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Summer in the City

A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction

by Gemma Church, Karl Dandenell, Die Booth, Lyssa Reese, Michael R. Colangelo, Benjamin Adams, John Leahy, Hannah Shearer, Andrew Kozma, Edward Barnfield, Mia Dalia, Derek Des Anges, F.E. Choe, Tracie McBride, KB Raines, Xan van Rooyen, Jeff Somers, NM Whitley ...

Series series In the City
Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer ... Read more

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Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer
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The Dark, Issue 132, May 2026

The Dark, #132

by NM Whitley, Kelsea Yu, Nelson Stanley, Ai Jiang ...

Series Book 132 - The Dark
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Chicken Finger" by NM Whitley"Obedient Son" by Kelsea Yu (reprint)"Mercy" by Nelson Stanley"Red God Waiting" by Ai Jiang (reprint) ... Read more

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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Chicken Finger" by NM Whitley"Obedient Son" by Kelsea Yu (reprint)"Mercy" by Nelson Stanley"Red God Waiting" by Ai Jiang (reprint)
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The Dark, Issue 125, October 2025

The Dark, #125

by S.L. Harris, Angela Slatter, NM Whitley, Neil Williamson ...

Series Book 125 - The Dark
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Island at the End of the World" by S.L. Harris"Through the Woods, Due West" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Enselfening" by NM Whitley"Down to the Roots" by Neil Williamson (reprint) ... Read more

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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Island at the End of the World" by S.L. Harris"Through the Woods, Due West" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Enselfening" by NM Whitley"Down to the Roots" by Neil Williamson (reprint)
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Looming Low Volume I

Edited by Justin Steele, Sam Cowan ...

Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul.Table of Contents:Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth”A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts”Michael Wehunt — “In Canada”Brian Evenson — “The Second Door”Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths”Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin”Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin ... Read more

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Looming Low Volume I is the first anthology from Dim Shores. 26 brand-new stories in different shades of weird, all with a dark soul.Table of Contents:Kurt Fawver — “The Convexity of Our Youth”A.C. Wise — “The Stories We Tell About Ghosts”Michael Wehunt — “In Canada”Brian Evenson — “The Second Door”Daniel Mills — “The Christiansen Deaths”Betty Rocksteady — “Dusk Urchin”Livia Llewellyn — “The Gin
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Fearful Symmetries

by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Laird Barron, Nathan Ballingrud, Michael Marshall Smith, Gemma Files, Bruce McAllister, Gary McMahon, Pat Cadigan, Helen Marshall, Terry Dowling, Stephen Graham Jones, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Shearman, Kaaron Warren, Catherine MacLeod, Siobhan Carroll, John Langan, Carole Johnstone ...

Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson ... Read more

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Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: "Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories" ( Hellnotes).A World Fantasy Award nominee, "this anthology . . . is a collection of some of the most talented horror and speculative fiction authors writing today" ( BuzzFeed). It includes all-new stories by Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Brian Evenson
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Cursed Bunny

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Translated by Anton Hur ...

A wildly original novel from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite.From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy ... Read more

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A wildly original novel from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite.From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy
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Hammers on Bone

by Cassandra Khaw ...

Series Book 1 - Persons Non Grata
Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella!John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. ... Read more

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Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella!John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey.
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Out of the Ruins

The apocalyptic anthology

by China Miéville, Emily St. John Mandel, Clive Barker, Carmen Maria Machado, Ramsey Campbell, Charlie Jane Anders, Lavie Tidhar, Samuel R. Delany, Kaaron Warren, Anna Tambour, Nina Allan, Jeffrey Thomas, Paul Di Filippo, Ron Drummond ...

18 short stories take us to the end of the world in this anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction featuring bestselling authors like Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville, Samuel R. Delaney, Clive Barker, and more!In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Featuring new and exclusive post-apocalyptic short stories, as well as classics of the ... Read more

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18 short stories take us to the end of the world in this anthology of post-apocalyptic fiction featuring bestselling authors like Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville, Samuel R. Delaney, Clive Barker, and more!In the moments when it all comes crashing down, what will we value the most, and how will we save it? Featuring new and exclusive post-apocalyptic short stories, as well as classics of the
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A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

by Alice Evelyn Yang ...

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a ... Read more

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A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a
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When the Museum Is Closed

A Novel

by Emi Yagi ...

Translated by Yuki Tejima ...

A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a VoidRika Horauchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—every Monday, when the museum is closed.Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job. Recommended by her old university professor for ... Read more

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A quirky, joyful, feel-good love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of international bestseller Diary of a VoidRika Horauchi’s new part-time job is to converse with a statue of Venus—in Latin—every Monday, when the museum is closed.Initially reluctant, Rika starts to enjoy her strange new job. Recommended by her old university professor for
... Read more
Notes of a Crocodile

by Qiu Miaojin ...

Translated by Bonnie Huie ...

Series series NYRB Classics
WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZEThe English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love, ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZEThe English-language premiere of Qiu Miaojin's coming-of-age novel about queer teenagers in Taiwan, a cult classic in China and winner of the 1995 China Times Literature Award.An NYRB Classics OriginalSet in the post-martial-law era of late-1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile is a coming-of-age story of queer misfits discovering love,
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Dark Cities

by Cherie Priest, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Scott Smith, Jonathan Maberry ...

Enjoy 20 spine-tingling horror short stories in this urban horror anthology featuring Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cherie Priest, Seanan McGuire, and others.In shadowy back alleys, crumbling brownstones, and gleaming skyscrapers, cities harbor unique forms of terror. Here lie malicious ghosts, cursed buildings, malignant deities, and personal demons of every kind . . .Twenty of today’s most talented writers ... Read more

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Enjoy 20 spine-tingling horror short stories in this urban horror anthology featuring Sherrilyn Kenyon, Cherie Priest, Seanan McGuire, and others.In shadowy back alleys, crumbling brownstones, and gleaming skyscrapers, cities harbor unique forms of terror. Here lie malicious ghosts, cursed buildings, malignant deities, and personal demons of every kind . . .Twenty of today’s most talented writers
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