11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's famili...

At the end, when the last star dies and the cold begins to seep in, what will be the totality of our accomplishments? What will have been the point? And will anyone notice that we're gone? If the true terror at the center of cosmic horror is the vast indifference the universe has for us, does that mean the closest thing we have to any sort of compassionate connection is . . . our cats? Ah, we may be doomed.But, in the interim, perhaps there may still be some spark that can illumina...

This issue is a revival, a call to the sweet sweat of the summer celebration. This is the breath of wind that sweeps before the storm, that tells us of things to come and of things that will disappear when we look away. These stories are the seeds and fruits that have lain dormant for some time, and now they are all sprouting.Here are stories about revenge, stories about justice, stories about what we get when we ask for too much without understanding the triumverate of suggestion,...

Underland Arcana continues its deep exploration of our mercurial psyches.This issue contains stories by A. P. Howell, Scott Edelman, W. T. Paterson, Ben Curl, Mike Robinson, Eric Witchey, D. Thea Baldrick, and Mattia Ravasi. Stories about what lurks in wells, yards, and the future. Stories about how we piece together our histories. Stories about wishes and witches, and the scientific intersection of both. Stories about how we hide our fears in plain sight, and oh, indeed, stories a...

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...

"Once we were all just people. Our culture was only an element of our complex being. Now, we are reduced to our origins." -- Amelia Fisher, "The Children of Echidna"No one understands being an outsider like the people who have experienced it. Mad Scientist Journal has brought together twenty-six tales of people who have lived in a world that doesn't accept them. Some face their situation with humor, others less so. Vampires, werewolves, and changelings share space in these pages wi...

In his house at R'lyeh, Cthulhu waits dreaming...What are the dreams that monsters dream? When will the stars grow right? Where are the sunken temples in which the dreamers dwell? How will it all change when they come home?Within these pages lie the answers, and more, in all-new stories by many of the brightest lights in dark fiction. Gathered together by Ross E. Lockhart, the editor who brought you The Book of Cthulhu, The Children of Old Leech, ...

In a spine-tingling new collection, the "unique"(NPR) and "wickedly funny" (New York Times) Helen Phillips offers an idiosyncratic series of "what-ifs" about our fragile human condition.Some Possible Solutions offers an idiosyncratic series of "What ifs": What if your perfect hermaphrodite match existed on another planet? What if you could suddenly see through everybody's skin to their organs? What if you knew the exact date of your death? What if your city...

There's probably a house pretty much like this one down the street or around the corner in your neighborhood. You know the one I mean: the big kids tell you about it when they want to scare you. They tell you about the crazy old guy who used to live there who disappeared one night, and about the weird lights that shine out from behind the curtains in the upstairs rooms when black clouds cover the moon, and about the strange noises you can hear on nights when the wind is moaning and the thu...

The Greatest Showman meets Stephen King in this eerie horror story. Not all circuses are filled with childlike wonder...

Jazz, Season One, Episode TwoJazz and Ship were forced to crash-land in one of the most dangerous places outside of the wilds, the monster ghetto known as Clowntown. She's already hurt, tired, and hungry and time is running short as even her shadow sight won't do her much good against the residents of this nightmare neighborhood once it's dark. If she keeps moving, keeps quiet, and gets lucky she might make it out unnoticed.But a golem of make up and design too horrible to ...

The third annual compilation of the best fantasy and horror, covering work produced by Australian and New Zealand writers in 2012. Over 140,000 words of fiction from some of the genre's best and most awarded writers. Together with an annual genre overview and recommended reading list this is both a book to be read and a valuable reference work. This volume collects 34 stories and poems by Joanne Anderton, R.J. Astruc, Lee Battersby, Alan Baxter, Jenny Blackford, Eddy Burger, Isobelle Carmo...