A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it’s part of the civilized world, and she’s a creature of the Wild. But soon, amongst the twisting warps of the real world the hunter soon becomes the hunted.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture defines Afrofuturism as exploring Black identity, agency, and freedom through art, activism, and visions of liberated futures. This new anthology expands on the success of Black Sci-Fi (2021) with fresh stories from open submissions and by invitation, plus some classics.
From the very beginning, the theme of revenge has been a major part of crime fiction. This anthology gathers together the very best – and most unique – tales of dark revenge. Featuring some of the top names in crime writing, this is one book that will definitely make you think twice about wronging anyone ever again.
Cheryl S. Ntumy's fantasy and near-future sci-fi is powerful and unique. Black Friday: Short Stories from Africa is a collection of short stories exploring diverse themes ranging from rampant consumerism, corruption and oppression to community-building, faith, reclamation and healing, all with a speculative bent.
Cosy crime fiction is a popular phenomenon, with its safe but intriguing boundaries. This latest addition to the Gothic Fantasy series is packed with armchair detectives, murders in the vicarage, family secrets unravelling in gossipy ears and the ingredients of a genteel bloodbath in an otherwise delightful village.
Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title is packed with detectives, mystery and murder, from classic authors and exciting budding contemporary writers.
No one is safe. The residents of a small, forgotten neighborhood are being watched, stalked and harassed by someone or something, and they seem powerless to stop it. As the death toll mounts, these desperate people embark down a path of self-destruction driven by fear, politics and technology. The results are all-too-real and terrifying.
Sequel to The Devil's Advisor, chronicling the fallout of the invasion of Hell as Brian struggles to balance the life he always wanted, while navigating the demands of his chaotic personal relationships on a near-apocalyptic scale. A darkly comic, satirical masterpiece.
Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Horror stories about women, written by women, focusing on the strength of women faced with adversity. It explores many ways in which societal structures and personal action can reach a tipping point, creating unexpected changes, empowering women around the world.
Enigmatic escapes from reality and gateways into unknown worlds, dreams arrive in different forms, a distant whispering, prophesying a message. They are unbound. An illogical succession of events, freed from the constricts of time, understanding and place.
After a cataclysmic flood submerges half the world underwater, Liv and her son Milo face extreme dangers in the dry lands. Liv's determination to protect her son leads her to make drastic choices. A gripping tale that explores resilience, parenthood, and the profound sacrifices made for loved ones.
Following the great success of the very first Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with tales set in bleak and paradisiacal worlds of boundless imagination from classic authors and exciting budding contemporary writers.
Stunning new collection from the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Editor Martin Edwards has curated this latest anthology from members of the world's most celebrated group of crime and mystery writers. The books are gorgeous editions with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
Another dark tome of terror to follow in the footsteps of our wildly successful Gothic Fantasy deluxe edition short story compilations, including Supernatural Horror, Murder Mayhem and Lost Souls. Contains a potent mix of classic and brand new writing, with budding new authors from around the world.
Kendra Omen is on an off-world FBI mission, hoping to assuage the grief of losing a daughter and husband, but she learns that loss is unruly and not everyone, or everything, wants you to heal. Down in the depths of Hellweg’s Keep, she tries to find thirty-seven lost miners who vanished without a trace. Soon she’ll pray they don’t find her.
A fascinating, new collection of short stories from open submissions about machine learning, AI, Big Data and humankind struggling to find its identity now, in the past, and the future. Are we truly in control of ourselves, our society, and indeed the natural world around us? Are thinking machines the logical extension of our existence?
Twenty years ago, a malevolent cult failed in their attempt to create their own god: The Lord of the Feast, forging instead a horrible, misbegotten creature, so the cultists destroyed it, trapping each piece in scattered, mystic nightstones. Now, Ethan plans to resurrect the god, and fulfill its ancient promise.
Following the great success of the early Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title in the series is packed with hard-boiled detectives, monsters, psychopaths and a high body count, from classic authors and budding contemporary writers.
Following the creation of their community in The Roamers, the pulldogs leave Rome to shape a new challenging lifestyle: wandering around the world as neo-nomads to spread their solarpunk way of living and to engage on a never-ending mission to save endangered human cultures with nanites.
Dragons may be fierce but they are symbols of great power, and the bond between human and dragon, once forged, can never be broken. Or can it? Fantasy and romance collide in these enchanting short stories, featuring richly imagined settings, epic quests, romantic entanglements, and dragons!
Christi Nogle’s best weird and fantastical stories are collected here, each focusing on liminal spaces and the borders between places and states of mind. Within its pages you'll travel across thresholds, and arrive at other times and places that are by turns disquieting, terrifying, and wonderful. Make sure to bring your special glasses!
Promise collects Christi Nogle’s best futuristic stories ranging from plausible science fiction to science fantasy stories about aliens in our midst. These tales will recall the stories of Ray Bradbury, TV shows such as Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, and novels such as Under the Skin by Michel Faber.
Co-editors Eugen Bacon, Stephen Embleton and Cheryl S. Ntumy bring us a powerful and haunting collection of short stories from the groundbreaking Sauútiverse. Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more.
The mysteries of the rivers, the secrets of the lochs, the whispers across the vast stretches of the ocean, there are so many stories from the beginnings of civilisation, through myth and folklore, to the dark fantasies and ghostly tales of the modern storyteller. An entertaining, chilling collection of supernatural tales.
After losing her husband under mysterious circumstances, former detective Cam Ambrose must learn how to keep her young daughter safe from a world of the supernatural she never knew existed. She sets out to solve a decades-old mystery entangling the machinations of an obsessed killer, her husband’s mistress, and a series of deadly hauntings.
In the epic conclusion of the Tales from the Riven Isles series, Ursa, a bitter exiled princess, and Lucea, a determined chronomancer, must unite to stop the Rot threatening their world. Facing internal demons and external threats, they embark on a quest to recover the Steel Driver’s Hammer, the key to saving the Riven Isles.
Following the great success of the early Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this exciting title in the series is packed with swashbuckling, steam-punk and alt-history adventures, from classic authors and exciting budding contemporary writers.
An essential collection of chivalric romance, swordplay, wizardry and brutal feats of courage Malory’s 15th century Morte d’Arthur is one of the world’s greatest pieces of myth-making. This selected edition features all the best stories and many of Aubrey Beardsley’s classic illustrations.
Harper holds the Gift of Divination. Red is the infamous Reynard the Fox, fugitive shapeshifter. When the past finds Red, they are both taken to the Kingdom of Vale within Underneath so Red can pay for his crimes. With the Rot drawing on the hatred of all, Harper and Red realize they must reconcile and work together to save Vale.
Christi Nogle’s finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look out to promising but often terrifying futures. The stories share themes of trauma and resilience, with a focus on characters’ psychologies, and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life.
Written between 1387 and 1400 as a series of stories told by a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury, 'The Canterbury Tales' offers romance, farce, philosophy, religion and satire in a ribald reflection of humankind. This offers a specially written introduction to contextualise the book.
With a new introduction, The Conjure Woman is a collection of stories first published in 1899, regarded as a seminal work of African-American literature. Its fantastical tales of plantation life subverted the then racial stereotypes of the gracious slaveowner and their ignorant slaves who enjoyed the patronage of a caring master.
Using magic in her realm is forbidden and because of this, Cassia is abducted by the king of Selene. In a frantic attempt to escape him, Cassia, Lucas and their friends flee Selene in search of allies. But in this new realm they discover that all its inhabitants are afraid of the dark and the shadows lurking within.
King Idis has declared war by setting the Selene realm on fire. Lucas is the only one who can stop him, but can they really trust a vision of the future? While Cassia, Lochlan and Rosheen are trapped in Vineas, Lucas gathers allies and despite lacking control of his First magic, he knows that one way or another this needs to end now.
Patricide, an echo of Zeus rising up against Cronos, the young gods replacing the titans. Now, a public murder televised live and across the world prompts filmmakers Seth and Charlotte to trace the threads of blood to the rich and powerful, and the horror of global destruction. Can they stop the Gaia Chime? But what is the Gaia Chime?
A world where petals are currency and flowers are magic.
A man battling a curse of eternal old age. A girl who can be his boon. But it's not all tulips and roses. There are also nettles and thorns.
Where Delights persist, Sorrow must follow.
In 1940 Pamela Courtney is evacuated to Chanterlands – the home of her aunts. But Chanterlands is home to more than just the living. A ghostly child haunts her bedroom, while in the long-neglected attic, Pamela discovers a sinister secret of this once-great house and events take a dark and fatal turn as the ghosts of Chanterlands emerge.
The last survivors of an apocalypse that turned the world completely dark sail across the vast night to find more survivors. They use a jerry-rigged radio to piece together the history of this peculiar new world; but the night is sending transmissions of its own, and not all the hitchhikers they pick up are human.
When Jonathan accompanies Nadia to Landane, he soon discovers she's obsessed by the village’s Neolithic megaliths, and Jonathan becomes entangled in a legacy with its roots deep in prehistory. What are the secrets of the stones of Landane? And why does an ancient piece of folklore ring so true?
After a fateful confrontation with her former ally, Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone and desperate. All her hopes lie with finding Nova, the first human clone, to solve the greatest riddle in human history – how to preserve human consciousness after death.
A CWA anthology celebrating members' fiction from over the years, Then There Were More is a delightful compilation of stories from some of the best crime writers of the last century. The Beyond and Within books are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.
The third installment in The Fractal Series, following Fearless and Resilient. A war in the depths of space to determine the future of humanity, Vigilance concludes the journey of Captain Ellisa Shann.
Vampires come to a small beach community in Maine to find out the truth behind the rumors of serial killer Gabriel Riley, aka the Beach Night Killer.
After near-death at the hands of her witch-hunting ex, running away to a woodland town that nobody goes to, and nobody comes from, seemed like a great idea to Anna—until the Whispers came.