Love Edgar Allan Poe and want more? Explore new gothic stories and poems inspired by Poe in this haunting, award-winning anthology!Take a tour through Poe’s Baltimore home, experience “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the old man’s eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness “The Fall of the House of Usher” from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more.Don’t miss the award-nominated stories “The Heart of Alderman Kane” by Eleanor Sciolistein and ...

Underland Arcana explores the hidden spaces beneath the stairs and continues to lurk up in the attic. This issue contains stories from Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Marilee Dahlman, Rhonda Eikamp, Jordan Taylor, John Klima, and Avra Margariti. Stories about decoding human connections, stories about snakes, stories about what happens when you leave that stain too long, stories about witches, stories about disappearances, and stories about love and loss. These are the stories that creep up on us at n...

This second volume of The Rabbit Hole is every bit as flumbiferous as the first. Which is just as Alice likes, because weirdness abounds and the warren never ends. Are you out for revenge? You'll need the right app. Or perhaps you've done something foolish? Never mind – it can be undone. Would you like to be in a video game? That too can be arranged - at a cost.All this and more in 29 stories to leave you pondering realms beyond our perception. Unless, perhaps, they've been there a...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editor Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:“Floodwater” by Kristi DeMeester“Wheatfield with Crows” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)“Some Pictures of Monsters” by Rhonda Eikamp“Hairwork” by Gemma Files (reprint)

Thirty Usher-Inspired Stories and PoemsWhisper the words “The Fall of the House of Usher” and you conjure strange imagery… a brooding, black tarn… sullen siblings… the frenzy of undeath…This famous story, published by Edgar Allan Poe in September 1839, continues to hold sway in our society over one hundred and eighty years later. This volume is composed of thirty stories and poems inspired by this great gothic work.Explore the vaults of the House of...

This "wondrous" collection of fantasy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia A. McKillip, and others "is a treasure chest. Open it and revel in its riches" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).For this enchanting anthology—a World Fantasy Award finalist—editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling "asked their contributors to reimagine Fäerie" in the present day, or "search its more dimly lit pathways," and the authors have responded with bountiful imagination. The titl...

This original short story tells the tale of how a girl named Mallow defeated King Goldmouth with the help of the Red Wind, Mr. Map, and many fairyland friends new and old--from Catherynne M. Valente, author of the children's fantasy sensation The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

They emerge from the shadows, to claim the night ….Women from around the world delve into Lovecraftian depths, penning and illustrating a variety of Weird horrors. The pale and secretive Lavinia wanders through the woods, Asenath is a precocious teenager with an attitude, and the Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Nitocris has found a new body in distant America. And do you have time to hear a word from our beloved mother Shub-Niggurath?Defiant, destructive, terrifying, and harrowing...

A short story from the Pax Arcana urban fantasy series featuring John Charming—ex knight, current monster hunter.The line between reality and dream is never entirely clear under the best of circumstances—and when John Charming finds himself being hunted through a nightmare house, it is far from the best of circumstances. . ."The Pax Arcana books are seriously good reads. Action, humor, and heart with unexpected twists and turns." —

No matter your expectations, the dark is full of the unknown: grim futures, distorted pasts, invasions of the uncanny, paranormal fancies, weird dreams, unnerving nightmares, baffling enigmas, revelatory excursions, desperate adventures, spectral journeys, mundane terrors, and supernatural visions. You may stumble into obsession - or find redemption. Often disturbing, occasionally delightful, let The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror be your annual guide through the mysteries and wonders...

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

“Tom Thumb. Three bears.” is a collection of the two most famous folktales and fairy tales, which was retold and illustrated by W.W. Denslow in 1903.The “Tom Thumb” is about Tom, who is no bigger than his father’s thumb, and his adventures with a big crow and a huge fish, and becoming a favourite of King Arthur.The “Three bears” retold by W.W. Denslow has a very nice and kind ending, which will be appreciated by kids:“The good natured bears were always anxious t...