An umbrella is opened indoors. A black cat crosses your path. Three cigarettes are lit from one match. These are omens of bad luck that no one takes seriously. But at Van Buren University when these, and other superstitions, are broken… students die.Sophomore Jerry Williams' hard-hitting reporting has won awards for Van Buren's school newspaper. But when he connects a series of campus deaths to bad luck, his editor questions Jerry's judgment, kills the story, and s...

From the Mind of Derringer Award Winning Author James Blakey Comes Thirteen Tales of Crime and Mystery."Fast Times at Spiro Agnew High" - Junior Mike Wimmer owes money to the school loan shark. But Mike is broke, and the shark wants his money by six—or else. Mike's one hope: a reward for a missing iPhone. He has ten hours to find a 2x3 phone on a campus of 1,500 students, faculty, and staff."Porridge" - In a fairy-tale land a hard-boiled private detective i...

Visit a Valley you may not know.Shenandoah Fantastic: Mystic Whispers from the Valley's Vales invites you to experience the mysterious, the supernatural, and the humorous.Ride a ghost train to Mount Jackson.Visit the trolls that live beneath Luray Caverns.Experience a bird revolution in Singers Glen.And meet time travelers at the Shakespeare Center.Whether you're a long-time resident or a curious traveler, this ...

Visit a Cville that's not quite like the one you know.Charlottesville Fantastic: Arcane Echoes from Virginia's Heartland invites you to experience the mysterious, the supernatural, and the humorous.Meet unforgettable characters including a vampire at a UVA sorority, a four-hundred-year-old dragon hidden in Shenandoah National Park, and an enigmatic tuxedo cat on the Downtown Mall. Twenty tales in total, each exploring the m...

This issue, we have original mysteries by Albert Tucher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and James Blakey, plus a modern tale by SJ Rozan (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). For our mystery novel, we have a Golden Age tale set in the Canadian Northwest Territories, The Long Arm of the Mounted, by James French Dorrance. Rounding out the section is a solve-it-yourself puzzler by Hal Charles.We also have one of Norman Spinrad’s occasional “Norman Spinrad at Larg...

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood also produced an environment that supported perhaps the most intensive use of boreal fo...

For over three decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the seventh volume of this series, Datlow is back again to bring you the stories that will keep you up at night.Encompassed in the pages of The Best Horror of the Year have been such illustrious writers as:Neil GaimanKim RobinsonStephen KingLinda...

SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST HORRORS COME IN THE SMALLEST PACKAGES…There's nothing better than a short, sharp slice of flash fiction to get the mind working. 99 Tiny Terrors is an anthology that the reader can dip into for something deliciously dangerous in a short amount of time, or spend an afternoon trolling through blood-soaked stories from all over the world, including Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, India, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Sta...

Pauline can’t believe it, she’s been invited to the biggest hide and seek game in the neighbourhood, the one all the cool kids play in! The pressure is on. As the new kid, Pauline counts to one hundred and starts the hunt. As evening turns to night, Pauline searches the nearby housing construction site but instead of finding any of the other kids, she finds a stray barrette and a broken yoyo. Where are the kids? How can she win the game? In the growing darkness, she wonders, are they the o...

Welcome to the dreadful world of Tenpenny where the tales are as hard as nails.Ready to make your heart run hot and your blood turn cold? The authors included in these pages have an unnerving ability to craft short stories and poetry that will shake you to your core. Thirty-three quick-witted authors came together to make sure you don't sleep while reading this book. Bask in the intense beauty found only within the macabre.

Quickfic Anthology 3 from Digital FictionShorter-Short Speculative Fiction42 more speculative fiction shorter-short stories in horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Top fiction authors present stories that grab you in 3,499 words or less. Includes the following terrific stories:A Change of Season Jess Landry (horror)A Wind Will Rise Andrew Knighton (fantasy)The Abbott's Tussock H.L. Fullerton (science)Good Hunting Robert Allen Lupton (horror)

A costume drama turns truly deadly in this cozy mystery set in small-town California by the New York Times bestselling author.As the owner of Coffee, Books, and More in the tucked-away town of South Cove, California, Jill Gardner has been known to enjoy a suspenseful tale of murder—as long as it’s confined to the pages of a good book. But now a local charity wants her to portray a twenties flapper in a dinner theater murder mystery. She doesn’t love the id...