In the corrupt city-state of New Babylon, a detective navigates political intrigue and a deadly new drug.City Commissioner Georg Ratner is tasked with fighting the spread of Synth, a hallucinogenic drug, during a heated election. When an old colleague is murdered while seeking Ratner's help, he is drawn into a web of political conspiracy. Supported by his partner Laura and the Egyptian goddess Nut, Ratner must uncover the truth behind the Synth and the murder, even...

There's a hot new drug on the market, and it's creating a stir. Synth can induce bold hallucinations that are indistinguishable from reality. Sure, it's highly addictive, and no-one knows yet what the long-term effects are, but does that really matter when the buzz is this good?For Markus Olsen, Synth is the escape he needs as his life crumbles around him. His hacking career is in tatters, his friends imprisoned, and his skills traded in a plea bargain to the oppressive state he spe...

When a famous horror writer arrives in a lovely coast town to work on his new novel, he is immediately seduced by its picturesque beauty and friendly locals. It looks like he finally found the ideal place to concentrate after a difficult and stressful period of his life. But when strange and frightening events begin to happen all around him, he begins to wonder if behind the beautiful facade of reality lurk some well-hidden and much darker secrets— or, maybe worse, if he' s purely and simp...

Foreword Indies Award Bronze Winner!From Seb Doubinsky, author of The Song of Synth, The Babylonian Trilogy, White City, Absinth, Omega Gray, and Suan Ming, comes his highly anticipated next installment in the City-States Cycle. Missing Signal—a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a government conspiracy? Agent Terrence Kovacs has worked for the New Petersburg Counter-Intel Department propagating fake ...

Venture into the shadows with a collection of folk horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction.Turning of the Seasons: A Dark Almanac, award-winning authors J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky pay tribute to the tradition of yearly almanacs with a modern twist. This collection infuses folk-horror with a modern-day setting, pushing the boundaries of the uncanny into our cities. Experience disturbing stories and vignettes, sometimes poetic, sometimes funny, but al...

1969: Revolution in Mexico!Decades later, charismatic guerrilla leader Lorenzo is living in Europe with a young son. Approached by a German revolutionary organization for his account of the conflict, he struggles to recall repressed memories of violence, absurdity, and tragedy. Lorenzo's past returns in Seb Doubinsky's kaleidoscopic Fragments of a Revolution. Raging between moments of ecstatic liberation and quixotic disappointments, what emerges is a manifesto for freedom...

Languages of Water is a rare but intimate fusion of East, West and Africa, a stunning artefact of writerly immersion and cultural exchange. This child of digital collaboration brings together writers, illustrators and translators of poetry, fiction and essays, and refuses to be contained.In a playful interrogation of French literary theorist, critic and philosopher Roland Barthes' le plaisir du texte and death of the author, Languages of Water opens with the homing story 'When the ...