Stories

• Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole

• The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer

• The Bones, by Erica Ruppertabout

• The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks

• Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook

• Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass

• The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker

• “An Autumn Settling”, by Alistair Rey

• I Know How You’ll Die, by K.G. Anderson

• Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor

• Black Aggie, by Marina Favila

• The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche

• The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister

• The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian

• A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller

• The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter

• She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci

• Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer

• A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis

• Juliet’s Moon, by D.C. Lozar

• The Gargoyle’s Wife, by Jean Graham

• The Melting Man, by Justin Boote

• Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy

• The Proposal, by J.D. Brink

• Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman

• Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards

• There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg

• Them, by Sharon Cullars

• For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp

Poetry

• Beltane, by K.A. Opperman

• Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier

• The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses

• Our Family Ghost, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

• Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst

Thirty years ago, Brianna Jackson’s father and his criminal friends stood against three monstrous gods rampaging across the globe. They won the battle, but not the war. Six months ago, Dave Anderson lost his heart and soul in his own fight to vanquish those gods. Now, Dave is a broken man with nothing left to live for.

Except vengeance.

The world is rebuilding after decades of suffering, but Brianna and Dave know the nightmare is not over yet. Because something much worse than the gods has found a way through from the shrieking horror of its reality into ours. The Nameless is coming to finally end what its children began.

Criss-crossing a country descending into anarchy, hunted by government forces and monsters born in hell, Brianna and Dave are on a life or death hunt for the one person who knows how to destroy the Nameless; a man lost to madness and grief. In the bullets and the blood, supported by a handful of ruthless gangsters, Brianna and Dave must make their final stand even as the lights of the universe begin to go out.

Then take their vengeance into the howling heart of evil.

Ten years after nuclear war devastates Britain, Lazarus and his adoptive siblings are flesh and blood to each other; to their victims, they are ruthless killers who should exist only in nightmares. Now their next target, a group of men seemingly made soft by a decade of hiding in underground bunkers, welcome the upcoming attack because they are far from weak. Armed and prepared, they are ready for Lazarus and his family.

After the ensuing violence, lost and alone, Lazarus is desperate to make it through the irradiated wasteland to his clan before their captors reach a new government forming in Dover. Armed only with his axe, Lazarus will stop at nothing to kill the men who would dare threaten his kin.

But, unknown to either side, a terrible secret waits far below Dover Castle, lost for decades in the silent labyrinth of wartime tunnels.

A secret infinitely more dangerous than any killer