EDITORIALWords from the Editor-in-Chief by Jason SizemoreFICTION"She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow" by Sam Fleming"Aishiteru Means I Love You" by Troy Tang"The Phylactery" by Nick Mamatas"Memory Tree" by Jess Rausch"Nemesis" by Laird Barron"Christmas is Coming" by Gina L. Grandi (Christmas Invasion Flash Fiction Winner)"Reconstituted" by Marlee Jane Ward (Christmas Invasion Flash Fiction Winner)"A Letter to Santa...

• 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology• Contains "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" by Rachael K. Jones, 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Fiction• Contains "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story• 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best AnthologyThe ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies returns for a fifth inc...

Publishers Weekly Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror title of 2023!"Ogawa's debut collection of 17 speculative shorts stuns with its delicacy … Harkening back to the oldest folk and fairy tales and raising pointed questions about how humans value and devalue each other, this is a showstopper." —Publishers Weekly, starred review"Her work is unexpected, often horrific, and always enthralling." —Thea James, Tor.c...

The mind-blowing new novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"—Publishers Weekly"Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few have successfully captured the idea well-until The Twice-Drowned Saint, at least. A sumptuous, saw-toothed read, it is a jewel box...

The second volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, available at last in digital format."Allen finds his groove for this second annual anthology of weird stories, selecting 16 wonderfully evocative, well-written tales. ... Each story fits neatly alongside the next, and the diversity of topics, perspectives and authors makes this cosmopolitan anthology a winner."— Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed ...

World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Story CollectionLocus Award finalist for Best Story Collection"Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget … If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one."—Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland"Cooney's lush follow-up to Desdemona and the Deep offers five stories...

The third volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing CLOCKWORK PHOENIX anthology series, available at last in digital format."Allen's third volume of extraordinary short stories reaches new heights of rarity and wonder ... Without a wrong note, all the stories in this anthology admirably fulfill Allen's promise of 'beauty and strangeness.'"— Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Marie Brennan, Tori Truslow, ...

The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series of fantasy anthologies series returns for a fourth installment through the miracle of Kickstarter, bringing you eighteen brand new tales of beauty and strangeness."This book is in several distinct ways a look into the future: the future of fantasy and science fiction, diverse, strange, and wonderful; the future of these individual writers, many of whom are at or near the beginning of careers which promise to be interesti...

The first volume in the ground-breaking, genre-bending, boundary-pushing Clockwork Phoenix anthology series, at last available in digital format from Mythic Delirium Books."Lush descriptions and exotic imagery startle, engross, chill and electrify the reader, and all 19 stories have a strong and delicious taste of weird." — Publishers WeeklyIncludes critically-acclaimed and award-nominated stories by Catherynne M. Valente, David Sandner, John Grant, Cat Rambo, Leah Bobet, M...

Welcome to the Well World: a construct of an ancient defunct race known as the Markovians. The Well World acts both as the controller of and the gateway to 1560 worlds created by the Markovians at the end of their time.Nathan Brazil is a starship captain carrying passengers and cargo from planet to planet. Answering a distress call, he (with others) is suddenly transported to the Well World by a hidden gate.There Nathan Brazil must stop mysterious forces from taking control...

“Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick”—Orson Scott Card, New York Times bestselling author of Ender’s Game.Four people uncover a secret that has the power to shake the foundation of faith as we know it.Reverend Joshua Barker feels that it is his duty to bring the Word to the oppressed beings on alien worlds, to teach them to repent their sins and cherish the teachings of the Good Book. It’s a noble ambition… until he discovers something that challe...

“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry from well-known editor Mike Allen (CLOCKWORK PHOENIX) and his wife and copublisher, Anita Allen ... This anthology is a winner from cover to cover.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred reviewThis new anthology from the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed CLOCKWORK PHOENIX series assembles beautiful poetry and strange prose from the first year...