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This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.

Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly “Anonymous” official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Taylor predicts what could happen inside “Trump 2.0,” the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat.

American serial killer Edmund Kemper III stalked co-eds in California at the height of the era of peace and free love, dismembering his victims and tossing their body parts in remote areas around Santa Cruz. As pieces of young women began washing up on shore and turning up alongside rural highways, female residents - especially college students - were decidedly on edge. A lust killer who savored the act of decapitating his victims - and often used their severed heads for sexual pleasure - Kemper's story is particularly twisted among historical serial killers.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

In the very depths of the human soul there is a darkness. It is an entity which most of us may never get to know; for others, however, this darkness grows for years until it takes hold of them and permeates every inch of their body. This darkness is evil incarnate, and it is in the hearts and minds of some of the most dangerous and despicable human beings to have walked this same earth we live in today. In the following volumes, you shall discover the stories of six murderers so tainted by darkness that their horrific accounts still bring fear to men and women of our present day.

The Memory Palace is a collection of tiny, crystalline historical tales that come across like luminous short fiction, and, like Nate DiMeo’s acclaimed podcast of the same name, conjure lost moments and forgotten figures who are calling out across time to be remembered. For fifteen years, Nate DiMeo has turned to the past to make sense of the way we live today, finding beauty and meaning in history’s dustier corners, holding things up to the light and weaving facts, keen insight, wit, and poignant observation into unforgettable tales.

Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones delivers a story based on the 1979-1980 Atlanta child murders. Told from the perspective of three fifth-grade classmates, Leaving Atlanta is a vividly disturbing, but hopeful novel.

In Switzerland, analyst Lissa Edwards and billionaire Julio Torres can't resist each other. Overwhelming chemistry makes them wonder if something more is possible, so when Julio is called away on urgent business, he promises to contact Lissa. Saddened when she never hears from Julio again, Lissa does her best to move on - until she learns she's pregnant. With triplets. Reaching Julio is no longer optional, but despite repeated attempts, she's unable to contact him to tell him he's a father.

In his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers. For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

While Wisconsin is now perhaps best known for its die-hard love of both the Green Bay Packers and its cheese, deep beneath the surface of Wisconsin history simmers a cesspool of nightmares that began before the term serial killer had been coined. The horror started when Ed Gein tried desperately to bring back his dead mother by first exhuming bodies, then by killing in order to harvest female body parts that he himself would wear.

In the late ’60s, Ntozake Shange was a student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s literary journal, and finding her unique voice. By the time she left us in 2018, Shange had scorched blazing trails across countless pages and stages, redefining genre and form as we know them, each verse, dance, and song a love letter to Black women and girls, and the community at large.

When killing cousins David Alan Gore and Fred Waterfield realized as teens that they shared the same sick, twisted sex fantasies of raping helpless, bound women who were completely at their mercy, Florida's quiet Vero Beach would be never be the same. Some of the least remorseful of all American serial killers, the deadly duo stalked their victims, often hitchhikes they believed would never be missed, using Gore's auxiliary deputy badge as a ruse to lure them into their vehicle. After that, they were most likely to be driven to their deaths.

The dark truth behind the Johnstown Flood of 1889 - one of the greatest calamities our country has ever experienced - is revealed in a beautiful, harrowing story, told in luminous verse.

Fighting a plot to force him out of the company he built from the ground up, Harcourt almost cancels his interview with a young artist about a project...but her beauty sparks to life feelings he'd thought were gone forever. From the moment they meet, forces too strong to resist wrap Sabrina and Harcourt in a web of passion, cruelty, and deception. With a psychopath on their trail, the billionaire and his reluctant shaman must rely on their unexpected bond to survive, and she must access her mysterious gifts to uncover the truths haunting them both.

Among the annals of American serial killers, few were as complex and prolific as Joseph Paul Franklin. At a gangly 5'11, Franklin hardly looked imposing, but once he put a rifle in his hands and an interracial couple in his cross hairs, Joseph Paul Franklin was as deadly as any serial killer. In this true crime story, you will learn about how one man turned his hatred into a vocation of murder, which eventually left over 20 people dead across America.

Lacy lived her human life under the thumb of an abusive husband. She freed herself from that life and started a new one as a high school teacher. When a group of terrorists tried to take over the school and use it for their own evil purpose, Lacy could not stand by and watch her students being threatened. That was how her human life ended and her new life as an elite guard began. The new leader of Hell offered her a job she couldn't refuse, helping those who need her, keeping both Hell and Earth safe.

Macy had always been sensitive to the spirits of those who needed help to find peace, but this guy! He was driving her insane! It didn't help that he was gorgeous to a distraction. So what if he claimed that Angel Knight was his family? One does not just stroll up to the famous rock star's house and say "Hey, guess what?" But Antonio is very persistent, and Macy knows what she must do if she is going to get any peace at all.

Jake the Flame lived his life in sin. He pushed everyone who cared about him away with his selfishness and greed. A professional firefighter, he happened to be there when a bomb devastated a church, and he gave his life helping others escape. That was when he met Ash, the new leader of hell. Ash offered Jake a job he couldn't refuse as a member of the Elite Guard, a group of warrior angels charged with protecting Ash and the balance between heaven and hell. This could be Jake's only chance at redemption, and he took it.

Camp Baroota has fallen, and The Director has moved on, forming a replacement - Camp Cachibaché. He has a new psychotic camp director, a new security team, and an impenetrable remote location. The Director is back in business.

Detective Samuel Corbin had seen his share during his life as the human liaison with the local vampire clan. He had been with the Knight family through thick and thin, and he had fought by their sides on more than one occasion. They had become a part of his life. When a brain tumor threatened to take Samuel's life the Knight family gave him a new one. As the newest member of the Knight family, Samuel is taken by surprise when he loses his heart to the one woman he shouldn't have.