Sarah Gailey2.8 “Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there.
Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back, and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be?
There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them, and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
Hiron Ennes3.5 In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.
For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.
In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again.
Simon Jimenez4.0 Two warriors shepherd an ancient god across a broken land to end the tyrannical reign of a royal family in this new epic fantasy from the author of The Vanished Birds.
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—Tordotcom, BookPage, LitHub
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.
But that god cannot be contained forever.
With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.
Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you—and is like nothing you’ve ever read before.
Rhiannon A. Grist0.0 Two misfits, Carys Price and Angharad 'Hazard' Evans, strike out from their disenfranchised seaside town to take ownership of the High Fields, a mythical island brimming with world-bending promise.
Objecting to the demands of modern society, they hope to find a place where they can live as they choose, but instead they find an ancient power that tears their friendship apart.
Ten years later, Carys returns to the collapsing world of the High Fields to face the terrifying power of the friend-turned-goddess she left behind.
E. M. Faulds0.0 Fifteen short speculative stories from author E.M. Faulds featuring female or female-coded protagonists.
Revenge. Resistance. Rebellion. Women who are ungovernable, girls who won’t stand by the status quo. Female protagonists who endure the unimaginable and come out stronger.
From deep space to the home hearth, from the far future to the mythical past. Dark magic, body horror, technology, these are women who go beyond. Complicated or straightforward, dark or light, they persist on their own terms.
Not always an easy read, but with a deep core of hope inside each tale, you will find this book has something to move you, be you woman, man, or another gender entirely.
What people are saying about this book:
“Bewitching and powerful; these stories strike hard and leave you reeling.” – Cat Hellisen, author of “King of the Hollow Dark”
“A scintillating cache of stories that sparkle with imagination, tenderness and hard-won truths.” – Neil Williamson, author of Queen of Clouds
Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse.
When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in love with the time-space continuum, but it doesn’t love her back. As time passes and falls apart, a time-traveller must say goodbye to their soulmate.
With stories from best-selling and award-winning authors such as Seanan McGuire, Alix E. Harrow and Nina Allan, this anthology gives a taste for the rich treasure trove of stories we can imagine with love, loss and reunion across time and space.
Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Klages
Катриона Уорд3.7 Это история об убийце. О похищенном ребенке. И о мести.
В заколоченном досками доме в самом конце Никчемной улицы живет семья. Девочка, которой нельзя выходить на улицу. Мужчина, страдающий провалами в памяти. И кошка Оливия, которая любить спать и… читать Библию.
Все сказанное выше – правда. И все это – ложь.
Невероятная тайна связывает эту семью. И когда в доме по соседству поселяется девушка по имени Ди, эта тайна грозит выплыть наружу... Много лет назад младшую сестру Ди похитил маньяк, и теперь, спустя многие годы безнадежных поисков, улики приводят ее на Никчемную улицу. К самому последнему дому.
Вы думаете, что догадываетесь о происходящем в заколоченном доме. Думаете, что уже читали такие истории. Но вы ошибаетесь… В темном лесу позади Никчемной улицы зарыто нечто ужасное. И это совсем не то, чем кажется…
Шелли Паркер-Чан3.7 Она — девушка, рождённая во время войны и голода. Ее брату предсказано великое будущее, а ей — смерть. Всё решено на небесах.
Но что, если тот, кому небо предписало быть великим, выбирает смерть?
Она возьмёт его имя и его судьбу. И пусть голодные глаза призраков следят за каждым её шагом — она сделает всё, чтобы выжить, чтобы стать великой. Будет гибкой. Будет жестокой. Будет мужчиной. Чтобы стать Императором. Чтобы стать солнцем.
Шелли Паркер-Чан3.7 Она — девушка, рождённая во время войны и голода. Ее брату предсказано великое будущее, а ей — смерть. Всё решено на небесах.
Но что, если тот, кому небо предписало быть великим, выбирает смерть?
Она возьмёт его имя и его судьбу. И пусть голодные глаза призраков следят за каждым её шагом — она сделает всё, чтобы выжить, чтобы стать великой. Будет гибкой. Будет жестокой. Будет мужчиной. Чтобы стать Императором. Чтобы стать солнцем.
Nino Cipri0.0 Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. An excellent employee like Derek, an employee made to work at LitenVärld, shouldn't need time off.
To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests with pincers and eye stalks, ambulatory sleeper sofas, killer mutant toilets, that kind of thing. Helping him is the inventory team ― four strangers who look and sound almost exactly like him. Are five Dereks better than one?
Mebuyen sighs. She was hoping the girl would not ask.
Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap’s debut collection jumps right off the page, from the joy in her new novella, 'A Spell for Foolish Hearts' to the terrifying tension of the urban legend 'Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez'.
This celebration of Chinese Science Fiction — thirteen stories, all translated for the first time into English — represents a unique exploration of the nation’s speculative fiction from the late 20th Century onwards, curated and translated by critically acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting Christine Ni.
From the renowned Jiang Bo’s ‘Starship: Library' to Regina Kanyu Wang’s ‘The Tide of Moon City, and Anna Wu’s ‘Meisje met de Parel', this is a collection for all fans of great fiction.
Award winners, bestsellers, screenwriters, playwrights, philosophers, university lecturers and computer programmers, these thirteen writers represent the breadth of Chinese SF, from new to old: Gu Shi, Han Song, Hao Jingfang, Nian Yu, Wang Jinkang, Zhao Haihong, Tang Fei, Ma Boyong, Anna Wu, A Que, Bao Shu, Regina Kanyu Wang and Jiang Bo.
Молли Остертаг4.1 From the author of The Witch Boy trilogy comes a graphic novel about family, romance, and first love.
Fifteen-year-old Morgan has a secret: She can't wait to escape the perfect little island where she lives. She's desperate to finish high school and escape her sad divorced mom, her volatile little brother, and worst of all, her great group of friends...who don't understand Morgan at all. Because really, Morgan's biggest secret is that she has a lot of secrets, including the one about wanting to kiss another girl.
Then one night, Morgan is saved from drowning by a mysterious girl named Keltie. The two become friends and suddenly life on the island doesn't seem so stifling anymore.
But Keltie has some secrets of her own. And as the girls start to fall in love, everything they're each trying to hide will find its way to the surface...whether Morgan is ready or not.
Сильвия Морено-Гарсия3.7 «Он пытается отравить меня. Ты должна приехать за мной, Ноэми. Спаси меня». Получив отчаянное письмо от своей сестры с просьбой о спасении от загадочной гибели, Ноэми направляется в Высокое Место, отдаленный дом в мексиканской деревне. Она — гламурная дебютантка, и ее шикарные платья и идеальная красная помада больше подходят для коктейльных вечеринок, чем для любительского расследования. Но она также хитрая, умная и обладает неукротимой волей.
Некогда колоссально богатая семья и угасшая горнодобывающая империя прятали все свои секреты от любопытных глаз, но Ноэми обнаружит правду о насилии и безумии.
Кэтлин Дженнингс0.0 In a small Western Queensland town, a reserved young woman receives a note from one of her vanished brothers—a note that makes question her memories of their disappearance and her father's departure.
A beguiling story that proves that gothic delights and uncanny family horror can live—and even thrive—under a burning sun, Flyaway introduces readers to Bettina Scott, whose search for the truth throws her into tales of eerie dogs, vanished schools, cursed monsters, and enchanted bottles. Flyaway enchants you with the sly, beautiful darkness of Karen Russell and a world utterly its own.
Alix E. Harrow4.0 In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement.
In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.
But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive.
There's no such thing as witches. But there will be.
An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, sapphic love, motherhood, and women's suffrage--the lost ways are calling.
P. Djèlí Clark3.8 Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns with "Ring Shout", a dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror
IN AMERICA, DEMONS WEAR WHITE HOODS.
In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They plan to bring Hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.
Standing in their way is Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foul-mouthed sharpshooter and a Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan's demons straight to Hell. But something awful's brewing in Macon, and the war on Hell is about to heat up.
Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?
0.0 Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman’s pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company’s latest project—the monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky.
A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased father—literally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahim torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.
Кирон Гиллен4.0 No one can escape DIE until everyone agrees to go home. Or rather, no one can escape DIE until everyone who is alive agrees to go home. The second arc of the commercial and critical hit of bleakly romantic fantasy fiction starts to reveal the secrets of the world, and our heroes' pasts. Yes, they can't escape DIE. They also can't escape themselves.
Collects issues #6-10 of DIE
Адам Нэвилл3.4 Журналистка Кэтрин приезжает на побережье Девоншира, известное своими пляжами и природными красотами. Но когда в Брикбере, городке поблизости, находят доисторические артефакты и огромное количество человеческих останков, жизнь Кэтрин меняется навсегда. Хелен потеряла своего брата 6 лет назад. Незадолго до своего исчезновения он записал странные звуки, которые раздавались из-под земли неподалеку от Брикберских пещер, и эта запись приводит Хелен к месту, где люди убивали друг друга еще в первобытную эпоху, а на стенах до сих пор остались изображения их безымянных богов.
Здесь ходят слухи о появлении мифического красного народа, а любопытные исчезают уже на протяжении многих лет. Здесь не привечают гостей, а местные жители считают, что под землей до сих пор таится зловещая сила, сразиться с которой могут только самые отчаянные, ведь перед багровым приливом первобытной жестокости мало что может устоять.
Та-Нахаси Коатс3.3 The Times называют Та-Нехаси Коутса одним из самых громких публичных интеллектуалов Америки. «Танцующий на воде» — его первый роман и важное высказывание о природе американского расизма.
Роман Коутса похож на африканский танец джубу: танцуют, держа на головах кувшины, полные воды; кто прольет воду — выбывает. И так до последнего танцора. Такой танцоркой была мать главного героя, он же с кувшином не танцует. Хайрам Уокер магическим способом перемещает рабов в пространстве, из южных штатов в северные, используя для этого воду. Не теряя человеческого достоинства, герой проходит через тюрьму, плантации и разлуку с близкими. Его мистическая сила — память народа, память предков, которой рабов стараются лишить и которая может дать им свободу: забывший свою историю не имеет будущего.
«Одна из лучших книг, которые я читала в своей жизни». Опра Уинфри
Р. Дж. Баркер3.8 На протяжении поколений мореходы Ста островов строили свои корабли из костей морских драконов, чтобы вести бесконечную войну. Драконы исчезли, но битвы за превосходство продолжались. Противники стараются захватить две главные ценности: драконью кость для строительства новых кораблей и детей, чьи души после жертвоприношения придают кораблям силы. И вот первый за века дракон был замечен в далеких водах, и обе стороны видят возможность изменить соотношение сил в свою пользу, ведь тот, кто его добудет, выиграет не только славу, но и войну.
Дочь верховной правительницы сослана на корабль мертвых. Под ее началом — команда приговоренных к смерти преступников. Возможно ли проклятым остановить войну? Может ли бесчестный умереть с честью?
Priya Sharma, Priya Sharma0.0 Acclaimed author Priya Sharma transports readers back in time with Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil.
Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin.
Uprooted from Bath by his father's failures, Gideon Belman finds himself stranded on Ormeshadow farm, an ancient place of chalk and ash and shadow. The land crests the Orme, a buried, sleeping dragon that dreams resentment, jealousy, estrangement, death. Or so the folklore says. Growing up in a house that hates him, Gideon finds his only comforts in the land. Gideon will live or die by the Orme, as all his family has.
Лора Мауро0.0 British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voice in contemporary dark fiction, delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction. Human and humane tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon’s knife. A major new talent!
Featuring "Looking for Laika," winner of the British Fantasy Award, and "Sun Dogs," a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.
Низи Шоул0.0 Multiple award-winning anthology of contemporary stories by emerging and seasoned writers of many races
Winner of the 2020 Locus, World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Ignyte, and Brave New Words Awards
"There’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns,” proclaimed Octavia E Butler.
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers of many races telling stories filled with shocking delights, powerful visions of the familiar made strange. Between this book’s covers burn tales of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and their indefinable overlappings. These are authors aware of our many possible pasts and futures, authors freed of stereotypes and clichés, ready to dazzle you with their daring genius.
Unexpected brilliance shines forth from every page.
Кирон Гиллен0.0 THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (WicDiv, JourneyInto Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where agroup of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthlyhorror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron's in a rush,he describes it as ""Goth Jumanji"", but that's only the tip of this obsidian iceberg.
Catriona Ward3.5 Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, never parted day or night. They are raised among the Children, a community of strays and orphans ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the grey Isle of Altnaharra which sits in the black sea off the wildest coast of Scotland.
Eve loves the free, savage life of the Isle and longs to inherit Uncle's power. She is untroubled save by her dreams; of soft arms and a woman singing. Dinah longs for something other.
But the world is at war and cannot be kept at bay. As the solitude of Altnaharra is broken, Eve's faith and sanity fracture. In a great storm, in the depths of winter, as the old year dies, the locals discover a devastating scene on the Isle.
Eve and Dinah's accounts of that night contradict and intertwine. As past and present converge, only one woman can be telling the truth. Who is guilty, who innocent?
Tasha Suri4.5 The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and an exiled Amrithi mother she can barely remember, but whose face and magic she has inherited.
When Mehr’s power comes to the attention of the Emperor’s most feared mystics, she must use every ounce of will, subtlety, and power she possesses to resist their cruel agenda.
Should she fail, the gods themselves may awaken seeking vengeance…
Йен Уильямс3.0 The Ninth Rain has fallen, the Jure'lia have returned, and with Ebora a shadow of its former self, the old enemy are closer to conquering Sarn than ever.
Tormalin the Oathless and the Fell-Witch Noon have their hands full dealing with the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for nearly three hundred years. But these are not the great mythological warriors of old; hatched too early and with no link to their past lives, the war-beasts have no memory of the many battles they have fought and won, and no concept of how they can possibly do it again. The key to uniting them, according to the scholar Vintage, may lie in a part of Sarn no one really believes exists, but finding it will mean a dangerous journey at a time of war...
Meanwhile, Hestillion is trapped on board the corpse moon, forced into a strange and uneasy alliance with the Jure'lia queen. Something terrifying is growing up there, in the heart of the Behemoth, and the people of Sarn will have no defence against these new monsters.
Альетт де Бодар3.8 Добро пожаловать в Пояс Рассыпанных Жемчужин – обитаемых орбитальных колец, где правят изгнанные ученые и могущественные семьи. Их сплачивают живые разумные корабли, перевозящие между звездами пассажиров и грузы. В этом обществе в коридорах и конференц-залах люди смешиваются с аватарами разумных кораблей, переплетаются физический и виртуальный миры, а окружающую обстановку легко модифицировать и приспособить под собеседника или под настроение.
Дочь Теней, транспортный корабль, снятый с военной службы после повреждения, теперь влачит жалкое существование, занимаясь изготовлением изменяющего сознание чая для комфорта космических путешественников. Между тем жесткой и эксцентричной ученой Лун Чау понадобился труп для научных исследований. Когда Лун Чау заходит в офис Дочери Теней, ту ждет неприятное, но несложное задание. Обследовав найденный труп и обнаружив, что произошло убийство, Лун Чау вынуждена провести расследование, втягивая в него и Дочь Теней.
По мере того как они углубляются в прошлое жертвы, Дочь Теней обнаруживает, что расследование связано и с мрачной биографией Лун Чау и, в конечном итоге, с невыносимо темной межзвездной пустотой…
Priya Sharma0.0 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.
0.0 howcasing the finest weird fiction published in 2017, volume 5 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is the final, triumphant volume in the acclaimed series. Editors Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly bring their knowledge and skill to this fifth and final volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction.
Kate Ashwin0.0 The spirits of emotion that power Widdershins, England's most magical town, have been overtaken by the dark forces of the Seven Deadly Sins. The only ones who can save the place from itself are daring bounty hunter Harriet Barber, her friends, and Jack O'Malley: the town's uncertain, untrained, and utterly unwilling new guardian.
They may have everything the need to save the day, but when you're fighting monsters of your own making, your own worse enemy may be yourself...
Виктор Лаваль3.1 Аполлон и Эмма стараются быть хорошими родителями, но ребенок — это не только радость, но и бессонные ночи, хроническая усталость и постоянная тревога. Пока Аполлон борется с мистическими кошмарами детства, у него под носом разворачивается драма. Эмма жалуется, что кто-то присылает ей на телефон фотографии сына и мужа, а потом удаляет. Она говорит, что их сын — это не ребенок. Аполлон считает, что жена сходит с ума, но правда намного чудовищнее…
Джаннет Инг3.1 Во время правления королевы Виктории английские путешественники впервые посетили бескрайнюю, неизведанную Аркадию, землю фейри, обитель невероятных чудес, не подвластных ни пониманию, ни законам человека. Туда приезжает преподобный Лаон Хелстон, чтобы обратить местных жителей в христианство. Миссионера, проповедовавшего здесь ранее, постигла печальная участь при загадочных обстоятельствах, а вскоре и Лаон исчезает без следа. Его сестра, Кэтрин Хелстон, отправляется в опасное путешествие на поиски брата, но в Аркадии ее ждет лишь одинокое ожидание в зловещей усадьбе под названием Гефсимания. А потом приходит известие: Лаон возвращается – и за ним по пятам следует королева Маб со своим безумным двором. Вскоре Кэтрин убедится, что существуют тайны, которые лучше не знать, а Аркадия куда страшнее, чем кажется на первый взгляд.
Йен Уильямс4.7 The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine. When eccentric explorer, Lady Vincenza 'Vintage' de Grazon, offers him employment, he sees an easy way out. Even when they are joined by a fugitive witch with a tendency to set things on fire, the prospect of facing down monsters and retrieving ancient artefacts is preferable to the abomination he left behind. But not everyone is willing to let the Eboran empire collapse, and the adventurers are quickly drawn into a tangled conspiracy of magic and war. For the Jure'lia are coming, and the Ninth Rain must fall...
Ellen Klages4.0 San Francisco in 1940 is a haven for the unconventional. Tourists flock to the cities within the city: the Magic City of the World's Fair on an island created of artifice and illusion; the forbidden city of Chinatown, a separate, alien world of exotic food and nightclubs that offer "authentic" experiences, straight from the pages of the pulps; and the twilight world of forbidden love, where outcasts from conventional society can meet.
Six women find their lives as tangled with each other's as they are with the city they call home. They discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.
Inspired by the pulps, film noir, and screwball comedy, Passing Strange is a story as unusual and complex as San Francisco itself from World Fantasy Award winning author Ellen Klages.
Джо Хилл3.5 Что окружает нас в повседневной жизни? Семья, работа, обязанности? Повести Джо Хилла заставят вас взглянуть на мир иначе. Вместе с его героями вы будете молиться о спасении. Вам придется переосмыслить жизнь, как ставшему взрослым мальчишке — свои воспоминания о больной деменцией няне. Осознать глубину одиночества чужеродного разума. Замереть от ужаса под прицелом сумасшедшего. Смотреть, как смертоносный дождь смывает с поверхности Земли последние остатки человечности и милосердия. Вы еще не задумались – вообще достойны ли люди дара под названием жизнь?
3.1 У каждого свои страхи. Они стары как мир и вечны. Но прогресс не стоит на месте, и люди почти перестали бояться гнева богов природы. Теперь они боятся быть непонятыми, невинно осужденными, преданными и покинутыми теми, кого они любят, боятся не оправдать доверие или сделать неправильный выбор. Они желают отомстить, даже если придется прибегнуть к потусторонним силам.
Душераздирающие истории от мастеров жанра заставят вас холодеть от страха и скрежетать зубами от гнева. Ведь ужас реален и кроется в мелочах и повседневности нашей жизни.
Marjorie M. Liu4.5 The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible, threat. Collects MONSTRESS #7-12
Paul G. Tremblay2.3 Late one summer night, Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that every mother fears: her fourteen-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace in the woods of a local park.
The search isn’t yielding any answers, and Elizabeth and her young daughter, Kate, struggle to comprehend his disappearance. Feeling helpless and alone, their sorrow is compounded by anger and frustration. The local and state police haven’t uncovered any leads. Josh and Luis, the friends who were with Tommy last, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out at a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock— rumored to be cursed.
Living in an all-too-real nightmare, riddled with worry, pain, and guilt, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. She believes a ghostly shadow of Tommy materializes in her bedroom, while Kate and other local residents claim to see a shadow peering through their own windows in the dead of night. Then, random pages torn from Tommy’s journal begin to mysteriously appear—entries that reveal an introverted teenager obsessed with the phantasmagoric; the loss of his father, killed in a drunk-driving accident a decade earlier; a folktale involving the devil and the woods of Borderland; and a horrific incident that Tommy believed connected them all and changes everything.
As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened becomes more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock.
Erica L. Satifka0.0 After a breakdown at college landed Emmeline Kalberg in a mental hospital, she's struggling to get her life on track. She's back in her hometown and everyone knows she's crazy, but the twelve pills she takes every day keep her anxiety and paranoia in check. So when a voice that calls itself Escodex begins talking to Em from a box of frozen chicken nuggets, she's sure that it's real and not another hallucination. Well … pretty sure.
An evil entity is taking over the employees of Savertown USA, sucking out their energy so it can break into Escodex's dimension. When her coworkers start dying, Em realizes that she may be the only one who can stop things from getting worse. Now she must convince her therapist she's not having a relapse and keep her boss from firing her. All while getting her coworker Roger to help enact the plans Escodex conveys to her though the RFID chips in the Savertown USA products. It's enough to make anyone Stay Crazy.
Adrian Tchaikovsky0.0 In the bleak northern crown of the world, war is coming
Maniye's father is the Wolf clan's chieftain, but she's an outcast. Her mother was queen of the Tiger and these tribes have been enemies for generations. Maniye also hides a deadly secret. All can shift into their clan's animal form, but Maniye can take on tiger and wolf shapes. She refuses to disown half her soul, so escapes, rescuing a prisoner of the Wolf clan in the process. The killer Broken Axe is set on their trail, to drag them back for retribution.
Maniye's father plots to rule the north and controlling his daughter is crucial to his schemes. However, other tribes also prepare for strife. Strangers from the far south appear too, seeking allies in their own conflict. It's a season for omens as priests foresee danger, and a darkness falling across the land. Some say a great war is coming, overshadowing even Wolf ambitions. A time of testing and broken laws is near, but what spark will set the world ablaze?
Victor LaValle3.3 People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there.
Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide, and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks and their cops. But when he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.
A storm that might swallow the world is building in Brooklyn. Will Black Tom live to see it break?
0.0 LIGHTSPEED was founded on the core idea that all science fiction is real science fiction. The whole point of this magazine is that science fiction is vast. It is inclusive. Science fiction is about people and for people—all kinds of people, no matter where they’re from or what they look like.
The People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! special issue exists to relieve a brokenness in the genre that’s been enabled time and time again by favoring certain voices and portrayals of particular characters. Here we bring together a team of POC writers and editors from around the globe to present science fiction that explores the nuances of culture, race, and history. This is science fiction for our present time, but also—most of all—for our future.
People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! is 100% written and edited by people of color, and is lead by guest editors Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslim, with editorial contributions from Nisi Shawl, Grace L. Dillon, Berit Ellingsen, Arley Sorg, and Sunil Patel. It features ten original, never-before-published short stories, plus ten original flash fiction stories, by writers such as Steven Barnes, Karin Lowachee, Sofia Samatar, Terence Taylor, Caroline M. Yoachim, and more. All that, plus five classic reprints, by the likes of Samuel R. Delany and Octavia E. Butler; an array of nonfiction articles, interviews, and book reviews; and more than two dozen personal essays from people of colo(u)r discussing their experiences as readers and writers of science fiction.
Марджори М. Лю4.2 В разрушенном войной мире идёт затяжной конфликт между арканиками и людьми. Случившийся в прошлом загадочный магический взрыв с огромными жертвами с обеих сторон заставил их заключить перемирие, но сейчас оно под угрозой. И виной тому — Майка Полуволчица, загадочная девушка, внутри которой дремлет кровожадный монстр. Майке предстоит путь, полный опасностей — ведь ни люди, ни арканики не остановятся ни перед чем ради достижениях собственных целей. Но из-за монстра внутри, Майка не может доверять даже самой себе...
Catriona Ward1.5 She comes in the night.
She looks into your eyes.
One by one, she has taken us all.
For generations they have died young.
Now Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line.
Their disease confines them to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor; their disease means they must die alone.
But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world. She dares to fall in love.
And only then do they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse.
Зен Чо2.0 In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite...
The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty’s lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman—a freed slave who doesn’t even have a familiar—as their Sorcerer Royal, and allowing England’s once profuse stores of magic to slowly bleed dry. At least they haven’t stooped so low as to allow women to practice what is obviously a man’s profession…
At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers and eminently proficient magician, ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up. But when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain—and the world at large…
Наоми Новик4.1 Дверник – деревня в Польнии, расположенная в живописной долине. Реки здесь быстры, горы высоки, жители дружны. Вот только рядом с Дверником находится Чаща – таинственный лес, живой и жестокий. Он похищает людей, лишает их воли и изменяет до неузнаваемости.
В Двернике и живут Агнешка и Кася, подруги, любящие друг друга как сестры. Их счастливые дни омрачает лишь одно: они знают, что однажды им придется расстаться. Скоро в деревню прибудет Дракон, могущественный волшебник, единственный, кто может уберечь поселян от тлетворного влияния Чащи, которая не щадит ни детей, ни взрослых, оставляя в них навеки следы порчи. Но цена за освобождение от кошмара слишком высока: раз в десять лет Дракон забирает в свою башню самую красивую и самую талантливую девушку. Ни у кого нет сомнений, кто станет его следующей жертвой – Кася. Агнешка люто ненавидит Дракона и знает, что никогда не смирится с потерей. Но в этот раз он сделает неожиданный выбор, забрав ту, которая изменит жизнь всей Польнии.
Ноами Новик – лауреат Мифопоэтической премии и Британской премии фэнтези, обладатель Nebula и Locus Aword. Роман "Чаща" стал бестселлером New York Times и признан лучшей книгой года по версии Publishers Weekly.
Usman T. Malik0.0 "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore when the grandfather was a boy.
Tananarive Due0.0 Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening.
In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness. Featuring an award-winning novella and fifteen stories—one of which has never been published before—Ghost Summer: Stories is sure to both haunt and delight.
With an Introduction by Nalo Hopkinson and an Afterword by Steven Barnes.
0.0 The Doll Collection is exactly what it sounds like: a treasured toy box of all-original dark stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby dolls.
Featuring everything from life-sized clockwork dolls to all-too-human Betsy Wetsy-type baby dolls, these stories play into the true creepiness of the doll trope, but avoid the clichés that often show up in stories of this type.
Master anthologist Ellen Datlow has assembled a list of beautiful and terrifying stories from bestselling and critically acclaimed authors. The collection is illustrated with photographs of dolls taken by Datlow and other devoted doll collectors from the science fiction and fantasy field. The result is a star-studded collection exploring one of the most primal fears of readers of dark fiction everywhere.
Келли Сью ДеКонник0.0 Eisner Award-nominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (X-Factor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on women-in-prison sci-fi exploitation.
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
Адам Нэвилл3.7 Жизнь Стефани Бут катится под откос из-за постоянных проблем с деньгами и долгов. Поэтому когда она умудряется снять квартиру по удивительно низкой цене, ей кажется, что череда неудач закончилась. Но ее новый дом таит в себе немало тайн. По ночам Стефани слышит странные звуки: что-то скребется под полом, в соседней пустой квартире рыдает женщина, а из-под кровати доносится треск рвущегося полиэтилена. Стефани кажется, что в ее комнате кто-то есть, хотя она запирает дверь на ночь и не вынимает ключ из скважины до самого утра. Вскоре голоса становятся враждебнее, странные события нарастают, как снежный ком, становясь все более причудливыми и иррациональными, а сам дом оказывается настоящей ловушкой. Стефани надо отсюда сбежать – пока местные жители не добрались до нее первыми. Только это не обычная история о привидениях, и правда будет куда страшнее, реальнее и древнее.
Сара Лотц3.6 12 января 2012 года недаром назвали черным четвергом. В этот день один за другим разбились сразу четыре пассажирских самолета! За несколько часов тысячи семей лишились близких. Причины аварий так и не удалось установить. Поразительно, что в трех крушениях посчастливилось выжить трем детям, хотя шансов на спасение у них не было. Неужели случилось чудо? Но вскоре родные выживших малышей понимают, что дети изменились, и эти изменения вызывают у них ужас и панику… Возможно, четвертое крушение тоже пережил ребенок? Правда шокирует и пугает...
Фрэнсис Хардинг4.2 Очнувшись после несчастного случая, Трисс понимает, что с ней что-то не так. Ее постоянно мучает голод, младшая сестра ее боится, а родители все время шепчутся за закрытыми дверями. К тому же Трисс почти ничего не помнит - ни о происшествии, ни о своем прошлом. Она хочет перечитать свой дневник, но кто-то вырвал из него страницы.
Вскоре Трисс выясняет, что с ней происходит нечто куда более страшное, чем она могла представить, и что она в буквальном смысле слова сама не своя. В поисках ответов ей предстоит совершить опасное путешествие и столкнуться с Архитектором, который стремится погубить всю ее семью. Но успеет ли она? Время Трисс утекает, словно песок сквозь пальцы…
Адриан Коул, Bob McLain0.0 In this frenetic collection of stories taken from the files of Nick Nightmare, Private Eye, the intrepid pulp hero is thrown into a murky world of crawling horrors, spawned by the Old Ones as they seek to rise up from their primordial oceanic depths, ‘when the stars are right.’ Whether he is shooting it out with power-crazed acolytes in his native New York, or slipping across into other dimensions to battle the spreading plague of invasion, Nightmare is never far from the long, clammy reach of the things from the Deep, bizarre artifacts of power, decrepit villages and citadels, magic and voodoo. Life for the private eye is an endless slalom of mayhem.
Nick Nightmare Investigates includes a team-up with Damian Paladin in a brand new, full-blooded action thriller, written in collaboration with Mike Chinn.
Nick Nightmare Investigates is a potent blend of HP Lovecraft, Mickey Spillane and the roller coaster adventures of the golden age of the pulps.
0.0 It could be said that women invented science fiction; after all, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is considered by many to be the first science fiction novel. Yet some readers seem to have this funny idea that women don’t, or can’t, write science fiction. Some have even gone so far as to accuse women of destroying science fiction with their girl cooties. So to help prove how silly that notion is, LIGHTSPEED's June 2014 issue is a Women Destroy Science Fiction! special issue and has a guest editor at the helm.
The issue features original fiction by Seanan McGuire, Charlie Jane Anders, N.K. Jemisin, Carrie Vaughn, Maria Dahvana Headley, Amal El-Mohtar, and many more. All together there's more than 180,000 words of material, including: 11 original short stories, 15 original flash fiction stories, 4 short story reprints and a novella reprint, 7 nonfiction articles, and 28 personal essays by women about their experiences reading and writing science fiction.
Эмили Кэрролл4.2 Помните, как в детстве, лежа в кровати, боялись свесить руку вниз, или как ускорялись, выйдя из ванной ночью и выключив за собой свет? И как даже сейчас, когда мы отлично знаем что там ничего нет, мы все равно иногда боимся темноты? В мире страшных сказок Эмили Кэрролл в темноте всегда что-то есть. Что-то страшное. Что-то незнакомое. Или хуже - вроде бы знакомое, но вы не можете избавиться от ощущения что что-то не так. Это может быть ваш друг, брат или жених, это может быть весь окружающий вас мир, который, как лес, с каждым шагом кажется все менее знакомым, и все более страшным.
Зачастую относимый к малоизвестному в России, но очень важному для Америки жанру канадской готики, «Через Лес» не пытается напугать читателя чудовищами или кровью, хотя и того, и другого в книге предостаточно. Гораздо страшнее гнетущее чувство мистического ужаса, которое Кэрролл мастерски прячет в малейших деталях рисунка на каждой странице. Они не сразу распознаются рационально, но зато мгновенно поселяются где-то на задворках подсознания и медленно скребут ногтем ваш затылок, заставляя мурашки бежать по всему телу. Причем для этой атмосферы ужаса важны все составляющие произведения, включая уникальный леттеринг, который в нашем издании целиком выполнен вручную и одобрен самой Кэрролл.
Лорен Бьюкес3.4 Лауреат премии критиков журнала "Стрэнд" за лучший детективный роман
Лауреат Британской премии фэнтези — премии Августа Дерлета за лучший роман в жанре ужасов.
Девушка, которая должна была умереть, против убийцы, которого не должно было существовать.
Кирби чудом выжила после нападения маньяка, но полиция так никого и не нашла, и дело фактически закрыли. Кирби, одержимая местью, берет расследование в свои руки. По крупицам собирая улики, сталкиваясь со странными совпадениями и необъяснимыми фактами, она приходит к выводу, что правда невероятна, а убийца гораздо страшнее, чем она думала.
В Чикаго 1930-х годов Харпер находит странный Дом, позволяющий путешествовать во времени. И теперь Харпер странствует по всему XX веку и убивает девушек, «сияющих», ярких молодых женщин, полных таланта и жизни. У него есть цель, есть определенный ритуал, но он еще не знает, что одна из его жертв уцелела, и теперь ее не остановит ничто, даже время.
Роман о путешествиях во времени, захватывающий детектив о серийном убийце и невероятная история мести, протянувшаяся сквозь весь XX век – все это «Сияющие», роман-сенсация, права на экранизацию которого куплены Леонардо Ди Каприо и его компанией «Appian Way».
Энн Леки3.8 Когда-то она была огромным космическим кораблем и управляла тысячами солдат, которые служили непобедимой Империи Радча, завоевавшей всю галактику. Однако коварное предательство лишило ее всего. Теперь, девятнадцать лет спустя, она просто Брэк, одинокая странница, обладающая хрупким человеческим телом и движимая непреодолимым желанием отомстить. Отправившись на далекую заснеженную планету в поисках орудия для своей мести, Брэк неожиданно встречает человека, которого знала тысячу лет назад. Она спасает его от гибели и берет с собой, но, возможно, это большая ошибка…
Sofia Samatar4.2 Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl.
In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading.
Сара Пинборо0.0 Beauty is a beautifully illustrated retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story which takes all the elements of the classic fairytale that we love (the handsome prince, the ancient curse, the sleeping girl and, of course, the haunting castle) and puts a modern spin on the characters, their motives and their desires. It's fun, contemporary, sexy, and perfect for fans of ONCE UPON A TIME, GRIMM, SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN and more.
Stephen Volk0.0 A giant ape... A heartless priest... A descent into depravity under London... An immortal hound... A baby thrown up by the sea... A Voodoo prayer... A legend made flesh in the eyes of a terrified child... Monsters come in all shapes and sizes... From human individuals with an evil streak or deeply aberrant nature, to those who are simply physically wrong. From beasts of the imagination to modern myths from the big screen... In these 15 stories representing the very best recent fiction by the writer of TV's GHOSTWATCH and AFTERLIFE and the acclaimed novella WHITSTABLE, you will meet all the things that made our childhoods terrifying - and bearable... "Others had Bobby Moore or Elvis. We had Christopher Lee and Quatermass. We had monsters in our hearts forever..." ... Containing two never-before-published stories.
0.0 The critically acclaimed editor of Magic, The End of The Line and House of Fear has brought together the contemporary masters and mistresses of the weird from around the globe in an anthology of travel tales like no other. Strap on your seatbelt, shoulder your backpack, or wait for that next ride... into darkness.Each step will lead you closer to your destination, but who, or what, can you expect to meet at journey’s end?
Here are stories of misfits, spectral hitch-hikers, nightmare travel tales and the rogues, freaks and monsters to be found on the road.
The critically acclaimed editor of Magic, The End of The Line and House of Fear has brought together the contemporary masters and mistresses of the weird from around the globe in an anthology of travel tales like no other. Strap on your seatbelt, or shoulder your backpack, and wait for that next ride... into darkness.
An incredible anthology of orginal short stories from an exciting list of writers including the best-selling Philip Reeve, the World Fantasy Award-winning Lavie Tidhar and the incredible talents of Sarah Lotz, Ian Whates, Jay Caselberg, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Zen Cho, Sophia McDougall, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Anil Menon, Rio Youers, Vandana Singh, Paul Meloy, Adam Nevill, Helen Marshall.
Бекки Клунан0.0 A fisherman's wife tends the garden and animals while her husband is at sea, but secrets buried under the waves begin to bubble to the surface revealing a secret treachery and forgotten truth. The third and final book in a trilogy of critically acclaimed stand-alone stories by award winning creator Becky Cloonan.
