"Start with “Of Calls and Spring” by N. V. Morris, then enjoy the other great stories from the floor because that one will knock you on your ass."-Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants, The Test, and A History of What Comes Next11 authors and 12 visual artists come together to share their stories in this all-new 2025 volume of Polymorphic Magazine, featuring eleven original and fully-illustrated horror-fiction shorts ...

***One of Publishers Weekly's ""Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2018""***A group of mountain climbers, caught in the dark, fight to survive their descent; in the British countryside, hundreds of magpies ascend into the sky, higher and higher, until they seem to vanish into the heavens; a professor and his student track a zombie horde in order to research zombie behavior; an all-girl riding school has sinister secrets; a town rails in vain against a curse inflicted upon it by its fou...

LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES is a collection of 25 100-word shorts that range from darkly comic to downright terrifying and wrong. Some shorts feature ghouls and monsters while others are simply about people behaving very, very badly. Which is scarier? Find out in this sick and twisted collection.They may only be a few words long, but that doesn't lessen the bloodshed any…

The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A GAME OF THRONESWhen an alien virus struck the Earth decades ago, it spawned a new breed of superhuman men and women. Those with useful mutations were known as Aces, those with deformities as Jokers.Now, in New York's Jokertown, a savage street war has broken out between the Mafia and a gang known as the Shadow Fists. A courageous band of Aces must go...

City of Victoria Butler Book Prize: M.A.C. Farrant, The World Afloat (Winner)In The World Afloat, a series of seventy-five “miniatures” that melds narrative with elements of prose poem and farce, master of the absurd and expert observer M.A.C. Farrant peers into the complexities of human experience – through the rear window.Inside the linoleum-lined kitchens and lace-trimmed living rooms that drift through these stories, Farrant interrupts the daily routine...

A new dark shadow envelops Dakota Combes’s strange world as personal collides with paranormal once again. Her friend at the office develops an illness with symptoms of fatigue and undeath. Her mate leads her to someone who might know, a doctor with more up his sleeve than a stethoscope. Together the group of strange friends must go against a phantom that intends to rejoin the living, even if the effort costs their lives.The Alpha Mated series is an episodic serial where each book c...

A chilling collection of short stories exploring the depths of human darkness and the cost of empathy.In Aaron Dries's Cut to Care, social workers impersonate the deceased to comfort grieving families, a woman grapples with the weight of a cheated suicide, and a candlestick maker crafts human chandeliers from drunken cowboys. These tales, ranging from supernatural to domestic, splatterpunk to cosmic, remind us of the price of caring too much—or not enough....

Arachnophobia is usually rated as one of the most prevalent of phobias and who can disbelieve this when you see the horrid creatures creeping, scuttling, hiding, waiting to pounce, building dust trapping webs everywhere... Let the talented Thirteen Press authors get going on a topic like spiders and associated horrors and all hell breaks loose! If you really are spider phobic, this is not for you. If you want to be terrorised and unable to tolerate the nasties near you, this is for you. En...

A collection of eleven twisted and terrifying tales by horror author, Erica Summers. Including stories of gripping psychological horror, cosmic, bizarro, and body horror. This chilling collection of short horrors includes:TinesFeed the MachineDerailedIn the Blood of the MartyrPainted in VermilionAll the Same Color on the InsideSatedTake a BreathSecondhand KissTwo Lip Garden& The Rictus GrinPLUS an introdu...

Martin Hewitt is ten years old when he meets an abnormally large spider in the woods, and he's immediately enamored by her violence and beauty. It seems she's the only one of her kind, a lone Female without a Male.As the years go by, the two forge a secret bond: Martin feeds her, and she…well, she's the only female who truly understands him. But to take their relationship to the next level, he must prove he is Male enough for her.

In 2,700 words and eight illustrations, an ordinary chicken finds himself in an awkward situation and needs to get away—fast. He soon discovers he is inventive, smart, and sneaky enough to become a temporary zombie (and a stylish one), a magician of dazzling feathers, and a half-mastermind hero.Suitable for all readers who wonder how far nonsense can go while enjoying a ridiculous series of events.

Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror:A food blogger hunts for a killer recipe.Ceaseless rain drives a lonely man into his fungus-covered town.A grieving son purchases a kit to regrow his dead mother.This anthology explores the mysterious world of fungi, spores...and things that dwell in the dim forest under the rotting leaves. Here you'll find 31 stories and 5 poems of quiet, cosmic, and body horror-plus subtle humor. Works...