The Legend Continues…In the spirit of popular Dark Fiction and Horror anthologies such as Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories and Behold: Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, and the best of Stephen King's short fiction, comes the Tales from The Lake anthologies.This 5th and final volume includes:"Always After Three" by Gemma Files - A young couple discovers that in a downtown condo you almost never kn...

Look in my eyes. My bronze skin reflects the flames of the battles.I feed on bullets and shrapnel.I have trenches instead of veins and a bombardier's whirring plays my favorite symphony inside my big head. This is my story, with some of my best camouflages and disguises, and you should expect your peace plans to fail. Because that's what I do for living.Look at my million golden teeth necklace. Ring any bells? Maybe you're too young. I probably should have mentioned...

CAT PEOPLE is a poetry collection where cats are never merely pets.They are goddesses and familiars, predators and muses, hunters and healers. Moving through myth, dream, and city streets, these poems explore feline power in all its forms—seductive, feral, comic, dangerous, and tender.Blending dark fantasy, surreal humor, and intimate moments, Cat People examines transformation, desire, aging, devotion, and hunger. Cat women, cat gods, witches, artists, and lovers share spa...

"Visceral poems pack an emotional punch, and yet, also hold a beauty, truth, and lyricism that cannot be denied... A message carried with strength by the entire volume." –Library Journal2023 The BookFest Awards® WinnerA showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror.Under Her Skin features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the ...

A collaborative poetry collection by Bram Stoker Award-winning writers Michael Bailey and Marge Simon—dissecting a fiery world's relentless destruction.In Sifting the Ashes, over a hundred individual and collaborative poems explore what it takes to survive after all is suddenly taken. Combined life experiences of love, loss, and personal tragedy sift what's salvageable from the aftermath of fire, searching through the layers of ash for lessons about death, cremation, and the variou...

Marge Simon has been writing speculative fiction and poetry for decades. She is a Bram Stoker Lifetime award winner, has won the award for poetry twice and been a finalist an impressive fifteen times. She is a Rhysling Award winner. She holds the Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons reader's choice awards. She has been an icon of dark, speculative verse spanning generations of creative voices, remaining vibrant and evocative throughout.This book collects some of her finest work, broken...

Marge Simon has been writing speculative fiction and poetry for decades. She is a Bram Stoker Lifetime award winner, has won the award for poetry twice and been a finalist an impressive fifteen times. She is a Rhysling Award winner. She holds the Dwarf Stars and Strange Horizons reader's choice awards. She has been an icon of dark, speculative verse spanning generations of creative voices, remaining vibrant and evocative throughout.This book collects some of her finest work, broken...

For as long as there has been civilization, the horse has been by man's side. They have worked the fields, carried men through wars, traveled through the harshest conditions to get us to our destinations, amused us in circuses, and given us pleasure when we just wanted to go for a ride.Some horses are lucky enough to have caring owners that give them a nice peaceful retirement when they become old or lame, but for many others, fate is not so kind. These horses suffer abuse, torment...

Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale.Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jac...

Paul Vermeersch’s new poems give a present-day voice to primitive song, and restore to us a dawn-time severity that cuts through modern evasions. They go beyond sophistication to reveal the passionate and suffering animal within. The Reinvention of the Human Hand is a poetry of the human body’s experience, of a primal being that struggles to assert itself, or perhaps just survive, in a world of metals, plastics, electronics. Here is the most far-reaching work yet by the ac...

My tongue often trips over itself, much to everyone's amusement, including my own. I was thinking one day about my tongue-twisting book Prince Pugawulamukapee. Just try saying his name three times fast. And I thought that I could write a month's worth of tongue-twisters. Well, the first tongue-twister was a syncopated poem. A few others followed that style. Some are lists of tongue twisters based on some theme. So, I ended up with many more than 31 tongue twisters from Shims to Sashays. We...

How to Dance Naked in the Moonlight is a book of maybes.Maybe it contains the key to traveling to a magical and powerful sphere as practiced for millennia by Celtic priestesses.Maybe it is just a cheeky romp in the moonlight by bare-assed bad boys.Maybe it contains the recipe for the exhilaration of stepping out of boundaries into the only freedom we have left: the unadorned experience of self in the lonely moon-lit night.Maybe it will help you see aspects of th...