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In "Corporate Climbing", the author captures identifiable snapshots of life within a dysfunctional workplace filled with many toxic "isms": racism, elitism, sexism, classism, etc. Hughes introduces a supernatural defining event and then proceeds to blend the macabre with the modern. As a horror-thriller, the story pays homage to the horror genre as well as providing its own nuances, which the author trusts readers will enjoy, remember, and appreciate...
82) The Annoying
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This story unfolds in three parts:
PART ONE: ORIGIN OF HOW THE ANNOYING BECAME A SUPERVILLAIN
PART TWO: INTENSE SUSPENSE AND CONFLICT
PART THREE: SATISFYING ENDING
83) The Withered Boy
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Dabugo should have died the day he was born, left on the beach to be taken by the waves. Instead he miraculously survived, and his village decided his life must serve some greater purpose, and raised him out of obligation instead of love. As soon as they decided he was grown enough, he was cast out to survive on his own. With only a fugitive as a companion, Dabugo must face the harsh elements of his island, learn how to harness the power growing inside...
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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints: "Rare Bindings" by Matthew Cheney"Burial" by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)"Marshman" by Sara Omer"Breathe, Blow, Burn" by Ai Jiang (reprint)
85) Brayan's Gold
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"I should have known if there were snow demons out there, you'd find one."
Arlen Bales is an apprentice Messenger, hired to transport a dangerous shipment of thundersticks to a distant mining town. Abandoned by his partner, Arlen must travel alone, braving demon-infested nights and mountain passes full of bandits, all along hunted by the one-armed rock demon he crippled as a child, still thirsting for revenge.
When he reaches the isolated village,...
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NIGHTMARE is a digital horror and dark fantasy magazine. In NIGHTMARE's pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. Welcome to issue #138 of NIGHTMARE! We have original short fiction from Keith Rosson ("Second Deaths") and Fatima Taqvi ("Our Very Best Selves!"). Our Horror Lab originals include a flash story ("A Guide to Camping in the Forest") from Oyedotun Damilola...
87) Through All Time
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What's one lifetime, when he's been fighting to save her since the beginning of time? They imprisoned his soul. She was the promise he needed to be set free. He loved her through the time that separated them. Every new incarnation of her life brings her back to him, until her life is taken again in hopes of trapping him in an eternity of suffering. If it takes his very last breath, Gabriel will fight to keep her safe, keep her free, keep her alive....
88) Shades of Night
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The Monster Defense Agency demands loyalty, and once you become an agent, the only way out is in a body bag. When Sarah Stone and Robby Young train together at the agency's academy, sparks fly. And when they are paired as partners, they must muzzle their attraction, or they will face a firing squad. All their pent-up frustration sharpens them into finely tuned monster hunters. Their ability to neutralize entire nests of vampires becomes the stuff...
89) Empire: Capital
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Like Game of Thrones meets Lovecraft! Winning the demon war was the easy part. Rebuilding the Empire is a nightmare. Tia traveled to the imperial capital two years after the war to testify at the trial of a traitor tied to eldritch abominations. She remained to court the rowdy knightly heroes roaming the palace halls, hoping to snag a highborn husband. But now she is plagued with strange visions even as she is engulfed in palace intrigues. Worse,...
90) Ashen Heart
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?" Torenia Luca's unparalleled beauty is the cause of her family's hatred for her. She's ignored by her father, cast aside by her mother, and despised by her sister, Aster. The increasing rivalry between herself and Aster pushes Torenia into the Craft before she is driven out of Silvania for witchcraft. Ten years later, she finds herself on the other side of the Mørke Forest in Osleka, a region...
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We've set up Hex Arcana Publishing in tribute to the spirit of 1970s and 80s genre books that combined chilling tales with gorgeous illustrated artwork. The Book of Beastly Creatures is our first book, a hefty, volume of 18 horror stories, with full-colour illustrations, and an appendix which features RPG rules for our monsters, using the Open Game License. Each terrifying story stars a different monster, spectre, or demonic entity, with inspiration...
92) Days of Darkness
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Ambrose awakens to find dense, rolling layers of ash-gray clouds spanning to the far horizon, shrouding the city beneath in a drab pall. He begins his day, thinking it no different from any other. Though it is in the height of summer, an icy, anomalous chill sifts into the air later that day, until it becomes colder than the depths of winter.Then, the sun sets, and darkness falls. The night does not end, as there is no sunrise to follow. Bizarre and...
93) Gracemarch
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GRACEMARCHWritten by JJ Barneswith Jonathan McKinneyand Cliff Thomas Jane Waters lives a mundane life, working as a waitress, and with a boyfriend who doesn't seem to care. Her sister, Cassie Waters, is a glamorous horror writer, traveling the world, and far too busy to listen to Jane's woes. The two sisters live very different lives, disconnected from one another, and unaware of a family secret that's about to come to light. When their mother dies...
94) Vagabonds of Gor
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Cabot and his friend Marcus, of Ar's Station, who have been spying for Ar in the Cosian encampments, now seek the long-inert forces of Ar to report acquired intelligence to their commander, Saphronicus, who proves to be of the treasonous party of Ar. Cabot and Marcus are placed under arrest, as spies. Primary forces of Ar, largely inactive in recent months, are now to pursue Cosian forces withdrawing from Ar's Station, through the vast Vosk delta...
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Khan has created a rich, well-crafted world that will appeal to readers of S.A. Chakraborty's The City of Brass (2017) or Erika Johansen's The Queen of the Tearling -- Booklist
The second novel in Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful epic fantasy quartet, a series that lies "somewhere between N. K. Jemisin and George R. R. Martin" (Saladin Ahmed), in which a powerful band of women must use their magic to defeat an oppressive dark regime.
To fight against...
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Award-winning artist Wayne Barlowe returns to his epic dark fantasy world with this sequel to God's Demon--The Heart of Hell--where rival demons war for control of the infernal domain.
Sargatanas has Ascended and the doomed, anguished souls have found themselves emancipated. Hell has changed…hasn't it? The demons, wardens of the souls, are free of their inmates…
And the damned, liberated from their terrible torments, twisted and bent but thankful...
97) Exit Ghost
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After her father is murdered and an attempt is made on her life, New Jersey heiress and witch Juliet Duncan is supposed to be concentrating on getting better and moving forward. Instead, Jules summons her father's ghost using her blood and tears and his old rotary phone to answer the question: who did it? He reveals it was Hector, her dad's best friend and her mom's new fiancé. Certain her life is still in danger, Jules flees the family estate to...
98) Renegades of Gor
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The maritime ubarate of Cos and her allies are mounting an attack on Ar on two fronts-from the South with a major invasion force and in the North with an expeditionary force besieging Ar's Station, Ar's base of power in the vast arable basin of Gor's mightiest river, the Vosk. Dietrich of Tarnburg, a mercenary, has seized Torcodino, with its stores of military supplies, to temporarily halt the march of Cos on Ar in order to buy Ar time to organize...
99) Tribesmen of Gor
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Tarl Cabot must prove his final loyalty to the harsh and caste-bound planet known as Counter Earth. "Surrender Gor," reads a message sent from the Others, a mysterious people from the worlds of steel. Either the proud rulers of Gor must submit or be destroyed. Now Tarl is leaving the decadent city of Port Kar to wander in the wilds of Gor, taking up the sword to defend his rulers and enemies, the Priest-Kings. For he knows that the fate of his home...
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"Mirage of the North Sea" is a story that unfolds in a fictional world surrounded by a strange and mysterious North Sea. The main character dreams of traveling to the North Sea and exploring its secrets. After a mysterious turn of events, they embark on a challenging journey in search of the secret of the North Sea and discover supernatural powers residing beneath its waves.
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