The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real .. . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modernauthors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventingima
This tenth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors. With selections of the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF,
James Patrick Kelly has won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, but Kelly is far more than an award-winning author. He’s a science fiction visionary. His memorable stories blend classic science fictio
This ninth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre’s greatest authors, including Charlie Jane Anders, Steven Barnes, Seth Dickinson, Kameron
Portals to all the knowledge in the world, libraries are also createduniverses of a multitude of imaginations. Librarians guide us to enlightenmentas well as serving as the captains, mages, and gateke
Giant monsters whose every roar and footstep shakes the earth, whose simple stroll through a city wreaks havoc: KAIJU!And even though humankind has never really seen such monsters - we tremble at the
A Feast of Sorrows—Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection—features twelve of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-winning Australian author’s finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new novel
Lord Yamada is called away—one last time—from his newly restored estates in Kamakura to help Prince Kanemore ensure that Princess Teiko’s son, Takahito, inherits the Chrysanthemum Throne. Unfortunatel
The second volume of Prime Books’ annual anthology series collecting of some of the year’s best novella-length science fiction and fantasy. Novellas, longer than short stories but shorter than novels,
Macabre meetings, sinister excursions, and deadly relationships; uncanny encounters; a classic ghost story featuring an American god; a historical murderer revived in a frightening new iteration; inno
They emerge from the shadows, to claim the night . . . Women from around the world delve into Lovecraftian depths, penning and illustrating a variety of weird horrors. The pale and secretive Lavinia w
Streets are more than thoroughfares. Cobblestone or concrete, state of mind or situation—streets are catalysts for culture; sources of knowledge and connection, invisible routes to hidden levels of in
Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor''s ideas of "decentralization" have left it
Jere Gutierrez is bucking the trend at the dying art of "linear" entertainment - what we know today as TV shows. His combination of astounding stories, captured in the moment, are captivating millions
When the Fleet is challenged by an alien armada from the other side of the galaxy, the Fleet constructs the Stephen Hawking, an enormous mobile base for thousands of soldiers and warships... and the o
From Sholom Aleichem to Avram Davidson, Isaac Bashevis Singer to Tony Kushner, the Jewish literary tradition has always been one rich in the supernatural and the fantastic. In these pages, gathered fr
"Deceptively simple, earnest, and tragicomic, Parks's tales convey deep truths beneath narratives that tumble along like limpid streams. Whether exploring Oriental mythologies, or creating Dunsanylan
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out. A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exact
Trying to escape her embarrassing immigrant mother, Vimbai moves into a dilapidated house in the dunes... and discovers that one of her new roommates has a pocket universe instead of hair, there's a p
On her sixteenth birthday, Helena, who grew up in the forest endowed with her aunts' gifts, heads to the family's ancestral home to decipher a gift given to her as a riddle by an estranged aunt.
Collects short dark tales involving haunted houses, harpies, and alternate dimensions, by such famous genre authors as Peter Straub, Kelley Armstrong, and Holly Black.
Every city contains secret places. Moscow in the tumultuous 1990s is no different, its citizens seeking safety in a world below the streets - a dark, cavernous world of magic, weeping trees, and albin
Presents a collection of short fiction for the year 2010 featuring the work of such authors as Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Rachel Swirsky, Steve Gould, and Jay Lake.
One question remains: Did it begin or end in theft? His mother, taken before memory, his father, disappeared in the Manor where Asriael rules, home of the Great Game, where lives are antes and countri
Harry Turtledove, Capclave 2009's Guest of Honor, is the master of alternate history, and now with Reincarnations, a limited edition celebrating his achievements, he explores worlds that might have b
Mattie, an emancipated automaton, is caught in the middle of conflict between the Mechanics and Alchemists after discovering the secrets that will alter the balance of power within the city.
No ax murderers hunting sexy teens. No brutal torture for torture's sake. Phantom goes beyond the scare! From paranoid gold prospectors to lonely curators, Satan-worshipping Long Island teens, metaphy