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A collection of gothic romance short stories by emerging writers from around the world
Edited by Sersa Victory
Illustrated by Kayla Cline
Immerse yourself in dark, haunting, and romantic short stories celebrating the beloved, enduring genre of gothic romance. Written in the style of mid-century pulp fiction, these stories embrace the genre’s familiar tropes and... [click here for more] |
Storytelling Collective |
$8.99 $6.99
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A collection of flash fiction by emerging writers from around the world
Once a year, writers from around the world participate in a month-long creative challenge called “Flash Fiction February.” The goal is to write a piece of “flash fiction” (short stories under 1,500 words) every day throughout the month of February. Writers are provided simple prompts to... [click here for more] |
Storytelling Collective |
$11.99
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COLLECTED HERE ARE KLEIN’S RARE AND OBSCURE SHORT STORIES, HARD TO FIND EVEN FOR DEDICATED FANS.
Creatures sinister but unseen. Madmen who may not be so mad. Realities that twist into astonishing patterns. Insidious new technologies beyond our understanding or control. Welcome to the existential weird fiction of master storyteller T.E.D. KLEIN, the acclaimed editor of Twilight Zone... [click here for more] |
Stasheff Literary Enterprises |
$5.99
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For over a decade, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has been a showcase for both new and established authors to share their speculative works. The short stories presented in each issue serve as a delightful sampler of the speculative genres. Whether your preference is sword and sorcery, time-travel, space exploration, gothic horror, urban fantasy, or any of the speculative genres, you are sure to find... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$4.99 $0.99
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A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field.
INTRODUCTION, by Darrell Schweitzer
NOTES ON AN ENTITY, by Robert Bloch
A LITERARY COPERNICUS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr.
THE FOUR FACES OF THE OUTSIDER, by Dirk W. Mosig
THE FIRST LEWIS THEOBALD, by R. Boerem
STORY-WRITING: A Letter from H. P. Lovecraft
CHARACTER GULLIBILITY IN... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$4.99
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Hello travellers and welcome to the debut issue of Fanatical.
So what exactly is this little curio? Well Fanatical is a collection of short stories—fantasy, sci-fi and horror—inspired by the tabletop games we play and the worlds that they leave in our heads.
We have stories of noirish horror and fantasy fun, of thrilling adventure and eerie curiosity. Within... [click here for more] |
Fanatical Magazine |
$3.94
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WELCOME TO THE BIG SHOW!
Once a year, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world descend upon Indianapolis for Gen Con — the Best Four Days in Gaming — to play games, see friends, and have fun. They play things like Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Warhammer 40,000, Settlers of Catan, Munchkin, and everything else they can get their hands on. Mostly... [click here for more] |
Full Moon Enterprises |
$4.99
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Written by Monica Valentinelli, into shadow: a poetic exploration of personal fears is the author's debut collection of twenty-one poems. The collection's theme is broken into three books inspired by parts of the shadow: the umbra, penumbra, and antumbra. In book one: umbra, twenty-one original poems expose the author’s shadow. Notes and references for each poem follows in book... [click here for more] |
Books of M |
$2.99
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For over a decade, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has been a showcase for both new and established authors to share their speculative works. The short stories presented in each issue serve as a delightful sampler of the speculative genres. Whether your preference is sword and sorcery, time-travel, space exploration, gothic horror, urban fantasy, or any of the speculative genres, you are sure... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$4.99 $0.99
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The author writes:
This book began as an expansion of my essay, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West," in The Weird Tale, but very quickly became something quite different, to the degree that the two works have little save the title in common. I have always been interested in Lovecraft the philosopher, and in my Starmont Reader's Guide to Lovecraft (1982) I attempted a very compressed... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$4.99
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Surrounded by a strange red mist, Axiom-man finds himself in a world not his own.
Not again.
There is something different about this world, something familiar. Something that feels like . . . home. But this place of red mist and darkness belongs to another crusader, this one in a dark red trench coat, a blood-red cloak, and a fedora casting shadows on a face with goggles and a strange mask.
With... [click here for more] |
Coscom Entertainment |
$2.99
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For over a decade, the Bards and Sages Quarterly has been a showcase for both new and established authors to share their speculative works. The short stories presented in each issue serve as a delightful sampler of the speculative genres. Whether your preference is sword and sorcery, time-travel, space exploration, gothic horror, urban fantasy, or any of the speculative genres, you are sure... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$4.99 $0.99
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Haunted houses. Vengeful spirits. Wronged women. A glimpse of a grim future and a visit to a terrifying past. Step inside for a taste of nightmare, a bit of the unexpected and a touch of the weird. 12 stories by award-winning author Catherine Lundoff. ... [click here for more] |
Queen of Swords Press |
$1.99
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In which a beloved missionary encounters heathens, werewolves, murderous faeries, and people who generally dislike him, and he tries to tell everybody about god, only the person whom Myndil thinks is god is not real.
“Life happened to most people, but Myndil Plodostirr happened to everybody else.”
When the abbot of the newly made Rogha an dá Dhíogha abbey meets Myndil Plodostirr,... [click here for more] |
Pendelhaven |
$14.98
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Source criticism--analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers' appreciation.
This set of new essays by leading Tolkien scholars describes the theory and methodology... [click here for more] |
McFarland |
$15.99
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2021 Sir Julius Vogel Award Winner for Best Collection
Dapper. Lesbian. Capybara. Pirate.
Cinrak the Dapper is a keeper of secrets, a righter of wrongs, the saltiest capybara on the sea and a rider of both falling stars and a great glass whale. Join her, her beloveds, the rat Queen Orvilia and the marmot diva Loquolchi, lead soprano of the Theatre Rat-oyal, her loyal cabin kit, Benj the chinchilla,... [click here for more] |
Queen of Swords Press |
$2.99
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“Dark Inheritance: Journey to Kos City,” an exciting swords-and-sorcery fantasy novella by author Chris Van Deelen, follows Half-Drow Jaeger, Orc-blood Jarem, and Tiefling Viya as they are dispatched on a mission for the Five Animals Monastery that is their home. And, while they are prepared for hazards like bandits and wild beasts, the unfamiliar environment of cities and those that inhabit them... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$4.99 $3.74
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Australia has a long tradition of weird fiction, stretching back to colonial times. The stories in this anthology showcase the richness and variety of Australia horror and supernatural stories in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the authors included are: Mary Fortune, Lionel Sparrow, Marcus Clarke, Guy Boothby, B. L. Farjeon, J. E. P. Muddock, Ernest Favenc, Hume Nisbet, Rosa ("Mrs.... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$2.99
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The Society of Misfit Stories Presents this eclectic collection of novelettes and novellas from some of the most unique voices in the speculative genres. This diverse anthology offers readers an enticing assortment of high fantasy, alien adventure, paranormal investigations, haunts both real and imagined, and more.
CONTENTS
By Force and Against the King’s Peace... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$5.99 $0.99
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First launched in January 2009, The Bards and Sages Quarterly is a celebration of short speculative fiction. Each issue brings readers a vibrant collection of speculative works from both new and established writers. Our goal remains the same today as when we began: to create a showcase in which to introduce readers to amazing voices they might have otherwise missed.
In this issue: Stories by Ibba... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$0.99
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Coventry is a typical university town in West Texas. Football is king, local festivals abound, and secrets run deeper than the roots of the Blood Pecan. Buck and Jabez are outsiders who couldn't get into any other school and were thrown together by the housing office. Can their new friendship survive the hazards of a town where breaking trust, going beyond the Narrow Way, is deadly dangerous? Ghouls,... [click here for more] |
Jay Pustějovskeý Bennett |
$9.99
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Listed as one of Jessica Lucci's "Top 10 Best of 2019"!
Some dolls just can't be saved.
Two short and twisted tales entwine with a body of dark poetry in the latest book from Ashley Grant.
In "Poor Dolly", a cherished toy watches from the shelf as a looming shadow... [click here for more] |
Dark Gatekeeper Gaming |
$4.99
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Wildside Press |
$6.99
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"The invitation was a trap..."
In this stand-alone character-driven fantasy thriller debuting a brand-new, original world, desperate people vie to find a kidnapped prince before magical and political pressures threaten the stability of the entire continent and millions of lives.
For menial palace servants Sot and Lama, the infant prince represents a means to finally escape... [click here for more] |
MWS Media |
$4.99
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BY NO MEANS VULGAR is a collection of short stories inspired by The Play's The Thing, a Shakespearean roleplaying game.
Within these pages is a world of newly crafted Shakespearean delight: remixed, reimagined, and reinvented by a collection of amazing authors. From "true crime" tales of acting to behind-the-scenes glimpses of our favorite characters, these stories explore the... [click here for more] |
Magpie Games |
$2.99
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“All aboard for the Moon!”
This good-natured early science fiction story describes a near future where humanity coexists with people from other worlds and postulates regular flights between the Earth and the Moon and technological advances like breathing devices that use solid pellets of compressed oxygen. It is a fun and thought-provoking read that will resonate with fans of Victorian-era stories,... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$0.99
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“Do you think they’d give me a couple clams now?” Dab asked plaintively. “I don’t think I can wait. I’m going to ask the guard. Watch my pack.”
The white Duck person waddled toward the dripping cart, her gaze fixed on the big mound of clams that poked up above the tall side walls. She barely noticed as a Rarebit, ears poking through a floppy red hat, threw a swollen bladder... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$2.99
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Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the "Three Musketeers" of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories.
His... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$4.99
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Now in our 12th year, The Bards and Sages Quarterly has provided fans of speculative fiction with a unique mix of tales from both new and established authors. With each issue, we strive to introduce readers to exciting and entertaining voices in the horror, science fiction, and fantasy genres.
Siblings procure a new drug designed to eradicate Alzheimer’s in patients with a family history... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
Pay What You Want
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A large collection of stories by and co-written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. These stories are the staging point for the style of horror written by the large collection of horror writers who are writing today. The stories in this collection are dark and brooding and can easily drain the sanity of any reader that dares look into this tome! ... [click here for more] |
Solace Games |
$0.99
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Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. In this issue: Theodore Singer, Christian Riley, Christine Grant, Franco Aversa, Nicole Tanquary, Jay Lowrey, J. S. Dewey.
Stories in this issue include:
The successor to King Arthur becomes embroiled... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$0.99
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What can a secret mermaid, Belgian beguines, Jane Eyre and a modern East Anglian vicar have in common?
Stories within stories within stories
about the boundary between friendship and sexuality,
the power of cinema,
and a secret that risks everything in this world and the next
Maybe I’d like you to be a little shocked...!
Category: Adult fiction
THERE IS A MINI SAMPLE AVAILABLE ALSO FROM... [click here for more] |
Rushbrook Books |
$16.24 $10.52
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Ath Cliath, City of Gold—city of slaves—is the wealthiest city in all the world. One of the few bright spots in a darkening world, as Fimbulwinter deepens. Its brightness built by the man who conquered it: Sitric Cuaran, the One-Eyed King. Masterful is he, a wise and capable tyrant. Such men make enemies even when they are not conquerors, or ruthless—and the One-Eyed King is both of those things.... [click here for more] |
Pendelhaven |
$17.98
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Places Far From Home is a book of poetry of little-known poet and author Steve Thompson.
Every poem within is like a place far from home - a place you may know, or perhaps not.
I hope you find your place, and make it home.
... [click here for more] |
Laidback DM |
$20.00 $7.50
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A REAL GAME-CHANGER
Liam Parker has come a long way in the past two years, from gaming-industry noob to the new head of security for Gen Con, the largest tabletop gaming convention in America. He just got married, and his first game is up for the Diana Jones Award. The last bit of dirty work he needs to do to put the past behind him is help lock his old nemesis Tollak Spielmacher... [click here for more] |
Full Moon Enterprises |
$2.99
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When hope turns to ash, do you submit or endure?
Shackled by Haakin’s compulsion, Tori hunts her prey. But Alexander Durand plays a frustrating game, baiting with trinkets that blight her pursuit.
If Alexander is to survive, he must stay ahead of Victoria long enough to unhook her from Haakin’s control. Witches, vampires, and wolves scramble to assist, but time is running out, and with... [click here for more] |
Julie Embleton |
$3.50
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Every issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring readers and entertaining and eclectic collection of speculative fiction tales by both new and established authors in the genres. In this issue: stories by Rick Danforth, Lisa Fox, Brad Goldberg, Michelle Ann King, Shi-Li Kow, Michelle Muenzler, and Lisa Voorhees. ... [click here for more] |
Bards and Sages |
$2.99 $0.99
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You are about to witness a revelation
There is an inquisition that the world has never known
on the most famous sea disaster in living memory.
Its location and contents have remained clandestine.
Until now.
The case is not about not scrutinising the White Star Line.
Instead, friends, lovers, even God, are called to the dock
It is a microcosmic view, an entirely personal claim,
one young woman’s... [click here for more] |
Rushbrook Books |
$13.11 $10.60
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When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, it sparked an arms race between the Union and the Confederacy, some of the most dramatic episodes of which involved the development of heavily armed and armored ironclad warships. Two of the first and most famous of such vessels were the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, which engaged in a brutal hull-to-hull battle off the coast of Virginia... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$1.99
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Welcome Back, Gamers!
Every August, the greatest tabletop gamers in the world converge on Indianapolis to gather for Gen Con, the largest such gaming convention in America. After a momentous first year in which he solved the murder of a world-famous game designer, Liam Parker is back to debut his first game design ever. Unfortunately, Tollak Spielmacher, the mastermind he failed to put behind bars,... [click here for more] |
Full Moon Enterprises |
$4.99
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Six kids against a cruel world... And desperate for something more...
They each ran away from home environments more dangerous than the cold, damp streets of San Francisco. Linzie is eleven. Kyle is nine, and Darryl is eight. Together, they watch over six-year old Caz, five-year old Ernie, and another little boy who has never spoken a word. Homeless, they protect and provide for each other on the... [click here for more] |
LunaText Publications |
FREE
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A hundred years ago, the Great Cataclysm caused the lighthouse of Amphitritos to fall into the sea and, with it, the crystal trident that for long years had guided mariners safely through the islands of the Dodecanese. Now, three adventurers, pious rogue Neeko, Aigyptian warrior Kari, and Gnome artificer Zopee, have sought out the ancient site in a quest to retrieve the holy relic and restore it to... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$2.99
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James Arthur Anderson takes a structuralist approach to dissecting the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937. This book offers both scholars and fans alike new insight into the work of the best-known American horror writer of the first half of the 20th century. As S. T. Joshi states: "Anderson's thorough familiarity with Lovecraft's texts (essays and letters, as well as stories), and with the... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$4.99
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The Saki Megapack assembles no less than 140 works by H.H. Munro, who also wrote under the name "Saki." Munro influenced such later talents as P.G. Wodehouse. Included in this volume are both of Munro's novels, THE UNBEARABLE BASINGTON and WHEN WILLIAM CAME, plus the short story collections THE CHRONICLES OF CLOVIS, THE TOYS OF PEACE, REGINALD, REGINALD IN RUSSIA, and BEASTS AND SUPERBEASTS. In addition,... [click here for more] |
Wildside Press |
$0.99
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T.I.T.A.N. 2100 is a Future Fiction story exploring the near-future of Earth and Humanity; detailing the potential course our history may take over the next century while utilizing a wealth of real world information and projections to create a glimpse of the future. Contained within is detailed information about the timeline, geography, people of the 22nd century, factions and the technology used... [click here for more] |
Sector 13 Studios |
$9.99
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“The Misadventures of Bjoric” is the tale of two down-on-their-luck Germanic war orphans who emigrated to the Aegean as children. Bjoric and his brother Frantz have only ever wanted to make a simple life for themselves on the island of Kos, but fate always seemed to work against them. Now, after a failed attempt at living the life of an adventurer, Bjoric finds himself in jail with no options,... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$1.99
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A collection of short stories that all seem to have different topics and characters but that seem to revolve around one concept, a mysterious play, The King in Yellow. Like the Cthulhu Mythos, that Chambers is considered to be part of, the stories herein are all connected by a central motif, not only of the play itself but on the human condition and in the inevitable coming of dark powers from beyond.... [click here for more] |
Solace Games |
$1.99
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Famous as the author of such great works of literature as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson was also a dedicated war gamer. Stevenson at Play, one of the lesser-known works of this “Grandfather of Modern Wargaming,” describes a complex strategic wargame that the author and his stepson, Samuel Lloyd Osbourne,... [click here for more] |
Skirmisher Publishing |
$2.99
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Horror stories by D.G. Valdron, author of ‘The Mermaid's Tale,’ ‘Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs’ and ‘There Are No Doors in Dark Places.’ ‘The Squad,’ about the army enlisting the men in the masks, horror movie slashers as unstoppable, uncontrollable soldiers; ‘Piggyback’ about the ultimate serial killer; ‘The First Men,’ a Lovecraftian tribute; ‘Silence’ about a thief... [click here for more] |
Fossil Cove Publishing |
$2.99
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Nine scary stories of Melancholy Horror. Fossils: A poet follows a giant monster through the streets of abandoned Tokyo. Flirtin' Out Back With the Sasquatch Kid: A teenage girl encounters the last bigfoot. Skin: A necromancer's attack shows a woman discovers that her life is only skin deep. Love, Live and the Necronomicon: The true history of the mad Arab and his era is revealed,... [click here for more] |
Fossil Cove Publishing |
$2.99
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