From a funeral procession in Asia to an ancestral estate deep in the heart of a vaguely Victorian forest to a carriage accident in the vast universe of The Runelords, Unnatural Worlds takes readers on a journey to the far side of the imagination. Funny, heartbreaking, frightening, but most importantly, memorable, the original stories in this anthology go places few writers dare reach. Unnatural Worlds marks the perfect start to this brand-new anthology series.Orig...

Love the holiday seasons?Of course you do. Full bellies and the joyful promise of a new year make for good stories and fun reading.Add some twists and weirdness, Pulphouse-style, from some of the greatest fiction writers working today, and you have Jingle My Bells, the best weird holiday stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.Enjoy reading this collection any time of the year, but especially during the holidays!Includes:"Dreaming of a Carboniferous ...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionPulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse.Table of ContentsEdited by Dean Wesley Smith“Spud Wrangler” by Kent Patterson

In A Cat of a Different Color, the first volume of WMG's The Year of the Cat series, editors Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch worked to find stories that featured cats that were just a little surprising (an impressive feat for cats, anyone would have to admit).Just a little weird. A little different.Which makes these stories amazingly fun to read. After all, for cat people, reading about cats equals the fun of being with one.Almost. Just don't t...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionPulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhi...

Philip K. Dick Award finalistLocus Recommended ReadingHere are 33 weird, wonderful stories concerning men, women, teleportation, wind-up cats, and brown paper bags. By turns whimsical and unsettling—frequently managing to be both—these short fictions describe family relationships, bad breakups, and travel to outer space.Vukcevich's loopy, fun-house mirror take on everyday life belongs to the same absurdist school of work as that of George Saunders, Da...

Everyone loves a good ghost story. Somehow the creepiest, scariest ghost stories always feature sadness at their core.From a story about a woman who must face her ghosts on Christmas Eve night, to a ghost detective stuck in his own cemetery helping other ghosts move on by solving their own murders, to a ghost who writes letters to the living—these ghosts seem more alive than dead. Their sagas just continue into another realm.So, steel your courage and delve into these ten s...

We really like our mystery stories in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.In Alibi Murder, some of the best short story writers working today illustrate the various types and styles of mystery stories that grace the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.That variety shines on full display in this volume of ten stories, where police detectives walk the beat, human PIs stalk convention halls and zombie PIs solve crimes of the supernatural kind.With so many gripping crime stories...

ulphouse Fiction Magazine specializes in strange and weird and head-shaking stories. But in among the strange stories lurk some really, really strange stories that seem to push limits no one else thought to push.So, we plucked those stories out and put them in these pages.Who could pass up the David H. Hendrickson story "The Short Life and Horny Times of a Teenage Mantis"? Or "The Men Without Heads Join a Health Club"?The ten stories in this unique volume prove that...

Where can you find stories that serve up not only high-quality fiction, but stories also just a little off? Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, of course!And wow do aliens bring out the "Pulphouse factor" in writers. This volume contains the best alien stories from Pulphouse in the first ten issues. It also includes a special treat: a story from Pulphouse editor Dean Wesley Smith. These alien stories just go way off the beam, and we do mean way off, so far off, the beam seems too far off t...

Robots often walk the pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine.Pulphouse prides itself on crossing genre lines, blurring genre lines, and just flat mixing up genres until the genre classification means nothing.Terms like different, off-center, twisted, and sometimes just head-scratching form the hallmarks of a Pulphouse story.So, like everything else in Pulphouse, the robots in these ten stories might or might not fit the standard classification of robots. But they defin...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionPulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhi...