If a human girl is adopted by the fairies, can she ever truly be human again? Or has her life been altered forever beyond reclamation?Taken in by the wood fairy as an infant, Takara lives a blessed life with her friends Mouse and Toad, and especially the tiny orchid mantis known as Hana. Her extraordinarily long life is filled with carefree play and excursions throughout the Enchanted Realm. Given a full education by the Red Dragon, Takara learns of life both within the enchanted w...

Eight short stories. A smorgasbord of bite-sized delights, with a sprinkling of twisted bents and slight undertones of darkness.The Eighth AbigailThe Way Order is MaintainedFrog PrincessAsmund. Here and ThereDust Up at the Sun DownTwenty-Nine SecondsBest Kept SecretDown the Deep Timber

Weirdbook #45 continues its mission of celebrating fantasy, horror, and weird fiction, with another jam-packed issue of stories. Here are works by such talents as Adrian Cole, Darrell Schweitzer, Sharon Cullars, and John R. Fultz.The complete lineup:THE DRAGONS OF THE NIGHT, by Darrell SchweitzerLOVE AND SORCERY, by John R. FultzTHE RECKONING, by Sharon CullarsEVERY BONE IN HIS BODY, by Adrian ColeWE WERE X-MEN, by Abdul-Qaadir Taariq Ba...

Prepare to journey inside the pages...Meet a vigilante killer who speaks with the dead. Discover how an opium den in the Comstock becomes a newsman's final story. What secrets hide within the American wilderness? How powerful is a mother's love? Can anyone survive an isle that only welcomes the dead? Do you truly feel secure within the privacy of your own home?The answers to these and more await within these thirteen tiny windows that open to the dark side....

The 43rd issue of Weirdbook, under the editorship of Doug Draa, presents new tales of fantasy and horror in the grand Weird Tales tradition. Included this time are:Short StoriesAn American Story, by Darrell SchweitzerImpervious to Reason, Oblivious to Fate, by John R. FultzThe River, by Sharon CullarsTaking Out the Trash, by by D.C. LozarArthur Wardrobe And Asia Anastacia: A Love Story, by Andrew DarlingtonSnack Time, by Franklyn Searight

The first Weirdbook Annual -- The Witches MEGAPACK® -- presents a selection of all-new tales of witches! Included this time are:"Thou Shalt Not Suffer," by Matt Neil Hill"No Holds Bard," by Adrian Cole"Laying the Hairy Book," by Josh Reynolds"Here Is Where Your Proud Waves Halt," by Erica Ruppert"Vicious Circles," by Paul Dale Anderson"Assorted Shades of Red," by Franklyn Searight"Strange Days in Old Yandrissa," by John R. Fultz"Fert...

Shallow Waters—where secrets are buried, and nightmares are born.Dive into the depths of darkness with 21 chilling tales of horror and dark fiction in Shallow Waters Vol.4, the anthology series where morbid fates await and nothing stays buried. It's a collection of twisted love, karma, death, and spectral mysteries that promise to tear away the façade of the everyday and expose the haunting truths beneath.Shallow Waters is the official horror and dark ficti...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition: fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here! Included are:Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. FalconerThe Mumbler, by Gillian FrenchCleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn SearightWhores and Criminals, by Dean MacallisterThe Quiet on the Water, by C. C. AdamsThe Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by James PrattThe Awaken...

This volume assembles 9 classic weird fantasies from Greye La Spina, one of the greatest pulp fantasists of the early to mid 20th century. These tales range from 1919 (in The Thrill Book) to 1951 (in Weird Tales) and include some of her most famous tales of vampires, werewolves, psychic detectives, and more. Included are:WOLF OF THE STEPPESTHE TORTOISE-SHELL CATTHE REMORSE OF PROFESSOR PANEBIANCOTHE SCARF OF THE BELOVED

Here for your reading delectation, are 25 outre tales of crime. Since history has proven that there is nothing unusual or unexpected about the human (or inhuman) drive to break the law, it should come as no surprise that the weird, the strange, the supernatural, and the just plain odd often, in fictional form, manifest themselves allayed to the criminal element. Included are:INTRODUCTION, by Shawn GarrettTHE WINDOW OF HORRORS, by H.L. MenckenTHE FOOTSTEPS ON THE STAIR...

We love ghost stories here at Wildside Press—witness the fact that we have now now reached our eighth volume in this series. Very few other genres are so versatile and enduring as tales of the supernatural. Ghosts can (and have) appeared in literature for thousands of years, in all countries and continents (and times past, present, and future) throughout the world. But the Victorian era particularly seemed to embrace ghost stories, and that’s when Christmas ghost tales became not just a st...

Henry Slesar was a science fiction author during the Golden Age of the genre, writing not just for the leading magazines, but for movies and television, most notably Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone. Included in this volume are 10 of his classic talesTHE SHOW MUST GO ONDREAM TOWNHEARTMY FATHER, THE CATRELUCTANT GENIUSTHE DELEGATE FROM VENUSTHE STUFFTHE SUCCESS MACHINEBRAINCHILD