There are four aspects of the eternal spark: the numinous, the esoteric, the supernatural, and the weird. These are the ways that hope manifests. These are the ways we keep ourselves engaged. These are the ways by which we learn how to fight monsters. We stand with cup, shield, sword, and stick. This is the iconography of Arcana. These are the four quarters of the whole. These are the ways we heal, harbor, howl, and hum.\nThis, then, is the first deck of the Arcana: thirty-eight stories that celebrate these aspects. With contributions from Forrest Aguirre, Michael Barsa, Nathan Batchelor, Breanna Bright, Elou Carroll, Brandon Crilly, Sarah Day, Jetse de Vries, Eric Del Carlo, Louis Evans, Tori Fredrick, H. L. Fullerton, Manfred Gabriel, Vera Hadzic, Catherine Hansen, Christopher Hawkins, David Hewitt, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, A. P. Howell, Selah Janel, Nikoline Kaiser. Jessie Kwak, Jon Lasser, J. A. W. McCarthy, Jon McGoran, Linda McMullen, Tristan Morris, Christi Nogle, Stephen O’Donnell, Jennifer Quail, W. T. Paterson, Lexi Peréz, Jonathan Raab, Josh Rountree, Rebecca Ruvinsky, Lorraine Schein, and Ro Smith.

Underland Arcana Deck One (Underland Arcana Decks)

Literature & Fiction

Kwak, Jessie

Teppo, Mark

Aguirre, Forrest

Nogle, Christi

Barsa, Michael

Crilly, Brandon

Howell, A. P.

Day, Sarah

Hoffman, Nina Kirki

Genre Fiction

Underland Press

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister. Readers of “quiet horror” or “slow-burn horror” will enjoy this collection.\n"Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart. Don't miss this book; it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023."- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals\nThe Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle’s finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often terrifying futures. The pieces range in genre from psychological horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice, a focus on characters’ psychologies and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life. Stories here may recall Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Shirley Jackson’s “The Renegade,” or Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals.”

United States

Flame Tree Press

DARK MATTER MAGAZINE'S THIRTY DARKEST STORIES FROM THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF PUBLICATION (2021-2022) Every story published in Dark Matter Magazine is a best-of story to our staff, and that's why we had to do something different when choosing stories for the magazine's first-ever trade paperback anthology. Enter Zero Dark Thirty, a curated collection of the thirty darkest stories to haunt our magazine's pages during the first two years of publication (2021-2022). These are the most depressing and deranged tales the magazine has to offer. Enter if you must, but beware.

Zero Dark Thirty: The 30 Darkest Stories from Dark Matter Magazine, 2021-'22 (Dark Matter Presents)

Dudak, Andy

Piper, Hailey

Carroll, Rob

Ha, Thomas

Meza, R L

Dark Matter Ink

Wilted Pages is a new Dark Academia anthology filled with gloomy buildings, hidden histories, secret societies, lurking shadows, futuristic boarding schools, corrupt systems, gothic aesthetics, occult learning and forbidden texts... And that's only your first semester.\nWilted Pages features new stories by: Hussani Abdulrahim Octavia Cade Amber Chen Brian Evenson Cyrus Amelia Fisher Jennifer Fliss Ana Hurtado Gabino Iglesias R.J. Joseph Jo Kaplan John Langan R.B. Lemberg Premee Mohamed Suzan Palumbo Marisca Pichette Michael A. Reed Ayida Shonibar Simo Srinivas Steve Rasnic Tem

Wilted Pages: An Anthology of Dark Academia

Jiang, Ai

Shortwave Media

Haunted are These Houses explores the gothic sub-genre through poetry and fiction: from castle and lighthouses to suburbia to laundromats. It features 22 poems and 12 short stories sure to rattle bones and send shadows dancing about the walls.

Haunted are These Houses

Files, Gemma

Boston, Bruce

Sng, Christina

Tantlinger, Sara

Neugebauer, Annie

Cavendish, Catherine

McIlveen, John

Busboom, David

Edwards, S.L.

Unnerving

Speculative North Magazine Issue 3: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (Speculative North Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Lewis, Eric

Brown, Warren

Shultz, David F.

Koukol, Brian

Dibble, Andy

Dandenell, Karl

Calo, Kai

Kremberg, Rudy

Tentchoff, Marcie Lynn

Fantasy

TDotSpec

Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology

Taylor, Sonora

Bell, Nico

Sonora Taylor

Underland Arcana 4: Fall 2021

De Vries, Jetse

Hansen, Catherine

Schein, Lorraine

Hadzic, Vera

Independently published

Beulah

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