Venture into the shadows with a collection of folk horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction.Turning of the Seasons: A Dark Almanac, award-winning authors J.S. Breukelaar and Seb Doubinsky pay tribute to the tradition of yearly almanacs with a modern twist. This collection infuses folk-horror with a modern-day setting, pushing the boundaries of the uncanny into our cities. Experience disturbing stories and vignettes, sometimes poetic, sometimes funny, but al...

In a dystopian world of city-states, where reality is bent by synthetic drugs and black magick, a web of political intrigue unfolds.Kurt Wagner, CEO of Allied Weapons International, finds himself the target of competing plots involving geopolitics and black magick. A film director with a political conscience, a bodyguard with a secret mission, a driver with an occult hobby, and a talking bird are all trying to make sense of their world, hoping to see their wishes c...

In the corrupt city-state of New Babylon, a detective navigates political intrigue and a deadly new drug.City Commissioner Georg Ratner is tasked with fighting the spread of Synth, a hallucinogenic drug, during a heated election. When an old colleague is murdered while seeking Ratner's help, he is drawn into a web of political conspiracy. Supported by his partner Laura and the Egyptian goddess Nut, Ratner must uncover the truth behind the Synth and the murder, even...

A radical and trippy scifi political fable about an improbable gang of women fighting for the freedom of planet Earth. Things are looking grim for Earth as the alien force known as the Subliminal Empire seems to enjoy a complete yet unnoticed control of the planet. However, a motley crew composed of a city-state president on the run, a financial advisor who quit her job, a disgruntled academic studying the dangers of A.I. and an undercover alien agent who previously worked as a manager for...

In Absinth, you’ll meet three main characters trying to figure out their life on the backdrop of the upcoming Apocalypse: Iris, a fortune-teller who cannot see not the future but weirdly anachronistic versions of the past; Sid Saperstein, a shameless huckster chosen to publish a sacred manuscript whose message will shake heaven and earth alike; Hermes, the Greek messenger god, dispatched by Zeus to sound out his fellow deities, still smarting from the licking they took two thousan...

The highly anticipated final installment in Seb Doubinsky' s City-States Cycle is smart, subtle and unputdownable! In New Samarqand, trouble is brewing: The king is very ill, nobody knows who will succeed him and terrorist groups are plaguing the city-state. In the eye of the storm, the National Museum is opening a new wing displaying the magnificent tomb of two Amazon sisters, who fell in battle together. Following parallel lines in this ominous labyrinth, Hokki, the new museum director, ...

A famous horror writer confronts his deepest fears in a town with dark secrets.When a renowned horror author seeks refuge in a picturesque coastal town, he anticipates tranquility and inspiration. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a web of unsettling events that blur the line between reality and nightmare. Is he losing his mind, or are the town's idyllic facades concealing something far more sinister?As the unsettling events escalate, he questions his ...

From Seb Doubinsky, author of The Song of Synth, The Babylonian Trilogy, White City, Absinth, Omega Gray and Suan Ming, comes his highly anticipated next installment in the City-States Cycle.Missing Signal—a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a government conspiracy? Agent Terrence Kovacs has worked for the New Petersburg Counter-Intel Department propagating fake UFO stories for so long that even he has a hard time sepa...

1969: Revolution in Mexico!Decades later, charismatic guerrilla leader Lorenzo is living in Europe with a young son. Approached by a German revolutionary organization for his account of the conflict, he struggles to recall repressed memories of violence, absurdity, and tragedy. Lorenzo's past returns in Seb Doubinsky's kaleidoscopic Fragments of a Revolution. Raging between moments of ecstatic liberation and quixotic disappointments, what emerges is a manifesto for freedom...

Foreword Indies Award Bronze Winner!From Seb Doubinsky, author of The Song of Synth, The Babylonian Trilogy, White City, Absinth, Omega Gray, and Suan Ming, comes his highly anticipated next installment in the City-States Cycle. Missing Signal—a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a government conspiracy? Agent Terrence Kovacs has worked for the New Petersburg Counter-Intel Department propagating fake ...

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious tale of identity, resistance, magic and myth.All is not well in the city that never sleeps. Even though the avatars of New York City have temporarily managed to stop the Woman in White from invading—and destroying the entire universe in the process—the mysterious capital "E" Enemy has more subtle powers at her disposal. A new ...

*A genre-defining—*and redefining—collection of the boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient speculative fiction, featuring stories from all over the globe.“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”Almost forty years ago, William Gibson wrote the line that began *Neuromancer—*and a movement that would change the face of science fiction.Award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together over a hund...