What Is The Penumbra?The Penumbra is:-The very edge of the border between light and shadow.-A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins.-An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form.In this volume:-Two strangers in different places and circumstances find themselves drawn to each other, and to increasingly world-alterin...

What Is The Penumbra?The Penumbra is:-The very edge of the border between light and shadow.-A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins.-An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form.In this volume:-A musician and storyteller in 14th century Mali discovers a mysterious song that shows him other times and places and is s...

What Is The Penumbra?The Penumbra is:-Literally, the very edge of the border between light and shadow.-A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins.-An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form.In this volume:-While working at a local horror filmfest, a young woman receives a special gift from the guest of honour, and t...

What Is The Penumbra?The Penumbra is:-Literally, the very edge of the border between light and shadow.-A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins.-An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form.In this volume:-A festival in ancient Greece includes a theatre competition and grisly murders. A local group's strange play mi...

What Is The Penumbra?The Penumbra is:The very edge of the border between light and shadow.A series of connected, interrelated fictions spanning the supernatural, horror, and science fiction genres, along with their cousins.An homage to anthologies of speculative fiction in TV, comic book, and prose form.Two strangers in different places and circumstances find themselves drawn to each other, and to increasingly world-altering events. What will they fi...

No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption. Often disturbing, occasionally delightful, let The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror be your annual guide through the mysteries and wonders...

A collection of nineteen short stories from the Nebula and Hugo Award–winning author of The Iron Dragon's Daughter and Stations of the TideWritten over the course of a decade, Tales from Old Earth contains nineteen masterful pieces of short fiction—including the Hugo Award–winning stories "The Very Pulse of the Machine" and "Scherzo with Tyrannosaur;" the World Fantasy Award–winning novella "Radio Waves;" Hugo Award finalists "The Dead," ...

“This is a real page turner, characters you can believe in, horrible bad guys and cool action. Perfect for fans of Suzanne Collins or anyone who likes their sci-fi to have a human edge.” "Free at last, Ally and Stem have reached the war, but nothing is as it seems. In part three of A Game of War, Ally discovers just how big the universe is; makes a friend who helps her discover the true extent of the power that she has locked within; and is introduced ...

This volume contains eleven poems. The subject matter generally lies in the realm of love found, love lost or some other aspect of love.

Will and his friends are hired to rescue a family heirloom from an imposing house, but all is not what it seems.

The world in which we live is permanently poised between a series of extremes; up and down, dark and light, yin and yang... life and death.In fact the very fabric of what we experience teeters constantly on the knife edge that separates reality from fantasy.Sometimes it's very difficult to know where the division between the two truly lies, and often physical experiences and imagination share a hazy common ground where each one is as valid as the other. That's when matters ca...

These poetic gems were found like pebbles on the sands of my life. Poems of love, joy, fact, fiction, depression and inspiration. Stories of romance and tragedy, war and peace, and father and motherhood. All born from my overactive imagination and I call them "My Kinda Poetry." And I hope they are your kind too.