Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"For Successful Haunting" by Jessica Reisman"Camouflage Baby" by Ebuka Prince Okoroafor"Forwarded as Received" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu"My Wife" by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹm

Libraries as social and service-based institutions are constantly seeking innovative and effective ways to meet the needs of their users and maintain relevance amidst alternative information sources. They are constantly adjusting to meet the needs of users, contribute to the personal development of users, and alight with national development. All of these have placed a burden on libraries to engage in sustainable practices both to increase their capacity to drive current developmental ende...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"House" by TJ Cimfel"Big Dead Clown Things" by Adam Callaway"When the Wiliwili Blossoms, the Shark Bites" by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada"Chop! Chop! Chop!" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our January 2018 issue (#136) contains:Original fiction by Tobias S. Buckell (“A World to Die For”), Osahon Ize-Iyamu (“Say it Low, then Loud”), Erin Roberts (“Sour Milk Girls”), Bo Balder (“A Cigarette Burn In Your Memory”), and Bao Shu (“The Lighthouse Girl”).Reprints by ...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Hundreds of Little Absences" by Aimee Ogden"There's Nothing Left Without the Smoke" by Osahon Ize-Iyamu"The Hide's Effect" by Frances Ogamba"Fiat, Fiat, Fiat" by Eliot Fintushel

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“A Performance for Painted Bones” by Kelly Stewart“Girl, I Love you” by Nadia Bulkin (reprint)“A Lasting Legacy” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu“Harvest” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our July 2018 issue (#142) contains:Original fiction by Lavie Tidhar ("Gubbinal"), Mike Buckley ("A Gaze of Faces"), Kate Osias ("The James Machine"), Osahon Ize-Iyamu ("For What are Delusions if Not Dreams?"), and Qi Yue ("To Fly Like a Fallen Angel").Reprints by John Barn...

Three foster brothers are called home to Neverwood, the stately Pacific Northwest mansion of their youth. They have nothing in common but a promise to Audrey, the woman they all called mother-that upon her death, they would restore the house and preserve it as a home for troubled boys.But going home is never easy.Cal struggles to recover from past heartbreak, while Danny fears his mistakes are too big to overcome. Devon believes he may never break down the barriers that sep...

Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading.This is a book extract including chapter 1 of Bird Box.Malorie raises the children the only way she can; indoors.The house is quiet. The doors are locked, the curtains are closed, mattresses are nailed over the windows.They are out there. She might let them in.The children sleep in the be...

Caeli-Amur is a city-state where magic and technology are interchangeable; where minotaurs and sirens are real; where philosopher-assassins and seditionists are not the most dangerous elements in a city alive with threat. During the day, the ordinary citizens do what they must to get along. But at night, the spirit of the ancient city comes alive, to haunt the old places."Nighttime in Caeli-Amur" is not about minotaurs or sirens, but about a family whose lives in this place are fat...

In your hands is a poetry journal written by an undead poet, recounting his firsthand experience during the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before he turned into a zombie, but thanks to his continued writings in this journal - even after his death - you can accompany him from infection to demise. Through the intimate poetry of haiku, the zombie chronicles his epic journey through deserted streets and barricaded doors. Each three-line poem, structured in the classic 5-7-5 sy...

In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi, these poems wrap themselves in cloaks of masks and comfort; garments we learn are flammable if we stand too close to flames. D. A. Powell says of Saeed's work, "Like Aeneas carrying hi...