Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...

The United States lost the war with itself.Jake Culver was one of the soldiers who figured out he was working for the wrong side, but not before he'd been marked a traitor. Disappearing into the desert, he re-emerged in the newly independent California and built a new life there. Until his secrets caught up with him.Now he's trapped into doing a job for the state, forced to return to the last place he wanted to see again, at least on this side of the border with the Federal...

Strange tales at a strange university. Some quiet horror, some dark humor, and some fantastical slice of life at this storied and magical institution, steeped in the occult and part of the odd town of Arkham. Come visit this fascinating New England university—where science and magic, tradition and experimentation go hand in hand—and the quiet, secretive town on which it relies.More odd tales of campus life at Miskatonic University fromLynne Hardy • Tonya Liburd • S.L. Edwar...

LOS ANGELESTHE EIGHTIESCait MacReady is an ex-punk rocker, having spent her college years bouncing around the underground that was quickly burning out and becoming something more hardcore. She spent time interning with occult mystery hunters running their own ramshackle television show. She became a librarian and book restorer. She became a forger, recreating lost and forbidden volumes of magickal power, all the time never once believing that there was anything to all that ...

Cait MaCready wrote a book, a book that the powerful Queen of No Tomorrows knew about before it was even started and wanted to take for herself. The struggle between them destroyed the Queen and it very nearly destroyed Cait.Six months after, she's sleepwalking through life, trying to convince herself that she's recovered, that she's still alive. But she's hearing voices, not the Queen or the god she tried to call down. Something from the water, something that haunts the edge of sl...

Seven all-new stories from the streets of Hazeland. Stories that resist easy categories, falling between fantastic horror and weird fantasy and strange crimes.A weary and ragged veteran returns to his childhood neighborhood finding it gone but for one house and the ghosts within it need his help.A private detective digs at the secret behind gentrification in downtown and the fabricated and inhuman residents who'ved moved in.A girl at a mysterious block party confron...

FANTASTICALLY WEIRD TALES OF CAMPUS LIFEThis is your first year? Welcome! Oh, you’re going to love it here at Miskatonic. Just . . . be careful. I mean, I’m sure everything will be fine, but you know, things happen. This can be a strange place. You hear stories: people changing and buildings rearranging, ghostly sounds and overly attentive textbooks, odd notions and foul deeds . . . even monsters! Hah. Just stories, right? Sure.Faculty struggling for fundin...

This is the third annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to get them to more readersThe Long List Anthology Volume 3 collects 20 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling ov...

This expanded version of the World Fantasy Award–nominated original dark fantasy novella is the award-winning author's definitive edition.Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency's world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable.Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself...

Conflict is EternalWe have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale.But who will fight the wars of tomorrow? Join Elizabeth Bear, Indrapramit Das, Aliette de Bodard, Garth Nix

Compostela (Tesseracts Twenty) is an anthology of hard and soft science fiction stories that best represent a futuristic view of the sciences and how humanity might be affected (for better or worse) by a reliance in all things technological.The stories contained within the pages of Compostela are a refelction of the world we live in today; where science produces both wonders and horrors; and will leave us with a future that undoubtedly will contain...

Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and brought together by editor S. T. Joshi, the tales in this horror short story collectionexplore the very essence of fearH. P. Lovecraft’s brand of cosmic horror has long forced readers to an inexorable truth—there are powers in the universe whose immensity dwarfs petty human conflicts.Between these covers lie many of the finest Lovecraftian authors, including Sunni K Brock, Donald R. Burleson, Mollie L. Burleson, Nicole Cushing...