Mythic Delirium is proud to announce the acquisition of two new collections, Snow White Learns Witchcraft by Theodora Goss and The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff, both scheduled for release in 2019. In Snow White Learns Witchcraft, World Fantasy Award winner Theodora Goss retells and and recasts fairy tales by Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimms, Hans Christian Andersen, and Oscar Wilde. In these stories and poems, sometimes harrowing, sometimes hilarious, always lyrical, Goss re-centers and empowers the women

Launch day for Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace is just a month away now, and because I’ve been occupied with behind-the-scenes preparation, I’ve not blogged here about on-the-stage things have happened this past month. Such as: Latchkey got a starred review from Kirkus Reviews! Near-future science-fiction crimes bleed into dystopian horror centuries later in a wildly imaginative genre-hybrid sequel to Archivist Wasp (2015) . . . Less mythic in tone and more conventional in structure than the first, this title nonetheless

The official release date for Latchkey is just two months away, and the first review of the book is in, from Locus Magazine reviewer Liz Bourke, published in the May issue. It’s a lengthy, detailed review, with a lot to say, all of it positive. An excerpt: “Latchkey’s prose is elegantly self-effacing: smooth, easy to read, and full of adroit turns of phrase. Kornher-Stace has a gift for creating atmosphere, from the familial closeness of Isabel’s small community of former

The final phase of setting up pre-orders for Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novel Latchkey is just about complete. It’s possible to place an order for the novel on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle editions. (Eventually those links will lead to the same page.) Everything is on track for the big July 10 release. For those looking for a preview, you can read the first two chapters of Latchkey here. And, if you’re a reviewer or just a reader with a NetGalley

At least through the end of April, the novel we’re bringing out this summer, Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace, will be available on NetGalley for curious readers and reviewers. If you’re a member of NetGalley, you can follow this link to put in a request for copies of the advance review ebook edition. Latchkey is the follow-up to Kornher-Stace’s acclaimed debut YA novel Archivist Wasp (Big Mouth House, 2015). We’re pleased that we get to share this sequel. We’ll have copies

Twenty years: that’s cause for celebration. Amazing as it is to herald two decades of this magazine, that’s not the only number we’re toasting. This issue is the 20th since Mythic Delirium became a web and ebook publication. Not to mention, the print version of Mythic Delirium encompassed 30 issues total, so that makes this issue the 50th overall. The very first issue of Mythic Delirium appeared in spring 1998, printed in a teeny apartment on a cheap inkjet printer

To further whet appetites for the release of Nicole Kornher-Stace’s forthcoming novel Latchkey, we’ve published a preview today, making the first two chapters free for all to read. She clashed with Lissa, blade to blade, then grabbed the wrist of Lissa’s knife-hand and yanked. As Lissa’s knife slid free of Isabel’s, she stumbled forward and was promptly hauled down and in toward the elbow Isabel was firing at the hollow of her throat. (Click to keep reading.) Latchkey will be

Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace Scheduled for release July 10, 2018 ISBN 978-0-9889124-8-9 | $17.95 | 336 pages | For Ages 14-18   Available for pre-order (so far) at the following links:   Paperback: Barnes & Noble (at an incredible 29% discount off the cover price!)Amazon UK | Amazon DE | Amazon FR   Ebook: Nook | iBooks | Kobo | Google Play | WeightlessAmazon Kindle pre-orders forthcoming in April   You can also pre-order directly through Mythic Delirium Books.  

The final features from our Winter issue are live on the site! With “The Papyrotomist,” Unnaturalist Series author Tiffany Trent takes us to a dark carnival where a performing artist practices a novel form of amputation. Bram Stoker Award winner Christina Sng spins verses on the growth of horrors in “Born of Blood and Tears.” Novelist Cassandra Rose Clarke evokes ghostly desire in the beautiful and chilling “Porphyria’s Other Lover.” Our double-sized twentieth anniversary issue is just around the corner,

We at Mythic Delirium Books (i.e Anita and I) proudly extend warm congratulations to Christina Sng, whose been the Assistant Digital Editor for Mythic Delirium magazine since 2015. Her poetry book A Collection of Nightmares, published in 2017 by Raw Dog Screaming Press — which surveys more than a decade of dark poetry, including some first published in Mythic Delirium — won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Poetry Collection yesterday at StokerCon in Providence, hometown of H.P. Lovecraft. We’ve