Combining thorough research, hands-on practical exercises, and thought-provoking discussions to help queer witches and allies build a magical practice that is authentic to them.Step into the magic of your own identity and embark on an affirming spiritual practice. For thousands of years, various cultures around the world have drawn connections between magic, spiritual power, and LGBTQ+ identity. This guidebook retraces these ancient connections and weaves them into...

• 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...

Happy has lived at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years, and for more than a decade has remained largely isolated and lonely. Like all elephants, Happy has a complex mind and a deep social, intellectual, and emotional life; she desires to make choices and has a sense of self-recognition. But like all nonhuman animals, Happy is considered a thing in the eye of the law, with no fundamental rights. Due to a series of groundbreaking legal cases, however, this is beginning to change—and Happy...

Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal.APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards.EDITORIALEditorial by Jason SizemoreORIGINAL FICTIONBarefoot and Midnight by Sheree Renée ThomasThe Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century by A.C. WiseBlack Box of the T...

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 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 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 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...