Skies darken. Sirens wail. Buildings tremble with each distant boom. You grasp your loved ones close to you. Any second could be your last.Howls From the Wreckage will push you to the edge of imminent disaster—and drown you in the heartbreak of its fallout.HOWL Society Press presents its thrilling anthology of disaster horror, fittingly introduced by Nick Cutter, acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep."Don't Play in the Closet...

Some would call him a warrior, others a priest.When Corpse wanders into the city of Dross Toll, he runs afoul of a sadistic count hellbent on his destruction. But when forced to flee into the surrounding forest, he encounters threats darker than a nobleman's rage.Mixing sword and sorcery and cosmic horror, Carson Winter's The Corpse Priest is a fast-paced adventure through a world of magic, bloodshed, and unimaginable terror.

SPLIT SCREAM has a new home at Tenebrous Press! The first volume of editor Alex Ebenstein's acclaimed series is back in print, featuring two novelettes: The Guts of Myth – Carson Winter It' s 1973. British-American thug Byron is tasked with finding the occultist Allosaurus D' Ambrosere, given only handwritten instructions and two hateful associates. Where they' re going, they' ll find blood red skies, obsidian towers, and a deep thirst for violence. But will they find the man who calls him...

REAP WHAT YOU SOW In the wake of a series of panic attacks, isolated and introverted Carina takes a friend up on an offer: go to Greentree, Oregon, escape her abusive ex, and start a new life. But upon arrival, the town is stranger than Carina could have ever imagined. For one, they still have a video store. For two, everyone is rich. For three, what' s up with all these scarecrows? As Greentree' s secrets begin to unravel, as the autumn sun bends below the corn, as scythes sharpen in the ...

You know that office bromance: two of a kind, always taking their lunch together, always wearing the same sly grin. Only ever a hair away from a cold joke about how spreadsheets are a living hell; about taking a bullet if it means going home early on Friday. Sometimes in these fantasies, they' re heroes being hauled out on a stretcher. Sometimes they' re the ones pulling the trigger. Now, say these guys discover a loophole that makes some days less real than others— less permanent— and sta...

The End is Weird. In the event of cosmic fallout, it is vital that you adhere to the following: Secure your own persona, and a backup if available. A neighbor' s is acceptable. Your skin may attempt to abscond. This is normal in these situations. Ignore all notifications from your mobile devices. They are not to be trusted. Pay no mind to the details of that photograph. Yes, that one. Should your body accrue any additional limbs, please keep proper inventory; they will need to be accounted...

With fourteen horror stories set during the decade of flannel shirts and neon dolphin Trapper Keepers, Ahh! That's What I Call Horror features a PHAT (pretty horrific and terrifying) collection of totally rad horror and weird fiction authors exploring the darker side of what many consider a time of relative peace and prosperity. With Communism falling and Clear Channel rising, the horror of the 1990s requires peeling back layers of safe, sanitized media to reveal the nightmares waiting ben...

Under your mask, there is only decay.In Carson Winter's debut collection of social horror, characters reveal their darkest selves in the face of the insane and inexplicable.A couple finds themselves trading identities in the form of masks.A podcaster follows strange clues to a mystery that may spell his end.A child's world collapses into chaos as its dreamer awakens.Portraits of Decay poses subjects as both transgressor and ...

They don't want you to read this.This manuscript—leaked to the public by the (former) director of the Department of Inhuman Resources, TJ Price—comprises six accounts about the Company from award-winning and noteworthy authors:AI JIANG details a terrifyingly plausible ordeal in a near-future where every day is slick with oilIVY GRIMES tells the tale of one promotion-obsessed worker in a very strange bookstoreERIK McHATTON delves in...

Beyond this rock we call home, horror awaits. Meteors slash through the sky, illuminating terrors beyond our wildest imagination. In the furthest reaches of the coldest cosmic expanse, there are things waiting, whose very existence our minds are not equipped to comprehend.Can you survive the final frontier?Featuring 14 stories from some of the best up-and-coming talents in the genre, The Darkness Beyond The Stars is an anthology of space-themed hor...

There are places in the world which blur and fuzz when your attention strays toward them—places which can only be seen out of the corner of your eye. They are everywhere around us: lurking behind the door-left-ajar, shifting in the dimly-lit mirror, phasing in and out of both dream and memory. These interstitial domains are what we call 'liminal spaces,' ecotones of dread and persistent unease between reality and an undefined beyond.In between doorways, seventeen authors explore th...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.We publish every other month.Issue 127 contains the following short stories, essays, reviews, and interviews.EDITORIALMusings from Maryland: Editorial by Lesley ConnerORIGINAL FICTION...