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2020 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, Best Story Collection
2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Story Collection
"From heartbreaking character studies to exercises in Grand Guignol excess, from scalpel-sharp poetry to sledgehammers of blood-soaked prose, Mike Allen displays not only his own considerable range, but the range of the horror genre as well. Aftermath of an Industrial Accident
...Canol Madreth is a small, remote and mountainous country at the centre of Gyronlandt. It is governed directly by an elected parliament, the Heindral, and indirectly by the stern and sombre tenets of the Church of Ishrythan.
Then, one fateful day, ominous clouds gather over Canol Madreth, and, mysteriously affected by whatever brought them, the impetuous Brother Cassraw is transformed into a fiery religious demagogue. The stability of the whole
63) Maelstrom
The hunted becomes the hunter as Amarta, The Seer, sets out across the land to find others like herself and to understand her own power.
On the way to the most famous predictor of all—the Heart of Seuan—Amarta walks the greatest wonder of the world: The Island Road, a living land mass that forms unpredictably, producing tremendous wealth for a lucky few.
As she travels, Amarta learns to wield her power in ways
..."A really interesting and fast paced story that was definitely a page turner." – Beagle Book Space
When the moon is full, Jack changes...and not for the better.
Jack Hughes is burdened with a curse that transforms him into a ferocious creature every full moon. To protect the world from his untamed nature, he embraces solitude within the confines of a cell. But one fateful night,
...65) Winter's Hunt
66) Rain Music
There's magic in the forest and it sings . . .
Truman Starkey heard it once, there in the ancient rain forest. A song that could raise the dead, a song that could bend time to its will. A song that might finally solve the puzzle of what Truman has lost—his ability to compose music.
But every magic needs fuel, and this magic, this song, demands a soul, a heart, or the most dangerous drug ever invented: Moss.
Kat Gregory is a bar singer
Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
"Call Them Children" by Wenmimareba Klobah Collins
"Feral" by Priya Sharma (reprint)
"The Goatkeeper's Harvest" by Tobi Ogundiran
"The Quiet Forms of Belonging" by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
68) Bloodfall Arena
Taken from her home. Forced to fight for sport. Will a magician's thirst for adventure be quenched with blood?
Aya Flandeen's rare gift has always set her apart from the rest of her village. Though she yearns to venture into the outside world, she didn't expect her journey to start with a brutal slave-trader's raid. Revealing her powers to save the townsfolk, Aya's heroism ends in disaster when she's abducted and
...69) Crownkeeper
It Takes a Queen to Save a Kingdom
The last thing Riette expects on a snowy winter's evening is Meirdre's royal guard appearing on her doorstep. Their purpose? The king needs a bride, and tradition dictates the position is hers to accept. Desperate to secure her parents' future, she agrees to the marriage and is whisked away to Lochfeld Castle, all too aware her childhood friend is there as well, imprisoned as a rebel
...Betrayal is a heavy price to pay for a kingdom, especially when you lose the crown. But no loss is greater than love.
Alok
Life as an exiled prince in Frostweather is as bleak as the frozen landscape surrounding my prison. There's a price on my head in Faerie. My only escape is portaling to the elven realm to attend the parties of high elves. They welcome my twin sister and me as their
...71) Unleashed
"Be careful who you pretend to be."
They created a deadly drug to make the perfect soldier.
Turn man into something more. Something stronger and faster.
That's all I wanted. To be someone different.
So I snuck a secret drug from my father's lab.
I only wanted to try it for a night.
One night to escape my parent's abuse.
One night to feel strong. Powerful.
But something went wrong.
The drug released
Following his betrayal by an old friend, Urith finds no relief from his self-imposed exile away from Esterblud. While Urith finds his fighting skills in high demand, each bloody encounter only brings the warrior more scars and pain. Even with his subconscious death wish, his luck and ability keep the young man from finding atonement by dying in battle. Seeking to reach the Sky Realm, where his dead ancestors drink and fight for eternity, the troubled
...74) The Burning
It was a great honor to be chosen by the keeper of the burnings.
It was also a terrible responsibiity.
If the keeper failed, the whole tribe could come to a bloody end at the claws of the creatures.
Amka had only been an apprentice for a few days, but soon she would have more to deal with than an apprentice should ever face.
Can Amka survive the first days of her apprenticeship?
Or will the whole village die with her?
Find out
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 Grit Born" by Frances Ogamba
"Klang Crow" by Joshua Lim (reprint)
"Garlands for Your Bridal Chamber" by Fatima Taqvi
"Of a Thousand Arms and More" by Ai Jiang (reprint)
An ancient treaty hangs in the balance as monsters wreak havoc.
Two realms at war only found peace after agreeing to send a tribute to each other every thousand years.This agreement served them well for eons... until the God of Ruin sends back a tribute and demands a replacement.
Saderna has spent her life locked away in her temple. She's the Goddess of Peace, spending her days listening to her petitioners
...In a world of ubiquitous magic, I despise powers. Until I get them.
When I discover I have a prophesied ability to make anyone forget, I wake up to a world that will do anything to capture me. Only one powerful, handsome vampire can save me. But I can't trust him. So I make him forget. And the less he remembers, the further away he gets.
...
Forget Me follows a witch with the power to make anyone forget her as she fights for freedom
...A Blank Slate. An Infant Reality.
Jack, a misanthropic mage hunter, finally loses his fight with a bottle in the one way he never saw coming. Sucked into a sandbox world inside a jar, his pursuit of a rogue wizard brings him to twelve artists spirited away, now gods of the barren wasteland.
An agoraphobic cartoonist. A bankrupt romance author. A prodigal painter. A disturbed ballerina. Some came by choice, others seek escape, but when life
79) Landfall
In the final book of The Stranger Trilogy, Amarta reaches the city-state of Seuan, where the Heart—a man famous for his predictions—awaits her.
As Amarta struggles to understand this extraordinary land full of threats and treasures, she resolves to protect those who cannot protect themselves, even if that means from herself. Step by step, Amarta unwraps secrets within secrets, coming to understand the cost of getting what
...80) Touchstone
Thrust into palace life and brutal royal intrigue, two young brothers must find a bell in order to survive.
The right bell. The silver bell. Somewhere in this huge, sprawling palace.
Touchstone is a prequel to The Seer—a story about power, magic, and loyalty.
Also be sure to pick up Unmoored, the first of The Stranger trilogy, and a sequel to The Seer.
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