Dark Fantasy

The Cold Is in Her Bones

Wed Dec 19, 2018 1:00pm

Dark Fantasy, Young Adult || One girl must uncover secrets of the past to save her friend from a terrible curse in this dark and mesmerizing story of love, revenge, and redemption inspired by the myth of Medusa.

Stories Within Stories Within Nightmares: Dale Bailey’s In the Night Wood

Tobias Carroll

Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:30pm

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Bedfellow

Jeremy Shipp

Tue Oct 9, 2018 2:00pm

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Horror || When the… thing first insinuated itself into the Lund family household, they were bemused. Vaguely human-shaped, its constantly-changing cravings seemed disturbing, at first, but time and pressure have a way of normalizing the extreme. Wasn’t it always part of their lives?

Read an Excerpt from Dale Bailey’s In the Night Wood

Dale Bailey

Wed Sep 19, 2018 1:00pm

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Dark Fantasy || Failed father, failed husband, and failed scholar, Charles Hayden hopes to put his life back together with a new project: a biography of Caedmon Hollow, the long-dead author of a legendary Victorian children’s book, In the Night Wood, and forebear of his wife, Erin.

Triquetra

Kirstyn McDermott

Wed Sep 5, 2018 9:00am

Original Fiction

Edited by: Ellen Datlow

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Dark Fantasy, Fairy Tales and Folklore || After marrying the prince and having her own child, Snow White visits her stepmother—promising to kill her in ever more horrible ways, at the same time attempting to stay away from the mirror that started it all.

Unbury Carol

Josh Malerman

Tue Apr 10, 2018 3:00pm

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Dark Fantasy || The haunting story of a woman literally bringing herself back from the dead.

Child of a Mad God

R. A. Salvatore

Wed Jan 3, 2018 1:00pm

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The Ballad of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

Thu Oct 5, 2017 10:00am

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Dark Fantasy || Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table and keep the roof over his father's head. 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.

The Bloodprint

Ausma Zehanat Khan

Thu Sep 14, 2017 3:00pm

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Dark Fantasy || The Companions of Hira may have discovered a miraculous symbol of hope that can destroy the One-Eyed Preacher and his fervid followers: the Bloodprint, a dangerous text the Talisman has tried to erase from the world.

An Unkindness of Magicians

Kat Howard

Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:00pm

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Dark Fantasy || In New York City, magic controls everything, but the power of magic is fading...

You Had Me At “Queer Demon Hunters”: Margaret Killjoy’s The Lamb Will Slaughter The Lion

Alex Brown

Wed Aug 16, 2017 1:30pm

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Discovering Your Writing Tribe

Kelley Armstrong

Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:00am

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Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Shirley Jackson Awards!

Tor.com

Mon Jul 17, 2017 10:52am

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The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion

Margaret Killjoy

Mon Jul 10, 2017 2:00pm

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Dark Fantasy || Utopian anarchists face off against rogue demon deer in this dropkick-in-the-mouth punk fantasy that Alan Moore calls "scary and energetic."