The Language of Dying by Sarah Pinborough
Jonathan Thornton
There is a language to dying. It creeps like a shadow alongside the passing years and the taste of it hides in the corners of our mouths. It finds us…
horror
HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
“This is all it takes for people to plunge into insanity: one night alone with themselves and what they fear most.” Witches have a long history running through folklore, myth…
Medusa’s Web by Tim Powers
“The past,” she repeated, “it is always out there, isn’t it? I hate now. I hate that whenever you look at a clock, it shows a different time. What’s the…
In The Mix: Fantasy and Other Genres
Leo Elijah Cristea
Fantasy is a genre that assimilates elements of other genres, whilst still remaining, for the most part, a genre not often thought of as having a great number of “crossovers”…
Nightfall by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski
Sonia Grace
I tore through Nightfall by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski in about two hours, which should give you an idea of its readability. The book drew me in right away,…
The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker
Alister Davison
Time flies: It’s thirty years since Clive Barker’s first novel, The Damnation Game, was published. A tale of Faustian proportions, it – along with his short story collections The Books…
Killing Pretty by Richard Kadrey
Zachary A. Matzo
Seven books in, Richard Kadrey’s Sandman Slim series continues to have its hooks in me. Killing Pretty—the latest entry—was released at the end of July and I plowed through it…
Elements of Fantasy: Zombies
Janie Bill
The living dead. Zombies made their first documented appearance in 1929 when William Seabrook recorded his participation with Haitian voodoo ceremonies in The Magic Island. Seabrook had been interested in…
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Charlie Hopkins
We open on an oddly dressed girl walking down a road and refusing a ride from a stranger because she does not want to have to kill them, reasoning that…
Swan Song by Robert McCammon
Back in the 1980s, when the Cold War was at its height, the spectre of nuclear war loomed large, and this was reflected in the fiction of the time. Some…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Joker Month
Xiagan
We had a lot great contest themes this year and I know that some people didn’t manage to finish their stories on time for some of the contests or didn’t…
Monthly Short Story Winner: Abandoned Places
We’ve been getting such good feedback for the short stories our members have submitted in our Monthly Short Story Competition that we have decided to post them on the main…