Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long haunt of childhood, marriage and divorce — these lie at the heart of The Ambassador of What

A showcase of some of the finest weird fiction from 2024, the inaugural volume of The Best Weird Fiction of the Year pays homage to, and builds upon, the critical success of its sibling predecessor, The Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vols. 1 - 5 (2014 - 2018).Fiction from Joanne Anderton, Jason Baltazar, Seán Padraic Birnie, Chris Campbell, F.E. Choe, Kay Chronister, Dominique Dickey, Diana Dima, Hiron Ennes, Richard Gavin, Elliott Gish, Thomas Ha, Rachael K. Jones, J...

Prepare to have your blood run cold, your heart race and your brow bead with sweat: this anthology of horror stories ranges from the starkly terrifying to the tantalizingly creepy. There's magic mixed in with the chalk dust, evil lurking in the textbooks, malevolence biding its time in the labs and perhaps something even more horrifying in the student cafeteria.Chilling tales born from the dark shadows of campuses across Canada. Edited by Mark Leslie, the author of the non-fiction ...

Why do massive, Fortune 500 companies routinely pay hundreds of millions of dollars in recurring software licensing fees for outdated, clunky enterprise systems they absolutely despise? The terrifying reality of the modern corporate IT landscape is a systemic, highly profitable extortion model known as the ERP Hostage Crisis. When a multinational corporation implements a massive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system like SAP or Oracle, they must restructure their entire biological work...

Something stirs in the boundless dark of the Canadian north. Listen. Can you hear it?Northern Nights is an anthology of strange stories, featuring the dark dreams and feverish imaginations of Canada's finest speculative authors. Steel yourself for a journey through these northern nights.Featuring all new original stories from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Camilla Grudova, Premee Mohamed, David Demchuk, Senaa Ahmad, A.C. Wise, Naben Ruthnum, Simon Strantzas, Richard Gavin, Rich Lars...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Windows" by Ibrahim Ojedokun"The Tale's in the Telling" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Dromedary Mary" by Phoenix Alexander"Wendigo" by Michael Kelly (reprint)

18 Spine Tingling Tales Best Served Chilled...Edited by the maestro of macabre, Michael Kelly, CHILLING TALES: Evil Did I Dwell; Lewd I Did Live will distress you, delight you, and disturb you with stories that slowly creep under your skin and linger in your mind long after the pages have been read.This tome includes selections by iconic Canadian dark fantasy and horror writers Nancy Kilpatrick, Claude Lalumière, Brett Alexander Savory, Rob...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"In Absentia" by Suzan Palumbo"Nā Heʻe" by Wailana Kalama (reprint)"Hunger" by Michael Kelly"Within the Pink Paisley Walls" by Kelsea Yu (reprint)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Lightfingers" by Seán Padraic Birnie"The Night Will Let It In" by Michael Kelly (reprint)"Robert, We Can Cry Now" by Françoise Harvey"The Soul Garden" by Rhys Hughes (reprint)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Blunt Teeth" by Margaret Ronald"One Will Grow to Eat the Other" by Michael Kelly (reprint)"Apostasy in Fruit" by Moustapha Mbacké Diop"Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores" by Gemma Files (reprint)

Provocative and unsettling new fiction from Martin Cahill, Malcolm Devlin, Meg Elison, Françoise Harvey, John Patrick Higgins, Alexander James, Rebecca Kuder, Spencer Nitkey, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece."Excellent!"- Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year"With its seventh issue, Weird Horror (Fall 2023) has finally hit its stride. All 11 stories are effective, and sever-al are laudable."-Paula Guran, Locu...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Vivisepulture" by James Bennett"Water Like Broken Glass" by Carina Bissett (reprint)"Imago" by Steve Rasnic Tem"Dead But Dreaming Still" by Michael Kelly (reprint)