A chilling horror anthology of 19 original short stories from a world-class line-up of the masters of horror, delving into the histories and traditions of the spookiest season of the year. Presented by Hugo Award winning editor and horror legend Ellen Datlow, and featuring stories by Josh Malerman, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix as well as many more.Halloween, Samhain, Día de los Muertos—festivals across the world where we can commune with those we have lost, when...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our September 2026 issue (#240) contains:Fiction* "Water-Eaters" by Beth Goder* "When Humans Are No Longer Born Human" by Zhu Yixuan* "To Walk This Distant Shore with You" by A.D. Sui* "And So I Open My Fists" by Rachel Sobel* "Fistful of Antimatter" by Rich Larson* "Count...

In the long-awaited follow-up to his debut collection Tomorrow Factory, Rich Larson plunges us through a multiplicity of futures.Ranging in length from byte-sized drabbles to elaborate novelettes, the twenty-six stories assembled in Changelog rove from the sands of biopunk West Africa to the scarred hull of a generation ship to the dismantling of time itself — exploring the symbiosis of humanity and technology at every stop.

Building on the evocative chill captured by 2024's Winter in the City , editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon are back with a spectacular multicultural lineup to explore Spring in the City —yet wildflowers aren't the only things finding their way through cracked concrete in these dark speculative tales.Even in the shadows of skyscrapers, spring sees an awakening in the concrete jungle...

In the first volume of the In the City anthology series, editors R.B. Wood and Anna Koon bring you new tales from eighteen authors both established and debut, including Sam Rebelein, Sarah Read, Bracken MacLeod, Gwendolyn Kiste, and more.The city.Noisy, crowded, and ever in motion, the city can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as many traits and quirks ...

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 April 2018 issue (#139) contains:Original fiction by Rich Larson ("Carouseling"), Eleanna Castroianni ("Without Exile"), Nin Harris ("Violets on the Tongue"), Amanda Fitzwater ("Logistics"), and Jiang Bo ("The Wings of Earth").Reprints by Ian McHugh ("The Baby Eaters") ...

Twenty-three stories from one of science fiction’s up-and-coming stars, Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson.Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory.On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally-ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break.On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions fo...

• 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology• Contains "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" by Rachael K. Jones, 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Fiction• Contains "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story• 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best AnthologyThe ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies returns for a fifth inc...

"Phenomenal, visceral, high-octane scifi... Altered Carbon unsleeves in a dystopian Beowulf."―Derek Künsken, Aurora-award-winning author of The Quantum MagicianAs glittering and treacherous as an icy cavern, Rich Larson's far-future tale of revenge and revolution is a gripping thriller, perfect for fans of Richard K. Morgan and inspired by the legendary story of Beowulf.Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. He le...

12 award-winning science fiction authors from around the world offer original tales of relationships in a future world of evolving technology.For fans of anthologies like Soonish and Netflix's Black MirrorIn a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships—in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects t...

“My mouth cracks a smile, not knowing what was coming.It feels like a completely different entity from me, a parasite living on my face, burrowing its way into my body, into my guts.I need to remove it, it would be ignorant of me not to.”– Adrian Hollow, “Phonophobia”Nine authors and thirteen visual artists come together to share their stories in this all-new 2024 volume of Polymorphic Magazine, featuring ten original and fully-illustrated horror-fiction sho...

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.Welcome to issue eighty-five of NIGHTMARE--and happy October! Every month is a great month to seek out literary scares, but an October horror story is just a little sweeter than usual. If you loved the SCREAM franchise, our new original short from Carlie St. George ("Some Kind of Blood...