In ‘Toxine’, a story first published in Interzone: The 4th Anthology, Richard Calder reworks in modern dress some aspects of the myth Offenbach took from Hoffmann and Hoffmann drew from the deep fears of the race; his tale of redressing is poisonous, saturated, decadent as the end of the last century.’ – John Clute

Whitechapel, London. 1888. Madeleine Fell is dreaming of Babylon. Not the Victorian Babylon of London, but a second, Mesopotamian Babylon that exists in a parallel dimension, a world populated and ruled by Ishtar’s sacred prostitutes that has of late gained ascendancy over our own. In Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper is murdering Babylonian whores. And off-world, on Babylon itself, the men of the Black Order plot revolution — by instituting a ruthless program of gendercide. Unbeknown t...

Whitechapel, London. 1888. Madeleine Fell is dreaming of Babylon. Not the Victorian Babylon of London, but a second, Mesopotamian Babylon that exists in a parallel dimension, a world populated and ruled by Ishtar's sacred prostitutes that has of late gained ascendancy over our own.In Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper is murdering Babylonian whores. And off-world, on Babylon itself, the men of the Black Order plot revolution—by instituting a ruthless program of gendercide. Unbeknown to h...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLETCONTAINS 48 BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHSA man tells a woman that they have met before that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates their past together, real or imaginary, snapshots of memory appear and she begins to believe him. As more details begin to re-emerge from the woman’s mind, the reader is shunted backwards and forwards ...

I wrote this Sid's Place book a long time ago. One of my motives for writing this book was to explore how things might have gone for me under different circumstances, especially regarding murder. Like Tom, I got busted in my van, but I hung around and got a lucky break when my Uncle offered to take me in, in St. John's, Newfoundland. My friend went to jail, I was exiled to Newfoundland. (That was 1970. I spent two years hitchhiking from the Canadian Pacific to Atlantic Oce...

What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401, McKegney and his participants tackled crucial questions about masculine self-worth and how to foster balanced and empowered gender relations.Masculindians captures twenty of the...

Six gripping dramatised documentaries detailing the history of the turbulent Tudor period.Passion, power, sex and suspicious deaths – the Tudor story is one of drama and dysfunction, and it has kept us enthralled for over 400 years. In these six dramatised documentaries, we take a behind-the-scenes look at Tudor England and get to know the key characters we have grown to love and hate, such as Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Compiled from contempor...

Love Edgar Allan Poe and want more? Explore new gothic stories and poems inspired by Poe in this haunting, award-winning anthology!Take a tour through Poe’s Baltimore home, experience “The Tell-Tale Heart” through the old man’s eyes, go corporate at Raven Corp., witness “The Fall of the House of Usher” from the perspective of a hidden Usher sibling, and much more.Don’t miss the award-nominated stories “The Heart of Alderman Kane” by Eleanor Sciolistein and ...