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The Inner City (Story) Karen Heuler
Looking for a job, a woman discovers a hidden underground city manipulating the city she lives in. Will she be hired? From O. Henry Award-winner Karen Heuler’s Inner City, this short story is one of a set of fifteen… More
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Celestial Inventories Steve Rasnic Tem
Celestial Inventories features twentytwo stories collected from rare chapbooks, anthologies, and obscure magazines, along with a new story written specifically for this volume. All represent the slipstream segment… More
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Cities of Night Paul Nutman
Ten stories.
Eight cities.
Three continents.
One voice.
From Atlanta to Blackpool, London to New York, from Rome, Italy to Albuquerque, New Mexico via Hollyweird and the city of Lost Angels, all are cities of night.… More
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Shoebox Train Wreck (Story) John Mantooth
A former train conductor must confront the ghosts of his past while learning that it’s not the dead that haunt the living, but the other way around. From Shoebox Train Wreck, this short story is one in a collection of … More
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Tell My Sorrows To The Stones Christopher Golden
A circus clown willing to give anything to be funny. A spectral gunslinger who must teach a young boy to defend the ones he loves. A lonely widower making a farewell tour of the places that meant the world to his late wife.… More
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We Will All Go Down Together Gemma Files
EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS MONSTERS . . . AND SOME ARE NOTHING BUT. Devize, Glouwer, Rusk, Druir, Roke—these are the clans who make up the notorious Five-Family Coven. This alliance of witches, changelings, and sorcerers… More
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They Do the Same Things Different There Robert Shearman
Robert Shearman visits worlds that are unsettling and strange. Sometimes they are just like ours—except landlocked countries may disappear overnight, marriages to camels are the norm, and the dead turn into musical… More
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The Dark Space in the House in the House in the Garden at the Centre of the World Robert Shearman
Cindy and Steve, favourites of all God’s creations, explore the haunted house in the forest right in the middle of the Garden of Eden. From Remember Why You Fear Me, this story is one of a set of deliciously frightening… More
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Litany John Mantooth
A school bus driver deals with the fallout from the worst decision of his life. From Shoebox Train Wreck, this short story is one in a collection of sixteen genre-bending tales set against a backdrop of sudden violence… More
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Like a Bowl of Fire Gemma Files
1869: Two years after playing a literally world-saving part in the events of A Tree of Bones, hexslinger Chess Pargeter roams the weird West with his new partner (and lover) Charlie Alarid, seeking out hexation-bred… More
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Custard Cream Robert Shearman
What to do when you wake up in the night and find that a spider half the size of the bedroom ceiling is hanging down above you. From Remember Why You Fear Me, this story is one of a set of deliciously frightening and darkly satirical… More
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Exit Wound Michael Marano
A young man gives up everything for his lover, who in turn gives up more than even his life for his art—over and over again. This story was nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award.
This tale comes from Stories from … More
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The People Who Live Near Me Paul Tremblay
Meet your neighbor Nick-Nick and the rest of the strange, but all-too-recognizable suburban neighborhood, which includes a worrisome man who picks apart the asphalt, one chunk at a time. From Paul Tremblay’s In … More
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Falling Robert Boyczuk
A suicide’s protracted fall towards certain death fall enables him to contemplate the nature of his act and his unrequited love. From Robert Boyczuk’s Horror Story and Other Horror Stories, this tale belongs… More
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Last Dragon Steve Rasnic Tem
A pilot discovers dragons on another world. From Celestial Inventories by Steve Rasmic Tem (winner of the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Bram Stoker, and International Horror Guild Awards), this story is one of a … More
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Blood Relation Michael Rowe
A young seventheeth-century Jesuit priest’s mission takes him into the wilderness of New France, where he discovers that a darker mission has already begun at St. Barthélemy.
Being the Last True Testament … More