Deep, mysterious, beautiful . . . dangerous . . .Women and the sea have been tied together in myth and story from the beginning of time. Tales of women being drawn to the sea or being left on the shore, waiting for their men’s return, have been passed down through the ages.But what mysteries lie beneath the sparkling placid waters? What power drives the wind and waves crashing against the shore? There is transformation and exaltation—magic—in the ocean and women al...

Underland Arcana reveals the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. This issue contains stories by A. P. Howell, Louis Evans, Christopher Hawkins, Jon Lasser, Josh Rountree, Nikoline Kaiser, Breanna Bright, and J. A. W. McCarthy. Stories about family, stories about theft, stories about ghosts, stories about the weight of history, stories about weight we bring to history, stories about being lost and being found, and stories about the gravity of grief. These are the storie...

After receiving a letter telling him with terrible news, Doctor Lawrence Cooper visits the small harbor-town Osmund in search of answers. Though something is clearly wrong there, Lawrence keeps finding reasons to stay: the sake of a young girl he meets, and to get to the bottom of his one-time lover's suspicious death.And the longer he stays, the more Lawrence is drawn into Osmund's peculiar mysteries.Cover Illustration by JJ Epping.PRAISE

In 2020, the world was tipped upside down and shaken in ways we could barely have imagined, except perhaps in the post-apocalyptic and dystopic worlds of story. Amidst pandemic illness and death, political machinations and despair, one of the casualties has been, at least in a financial sense, the Arts. Governments across the world have slashed funding, galleries, theatres and entertainment venues have closed amid lockdown restrictions, money is being carefully metered with jobs more uncer...

From the inner realms of humanity to the far reaches of space, these are the science fiction and fantasy tales that are shaping the genre and the way we think about the future. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan continues to shine a light on the very best writing, featuring both established authors and exciting new talents.Within you will find twenty-eight incredible tales, showing the ever growing depth and diversity that science fiction and fantasy continues to enjoy. Th...

From @wilderpoetry comes a heavily expanded revised edition of Nocturnal, a collection of poetry and beautifully illustrated black-and-white imagery inspired by darkened days and sleepless nights.Poetry meets presentation in each of the four sections ("Dusk," "Northern Lights," "Howl," "Lucid Dreams,"), which trace the author's continuing journey of self-discovery while illuminating a path for others along the way. Ink stains, landscapes, dreamlike animals, blackened pages...

ContentsFrom the EditorJanuary 2016“The Demon in the Page”, Joshua Phillip Johnson“Cat Play”, Mari Ness“... and now He erases”, Rhoads Brazos“The Machinery”, Julia Warner“In the Belly of the Angel”, Henry SzabranskiFebruary 2016“Heard”, Elise Forier Edie“Rowboat”, K. G. Anderson“How to Survive a Fish Attack”, Kato Thompson“Seeders”, Jamie KillenMarch 2016“La Belle Dame”, Sa...

The gripping first installment in global bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s epic, romantic Shatter Me series.One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a dead...

Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a ...

Blaine Wicked is used to women doing as he says in and out of the bedroom. Find out happens when he falls for the one woman who won't submit to his wicked ways in the newest insanely sexy, deeply emotional, and laugh-out-loud funny standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster.Blaine Wicked can spot trouble a mile away. As the eldest of five and raised in a Dark Knights biker family, he has always been a protector. Rescuing a strip...

Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; innovative Lovecraftian turns; shadowy fairy tales and weird myths; strange children, the unexpected, the supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while invent...

The twins Elinàsze and Garyl are growing up fast. Thanks to their mother Rys’s demonic blood accelerating their growth, they’re ready to start school at less than a year old. And since all signs point to them inheriting their father Flio’s omnipotent power, they’re proving to be quite a handful! Business at the Fli-o’-Rys General Store is also booming...Meanwhile, the Dark One Yuigarde has pressed his victory too far and pursued the rebel devil Zanzibar into the desert on a fool’s ...