As featured in Publishers Weekly!

"If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one.”
—Fran Wilde, Nebula Award winner

New and uncollected tales from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Bone Swans!

“C. S. E. Cooney’s prose is like a cake baked by the fairies . . . so delicious that it should be devoured with a silver fork.”
—Theodora Goss

"The portraits breathe, the roses
shake fragrance into the wind.”
—The New York Times Book Review

A new collection of stories and poems from the World Fantasy and Locus Award-winning author of The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter!

"This toothsome collection
is best read in one go.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Allen overflows the tank
with nightmare fuel.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review

In these twenty-three stories and poems, two-time World Fantasy Award nominee Mike Allen spins twisted narratives.

"An incredible read.”
—Cemetery Dance

"Excellent new anthology … further evidence that long-form genre fiction is not just alive and well but thriving.”
—Locus

Four all-new lengthy tales of dark fantasy and horror, with a short novel from C. S. E. Cooney and novellas from Mike Allen, Amanda J. McGee, and Jessica P. Wick.

    
free to read on our site

Aurealis Award finalist
"The Cartographer's Price"
by Suzanne J. Willis

Nebula Award finalists
"The Bone Swans of Amandale"
by C. S. E. Cooney

"Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer" by Kenneth Schneyer

"Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff

Rhysling Award winners
"Song for an Ancient City"
by Amal El-Mohtar

"In the Astronaut Asylum" by Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson

"After Her Brother Ripped the Heads from Her Paper Dolls" by Beth Cato

World Fantasy Award finalist
"The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me"
by Rachael K. Jones