YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never gone but never found. No one seems to notice the insanity surrounding them... or if they do, they keep it to themselves. After all, those who notice and call attention to it ten...

Fleeing the city of New York on the TransContinental atmospheric transport vehicle, Dran Florrian is traveling with Palimpsest-the ultimate proof of a lifetime of scientific theorizing.When a rogue organization attempts to steal the device, however, Dran takes drastic action.But his invention threatens to destroy the very fabric of this and all other possible universes, unless Dran-or someone very much like him-can shut down the machine and reverse the process.At th...

What kind of lunatic forces a grizzly bear to wear mechanized combat armor and fight his battles? What kind of fiend kidnaps a beautiful Polynesian computer genius to be his child bride? And just who has a ninja for a butler anyway? Meet the Professor: eccentric, scientist, explorer and Englishman par excellence. Madcap steampunk hi-jinks in Endangered Weapon B!

Experience five stunning science fiction visions of the future. From pay-to-play immortality to simulated reality, from crowdsourced AI to multiverse theory, these Tor.com novellas have everything you could ask for.Featuring:The Burning Light by Bradley P. Beaulieu and Rob ZieglerDisgraced government operative Colonel Chu is exiled to the flooded relic of New York City. Something called the Light has hit the streets like an epidemic, leaving...

Issue #128 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by David Tallerman and Henry Szabranski.

The Christian faith is filled with mystery, from the Trinity and the Incarnation to the smaller mysteries found in some of the strange and unexplained passages of the Bible: Behemoth and Leviathan, nephilim and seraphim, heroes and giants and more. There is no reason for fiction engaging with Christianity to be more tidy and theologically precise than the faith itself.Here you will find challenging fantasy, science fiction, and horror stories that wrestle with tough questions and r...

This science fiction anthology features eleven original short stories from nine established and emerging authors. Each story is accompanied by a black-and-white illustration created by one of four artists. (See the complete list of authors and artists below.) The stories span the breadth of the science-fiction genre, from cyberpunk to alien contact to genetic manipulation to social dystopia. Some investigate the "hard" technological side of SF, while others explore the genre's "softer" soc...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Where We Will Go On Together" by J.S. Breukelaar"Little Doors" by Clara Madrigano"A Cold Yesterday in Late July" by David Tallerman"Immortelle" by Jelena Dunato

The thirteenth Tarot card is Death, and he is a symbol not of the end, but of transformation and rebirth. This is the genesis and root of Thirteen: Stories of Transformation. The twenty-eight authors of this collection are voices—new and old—who are not afraid to explore what comes next. Whether it be a life after death, a life without love, a life filled with hunger, or the life shared by a ghost. These are stories of the weird, the mythic, the fantastic, the futuristic, the supe...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The All-Night Horror Show" by Orrin Grey"The Summer Is Ended and We Are Not Saved" by Natalia Theodoridou (reprint)"Escaping Dr. Markoff" by Gabriela Santiago"Casualty of Peace" by David Tallerman (reprint)

NIGHTMARE is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror.This month, we have original fiction from David Tallerman ("Great Black Wave") and Marc Laidlaw ("The Finest, Fullest Flowering"), along with reprints by Lucy Taylor ("Things Of Which We Do Not Speak") and Rena Mason ("Ruminations"). We also have the latest installment of our column on...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Only Way Out Lies Farther In" by David Tallerman"Better Angels" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Sea-Crowned" by H. Pueyo"A Pinhole of Light" by Julie C. Day (reprint)