An actress is dead. After seeing her ghost appear, a young journalist rushes into danger to uncover the full story

A hilariously creepy middle grade novel from award-winning author Caleb Roehrig!Poe has spent his whole life wishing he could meet a ghost, but when he moves into a real-life haunted house**, he** discovers **that communing with the other side might be a little more than he bargained for.**Twelve-year-old Edgar Alden, also known as “Poe,” has always been an outcast. Obsessed with t...

Two fated mates bond over their mutual love of comic books, but when one of them discovers his new friend isn’t quite human, will their friendship end or turn into something more?HarutoMy first visit to the human realm in decades was… memorable. I visited a comic book store, and made a new friend. Liam was just as geeky as me, and while he might seem scary to humans, all I saw were his sweet smiles and kind gestures.Discove...

Two fated mates. One deadly need. Is this their ending…or the beginning of forever?ZamirThe Sanctuary gave me a home, and the ability to survive without killing like the rest of my kind. Life was good… until all my friends started finding their mates.I thought I could drown my loneliness in alcohol, but instead, I found him: the ancient, impossibly hot dragon who owns the bar…and who happens to be my mate.No...

Alistair Woodson is a loner by choice. Since the traumatic night that ended his only friendship, he’s isolated himself by letting his classmates believe he’s a criminal and an arsonist, best to be avoided at all costs.But on his graduation trip across Paris, Switzerland, and Italy, Alis discovers that isolation isn’t so easy to maintain in hostel rooms and cross-country trains. Soon he finds himself growing closer to classmates who were once strangers to him—namely the class clown,...

A small-town photographer who’s given up on love meets a smoking hot firefighter with a smile to melt hearts.Try as they might, some flames are impossible to resist.Alex:⁣Maplewood is as wonderful and cliché as you’d imagine. Sure, the town gossips share everyone’s business, but neighbors look out for each other. Nowhere else would be as accepting of me as this queer-friendly small town I grew up in. The onl...

Cornelius Sawyer is a man of many talents, but forgiveness is not one of them.Watt Johnson is a man of his word, but not once in his life has he spoken up for himself.Once connected by the bonds of childhood, threads now severed by the demands of life, the pair are brought together for a once in a lifetime opportunity: an all expenses paid expedition to Brazil, searching for a man the world believes to be long dead, Percy Fawcett. And perhaps, even the Lost City that he was...

Goosebumps now on Disney+Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small, its practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year.Then Matt does it. Late one night. When everyone's in bed. He sneaks into the guest room and falls asleep.Poor Matt. He should have listened to his mom. Because when Matt wakes up, his whole life has changed. For the worse. And every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in a new...

**For readers of What Fresh Hell is This? and Next Level, a queer, gender-affirming guide to navigating menopause—find gender euphoria, learn how to advocate for your healthcare, and empower yourselfPrompts, tools, and expert wisdom for living well through menopause and beyond**The diverse menopause experiences of nonbinary, trans, and other queerbodied individuals have been overlooked—and actively invisibilized—for far too long. Genderqueer Menopause

My father is missing, and along with him, the Sunrunner family stone, Nausa.My aunt swears this is common for him, but I know differently. Yes, my father is lost deep in his addictions, but he's never disappeared before. If it weren't up to me to handle the mess my family has made, I'd be a thousand miles away by now. But time is running out, and the threatening eruption of Mount Slate keeps inching closer.Now, Half the Moonstriker family has come to help m...

I've spent the better part of a decade trying to save the world.Twice a century, Mount Slate threatens to erupt, and for my entire life, the four families in charge haven't seemed to care about their impending doom.So it fell to me to try to fix things. To make peace.Me, a man whose greatest skill is pissing people off so much that they challenge me to a duel, and then killing them in that duel.Now the moment is here, and my clever stone is ...

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.Like Weird Tales itself—the magazine that never dies—these monsters are coming for you and they are very, very hungry.“The Eyr...