A boy's eleventh birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage, a suicidal diva just can't seem to die, and a washed up wrestler goes toe-to-toe with a strange new foe. All of these queer marvels and more can be found at the Nightmare...
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
— H. P. Lovecraft
This statement was true when H. P. Lovecraft first wrote it at the beginning of the twentieth...
The first three volumes of The Best Horror of the Year have been widely praised for their quality, variety, and comprehensiveness.
With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straubb, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s...
Judith Berman has spent extended periods of time in Idaho, Vermont, British Columbia, and Alaska, and since 1979 she has lived in Philadelphia.
The author received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991, and attended...
Dave Hutchinson is one of today’s finest science fiction writers. His latest novel, Europe in Autumn (2014), has garnered praise from critics and readers alike and is currently shortlisted for the BSFA Award. Sleeps With Angels is his first...
A thoughtful, poignant novel that explores the creation of Artificial Intelligence — illuminating the very human need for communication, connection, and understanding.
In a narrative that spans geography and time, from the Atlantic Ocean in...
The apocalypse will be asymmetrical.
In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife confronts a new reality in which there may be no place for her. Indeed, there may be no place for any woman except at...
The author lives along the California coast a couple of hours south of Los Angeles, where he works at a local library and sings and plays guitar at a nearby church. He credits two of our earlier stories—“Whinin’ Boy Blues” by Allen Steele...
Readers of Mary Rosenblum’s popular novel, The Drylands, have asked her what will become of the forests in that future—does she envision the entire country as a desert? Ms. Rosenblum replies, “Well no, I don’t. So I took a look at the...