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're bringing you original fiction from Caspian Gray ("Promises of Spring") and Caroline Ratajski ("And With Her Went the Spring"), along with reprints by Stephen Graham Jones ("Brushdogs") and Cynthia Ward ("The Midwife"). In the latest installment of "The H Word," we hav...

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 Alison Littlewood ("Ways to Wake") and Caspian Gray ("Kylie Land"), along with reprints by Ray Cluley ("Bones of Crow") and Kelley Armstrong ("A Haunted House of Her Own"). In the latest installment of "The H Word," Halli Villegas discusses the...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we present our special anniversary issue, Women Destroy Science Fiction!, an all-science fiction extravaganza entirely written—and edited!—by women.Gu...

The mesmerizing bestseller that combines the storytelling gifts of Donna Tartt and the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock—A New York Times Ten Best Book of the YearSpecial Topics in Calamity Physics is a darkly hilarious coming-of-age tale and a richly plotted suspense story, told with dazzling intelligence and wit. At the center of the novel is clever, deadpan Blue van Meer, who has a head full of literary, philosophical, scientific, and cinematic know...

The best stories of the year: here is a collection of the year's best fantasy stories, by some of the genre's greatest authors, and selected by Rich Horton, a contributing reviewer to many of the field's most respected magazines. In this volume you'll find stories Peter Beagle, Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Kelly Link, Gene Wolfe and many more!Complete contents:PIP AND THE FAIRIES, by Theodora GossCOMBER, by Gene WolfeTHREE URBAN FOLK TALES, by ...

I am Luca, the black sheep of the Lupu clan.Cat, the woman I want, happens to be my brother’s fiancée.I will do anything to make her mine, consequences bedamned.LucaAs the second son, I scoff at the antiquated rules and traditions of my clan. When my family needs to make an arranged marriage with a rival clan, the next in line to wed the spoiled princess is me.I’ll be damned if I’m led to the slaughter like some sacrificial ...

Know when to hold 'em…One winning hand of poker and the Lucky Ace ranch was his-half his, at least. The only thing standing in the way of Lane Donaldson making it his permanent home is the ranch's other owner.Taylor Scott sure is something fine to look at, but she's adamant about running the ranch herself. And then she moves in-with him! So Lane challenges Taylor to another game of poker for the ultimate prize-winner takes all.But who's to say they can't have a litt...

LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES is a collection of 25 100-word shorts that range from darkly comic to downright terrifying and wrong. Some shorts feature ghouls and monsters while others are simply about people behaving very, very badly. Which is scarier? Find out in this sick and twisted collection.They may only be a few words long, but that doesn't lessen the bloodshed any…

Stories by N.K. Jemisin, Dale Bailey, Peter S. Beagle, and more: "Showcases the nuanced, playful, ever-expanding definitions of the genre." — The Washington PostScience fiction and fantasy can encompass so much, from far-future deep-space sagas to quiet contemporary tales to unreal kingdoms and beasts. But what the best of these stories do is the same across the genres—they illuminate the whole gamut of the human experience, inter...

Nothing is as it seems in this chilling, twisting tale by bestselling author Andrea Portes, perfect for fans of Madeleine Roux and Danielle Vega.Rife with dark humor and chilling twists, This Is Not a Ghost Story is American Horror Story meets There's Someone Inside Your House. It will have readers flipping back to the very first page after the shocking finale .I am not welcome. Somehow I know...

The second volume in a thrilling new Lovecraftian horror anthology series featuring spine-tingling tales from Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Shirley, and moreEditor S.T. Joshi has assembled 18 brand-new stories of cosmic mayhem and terror, by Jason V. Brock, Rick Dakan, Jason C. Eckhardt, Brian Evenson, Tom Fletcher, Richard Gavin, Caitlín R. Kiernan, John Langan, Nick Mamatas, Nicholas Royle, Darrell Schweitzer, John Shirley, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, Jonathan Thom...

A woman in labor. A man on a mission. The Mansfield Brothers series continues…All Brianna Coleman remembers of the near-fatal accident is the hero who saved her. Not her name or the father of the baby she delivers hours later. Until news of a coup in a foreign nation triggers a memory. Her baby's father is the missing member of a royal family…and her son the next target.After saving them, Hunter Mansfield won't abandon them. But can he defend them against international assa...