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Deathrealm: Spirits, a new horror anthology edited by Stephen Mark Rainey, picks up exactly where Deathrealm magazine left off over 25 years ago!20 all-new stories and poems by the most intense voices ever to weave their way into your waking world. From soft, dreadful whispers to high, chilling screams, these voices emerge from the darkness to lure and draw you back to their hellish home - The Land Where Horror Dwells.Deathrealm magazine was one of the most celebrated horror publications of the 20th Century, and now its creator brings you a new volume of fiction and verse for the 21st Century and beyond. Deathrealm: Spirits features 20 new ghostly stories (and poems) by some of the best to have ever written in the genre, including...Linda D. AddisonMeghan ArcuriLarry BlamireMaurice BroaddusHeather D. DaughrityTimothy G. HugueninBrian KeeneRonald KellyJoe R. LansdaleKasey LansdaleEric LaRoccaPatricia Lee MacomberElizabeth MassieBridgett NelsonErrick NunnallyJeff OliverJessica Amanda SalmonsonRichard ThomasTony TremblayDavid Niall Wilson

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.Wilted Pages features new stories by:Hussani AbdulrahimOctavia CadeAmber ChenBrian EvensonCyrus Amelia FisherJennifer FlissAna HurtadoGabino IglesiasR.J. JosephJo KaplanJohn LanganR.B. LembergPremee MohamedSuzan PalumboMarisca PichetteMichael A. ReedAyida ShonibarSimo SrinivasSteve Rasnic Tem

It's a summer of doublets and couplets, Capulets and corpses! Larkin may think she's switched from detecting to directing, but there are surprises in store as she and Ed find themselves spending four hot weeks camping with the cast.When Larkin Day gets hired as the Interim Artistic Director of the Summer Shakespeare Festival, she expects to spend her summer working with actors and designers as they put together an outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet.She doesn't expect to spend her summer solving yet another murder-but when the actor playing Romeo is poisoned, Larkin agrees to play detective one more time.Not because she thinks the show must go on.Not even because she wants to save her job.Larkin takes the case-bringing along her boyfriend Ed, her best friend Anni, and the mysterious Jay Malhotra-because she knows the poison wasn't meant for Romeo.Somebody is out to kill Juliet-and they don't care who else gets murdered along the way.

"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human." -Samit Basu, author of Turbulence¿ Finalist - Hugo Award for Best Novelette¿ Finalist - Nebula Award for Novelette - Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association¿ Finalist - Locus Award for NoveletteIf you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you?Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.

"Terrifying...You'll never again trust what's looking back at you."-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Quiet Part Loud¿"A clever look at an unsettling legend, with one of the best kills I've read in years." -Johnny Compton, author of The Spite HouseIf the remainder of your life was only as long as your ability to avoid your own reflection, how long would you last?An hour? A day? Perhaps a week?It's been said that at the core of every legend lies a seed of truth. For four American tourists vacationing in Greece, this is a lesson learned the hard way.When the group sets out to find a subterranean pool that's rumored to be the one by which the demi-god Narcissus once wasted away in self-obsession, what started as a fun excursion quickly escalates into a full-blown nightmare. After looking into the waters of the pool, they come to find their own reflections have become infected by an ancient evil. As they're picked off one-by-one by a malevolence that resides in the reflective world, those remaining race to find a way to bring the nightmare to an end before it takes them all.In the meantime, all they'll have to do is avoid their own reflections.

"Instantly immersive..." -Ai Jiang, Author of LinghunIf you could live your life over again, what would you ask to change? Something big? Something small? A single moment? Have you decided on your question? Zoe has.Tired of feeling alone and lost, Zoe seeks out an experimental virtual therapy experience from Alternative Reality Tech, which offers patients the opportunity to explore life's biggest "what if?" questions via virtual reality. During her first assessment, Zoe glimpses a past in which she would have met the love of her life years ago, if not for a split-second decision. Wanting to find out more about what could have been, she returns regularly to her alternative life, slowly falling in love with the man she should have met.And so begins a dangerous obsession...

"A smart, snarky series... Cozy mystery readers will adore Larkin Day." - BookLife, Editor's PickJoin Larkin, Ed, and Anni as they solve a social-media murder!Larkin Day is doing great. She's gainfully employed, she has a kinda-sorta boyfriend, and she let her best friend Anni convince her to sign up for group exercise classes at the Pratincola Fitness Complex. New year, new Larkin, right?She's also looking for a new case-even though Anni keeps telling Larkin that she has to figure out how to solve something else besides murder. Otherwise, a lot of people in Pratincola, Iowa will have to die before Larkin can turn her detective business into a full-time job.So Larkin decides to solve everything. Why are a group of college students trying to get Larkin's mother to resign as Dean? Who is the mysterious stranger who keeps hanging around Anni's apartment building? When is the right time to ask someone whether he's really your boyfriend?Then Bonnie Cooper, a fitness instructor and social-media influencer who just landed her first major sponsorship, asks Larkin for help."I've been murdered," Bonnie says-even though she is very much alive.