St. Aldhelm's Church, Redcliffe, was deconsecrated in 2019 and converted into residential flats. The developer called it sympathetic conversion. The planning documents called it adaptive reuse. The building, apparently, had other ideas.

The fire begins as a small column of smoke over the Canfield drainage.Within hours it becomes something far more dangerous.As record heat grips the region and winds begin to shift, a wildfire ignites the dry chaparral outside the small community of Ridder. What begins as a routine incident quickly escalates into a crisis that threatens thousands of lives.County Fire Chief Dana Morales sees the danger before anyone else.Volunteer firefighter

A coastal town enjoys the calmest season in living memory.No storms. No waves. No wind.At first, it feels like a gift.Meteorologist Lena Ortega returns home to Harbor Point expecting a quiet visit with her estranged father. Instead, she finds an ocean that has stopped moving - and a town that doesn't want to ask why.The deeper she looks, the worse it gets.Dead deep-sea creatures wash ashore. Navigation systems fail offshore. Entire sections of ocean ...

Dr. Hana Tūhoe has spent ten years building a career in London - marine ecology publications, a position at UCL, a flat in Hackney, a life that is professionally successful and personally managed. When the Waitematā Harbour Ecological Restoration Initiative offers her the lead ecologist role, she tells herself it's a career opportunity. Twelve months. A properly resourced, co-governed, mātauranga-integrated project. The kind of work she's been training for.She doesn't mention that ...

WPaD presents: Strange Adventures in a Deviant Universe…- A scientist struggles to find a cure for Alzheimer's before the disease takes his mind…- Dolphins and whales work with their human trainers to terraform a new planet…- Artificial intelligence backfires on humanity when sex robots become sentient and demand rights…- A lost reptilian tries to find her way home…- Random items are disappearing in a small town and cats may be responsible…- ...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre:- People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies- A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly- A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature- A hole inside a closet holds unknown mysteries- A grieving father consults a psychic to solve his daughter's murder- Two friends embark on a fantastic adventure during a game of Dungeons and Dragons

A bloodthirsty refrigerator…A murderous pothole…Legends of mysterious monsters…Ghosts and magic…And much more!Chilling stories from the twisted minds of Writers, Poets and Deviants:Volume 3 of WPaD's popular Creepies series.

The third graphic novel adventure featuring Dean Koontz’s hugely popular character, Odd Thomas – the small-town fry-cook who can see the dead.Odd Thomas’s bestselling author friend, Ozzie Boone, asks Odd to pay a call on an old friend: Hollywood producer Nedra Nolan, who has just bought a dilapidated mansion in Pico Mundo and hopes to make it her retirement hideaway.However, mysterious occurrences – windows opening of their own accord, rooms going cold, and chandeliers cras...

The bestselling, wonderfully unconventional, “warmly conspiratorial…seriously good” (The New York Times) memoir-in-letters from the Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Award–winning actress that has received fabulous and wide praise. “There is no one else quite like Mary-Louise Parker…Funny, heartbreaking and profound” (ELLE).An extraordinary literary memoir, Dear Mr. You renders the singular arc of a woman’s life through letters Mary-Louise Par...

Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.World Fantasy Award–Winning EditorAn incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other ...

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 present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.Gu...

Now in its fifteenth successful yearl; Once again this annual offering of the best SF includes the work of established masters of the form and of bright new talents, including Stephen Baxter, M. Shayne Bell, Greg Egan, Nancy Kress, Ursula K. Le Guin, Paul J. McCauley, Severan Park, Brian Stableford, Michael Swanwick, Robert Charles Wilson, and many more. Gardner Dozois has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor a staggering eleven times, just proving that his is simply the most comprehensive a...