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WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST
IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate where he grew up. Dr. Edward Wilk is wasting away from a mysterious affliction acquired in a strange encounter: but Louise soon realizes that her husband's worsening condition may not be a disease at all, but a transformative phase of existence that will draw her in as much more than a witness.
Winner of the World Fantasy Award, and the Alberta Literary Award
Finalist for the Locus, Aurora, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and British Science Fiction Awards
Here there be gods and monsters - forged from flesh and stone and vengeance - emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is tested to the limits. These are cosmic realms and watery domains where old offerings no longer appease the ancient Gods or the new and hungry idols. Deities and beasts. Life and death. Love and hate. Science and magic. And smiling monsters in human skin.
Premee Mohamed's debut collection of contemporary cosmic horror and dark fantasy heralds the arrival of a new and vibrant voice on the cutting edge of modern speculative fiction.
WINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD - Superior Achievement in a Collection.
Shirley Jackson Awards Finalist
British Fantasy Awards Finalist
Cassandra Khaw's dynamic and vibrant debut collection, Breakable Things, explores the fragile and nebulous bonds that weave love and grief into our existence. This exquisite and cutting collection of stories showcases a bloody fusion of horrors from cosmic to psychological to body traumas.
...a terrifying joy to read ... lyrical, brutal, and intensely unsettling...
-Library Journal, Starred Review
...superbly strange and beautiful ... deliciously warped... Twenty-three stories: all worth reading.
-Locus
From A.C. Wise, the acclaimed author of Wendy, Darling, comes a brand new collection of horror stories, The Ghost Sequences.
Fans of Paul Tremblay, Kelly Link, and Seanan McGuire will gravitate to this standout exploration of the supernatural. An essential read for fans of the horrible, shivery, and unsettling.
- Erin Downey Howerton, Booklist, Starred Review
Wise showcases 16 brilliant stories in this immersive, ghostly collection. With beautiful prose, unique takes, and a broad range of tones and approaches to the horror genre, this is a collection to be savored.
-Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
A haunting is a moment of trauma, infinitely repeated. It extends forward and backward in time. It is the hole grief makes. It is a house built by memory in-between your skin and bones.
A lush and elegant collection of tales - many having appeared in various Best Of anthologies - teeming with frightful and tragic events, yet profoundly and intimately human. These chilling tales will engross and enthrall.
For readers of Kelly Link, Carmen Maria Machado, and Angela Carter, this is a must have collection of ghostly tales set to deliver a frisson of terror and glee.
The debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts, collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre.
'Priya Sharma explores liminality and otherness with skill and verve in her engaging and haunting stories.'
-Alison Moore, Author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'The Lighthouse'
Priya Sharma has been writing and publishing short stories for over a decade, and I'm delighted that she's finally receiving the recognition her work deserves.
She's extremely skillful in creating characters with whom we can empathize-no matter their deeds-leading her readers down roads of beauty and horror. I especially love her award-winning novelette 'Fabulous Beasts, ' a perfect piece of storytelling.
-Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year series
Priya Sharma is a doctor from the UK who also writes short fiction. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo one and Tor.com, among others. She's been anthologised in various annual Best of anthologies by editors like Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Jonathan Strahan and Johnny Mains. Her story Fabulous Beasts was on the Shirley Jackson Award shortlist and won a British Fantasy Award.
Welcome to the new pulp Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, illustration, and commentary. This is the magazine of weird tales that you've been craving. A modern, inclusive, diverse array of pulp fiction and commentary.
Long live the new pulp
Our inaugural issue features contributions from David Bowman, Shikhar Dixit, Steve Duffy, Inna Effress, Tom Goldstein, Orrin Grey, Vince Haig, Nathaniel Winter-Hebert, Sam Heimer, John Langan, Suzan Palumbo, Ian Rogers, Naben Ruthnum, Lysette Stevenson, Simon Strantzas, and Steve Toase.
FICTION: Shikhar Dixit; Steve Duffy; Inna Effress; John Langan; Suzan Palumbo; Ian Rogers; Naben Ruthnum; and Steve Toase.
NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.
ART: David Bowman; and Sam Heimer; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert.
DESIGN: Vince Haig; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert
Nothing is Everything' is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strantzas. With elegant craftsmanship Strantzas delicately weaves a disquieting narrative through eerie and unexpected landscapes, charting an uncanny course through territories both bleak and buoyant, while further cementing his reputation as one of the finest practitioners of strange tales.
CONTENTS
In This Twilight (new)
Our Town's Talent (new)
These Last Embers
The Flower Unfolds
Ghost Dogs (new)
In the Tall Grass
The Fifth Stone
The Terrific Mr. Toucan (new)
Alexandra Lost
All Reality Blossoms in Flames (new)
Advance praise for Nothing is Everything
Simon Strantzas captures the creepiness of small town Ontario; there is something of Seth, of Alice Munro in his work, wonderfully tangled with the likes of Aickman and Jackson. Uncanny as a ventriloquist's doll, but with a real, beating heart.
-Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet
Welcome to Nothing is Everything, the latest collection by Simon Strantzas. Taking the paths less traveled to the human heart and mind, and excavating the strangeness that abides therein, Strantzas is one of the most striking writers working today.
-Angela Slatter, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings
Simon Strantzas is Shirley Jackson-grade eerie, creating stories that are as unsettling as they are elegant.
-Kij Johnson, author of At the Mouth of The River of Bees
The unexpected has arrived, and has brought with it the unknown. Simon Strantzas' stories arrive without warning, to offer those unknown gifts and sidelong glimpses that bring mystery close enough to touch.
-Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, and Christopher Wild
Simon Strantzas's compelling stories unfold across a liminal landscape of small towns and ordinary situations where encounters with the uncanny are often revelatory. With his latest collection, he further cements his place as a significant voice among a wave of writers who are redefining the boundaries of genre, blending a literary sensibility with a powerful sense of the possibilities for transcendence in the everyday.
-Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, and You'll Know When You Get There
Poet Of The Moon
A man said to the universe . . .
Climate Change is in the past, though the consequences still persist: smaller landmass, spillover pandemics, cheap 3D printed housing and an authoritarian state run by the church and the Oligoi.
Clay Alexander has been outside the system his entire life, skirting between the Clergy class and the others. But an error in judgement puts him front and center on the battle lines between classes. Without a trial he is convicted of being a terrorist and sentenced to life . . . on the most brutal reality show in history, and one there is no hope of escaping. He gets sent to die on Fugitive Base.
His choice is simple: die as expected, or abandon his humanity and find a way off that rock and get revenge. And along the way, he learns more about what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.
Weird Horror edited by Michael Kelly is a new, very promising twice-yearly horror magazine featuring fiction, articles, and reviews. The fiction in the first issue is excellent and I look forward to more.
Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year.
Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!
FICTION: Maria Abrams; Mary Berman; Rob Francis; Marc Joan; Alys Key; Catherine MacLeod; Evan James Sheldon; Kristina Ten; Stephen Volk.
NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.
COVER ART: Nick Gucker
INTERIOR ART: Wesley Edwards; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert
DESIGN: Vince Haig; and Sam Cowan
A collection of 12 grotesqueries inspired by the natural and psychological landscapes of New England and by the ghosts that walk the places in-between.
The long-awaited new collection of short stories from Daniel Mills, whose literary antecedents include Poe, Hawthorne, Vernon Lee, and John Darnielle. A visionary and poetic stylist. Contains the long out-of-print novella The Account of David Stonehouse, Exile, and two new stories written expressly for this collection.
An impressive collection of 12 weird tales ... sure to find a readership among fans of macabre and outré fiction.
-Publishers Weekly
Compellingly paced tales quickly close in on readers, as Mills keeps them dangling over a
precipice where pure terror waits below ... Fans of Alma Katsu and Andy Davidson will find a lot to like here.
-Booklist
12 quietly bold tales that force readers to assemble tantalizing clues left in the wake of unspeakable crimes and loss.
- The Toronto Star
What a fine collection of stories! Fine and strange and challenging, filled with an unearthly light, like something written half by H.P. Lovecraft and half by Robert Frost. The best possible kind of crazy-ass rural prophecy.
- Pinckney Benedict, Author of Miracle Boy and Other Stories
Oh wow! I adore Among the Lilies. Daniel Mills' ghost stories are told with remarkable delicacy and luminous prose. But don't be fooled. They will haunt you, they will grab you by the throat and hold on tight. I'm still shivering. What a delight.
- Miciah Bay Gault, author of Goodnight Stranger
Daniel Mills' Among the Lilies is a gorgeous collection of wistful and haunting stories, testimonies of longing and sorrow that linger long after they've left the room. They're so lovely, in fact, that you don't see the great dark truth lurking just behind the words until it's too late, until it's staring right into your soul.
- Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy
The tales in Among the Lilies are smooth as silk, cool as glass, and dark as a mournful shadow. Daniel Mills writes with an assured hand about themes of supernatural strangeness and sadness, and in prose so understatedly elegant, it's like a balm for the mind. He also displays a sensitive insight into the numinous realm where longing and terror meet spirit and psyche. I almost feel that a new label should be invented to apply to Mills' work: the melancholy weird. I came away from this book feeling darkly dazzled and deeply moved in equal measure.
- Matt Cardin, author of To Rouse Leviathan
Generally set in the distant past, the stories in Daniel Mills' remarkable Among the Lilies hence have a classical feel, but without ever seeming like pastiches of the work of past masters. At the same time, in the pursuit of his obsessions, Mills' stories are unlike most of the weird fiction and horror one encounters today. These are histories within histories, sediment layers of grief and madness, filled with fossilized ghosts. Herein are recurring themes of religious mania, the mournful fusion of beauty and decay, feverish childhoods and their haunted aftermaths, self-destruction and living death. Daniel Mills' work is very much his own, and as such stands out as something to be relished.
- Jeffrey Thomas, author of Punktown
Deft and unsettling, Daniel Mills' Among the Lilies is a haunting enhancement of modern horror fiction - an electrically delicate collection of specters.
- Clint Smith, author of The Skeleton Melodies
Welcome to Richard Gavin's grotesquerie, where fear and faith converge in eerie and nightmarish tales of transcendent horror from a truly visionary writer. The highly anticipated new collection of macabre delights, that explores dark realms of the fevered, fecund mind, and visits strange landscapes and vistas. These are grim and grotesque tales of terror -- modern Mysterium Tremendums -- that open new doors of perception and reality.
Gavin's writing serves as a testament that great masters once crafted great stories .. .and as evidence that they shall do so again.
-- Thomas Ligotti
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR grotesquerie
Richard Gavin is an important figure in the contemporary horror/weird fiction field. Influenced by masters such as Blackwood and Ligotti, Gavin is cerebral, yet empathetic. He reconfigures classical tropes to suit his own unique perspective. Grotesquerie is a major event.
-Laird Barron, author of Swift to Chase
In grotesquerie, Richard Gavin summons ancient gods and vengeful ghosts. He nods knowingly to the horror/weird fiction greats, but forges a singularly unique vision.
- Priya Sharma, author of Ormeshadow
Grotesquerie contains the latest records of Richard Gavin's continuing explorations of the intersection between the mundane and the numinous, the earthly and the spectral, the pastoral and the horrific. Drawing on and in dialogue with such writers of the visionary weird as Aickman, Ligotti, and Machen, Gavin's fictions extend the tradition into bold new territory. Original, idiosyncratic, Richard Gavin is like no one else.
-John Langan, author of The Fisherman and Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies
...richly articulated nightmares that will delight horror fans ...] will put readers in mind of both classic weird fiction and the supernatural mysteries of the 1970s.
-Publishers Weekly
The debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, All the Fabulous Beasts, collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre.
'Priya Sharma explores liminality and otherness with skill and verve in her engaging and haunting stories.'
-Alison Moore, Author of the Man Booker shortlisted 'The Lighthouse'
Priya Sharma has been writing and publishing short stories for over a decade, and I'm delighted that she's finally receiving the recognition her work deserves.
She's extremely skillful in creating characters with whom we can empathize-no matter their deeds-leading her readers down roads of beauty and horror. I especially love her award-winning novelette 'Fabulous Beasts, ' a perfect piece of storytelling.
-Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year series
Priya Sharma is a doctor from the UK who also writes short fiction. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo one and Tor.com, among others. She's been anthologised in various annual Best of anthologies by editors like Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Jonathan Strahan and Johnny Mains. Her story Fabulous Beasts was on the Shirley Jackson Award shortlist and won a British Fantasy Award.
SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD-WINNER (Vol. 7)
WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST (Vol. 6)
Michael Kelly's Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series. -- Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story
Shadows and Tall Trees epitomizes the idea of, and is the most consistent venue for weird, usually dark fiction. Well worth your time. -- Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of The Year
Alison Littlewood - Hungry Ghosts
Brian Evenson - The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
Carly Holmes - Tattletale
Charles Wilkinson - A Coastal Quest
C.M. Muller - Camera Obscura
James Everington - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close
Kay Chronister - Too Lonely, Too Wild
KL Pereira - You, Girls Without Hands
Kristi DeMeester - The Quiet Forms of Belonging
Kurt Fawver - Workday
M. Rickert - The Fascist Has a Party
Neil Williamson - Down to the Roots
Rebecca Campbell - Child of Shower and Gleam
Se n Padraic Birnie - Dollface
Simon Strantzas - The Somnambulists
Steve Rasnic Tem - Sleepwalking With Angels
Steve Toase - Green Grows the Grief
V.H. Leslie - Lacunae
Utopia. Four people living together deep underground in a subterranean facility. All their needs provided for. Food, water, medicine. A swimming pool; a gym; a bar. Except none of them can recall exactly how they came to be there, or what they are supposed to do. Dystopia. Where are the others? There must have been others. It's a huge facility, after all. It must be some sort of experiment. They're test subjects. How long have they been there? When will they get out? How come there has been no outside contact? Utopia or dystopia. As the questions mount, so does the tension. Who will escape Armageddon House?
Michael Griffin's riveting new novella ARMAGEDDON HOUSE grabs you and doesn't let go. It will stay with you long after you've turned the last page. This is a haunted house of a different sort.
About the Author
Michael Griffin's latest collection The Human Alchemy (Word Horde) was a 2018 Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Other books include a novel, Hieroglyphs of Blood and Bone (Journalstone, 2017) and his debut collection The Lure of Devouring Light (Word Horde, 2016). His stories have appeared in Black Static and Apex magazines, and the anthologies Looming Low, The Children of Old Leech and the Shirley Jackson Award winner The Grimscribe's Puppets.
He's also an ambient musician and founder of Hypnos Recordings, a record label he operates with his wife in Portland, Oregon. His blog is at griffinwords.com
I would haunt you ...
The debut short story collection from Se n Padraic Birnie does indeed haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting bodily horrors, the tales in I Would Haunt You if I Could are the product of an uncanny and febrile imagination. Birnie's writing balances on the knife's edge of the horror and literary divide. Stories that cut and bleed. Stories that linger and haunt.
...if I could.
To drown in dark water ...
The debut short story collection from Steve Toase heralds the arrival of a transcendent visionary of modern horror, a melding of the beauty and terror of Clive Barker and Tanith Lee, with Steve's distinctive visceral and vibrant voice. Containing 6 new dark visions and a curated selection of reprints, including 3 stories from the acclaimed Best Horror of the Year series, To Drown in Dark Water is a veritable feast of gruesome delights.
About the Author
Steve Toase was born in North Yorkshire, England, and now lives in Munich, Germany. He writes regularly for Fortean Times and Folklore Thursday. His fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Shadows & Tall Trees 8, Nox Pareidolia, Three Lobed Burning Eye, Shimmer, and Lackington's. In 2014 Call Out was reprinted in The Best Horror Of The Year 6, and two of his stories were published in Best Horror of the Year 11. He also likes old motorbikes and vintage cocktails. You can find him at stevetoase.co.uk
Meet Quark, a giant of a man carrying scars literally and figuratively, on his return to Bellfairie, as he searches for his father and clues to his mother's mysterious death. But no one goes to Bellfairie on purpose, it's always a wrong turn in someone's life. As Quark will soon learn.
Like Frankenstein's monster, The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie is a vibrant, emotional and humane amalgam.
Masterful ... darkly magical ... a stunning ending.
- Gary K. Wolfe, Locus
A fantastical crime mystery with a soupçon of magic that brings to mind not only Shelley's creation but A Confederacy of Dunces in its exploration of flawed and tragic characters.
Fans of M. Rickert's singular blend of the mundane and the monstrous will be drawn deep into the briny, haunted world of Bellfairie.
- Sofia Samatar, Author of A Stranger in Olondria, and Tender
The Shipbuilder of Bellfairie by M. Rickert is a powerful evocation of an imaginary place, both magical and mundane; the tribulations of a good hearted hapless giant; and a compelling mystery. Dark and humorous and deep.
- Jeffrey Ford, Author of Big Dark Hole
About the Author
Before earning her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, Mary Rickert worked as kindergarten teacher, coffee shop barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and personnel assistant in Sequoia National Park. She is the winner of the Locus Award, Crawford Award, World Fantasy Award, and Shirley Jackson Award. She is a frequent contributor to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her short story, Funeral Birds is included in the anthology, When things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson, published by Titan Books in the fall of 2021. Her novella, Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer: A Krampus Story will be published by Tor.com in the fall of 2022.
'Nothing is Everything' is the masterful new collection from acclaimed Canadian author Simon Strantzas. With elegant craftsmanship Strantzas delicately weaves a disquieting narrative through eerie and unexpected landscapes, charting an uncanny course through territories both bleak and buoyant, while further cementing his reputation as one of the finest practitioners of strange tales.
CONTENTS
In This Twilight (new)
Our Town's Talent (new)
These Last Embers
The Flower Unfolds
Ghost Dogs (new)
In the Tall Grass
The Fifth Stone
The Terrific Mr. Toucan (new)
Alexandra Lost
All Reality Blossoms in Flames (new)
Advance praise for Nothing is Everything
Simon Strantzas captures the creepiness of small town Ontario; there is something of Seth, of Alice Munro in his work, wonderfully tangled with the likes of Aickman and Jackson. Uncanny as a ventriloquist's doll, but with a real, beating heart.
-Camilla Grudova, author of The Doll's Alphabet
Welcome to Nothing is Everything, the latest collection by Simon Strantzas. Taking the paths less traveled to the human heart and mind, and excavating the strangeness that abides therein, Strantzas is one of the most striking writers working today.
-Angela Slatter, author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings
Simon Strantzas is Shirley Jackson-grade eerie, creating stories that are as unsettling as they are elegant.
-Kij Johnson, author of At the Mouth of The River of Bees
The unexpected has arrived, and has brought with it the unknown. Simon Strantzas' stories arrive without warning, to offer those unknown gifts and sidelong glimpses that bring mystery close enough to touch.
-Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, and Christopher Wild
Simon Strantzas's compelling stories unfold across a liminal landscape of small towns and ordinary situations where encounters with the uncanny are often revelatory. With his latest collection, he further cements his place as a significant voice among a wave of writers who are redefining the boundaries of genre, blending a literary sensibility with a powerful sense of the possibilities for transcendence in the everyday.
-Lynda E. Rucker, author of The Moon Will Look Strange, and You'll Know When You Get There
Distilled through the occluded lens of weird fiction, Michael Kelly's third collection of strange tales is a timely and cogent examination of grief, love, identity, abandonment, homelessness, and illness. All cut through with a curious, quiet menace and uncanny melancholy.
Advance Praise for All the Things We Never See
The stories in Michael Kelly's All the Things We Never See balance on the delicate knife edge of the weird, taking place at the moment of incision, just before the blood rushes to the cut. Full of quiet menace and strangeness, with characters bound into odd relationships both to the world and themselves, relationships they themselves often fail to understand, this is weird fiction at is finest.
-- Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World
Michael Kelly's sharp collection of uncanny stories will leave you questioning your relationships, your identity, and reality itself. These stories dig between your ribs and place a cold finger on your heart.
-- Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts
After having nurtured a sterling reputation as a curator of weird fiction, Michael Kelly here reminds us that he's one of its best practitioners, too. ALL THE THINGS WE NEVER SEE is eerie and unsettling in the best ways, subverting reality and turning it back on itself, questioning the very earth under your feet. In the end, you're left not scared so much as uncertain, even vulnerable--your throat exposed to unseen forces.
-- Nathan Ballingrud, author of Wounds, and North American Lake Monsters
Like a cottonmouth sleeping under a silk sheet, there's something unsettling under the surface of Michael Kelly's stories--and once these tales sink their fangs into you, as they did into me, you'll find the venom is strangely addictive.
-- Craig Davidson, author of The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Michael Kelly is the former Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction. He's a Shirley Jackson Award-winner, and a World Fantasy Award nominee. His fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including Black Static, The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 & 24, Supernatural Tales, Postscripts, Weird Fiction Review, and has been previously collected in Scratching the Surface, and Undertow & Other Laments.