Many of us feel that we are other; that we are on the outside looking in, wanting desperately to be over there while tethered to the here.Twenty-five acclaimed and award-winning international writers offer up their unique cultural perspectives in short stories of fantasy and speculative fiction, emphasizing the universal truth that we are all on the outside. And perhaps this truth will bring us all together…But not anytime soon, we expect.Featuring the remarkable vo...

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime“What will we find in the uncut grass?”“It depends on what we’re looking for.”In the tradition of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a gorgeously illustrated fable about a young child’s journey into the world beyond the shadow of home, a magical landscape where he discovers the secrets of solidarity, connection, and finding peace wit...

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ c...

Humans feared the power of the elements, so they locked them away. In the process they altered the balance of nature. Eight hundred years later, the elementals have awakened. Maddened by centuries of imprisonment, these powerful beings crave vengeance. Three unsuspecting women will have to soothe the savage forces before it's too late.One will find rebirth in the flames that take her life.One Night To BurnOne will meld with the sea t...

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.

Love twisted into horrific shapes, nightmares driven by cruel music, and a world where what little light remains fractures the sky into midnight rainbows in eighteen stories tracing the dark veins of queer horror, isolation, and the monstrous feminine.The universe unwinds to the tune of a malicious ice cream truck jingle in "We All Scream". "The Law of Conservation of Death" dictates that a ghost pursue his prey across her every reincarnation. Superstitions thrive even in the dista...

This collection of speculative short fiction is about all kinds of queer growth, from emerging and developing to flourishing and cultivating. Whether they're tender sprouts just beginning to discover themselves or deeply-rooted leaders fiercely defending those they love, the people in these stories have this in common: you can't tell them what to do. They grow as they please.

EVEN A DREAM CAN BE CAUGHT IN PROSE…There's nothing better than a moment of whimsy and a dash of the fantastical to get the mind wandering. 99 Fleeting Fantasies is a flash fiction anthology readers can tiptoe through for a bit of wonder or while away an afternoon as they meander from old-time tales to far-flung fables to serious snippets of legend and lore that come from all over the world, including Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Ire...

Representation Matters.Fantastic Stories prides itself on being open to underrepresented voices. Science fiction and fantasy should encompass the totality of the human experience, in all of its diversity and complexity. Fantastic Stories is determined to explore a more inclusive, realistic vision of the future.People of color have been publishing some of the highest quality science fic...

Nicola Griffith has earned a worldwide reputation as a disabled SFF writer, and she has penned the forewordAnnie Carl is one of the only disabled bookstore owners in the US; her voice as an editor is a clarion call to representationThe editor is beloved by booksellers, especially in the Pacific Northwest, as she is an avid participant in the bookselling community and an active member of PNBAAuthors include Nisi Shawl, Nicola Griffith, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Raven Oak...

What is horror to those living in the margins?Where terror is systematized and in the very air everyone happily breathes?A misheard word.The thud of boots.An impossible color.A foreign growth.Death in the Mouth is a collection of horror stories and art showcasing BIPOC and ethnically marginalized storytellers from around the world. You’ll read stories featuring grotesque manifestations of dread, the enveloping sludge of grief, and the insectoid ...

Ada Hoffmann’s MONSTERS IN MY MIND anthologizes 49 pieces of the author’s speculative fiction and poetry published between 2010 and 2017, including ten new, never-before-seen pieces. The author’s range is on full display in this collection: the 49 works alternate among traditional short stories, flash fiction, microfiction, poetry, and prose poems, creating a rhythm and flow to the collection as a whole and uniting stories with otherwise multitudinous and divergent content. Much of the wor...