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Breaking into publishing can feel like knocking on a closed door or being turned away from a barred gate. Enter Here is an anthology of speculative fiction from marginalized voices. With this collection, we want to open the doors--to marvel, to dazzle, to terrify, to unlock.These thirteen short stories of science fiction, horror, and fantasy span the range from cozy to grimdark, each responding to the theme: A door opens. Enter Here invites you to step through these doorways... if ...

I see dead people…but I’m in big trouble when I become a ghost myself.I’m Winter Whitethorne, psychic medium, and I find it easier to get along with the dead than the living. I’ve perfected invisibility spells so I can ‘ghost’ those I don’t like. Haunted by spirits who refuse to cross over, I struggle to act “normal” and not give in to the bad luck that clings to me as deftly as my ghostly hitchhikers.When my boyfriend, Ronan, is attacked three day...

With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Renée Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction, witches, in never-before-seen works written exclusively for The Book of Witches, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by award-nominated artist Alyssa Winans....

Once upon a time, the stories that came to be known as “fairy tales” were cultivated to entertain adults more than children; it was only later that they were tamed and pruned into less thorny versions intended for youngsters. But in truth, they have continued to prick the imaginations of readers at all ages.Over the years, authors have often borrowed bits and pieces from these stories, grafting them into their own writing, creating literature with both new meaning and age-old signi...

Contains rapidly-rising writers early in their careers; stories are all published after 2010Authors are internationally-based and encompass a wide variety of multicultural perspectivesFeatures uncollected fiction, including one original story written for the anthology

First collection from writer who is taking off.First novel won many prizes, second novel nominated for same. Stories finalists for many awards.Writer who crosses borders and catches interest of many differenent constituencies.Stories reprinted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy StoriesIncludes a huge new story, “Fallow,” published here for the first time.Author has been a repeat guest on To the Best of Our Knowledge.Author has writ...

BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTIONA celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor’s door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the mythological, are captured in this masterful essay, told in wise and luminous prose that pushes back the dark.

Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year’s best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures. Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you—from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.

NYT Bestselling Author, Frederick Joseph, explores a new genre in this captivating poetry collection that seeks to find joy in moments of difficulty whether through illuminating the beauty of being Black, highlighting the hope that can be found in childhood, or by sharing intimate truths revealed on a mental health journey. This book will appeal to both new and established readers of poetry.Step into the world of We Alive, Beloved, where its words will res...

In this dark fantasy retelling of the Snow Queen fairy tale, a deadly assassin must balance a tragic love triangle and her desires to free her city from the cruel clutches of the Winter Queen.The city-state Sirapirat once knew only warmth and monsoon. When the Winter Queen conquered it, she remade the land in her image, turning Sirapirat into a country of snow and unending frost. But an empire is not her only goal. In secret, she seeks the fragments of a mirror whose power will gra...

This collection of poems and tales, spanning eight years of publication in Pagan and speculative fiction magazines and journals, includes award-nominated pieces that illuminate Pagan life and relationships with the sacred. Here there are Wiccan attorneys facing terrible dilemmas, Heathen priests bringing the good word of Woden to aliens, destructive fairies grieving for Detroit, and more. "Will you not come? Will you not leap like a stag onto the crossroads and turn to the left, the way of...

In Terra Incognita, Short Story Day Africa is proud to present nineteen stories of speculative fiction. Contained within the pages are stories that explore, among other things, the sexual magnetism of a tokoloshe, a deadly feud with a troop of baboons, a journey through colonial purgatory, along with ghosts, re-imagined folklore, and the fear of that which lies beneath both land and water. Terra Incognita. Uncharted depths. Africa unknowable.