Weird Fantasy

These are tales of the darkest fantasy. “These are the literary spawn – bastards though some may be – of the stories that one would have read in the pages of Weird Tales, that venerated pulp magazine of the early part of the twentieth century. That pulp rag that birthed the stories of Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, C. L. Moore, and many others. These stories have percolated in those pages as well as through the fiction of Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz Leiber and Michael Moorcock. They have been steeped in heroic fantasy fiction, sword and sorcery, and outright ...

Henry Ian Darling is a collector of oddities, those that bring him closer to an enigma, one he hopes will be a great thing. But maybe it isn't?

Sterling Page never thought that, some day, he'd be sailing across the ocean with a robot, a fairy, a hot-tempered teddy bear, and a sewer lizard. But when a strange creature breaks into his house and tells him his sister is still alive, Page embarks on an adventure to another world to find her. Unfortunately for Page, this is a world that rarely makes sense, a world where boats get stuck in clouds, storks deliver baby dragons, and leftover biscuits turn into flying monsters. Blending together The Odyssey and Alice in Wonderland, The Second Page is filled with both silly humor and dangerous...

The wild American West was a dream and hope for many, but for some it was a place to die. Lucky Tom Turner has finally run out of the good fortune that kept him alive for so long. Rescue the brilliant scientist, elude the New Confederacy, and escape the Prussians determined to torture him for secrets only he has - that's all his country asked of him.

DEEP IN THE MOJO & OTHER STORIES includes eight darkly fantastic tales, blending equal parts horror, sci-fi, noir, and humor along the way. Join Reggie as he finds the only thing tougher than getting out of the drug business is getting out of the voodoo business. Before long he's back to his old ways, and deep in the mojo... Spend some time in lockup with the inmate formerly known as Lucky Seven... Take a trip to the amusment park with a pair of cybernetically enhanced soldiers who don't expect to make it out alive... Hide in the shadows with Buzzard Crosby during his final day at San ...

Utah can be a weird place, but do you really know just how weird it can be? Find out with this collection of strange tales set in the Beehive State. We're not going to say they're true...but they're true.

The stories of Weird Fauna of the Multiverse explore what happens to love and work when pushed beyond the boundaries of human decency.

A man who terrifies women for fun, a would-be mystery writer stalking his unscrupulous editors, an old man fantasizing about shooting his neighbor, Brittany Spears revenging her kidnapping, a wannabe writer actually killing people to work out his plots, madness uniting painters and critics together in a bloodbath, a magical ring revealing a hidden killer, a vampire disguised as the syringe of an old junkie, young communists developing lucid dreaming as an antidote to the class struggle....

When a Londoner retreats to the Cornish Coast for a break, he encounters a veiled woman. Could it be the ghost of intrepid explorer Miss Alice Trellings, who disappeared whilst staying at the hotel?

Something must be done. Vlad Luxor continues to rule the Timeless Province with a cruel hand, and now he's screaming about Inners and Outers, Others and Us. Then when the meanest boy in school is turned into the stinkiest, weirdest creature ever, Henry, Jo, Apollo, and Pirate Girl are asked to do the impossible. Breaking this spell will force them to go on their most dangerous, frightening adventure yet - through the Wilds, the Forest of Knives, and a lodge in the woods belonging to the most terrible bully of all...Vlad Luxor himself.

"Bogi Vtorogo Mira" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, tret'ja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Vtoroj Mir - virtual'noe prostranstvo bez nerushimyh granic i strogih zakonov. Polnaja svoboda dejstvij v rasplyvchatyh ramkah igrovyh uslovnostej. Plati i naslazhdajsja, a ostal'noe ne tvoja zabota, za vsem prosledjat iskiny poslednego pokolenija. Oni nesposobny oshibat'sja, ih nel'zja podkupit', oni ni na shag ne mogut uklonit'sja ot glavnyh pravil Vtorogo Mira.

"Rab Zapertyh Zemel'" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, vtoraja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Telega istorii nashego mira predpochitaet dvigat'sja po pologoj spirali, i, zavershaja vitok, ty ochen' blizko podbiraesh'sja k ego nachalu. Istorija Vtorogo Mira, pohozhe, uprostila svoj put' do kol'ca, vyhoda iz kotorogo ne vidno. Vzjavshis' za posoh maga, ne zhdi, chto ego u tebja nikto ne otnimet.

"Samyj strannyj nub" - fantasticheskij roman Artema Kamenistogo, pervaja kniga iz cikla "Samyj strannyj nub". Pozabyty vse bylye dogovorennosti o nejtralitete i dazhe druzhbe. Vcherashnie sojuzniki smotrjat drug na druga volkami, i esli by tol'ko smotreli: zvenjat mechi, svistjat strely, gremjat raskaty magicheskogo groma. Vchera eshhe nikomu ne nuzhnyj, pochti ubytochnyj rudnik, stal arenoj ozhestochennyh srazhenij.

12-Year-Old Gwendolyn is a Dream-Shifter. She Becomes the Animals She Dreams About. When she wakes normally, she becomes human again. But just as she's leaping around as an elk, a fire alarm jars her awake. It's elk hunting season, and she doesn't know how to change back to a girl, or how to stay alive. But she still speaks English, and she still thinks like a girl. The thing she wants most is to attend journalism camp. The camp only admits humans. She goes to the magician for help. He gives her access to his magical library, and trains her to put on magic shows. He does have a book that ...

It takes a demon to hunt a demon... When a powerful demon crosses the Farfall Mountains, the task of tracking and slaying it falls to a man not expected to succeed: Jebediah Skayne, lothario, hustler, hunter of nightmares. Jeb follows the demon's "blood trail" to the fishing town of Portis, where it vanishes. All that remains are the demon's leftovers: corpses, half-dressed, killed in the throes of passion. Forced to rely on more mundane methods of investigation, Jeb uncovers a town rife with corruption, where a man will kill you for looking at a woman the wrong way. A town where his own ...

When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village. Being a born explorer, Bethany seeks the answers to a host of strange events and discovers a magical world in a very unexpected place. She finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own; but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?

Apocalypse stories, fairie changlings, deals with sexy demons, court intrigue, steamy consummations, and deadly merfolk appear in this book (along with sexy aliens, deadly aliens, and indifferent aliens). From bite size flash to full course short stories, enjoy these standalone science fiction and fantasy stories from Geneva Oleander's collection of musings. Bonus Content: Two excerpts from The Promised Queen, Book 1 of the Moons Over Avalon fantasy series.

Combinando a sensibilidade gótica do século XIX de Edgar Allan Poe com uma visão interna ousada, os contos de Lovecraft prenunciam um século psiquicamente conturbado. Situado em uma paisagem da Nova Inglaterra descrita de modo minucioso e historicamente fundamentada, suas histórias angustiantes exploram o colapso da sanidade sob o peso dos eventos caóticos. O universo de Lovecraft é um mundo de sombras onde a realidade e o pesadelo se entrelaçam e a redenção ninguém sabe de onde vem.

A band of adventurers flee from Sloe, the fabled Blue City of the south. At first, they are lowly outlaws wanted for stealing a glamorous princess. Now, their fate is a perilous plod through the Brauvn forest to come to the gates of Farling’s Wall and the realm of the Wickles. Be wary! not scary, and don’t tarry by the gloom of Farling’s Wall... —Old limerick Don't miss this weird adventure in the spirit of Fritz Leiber and Jack Vance... Contains bonus content. Other books in this series Sea Outlaw Rogues of Bindar

A young girl reconnects with her Korean grandmother; an artist considers her connection to the Korean folktale of the green frog; a praying mantis living in a beautiful home overlooking the park finds the New York dating scene leaves her hungering for more; a fox demon seeks revenge for her murdered sister, only for her loyalties to be torn; AI brings a grieving mother’s daughter back to life; at a spa in the mountains, a recently divorced woman has a ghostly encounter; and a recipe book instructs the reader on ‘how to eat your own heart’.