When a sword manifests in an old folk’s home it opens Autumn’s eyes to a whole world of magic, gods and giants. But before she has a chance to come to grips with her new reality, Autumn’s grandmother is attacked and put in the hospital. Autumn needs to discover what the deal is with the sword and how to protect herself and the people she loves.And, of course, there’s also the matter of the wings that have sprouted from her back.Can she learn about this new reality and the s...

Join us in moonlit woods where bees have stained glass wings, trees have faces, and the seasons sit down for tea. This is a world of mirrors, magic, visions, and visitations where witches make their homes, transformation is the norm, and mushrooms cannot be trusted—except when they can. We’ll serve up an abundance of things which should be cozy but aren’t, seasoned with a handful of things that shouldn’t be cozy but are, all with a hefty helping of feminism on the side.Packed with ...

Growing up in The Warren -- gnomish slums in a big, human, city -- Garryn Silversong has one goal. He wants to become a powerful wizard and use that power to rescue himself, his mother and his best friend from the dream-destroying poverty they are forced to exist in.Armed with only a harp, a stolen book about arcane theory, and single-minded determination, Garryn claws his way up from obscurity, becoming a household name.But when unimaginable tragedy comes to The Warren, Ga...

The apocalypse will come in A is for Apocalypse, but in a many different forms. Within these covers the apocalypse comes with fire, with a sigh, with tears, in technological code, with alien intervention. It comes with survival in a nightmare landscape, it demands human sacrifice, it stalks through the pages with bloodlust. It freezes, it explodes, it howls.In stories as varied as the trials humanity can endure, this anthology brings together an alphabet of possible world ...

A collection of short stories, essays, art and interviews in celebration of Candas Jane Dorsey.Contains work by Timothy J. Anderson, Greg Bechtel, Eileen Bell, Gregg Chamberlain, Alexandrea Flynn and Annalise Glinker, Barb Galler-Smith, Anita Jenkins, Laina Kelly, Derryl Murphy, John Park, Rhonda Parrish, Ursula Pflug, Robert Runté, Diane L. Walton, BD Wilson and S.G. Wong.

Niteblade's special ghost issue features stories and poems with a spectral flavour.House 5 by Adele GardnerMemory Walking by KB LawrenceA Fixer-Upper by Amanda C. DavisSoldier's Return by Robert DawsonEnvying the Dead by Francis W. AlexanderThe Isle of Skye by Adele GardnerHot Biscuits by Elizabeth ArcherHanashi Ukemi by Kenneth KaoA Voice, Independent by Christos Callow Jr.Dead Letters by Sandi LeibowitzHeaven &...

There are no damsels in distress here!A city guard in a world where sunlight is the greatest currency must choose between what’s done and what’s right when she meets a woman from the other side of the wall who’s caring for a strange brood. A teen girl is inducted into a secret society that slays mythological creatures. A woman and her daughter compete in a race where dragons pull chariots. A very special librarian guards a very special hoard. These and other stories of dragons and ...

A look inside the hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums in which formal spectral residents refuse to move on.Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all of the varying highs and lows that are experienced in these buildings, is it any wonder when echoes linger indefinitely? How about asylums, which house some of society’s worst offenders and troubled inmates, or sanatoriums, places where the mentally and physically...

Tarot card decks have twenty-two major arcana, filled with symbolism and imbued with meaning. Explore the greater secrets and ideas behind those cards with the stories and poems of Arcana. Discovery awaits, in tales such as: a grasping king struggling with his legacy; an alchemist setting a golem out on a mission of revenge; and a woman finding what she didn’t know she was looking for.Each story is like drawing a card from the deck--you never know what it might reveal.Featu...

Three of Rhonda Parrish’s beloved Aphanasian stories brought together in one collection for the first time!A Love Story: Z’thandra, a swamp elf living with the Reptar, discovers a human near the village. When she falls in love with him, she faces the most difficult choice of her life, a decision that will affect the Reptar for generations.Lost and Found: Xavier, the escaped subject of a madman’s experiments, and Colby, a young lady on a mission to save her brother, must com...

In the alphabet tapestry style of A is for Apocalypse, this book unspools tales of beauty and horror on a common theme. Within these pages is not the end of all the world but the ways in which individuals can break. The fragmenting of memory and self, of life and relationships. All the ways in which one can be broken or break a thing, all explored in wild ways here.What does it mean to break? How many ways can someone become pieces? An assembly of authors explain how the a...

Water doesn’t need to be deep to be dark.A remote mountain lake where the locals wear iron anklets for protection, a ghost ship, a goddess, a pearl diver who finds much more than she’s looking for, the true story about a familiar fairy tale and more all lurk within these pages.Featuring dark fantasy and horror by Chris Black, Rob E. Boley, Rose Chisnall, Megan M. Davies-Ostrom, Sharmon Gazaway, Rowena McGowan, Derek Newman-Stille, Thomas Vaughn and Lex Vranick, Dark Waters ...