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Hell hath no fury… Up-and-coming young artist Jefferson Fontenot’s bright future hides a darkness known as Gemma Landry, and she wants Fontenot, no matter the cost.

“‘I stopped at the entrance to the forest, at the divide between sun and shadow…” — Mercè Rodoreda Spring. Even in the shadows of skyscrapers, spring sees an awakening in the…

We all have secrets. That’s one truth. Another is that secrets are tricky to keep: They want to be shared. In the company of these secrets, societies emerge. They fester…

The graduating class of Bishop Carlbus Prep has a secret. The Outing Party is a tradition at Bishop Carlbus, a semi-illicit party hosted by a Senior student after the annual…

“…at that moment, all I could see was a crown perched precariously on her head. All I had to do was reach out and grab it.” Poppy Leathers has two…

Darling has its demons. Cherry LaRouche escaped the claws of Darling, Louisiana at sixteen. When she returns after her mother’s death, Cherry and her children are forced into a nightmare…

Set in the 17th century English countryside, The Brink blends historical and eldritch folk horror in a queer tale of awakening while exploring a darkly hungry Derbyshire Peak District—where the…

Savat is an ancient city steeped in old magic. But the once god-fearing Savati people find themselves in the tightening fist of the Sodality, a tyrannical power determined to replace…

Set in an alternative steampunk Nigeria, Naomi Eselojor’s Africanfuturist novella is a tale of community sheltering, resistance, and technological responsibility, for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, and Wole…

In this thrilling novella that’s both outbreak and survival horror, award-winning Bulgarian author Elena Pavlova reimagines humanity’s relationship with vampires, for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series and The…

Summer in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction is the next anthology in Ruadán Books’ In the City series, full of stories set in various metropolises around the…

A historical supernatural thriller for fans of Celtic mythology and Sherlock Holmes, Spit and Touch Iron is a rollicking detective story that delves deep into 1940s small town Ireland where…

It’s a promise and a threat—if it’s in print, on film, on tape, saved digitally, it’s forever. Or so one might think. Everyone from message boards mavens and freelance journalists…

After Midnight is as dark as it gets. BONUS: Pre-order 120 Murders: Dark Fiction Inspired by the Alternative Era at a 33% discount and receive a PDF copy of an original Nick Mamatas…

The city. Noisy, crowded, ever in motion, the city can be more than a setting—it can be a character, as nuanced and as fickle as a human being, with as…

A prisoner inside a ghoul-infested fortress, Erzelle must play her harp for the entertainment of the flesh-eating cult that murdered her parents. Her nightmare’s upended in the space of a…