Love and loss are the two prevailing themes in this 93,000-word short storycollection, featuring nineteen of the author's tales five of which areoriginal to this collection: ""When Fat Men Love Thin Women,"" ""The Death Artist,""""The Uncertainty Principle,"" ""Monster,"" and ""The Love Clinic."" The rest of thestories appeared in such publications as On Spec, TransVersions,Prairie Fire, Northern Frights, Dark Planet,Descant, ChiZine, and the Tesseracts and Queer Fearanthology series.

Horror Story and Other Horror Stories

Literature & Fiction

Boyczuk, Robert

Literary

ChiZine Publications

The Tel Aviv Dossier

Through a city torn apart by a violence they cannotcomprehend, three disparate people a documentary film-maker, a yeshivastudent, and a psychotic fireman must try to survive, and try to findmeaning: even if it means being lost themselves. As Tel Aviv is consumed, astrange mountain rises at the heart of the city, and shows the outline of whatmay be another, alien world beyond. Can there be redemption there? Can thefevered rumours of a coming messiah be true? As the city loses contact with theoutside world and closes in on itself, as the fewsurviving children play and scavenge in the ruins, can innocence survive, and isit possible for hope to spring amid such chaos?

Tidhar, Lavie

Yaniv, Nir

Genre Fiction

What would you give to make good on the sins of yourpast? For merchant Barnabas McDoon, the answer is: everything. When emissariesfrom a world called Yount offer Barnabas a chance to redeem himself, he acceptstheir price to voyage to Yount with the key that only he can use tounlock the door to their prison. But bleak forces seek to stop him: Yount'sjailer, a once-human wizard who craves his own salvation, kidnaps Barnabas'snephew. A fallen angel a monstrous owl with eyes of fire willunleash Hell if Yount is freed. And, meanwhile,Barnabas's niece, Sally, and a mysterious pauper named Maggie seek withdream-songs to wake the sleeping goddess who may be the only hope for Yount andEarth alike.

The Choir Boats (Longing for Yount)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Rabuzzi, Daniel A.

Fantasy

Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behindthe house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper thananyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Thosesecrets emerge into light when Brian disappears in the forest, as his father didthree decades before. His father, however, came home with no memory of theevents in the depths of the forest. What has drawn Brian away? Will he emerge,shuddering and broken, as his father did, or will the forests close around him,as they have done so often before?

The World More Full of Weeping

Wiersema, Robert J.

Introducing twelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction, with illustrations by Rupert Bottenberg: Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god of the elephants. Monstrous chimeras roam through a devastated future Earth. A retired fisherman caught in the middle of a conflict between gods and superheroes. Teenagers struggle to survive a surreal ice age...

Objects of Worship

Claude Lalumière

Short Stories & Anthologies

A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be. Can it be love?

Monstrous Affections

Nickle, David

Centuries ago, St. George fought and killed a dragon―or so the legend goes. The truth is somewhat different. George failed in his mission, and the Dragon still walks the Earth, protected by an undead army, hiding in the shadows and slaughtering men, women, and children for its prey. Each of George's descendants through time has been tasked with killing the Dragon, and each has failed. Twenty-five-year-old Georgia Quincey is the last of the line―the last, best hope for defeating the Dragon once and for all. But Georgia is also an addict, driven to the warm embrace of the needle by the weight of her responsibility and the loss of everything and everyone she has ever loved. Tracking her nemesis to the small town of Buckshot, New Mexico for their final showdown, Georgia is about to discover the truth about the Dragon, a terrible secret that could put all life on Earth in peril.

Chasing the Dragon

Kaufmann, Nicholas

Chimerascope a story of many parts: A dinner conversationtakes three lifetimes to finish; a geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-oldpuzzle to save her crew; the hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between loveand revenge; a man is born each day into a new life only to die eachnight; a sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity; and a house as big asthe world. These are some of the stories you will encounter inChimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction fromaward-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen engaging stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you fromlove in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual realityto the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loseseverything.

Chimerascope

Smith, Douglas

Two years after the Civil War, Pinkerton agent Ed Morrow has gone undercoverwith one of the weird West's most dangerous outlaw gangs the troop ledby ""Reverend"" Asher Rook, ex-Confederate chaplain turned ""hexslinger,"" and hisnotorious lieutenant (and lover) Chess Pargeter. Morrow's task: get close enoughto map the extent of Rook's power, then bring that knowledge back to helpProfessor Joachim Asbury unlock the secrets of magic itself. Caught between apassle of dead gods and monsters, hexes galore, Rook's witchery, and theruthless calculations of his own masters, Morrow's only real hope of survivallies with the man without whom Rook cannot succeed: Chess Pargeter himself! ButMorrow and Chess will have to literally ride through Hell before the truth ofChess's fate comes clear the doom written for him, and the entire world,in A Book of Tongues.

A Book of Tongues Volume 1 of the Hexslinger Series

Files, Gemma

Katja, like everyone else stuck on the work island they call home, wants toget to the mainland by any means necessary. Shooting her boyfriend and stealinga chemical vial is one way to ensure her safe passage the only problemis, she's not the only one who wants it, and the freedom it will bring: There'sNikolai the joystick junkie; Aleksakhina, Katja's parole officer; Vladimir Kohl,the small-time chemical dealer, and his boss Szerynski; the rival chemical lordDracyev, and his lover, Ylena. And there's the Man In Red, ready and waiting forwhoever is (un)lucky enough to end up with the vial. Katja from the Punk Band is Jackie Brown meets the Sex Pistols a fast-paced industrial crime-thriller that weaves multiple storylinesand timeframes, from the author of Pretty Little Things to Fill Up TheVoid, Nothing Is Inflammable, and I-O.

Katja from the Punk Band (The Katja Series)

Logan, Simon

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