The Strangest Fiction Anthology is a collection of short stories written by a diverse group of talented fiction authors from strangestfiction.com. It is a showcase of the most popular science fiction, supernatural, horror, and thriller works on the site. Prepare to journey into the depths of space, listen to another sociopathic tale from your grandfather, confront the noise emanating from your attic, and much, much more. The collection will push your imagination and curiosity to their limi...

Free Up Yuhself explores and theorizes what it means to embody and be empowered by the chaos of transgression, evaluating the implications for people who destabilize the Caribbean region’s dominant gender and sexuality politics within the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora. This book examines how people actively utilize the *carnivalesque—*spaces of festivity and places of excitement, the extraordinary, the ritualistic—to confront, negotiate, disrupt, and transgress normative tr...

In this amazing issue:Three boys are pursued by a shapeless terror in The Drain by Stephen Gallagher, author of Down River and Rain.Acclaimed writer Charles L. Grant takes motherly love to the limits in Alice Smiling.And Kim Newman reveals an obsessive book collector's dark secret in The Man who collected Barker.Plus news and views from the world of fantasy and horror.

Weirdbook #47 offers a captivating journey into the realms of fantasy and horror, featuring a diverse collection of stories from acclaimed authors such as David C. Smith, Adrian Cole, and Cynthia Ward. This issue includes Schweitzer's

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...

Be careful what you wish for—especially if your wishes are granted by a grumpy, furry, prehistoric sand-fairy!When Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother move to a quiet house in the English countryside, they expect a perfectly ordinary summer. But while digging in a local gravel-pit, they unearth something utterly extraordinary: a Psammead. This ancient, spider-shaped, bat-eared creature has the power to grant exactly one magical wish a day. The catch...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...