sam Cowan. Trade paperback art by Yves Tourigny.

In each of these stories from some of greatest writers of horror and dark fiction, water plays the dual role of accomplice and executioner. With accidental drownings, irresistible calls of sirens from the deep, strange whisperings from household plumbing, faces of the dead in droplets of water, rabid fish, leviathan monsters, and more, these thirty-nine tales of death by water will make you think twice about taking that long-awaited cruise, going for a midnight swim, or taking your next shower. Stories by: Joanna Parypinski, Lucy Taylor, Dona Fox, Eric J. Guignard, Lucy Snyder, Stephen Gregory, Daniel Braum, Simon Bestwick, Peter Straub, Lisa Mannetti, Daniele Bonfanti, Ramsey Campbell, Gregory L. Norris, Michael Bailey, Marge Simon, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Frazer Lee, Paolo Di Orazio, Dennis Etchison, John Palisano, Brian Evenson, Michael Hanson, Edward Lee, Tim Waggoner, Gene O’Neill, Jonah Buck, David J. Schow, Anthony Watson, Bruce Boston, Michael A. Arnzen, Adam Nevill, John Langan, Alessandro Manzetti, Clive Barker, Lisa Morton, Jodi Renée Lester, Jeremy Megargee, Nicola Lombardi, Adam Millard. Edited by: Alessandro Manzetti & Jodi Renée Lester

Experience five stunning science fiction visions of the future. From pay-to-play immortality to simulated reality, from crowdsourced AI to multiverse theory, these Tor.com novellas have everything you could ask for. Featuring: The Burning Light by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob Ziegler Disgraced government operative Colonel Chu is exiled to the flooded relic of New York City. Something called the Light has hit the streets like an epidemic, leavings its users strung out and disconnected from the mind-network humanity relies on. Chu has lost everything she cares about to the Light. She’ll end the threat or die trying. The Warren by Brian Evenson X doesn’t have a name. He thought he had one—or many—but that might be the result of the failing memories of the personalities imprinted within him. Or maybe he really is called X. Proof of Concept by Gwyneth Jones On a desperately overcrowded future Earth, crippled by climate change, the most unlikely hope is better than none. Governments turn to Big Science to provide them with the dreams that will keep the masses compliant. The Needle is one such dream, an installation where the most abstruse theoretical science is being tested. Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny A bloody-minded tale of time, betrayal, desperation, and hope that could only have been told by the inimitable Laurie Penny. Patchwerk by David Tallerman Fleeing the city of New York on the TransContinental atmospheric transport vehicle, Dran Florrian is traveling with Palimpsest-the ultimate proof of a lifetime of scientific theorizing. When a rogue organization attempts to steal the device, however, Dran takes drastic action. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

After two centuries of literary and pop culture procreation, Victor Frankenstein and his monster are as virile as ever: synthetic biology, genetically modified organisms, artificial intelligence, the creation of one life at the cost of others. On the threshold of the third century, we stand on unforeseen shores of deep, far-reaching scientific and technological waters. And yet no truth-told tale is ever far from the sublime, the supernatural, the interior. The alchemy of art is always central to the story. In the case of Mary Shelley's masterpiece, the lives of those involved in its making were as dramatic and mysterious as any character from literature. In 1816, nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, lover and future wife of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, conceived the idea for Frankenstein during a summer of darkness. Within a few years of the novel's publication, three of the members involved in its conception were dead. Suicide, premature death, and tragedy are as woven into the tale as the words themselves. Frankenstein is at heart the story of a very misguided "parent" whose destructive offspring outlives him both in the novel and in our collective imagination. Ambition divorced from responsibility; genius wedded to derangement; the creator who rejects his own creation so fully he will not even give it a name. It is a tale of monsters and their monstrosities; it is thus also, of course, a very human tale, and one that continues to be written. Featuring artwork from award-winning artist Robert Payne Cabeen, this collection brings together two hundred years' worth of monstrous birthings: facts and fictions, lore and lunacy from the underground laboratories where monsters are both born and made.

Dive into the new cyberpunk universe of Cellarius with 13 mind-bending short stories. In the year 2084, almost without warning, all the lights go out. Humans become aware of Cellarius, a superintelligent AI, when it takes over all energy infrastructure and communication networks, plunging the world into an analog dark age. Twenty years later, with no explanation, the lights come back on. From 9 writers—including a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Times bestseller, and a Nebula winner—the stories range from psychological thrillers to classic adventure tales, new takes on religious mythologies to human-machine love stories. Whose Future Is It? challenges our ideas of what consciousness can become and explores what it means to be human.

Winner of the 2019 This is Horror Award for Best Anthology! A Bram Stoker Award Finalist! From the Bram Stoker Award-nominated editor of the 2018 This is Horror Anthology of the Year, ASHES AND ENTROPY, comes a new vision of weird and horrific ambiguity. NOX PAREIDOLIA is fully color-illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes stories by Laird Barron, S.P. Miskowski, Brian Evenson, Kristi DeMeester, Michael Wehunt, Gwendolyn Kiste, Zin E. Rocklyn, Christopher Ropes, Doungjai Gam, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Carrie Laben, Kurt Fawver, David Peak, Don Webb and Duane Pesice, Paul Jessup, K.H. Vaughan, and more.

Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymous with the body horror subgenre and the term "Cronenbergian" has been used to describe the stark, grotesque, and elusive quality of his work. These eighteen stories bring his themes and ideas into the present, throbbing with unnatural life. A yoga group brings transcendence and bodily transformation. A woman undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery is subjected to outlandish techniques. A young man discovers the reality-warping potential of a bootleg horror VHS. A mother comes to terms with the monstrous appetites of her newborn child. Being terrified is just the beginning. Become one with us and take a deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool... This is THE NEW FLESH. With an Introduction by Kathe Koja. And featuring stories by: Brian Evenson, Sara Century, C.M. Muller, Leo X. Robertson, Max D. Stanton, Emma Alice Johnson, Cody Goodfellow, Bruno Lombardi, Katy Michelle Quinn, Jack Lothian, Mona Swan LeSueur and Fiona Maeve Geist, Madeleine Swann, Charles Austin Muir, Ryan Harding, Alex Smith, Gwendolyn Kiste, and editors Brendan Vidito and Sam Richard.

Editor's Introduction There’s something fascinating about a book that was never written. It resists, for one, all the imperfections that inherently arise in language, all those insufficiently rendered thoughts and images that famously leave writers exasperated with their own work. Exasperated enough to inspire some, like Kafka, to advocate the wholesale burning of their oeuvre. Sometimes it’s worse. Imagine how many books out there never made it to print thanks to the gap between direct experience and these tiny scratches of ink we’re expected to render it by. A damned shame. One of the benefits of avoiding this insufficiency is that an unwritten book achieves exactly what it’s supposed to. Robert W. Chambers’ two-act play, “The King in Yellow,” drives its reader to madness. There’s no question of its power to do so. What horror writer wouldn’t want a taste of that? Luckily, the actual text is never allowed to interfere with Chambers’ unwritten masterpiece. That’s what makes it so fascinating—the burden of creation is thrown back into our own imaginations, letting us fill in the gaps with our own hidden madness. Barring the invention of some kind of live neuron mapping tech in the world of entertainment (you laugh, but just wait), nothing comes closer to a truly individualized media experience. No wonder writers as diverse and inventive as H.P. Lovecraft, Stanislaw Lem, and Jorge Luis Borges, to name a few better-known examples, are drawn to the unwritten manuscript. But that’s not entirely what this book is about. You’ll find more here than just the (un)written word in the classic sense—there’s musical scores, ancient glyphs, an autograph, and even an eBook. Worse, each extracts a terrible price from its reader. With the exception of Richard Thomas’ “In His House,” these stories aren’t additions to the lore of unwritten staples of horror and weird fiction. They are wholly fabricated media artifacts of each writer’s imagination, horrific in their nonexistence, dark heirs to the great and unreal Sutter Cane. We hope your imagination is a secure place since it’s there where the conjurations are soon to begin. We bid you luck on your descent into The Nightside Codex

A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches. But what also makes Tiny Nightmares so bloodcurdling—and unforgettable—are the real–world horrors that writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Lilliam Rivera, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott weave into their fictions, exploring how global warming, racism, social media addiction, and homelessness are just as frightening as, say, a vampire’s fangs sinking into your neck. Our advice? Read with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack. Featuring new stories from Samantha Hunt, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Rion Amilcar Scott, and more!

An anthology of ocular horror, featuring 20 "visionary" tales: Seán Padraic Birnie, Brian Evenson, Elana Gomel, Douglas Ford, Shannon Scott, Timothy Granville, LC von Hessen, Mark Howard Jones, Rhonda Eikamp, Charles Wilkinson, James Pate, J.A.W. McCarthy, Christopher K. Miller, Selene dePackh, M.R. Cosby, Michael Kelly, Rebecca J. Allred, John Langan, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Sam Richard.

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2020. Includes stories by: Charlie Jane Anders G. V. Anderson Gregory Norman Bossert Jeremy Packert Burke Katharine Duckett Brian Evenson Carolyn Ives Gilman Maria Dahvana Headley Stephen Graham Jones Justin C. Key Naomi Kritzer Rich Larson Yoon Ha Lee S. Qiouyi Lu Usman T. Malik Melissa Marr Maureen McHugh Tamsyn Muir Sarah Pinsker C. L. Polk Matthew Pridham M. Rickert Zin E. Rocklyn Rachel Swirsky Lavie Tidhar Carrie Vaughn Fran Wilde Claire Wrenwood At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From 1977 to 2003, OmniPark thrilled, astonished and educated guests of all ages. ...or did it? While some cynics claim our beloved Odessa, Texas theme park never truly existed, we remain convinced it did - and we've written stories to prove it! In these pages, we'll join Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Jesse Bullington, Orrin Grey and many others on journeys back through the Seven Realms: In these stories, you'll meet sentient sea creatures, time-traveling siblings, creeping cosmic horrors, mad inventors - and a full cast of equally memorable characters. You'll travel to alternate universes, distant solar systems, ocean trenches, paradoxical dimensions, and other realms more fantastic still. This universe is yours to explore. It's dark, and full of wonders.

" Hymns of Abomination is a vivid, communal nightmare. A fitting tribute to a contemporary master of the weird." Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase Welcome to Hymns of Abomination: Secret Songs of Leeds, an anthology of fiction compiled to celebrate the work of Matthew M. Bartlett. Bartlett is a beloved voice in contemporary weird fiction known for his richly nightmarish tales of Leeds, a fictionalized version of a village that’s part of Northampton, MA. What began as Livejournal posts circulated among friends in the early 2000’s, Bartlett’s short, macabre, and imaginative yarns found their way into Gateways to Abomination , a collection that swept the small world of weird fiction into giddy delirium. Since then, Bartlett has continued to influence writers and readers alike with his dark, grotesque, and tantalizing tales. This book is packed with weird fiction and horror writers, both established and new, who have been invited to play in Bartlett’s imaginative sandbox. Featuring all original tales from John Langan, Gemma Files, Brian Evenson, S.P. Miskowski, and many more, Hymns of Abomination burrows deeper into nightmarish Leeds than is safe. This volume is a must for fans of Bartlett and horror fiction in general.

Great British Horror 6 continues the annual series showcasing the best in modern British horror. Every year, the series features ten British authors, plus one international guest contributor, telling tales of this sceptered isle. The 2021 edition, Ars Gratia Sanguis, once again features eleven previously unpublished stories from eleven authors at the very top of their game.

2022 Splatterpunk Award Winner [STARRED REVIEW] “Hugo Award–winning editor Datlow ( Edited By ) brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seasoned horror reader." — Publishers Weekly Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft’s Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more. The most terrifying thing that you can possibly imagine is your own body in the hands of a monster. Or worse, in the hands of another human being. In this definitive anthology of body horror selected by a World Horror Grandmaster, you’ll find the unthinkable and the shocking: a couture designer preparing for an exquisitely grotesque runway show; a vengeful son seeking the parent who bred him as plasma donor; a celebrity-kink brothel that inflicts plastic surgery on sex workers; and organ-harvesting doctors who dissect a living man without anesthetic. A groundbreaking new horror anthology, curated by the genre’s leading editor and featuring a stellar contributors list, focuses on one of the most basic—yet most terrifying—things: The human body. World Horror, Bram Stoker, and Shirley Jackson Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow is widely considered the foremost horror editor of her generation; Datlow’s lifetime sales are over 500,000 copies. Anthology contributors include some of horror and dark fantasy’s most prestigious authors: Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Alyssa Wong, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and more. Datlow has edited six previous anthologies for Tachyon, including the bestsellers Lovecraft’s Monsters and Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror. Cover and interior spot illustrations by World Fantasy Award-winning artist John Coulthart (Lovecraft's Monsters) National marketing plan to include author and publisher social media campaigns, print and digital ARCs, book launch, author events and appearances, blog tour, podcasts, features, and interviews

Uncover the secret annals of untold history in these eighteen medieval manuscripts. Each tortured scribe will bring you face to face with ancient horrors lurking in cursed castles, wild woodlands, haunted hamlets, and mysterious monasteries. Including a lineup of authors both established and emerging, HOWL Society Press presents the first-ever anthology of historical horror from the medieval period, fittingly introduced by the writer who arguably started it all: Christopher Buehlman, author of the medieval horror epic Between Two Fires. "The Crowing" by Caleb Stephens "Angelus" by Philippa Evans "Palette" by J.L. Kiefer "Brother Cornelius" by Peter Ong Cook "In Thrall to This Good Earth" by Hailey Piper "In Every Drop" by Lindsey Ragsdale "Deus Vult" by Ethan Yoder "The Final Book of Sainte Foy's Miracles" by M.E. Bronstein "A Dowry for Your Hand" by Michelle Tang "The Mouth of Hell" by Cody Goodfellow "The Lady of Leer Castle" by Christopher O'Halloran "Schizzare" by Bridget D. Brave "The King of Youth vs. The Knight of Death" by Patrick Barb "The Forgotten Valley" by C.B. Jones "The Fourth Scene" by Brian Evenson "White Owl" by Stevie Edwards "A Dark Quadrivium" by David Worn "The Lai of the Danse Macabre" by Jessica Peter

A bone-chilling anthology from legendary horror editor, Ellen Datlow, Screams from the Dark contains twenty-nine all-original tales about monsters. WINNER of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology! A Shirley Jackson and Locus Award Finalist! A World Fantasy Award Nominee! From werewolves and vampires, to demons and aliens, the monster is one of the most recognizable figures in horror. But what makes something, or someone, monstrous? Award-winning and up-and-coming authors like Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Indrapramit Das, Priya Sharma, and more attempt to answer this question. These all-new stories range from traditional to modern, from mainstream to literary, from familiar monsters to the unknown … and unimaginable. This chilling collection has something to please―and terrify―everyone, so lock your doors, hide under your covers, and try not to scream. Contributors include: Ian Rogers, Fran Wilde, Gemma Files, Daryl Gregory, Priya Sharma, Brian Hodge, Joyce Carol Oates, Indrapramit Das, Siobhan Carroll, Richard Kadrey, Norman Partridge, Garry Kilworth, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Chikodili Emelumadu, Glen Hirshberg, A. C. Wise, Stephen Graham Jones, Kaaron Warren, Livia Llewellyn, Carole Johnstone, Margo Lanagan, Joe R. Lansdale, Brian Evenson, Nathan Ballingrud, Cassandra Khaw, Laird Barron, Kristi DeMeester, Jeffrey Ford, and John Langan.

Mothers protect, nurture, love, and adore...but what if they are more than just their title? In these 33 stories and poems, we examine what motherhood is and explore mothers of all kinds. With over 300 pages of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and poetry, we introduce the motivations and compulsions that make up a mother—both good and evil. Whether they are robot mothers, evil stepmothers, or sociopathic mothers-to-be, these stories will illuminate what's really going on inside of that woman we think we know so well...Mother. Featuring brand new stories and poems: “The Sire,” by Steven Rasnic Tem “Last Leaf of an Ursine Tree,” by Hailey Piper “Of a Thousand Arms and More,” by Ai Jiang “Passed,” by Elizabeth R. McClellan “Mother Made Cake,” by Nicoletta Giuseffi “Puerperium,” by Donyae Coles “Pelican,” by Gemma Files “Fracture,” by Mercedes M. Yardley “When Auntie’s Due,” by Sarah Read “Vé’otsé’e (Warpath Woman),” by Shane Hawk “Stone’s Blood,” by Nick Bouchard “Shields,” by Christina Sng “The Bone Child,” by Ryan Cole “The Wives of Tromisle,” by Dan Coxon “Duties Terrible and Dear,” by John Langan “Worry Dolly,” by Nadia Bulkin “(sub)Maternal Instincts,” by K.M. Veohongs “720º,” by Steve Toase “Number ONE,” by Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito “Here in the Cellar,” by R. Leigh Hennig “She’s Untouchable,” by Renee Cronley “Lida’s Beach,” by Stephanie Nelson “Instruments of Bone and the Flesh Songs They Create,” by Nikki R. Leigh “Transformative Love,” by Tehnuka “The Withering Depths,” by Todd Powell “Waiting for Mother,” by Brian Evenson “Unchild,” by Jonathan Louis Duckworth “Take Care,” by S.P. Miskowski “Mother Trucker,” by Wailana Kalama “The Last Sin,” by Gabino Iglesias “Jacob’s Mother,” by Katie McIvor This gorgeous book also includes 14 brand new art plates from award-winning illustrators around the world and an introduction by editors Willow Dawn Becker and Christi Nogle.

From Ellen Datlow— “the venerable queen of horror anthologies” per the New York Times —comes a new entry in the series that has brought you thrilling stories from Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, the best horror stories available. For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the fourteenth volume of the series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night. Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as: Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Stephen Graham Jones, Joyce Carol Oates, Laird Barron, Mira Grant, and many others. With each passing year, science, technology, and the march of time shine light into the craggy corners of the universe, making the fears of an earlier generation seem quaint. But this light creates its own shadows. The Best Horror of the Year chronicles these shifting shadows. It is a catalog of terror, fear, and unpleasantness as articulated by today’s most challenging and exciting writers.

Horror’s favorite authors throw open the doors to the Horadric Library, inviting Diablo fans a glimpse into the terrors that lurk beneath the world of Sanctuary. . . . While the Eternal Conflict rages forever onward, horror and superstition of a purely Sanctuary variety still prey on the hearts of the people. In a time long since forgotten, the Horadric Order was tasked with recording local legends, cautionary tales, and stories of the most twisted horror, in the hope that some innocents might be saved by their knowledge. Now, the vaults are open. Direct from the Diablo development team and horror’s preeminent minds comes Tales from the Horadric Library , a short story collection exploring the darkest corners of Sanctuary, and the evils that dwell there. This beautiful deluxe book has original artwork and metallic ink on its illuminated pages.

NOW A FINALIST FOR THE 2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD FOR BEST EDITED ANTHOLOGY “I will always be more grateful than I can say for anthologies like this, that not only include some of my favorite writers, but also introduce me to work by writers I haven’t encountered before. Mooncalves is splendid, surprising, and delicious.” — Kelly Link, multiple prizewinning author of Stranger Things Happen and Get In Trouble “Surreal and superb, Mooncalves is a narratively abnormal exhibition, with stories that both alter and accentuate fiction traditions. John WM Thompson has procured a haunting and often horrific anthology of literary asymmetry which will unease the unconscious.” — Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies “These stories are wonderfully varied in style and subject; some of the authors are old favorites I was happy to encounter again, while others were brand new to me, and I can’t wait to read more of their work. MOONCALVES is a collection I’ll return to again and again, its stories strange and rich and marvelously mysterious.” — Dan Chaon, author of SLEEPWALK “In Mooncalves, editor John WM Thompson brings together an eclectic and impressive mix of writers to chart the spaces where what is known and what is unknown bleed into one another. The result is a kaleidoscope of the strange, a patchwork of the weird. Highly recommended.” — John Langan, author of Corpsemouth and Other Autobiographies Mooncalves presents 23 stories of original fiction from contemporary writers both established and new, probing the weird borderlands of horror, sci fi, fantasy, and the truly indescribable. In this book you will find: Mothers seeking aid for their bewitched children, tours of train graveyards, the revisiting of sinister children's programming, small towns dissolving under hungry stars, roadside excavations in the dead of night, prisoners fording both heaven and hell on the moon, and much more. Featuring new stories from: Nathan Breakenridge Jaime Corbacho Elwin Cotman Brian Evenson Sasha Geffen Adam Golaski Janalyn Guo Glen Hirshberg Meghan Lamb Daniel M. Lavery Thomas Mavroudis J.A.W. McCarthy Mark Mayer Christi Nogle Ernest Ògúnyẹmí Briar Ripley Page Sofia Samatar Chelsea Sutton Steve Rasnic Tem Lisa Tuttle Jeff Wood L. Marie Wood Mooncalve s records precarious lives changed forever by the influence of uncanny and strange forces. Surprising and disquieting, Mooncalves is essential reading for all those in love with the weird, the horrific, and the sublime.

The first in a series of anthologies devoted to the Lovecraftian gods, Ordo ab Chao follows the highly successful The Gods of HP Lovecraft (published in 2015 by JournalStone Publishing). We begin our series with the primal origins and the god Azathoth, who represents primordial chaos in the Lovecraftian Mythos. H.P. Lovecraft described Azathoth as a demon king ruling from a dark throne in the middle of the fiery cosmic void, out of which all created things emanated. Surrounding this orbiting spiral of infinite chaos and creation sounded the repetitive notes of an incessant flute, a reference to the Greek god Pan and the symbol of chaos behind the orderliness of nature. Taking this as our departure, the stories in this volume approach Azathoth through the concept of "order out of chaos" (or Ordo ab Chao in Latin). Ordo ab Chao includes new work from some of the most talented and respected authors in horror and dark fantasy, featuring stories from T. Kingfisher, Ruthanna Emrys, Adam L. G. Nevill, Kaaron Warren, Brian Evenson, Donald Tyson, Richard Thomas, Richard Gavin, Matthew Cheney, Erica Ruppert, Jamieson Ridenhour, Maxwell I. Gold, Lena Ng, Nathan Carson, Samuel Marzioli, Lauri Taneli Lassila, Akis Linardos, and R. B. Payne.

An incredible fourth book in the horror anthology series which Booklist called "Highly recommended for longstanding horror fans and those readers who may not think horror is for them. There is something for everyone in this one." Darkness Beckons is the fourth volume in the non-themed horror series of entirely original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have been commissioned from some of the top names in the genre, and 4 of which have been selected from the 100s of stories sent to Flame Tree during a 2-week open submissions window. A terrifying cocktail of the familiar and the new, the established and the emerging. Previous titles in the series, all still in print are After Sundown , Beyond the Veil and Close to Midnight. Contents List: SAINT BARBARA by Nina Allan HARE MOON by H.V. Patterson UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS by Stephen Volk DUSK by Angela Slatter A FACE LEAVING NO TRACES by Brian Evenson GOOD BONES by Sarah Read FACTS CONCERNING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE ORLOFF SIX by Alyssa C. Greene HE WASN’T THERE AGAIN TODAY by Peter Atkins DODGER by Carly Holmes FROM THE MAN-SEAT by Reggie Oliver THE SERVICE by Ally Wilkes THE LATE MRS. APPLEGARTH by Mark Gatiss THE FIG TREE by Lucie McKnight Hardy IF YOUR SOUL WERE A PITCHFORK I’D DESPISE YOU by Eric LaRocca HEEBIE JEEBIES by Amanda Cecelia Lang KILLING BONES by Simon Clark IL CREPUSCOLO by Helen Marshall REMEMBER ME by Ronald Malfi WITCH’S CLUTCH by Simon Strantzas CAMP NEVER by J.S. Breukelaar FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery / thriller categories. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress.

What is postmodernism and what does it tell us about the things we fear? A Darkness Visible explores this and other compelling questions. Drawing together some of today’s leading voices in horror fiction, this anthology contains seventeen stories that take us from the streets of the modern metropolis to the digital wastelands at the edge of the internet. Films, video games, theatrical performances, and a global pandemic became the substance of nightmares as authors capture the horrors laying at the heart of our hyper-mediated and global twenty-first-century culture. A Darkness Visible seeks to dispel notions that horror is a “conservative” or formulaic genre. As these experiments in fiction make clear, horror is and remains a literature of disjunction, showing its potential to transport us to unknown realms while reflecting our human doubts, longings, and desires. Featuring new fiction from: Daniel Braum · Justin A. Burnett · Michael Harris Cohen · Brian Evenson · Michael Fassbender · Gemma Files · Tyler Jones · Jo Kaplan · Jackson Kuhl · Shelley Lavigne · Christi Nogle · Alistair Rey · John Joseph Ryan · Rhys Shanahan · Jonathan Sims · Richard Tamorva · Alexander Thomas

"A red thread runs through this work, Gamut's latest flagship anthology, its dark tales spliced with grief, the warp twisted with ghostly gossamer and the weft shot with blood, so that the final weave is something inherently strong and exquisitely beautiful. Featuring some of horror's finest storytellers, The Best of Gamut is a stunning exemplar of Richard Thomas's editorial vision and Gamut's enduring quality. An instant classic." —Lee Murray, five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Grotesque: Monster Stories. The Best of Gamut contains fifteen stories of dark, speculative fiction that were originally published online at Gamut magazine in 2017. Hand-selected by editor Richard Thomas and his staff, this anthology includes a wide range of stories—a gamut of human emotions you might say. There is fantasy, science fiction, and horror. There is old and new weird. There are clowns and monsters, clones and spiders, existential dread and buried secrets, time travel and even a few prairie dogs. These genre-bending, hybrid stories represent some of the biggest and brightest authors writing today. Kristi DeMeester Kate Dollarhyde Brian Evenson Kurt Fawver Michelle Goldsmith Maria Haskins Stephen Graham Jones Kate Jonez Cassandra Khaw Helen Marshall Kathryn E. McGee Eric Reitan Jan Stinchcomb E. Catherine Tobler Michael Wehunt

Home to the weird, the unclassifiable, and the odd, Bourbon Penn 32 features new stories by Brian Evenson, Tara Campbell, Simon Strantzas, Sarah Starr Murphy, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Sasha Brown, Rebecca Bennett, and Matthew Finn. Bourbon Penn stories are regularly selected for Year’s Best anthologies and have been reprinted in Stoker Award, World Fantasy Award, and New York Times Notable collections.

The city. Noisy, crowded, and ever in motion, the city can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks as the best mapped-out characters. The city can be the ever-present and constant companion (or foe) to the protagonist and antagonist alike. Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction is an anthology of dark speculative fiction tales set in 18 cities around the world during the bleak—sometimes harsh—season of winter. In Paris, a vagrant artist confronts a terrible truth while traveling across a frozen Seine and the well-walked paths of l’empire de la Mort… Children depart on a mystical quest to find their parents among the icy tombs of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem… In the snow-begotten slums of Manila , a young fighter must disobey her family and society to finally find freedom… The white-out conditions in Brooklyn are not nearly as dangerous as deals made in blood and bone…

Weird House Press proudly presents, Weird House Magazine issue 3 - the sci-fi horror issue! Merging the proud tradition of the pulp periodicals with rock n’ roll-style journalism, Weird House Magazine aims to present fiction and poetry from some of the best authors in the field, along with gorgeous art, thoughtful interviews, and intriguing articles on all aspects of horror culture, and beyond! Weird House Magazine issue #3: Cover art by Cyrusfiction Productions A New Punktown Story by Jeffrey Thomas! Interviews with Garrett Boatman and Jeffrey Thomas The Audial Essence of Weird - A look at the macabre in music Pulp Cover Retrospective The SCP Foundation - Our Favorite Anomalies Poetry by Samantha Underhill, Colleen Anderson, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel Short fiction: "Gyr" by Brian Evenson "Little Matron" by Jeffrey Thomas "Subterraneous" by Tim Curran "The Recital" by Garrett Boatman "Destroyed by Supernova" by Curtis M. Lawson "The Ballad of Eddie Bedlam" by Curtis M. Lawson “If Fish Could Scream" by Tylor James