Fionagh Cuneen has recently joined the Montague household as a chambermaid. But the strange events in the cellar of the New England mansion keep her awake at night. Avril, her employer's young bride, seeks to discover what lurks in the shadows, and the master of the house will stop at nothing to protect his secrets. And Fionagh will do anything to protect her mistress

Susie Philips Lovecraft has always encouraged her young son Howard’s creativity, despite how his dark and peculiar creations unsettle her. But one autumn night, she discovers that his creations might not manifest from his imagination alone, and these strange creatures may have dubious intentions toward the lad.The fiction of H.P. Lovecraft has inspired generations of horror writers and readers, but what dreams and eldritch realities inspired this dreamer of Providence? This first i...

A young orphan hired as a housemaid falls for a mysterious young neighbor with a peculiar origin. A devotee of a dark god tends her divinely-born children. A scion of alien entities seeks a text that may unlock a door to the home of his eldritch kindred. In the shadows of the rustic New England town of Dunwich, weird and wondrous things lurk. But what do they truly seek? To harm or to help?

The winter can be long, cold, and hard. Even the holidays can be terrible.Then, there comes a time of year when some places are no longer used.No longer needed.No longer wanted.It's the coldest part of the year, in nearly every sense.It is when a lot of the world is...Closed for the Season.Sometimes people go into those places anyway.Dare you follow them?Stories by:Lee F. Patrick, Rob Nisbet, Ross Baxter, D.H. ...

Halloween 1906 looks like a lonesome October night for a sixteen year old Howard Lovecraft. But when his spirited classmate Veronica Banigan invites him to her family's home for a "Guising Night", the evening takes a turn for the weird, so much that anything can happen and dark things may seek to enter the mortal realm...The fiction of H.P. Lovecraft has inspired generations of horror writers and readers, but what dreams and eldritch realities might have inspired this dreamer of Pr...

Weird Tales #360 is a special Elder Gods issue, featuring creepy new stories by many horror & dark fantasy luminaries, including:Brian Lumley - "The Long Last Night"Michael Shea - "Momma Durtt"Michael Reyes - "The Darkness at Table Rock Road"Darrell Schweitzer - "The Runners Beyond the Wall"Matthew Jackson - "Drain"William Blake-Smith - "The Thing in the Cellar"Parke Godwin - "To Be a Star"Jessica Amanda Salmonson - "The Empty City"

Resurrected corpses, voodoo conjuring, black magic (and blacker science)...these are all well known to cause zombie breakouts. Here are classic and modern tales, full of thrills and chills and the living dead...tales of zombies! These stories don't (well, mostly don't!) go for the gross-out. Great writing, lots of atmosphere and suspense (and the occasional laugh) -- if you want more than just extreme horror and gross-out scares, this is the zombie collection for you!Included are:

Not everything in life is the way it appears in children's books. **A fairy tale for adults.**

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from Dale Bailey ("Sleep Paralysis") and Martin Cahill ("It Was Never the Fire"), along with reprints by Nancy Etchemendy ("Nimitseahpah") and Lucy A. Snyder ("Magdala Amygdala"). We also have the latest installment of our column on horror, "The H W...

Set many years after the zombie apocalypse, Hell Comes for the Hurried follows a group of weary survivors in their trek north and quickly takes a turn for the worse. Some things are worse than death; guilt and cowardice chief among them.

The September/October 2017 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by N.K. Jemisin, Fran Wilde, C. S. E. Cooney, Catherynne M. Valente, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, and Delia Sherman, reprinted fiction by Malinda Lo, essays by Sophie Aldred, Cecilia Tan, Sarah Kuhn, Sam J. Miller and Jean Rice, and Sabrina Vourvoulias, poetry by Jo Walton, Brandon O'Brien, Ali Trotta, and Gwynne Garfinkle, interviews with C. S. E. Cooney and Delia Sherman by Julia Rios, ...