A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.--In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is ex...

Searching for her daughter, a woman confronts the man she believes stole the child...and the strange truth behind local legends.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

If you got a mysterious box that said, Do Not Open, would you open it? If your fingers revolted and wanted a different job, would you agree? If you came from a race of giants, or thought about becoming Death's lover, or couldn't get rid of a lover no matter how hard you tried, what would you do?These stories contain unusual problems, like finding your world growing dark after eating a piece of cake—and maybe wanting more cake. It's not hard to find yourself one step outside the nor...

Marvelously crafted, slyly sidestepping the reader'sexpectations, the characters in Karen Heuler's The Other Doorrespond to the unexpected events in their lives, accepting andthen rising to the challenges, no matter how strange. For them,reality requires invention.In "The Second Coming," the Virgin Mary steps down from herbackyard visitations to join the new incarnation of Christ. In"Like a Piston, Like a Flame" a dancer finds a new way to performafter a freak accident destroys her...

"As Tonia watched the world slide by, strapped in her seat in the car, she felt another presence always, slightly to the right and behind, almost leaning against her, a pressure, an existence that was intimately reliable. This is good, she would think, and then there'd be an echo, 'I like it too.' The other voice always liked motion, and it soothed them both, to be lifted, to be carried, to be rocked, to be bathed. Tonia eventually called the other voice Vivian. Vivian was the ghost in her...

ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE ARE SINGING—climbing to the rooftops, to the bridges, to lamppost and road sign, steeple and water tower, singing gloriously, triumphantly, tirelessly—and dying. When it's all over, Manhattan has to rebuild a new society, and it seems to be having a lot of help in the form of angles, gods, and walking myths. What's real? And how much does it matter?

A genre-blending story of modern witchcraft, a police state and WTF characters, for fans of Alice Hoffman and Madeline Miller.--In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is ex...

All women special editionGuest Editors: Pippa Goldschmidt, Caroline GrebbellGuest Art Director: Monica BurnsStories:Aliette de Bodard – A Slow Unfurling of TruthEmily Bowles – Write MEKaren Heuler – Heading for the BorderLith Amenti – Sacrifice For A Broken SkyAnna Ibbotson – Do No HarmKaty Lennon – #NoBadVibesSim Bajwa – HR ConfidentialJen Downes – Pearls That Were His EyesArticlesSJ McGeachy o...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Michael Kelly, and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"After Life" by Shari Paul"Here and There" by Karen Heuler (reprint)"Modern Science" by Nelson Stanley"The Body is Concentrated Ground" by Kirsten Kaschock (reprint)