When Nolan’s pregnant wife develops a bizarre fascination with wasps—insects he’s both terrified by and severely allergic to—he’s unsure of how to handle it.
Marc wants Maman to be perfect, but the transfer is a delicate process.
The daughter of an Irish immigrant returns to her mother’s homeland to search for the grave of her grandmother, who disappeared during The Troubles, and to reconnect with her neglected roots. In the course of her mission, however, she attracts the interest of dangers both human and not, and learns that some roots are best left underground.
A bartender educates a patron on why he should never, ever tell a woman to “just smile.”
When Mary Queen of Scots made England Catholic, her supporters were eager to burn heretics–especially wealthy ones. But in burning three women–one of them heavily pregnant–the perpetrators made a terrible mistake. Based on a true story.
“Come outside, dearest mine.
Come taste the spring honey
drip-drip-dripping from every hive.” Read this dark poem by Avra Margariti.
A strange mansion. A young servant. A rich couple. And a house spirit watching everything unfold.
A cardboard box on the curbside. A magic marker missive: TAKE ME. Free books for someone to take. But what if these books shouldn’t be taken? What if they’re haunted?
We take shelter next to a low shelf of rock and watch the sun die a slow death on the horizon; an angry red eye drowned in a blaze of orange and yellow. Beneath it, the ocean is flat. A rippling, endless mirror, all of it one terrible display of beauty waiting to devour us like it did Hannah.
Paranoic Miles has a healthy fear of vampires, so he’s eager to get out of Italy ASAP, but when people around him start dropping dead, Miles begins to wonder if he’s the real monster.
A predatory young man chooses the wrong girl to follow home from the Halloween disco.
With the help of her therapist, Dr. Yaga works hard to manage her addiction, but some days are harder than others.
When businessman Chris Rowe spots the name ‘Jimmy Hepler’ in a newspaper, it exhumes dark and uncanny events from his childhood in 1986.
World leaders meet Mary Parraday’s miraculous children, who have been crafted through unique (and ethically questionable) genetic manipulation.
A poem about prison and how it changes guys like you.
She relinquished her control
Into my steady hands, the untamed part
Of her that had split open throats
And hearts through heaviest of armors.
Concerns are being raised over the new treaty between Russia and North Korea…
A common proverb is that time heals all wounds. That is true only for humans. For them, memories fade into dull generalizations. For us droids, memories are always reproducible with uncanny sharpness, and they stay with us for as long as we live: forever.
Alicia ventures from the safety of her subterranean bunker to attend a concert on the surface of a planet devastated by vicious, violent storms.
A young girl’s obsession with teeth escalates, until alien forces become involved.
Dorie’s memory of her deceased husband is being tainted by his Remembrance, a device that simulates his personality.
The narrator’s baby son refuses to come out from underneath the bed.
Marco always said skins are an information courier’s best weapon. Constantly changing, they allow us to stump the cameras and operate safely in plain sight. He said it would be enough.
He was wrong.
Thoughts are routed, filtered and processed to mold voices according to the Norm, making people obey “linguistic standards.”
An orphan discovers a mummified cyborg while hiding from scientists on his worldship and turns it into a cult saint.
Jane meets her boyfriend’s parents via “connection,” a direct mental link. What could go wrong? Happy Holidays from The Dread Machine.
Winter feeds on the body, first the ears, then the nose, fingers, toes.
What if we all just took a few minutes of every day to be grateful?
Around me is complete chaos. The soldiers open fire, bullets everywhere. They’re better armed, but we’re out of our fucking minds.
A team of police officers confront evil in the basement of a drug house and must feed it to keep the residents of the city safe.
The Wallpaper Man can help you. He can make it all go away…if you give him the pain.
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