Part of Series
ORIGINAL FICTION - Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi - Your Own Undoing by P H Lee - Love, That Hungry Thing by Cassandra Khaw - Mr. Death by Alix E. Harrow - The Niddah by Elana Gomel - Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts by Merc Fenn Wolfmoor HOLIDAY HORRORS FLASH FICTION WINNER - All I Want for Christmas by Charles Payseur CLASSIC FICTION - The Ace of Knives by Tonya Liburd - Roots on Ya by LH Moore INTERVIEWS - Interview with Author Fargo Tbakhi by Andrea Johnson - Interview with Author P H Lee by Andrea Johnson - Interview with Cover Artist Vicki Be Wicked by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION - Story-less: A Forethought by Usman T. Malik - Trapped in Stories by Malka Older - Words for Thought: Short Fiction Review by AC Wise Cover art by Vicki Be Wicked.
Authors
Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani vagrant camped in Florida. He reads Sufi poetry, likes long walks, and occasionally strums naats on the guitar. His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award and been nominated for the Nebula. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Tor.com, The Apex Book of World SF, Nightmare, Strange Horizons, and Black Static among other venues. He is a graduate of Clarion West. In Dec 2014, Usman led Pakistan’s first speculative fiction workshop in Lahore in conjunction with Desi Writers Lounge and Liberty Books.
Merc Fenn Wolfmoor is an ace/aro ADHD/autistic non-binary author from Minnesota. Merc is the author of several short story collections and the novella The Wolf Among the Wild Hunt. They have had short stories published in such fine venues as Lightspeed, Fireside, Nightmare, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Escape Pod, Uncanny, and more. They have been a Nebula Awards Finalist and have had short stories reprinted in several Year's Best anthologies. They are part of the Chipped Cup Collective, of which Robot Dinosaur Press is an imprint division. Merc also enjoys creating book covers. Pronouns: they/them/theirs. Honorifics: preferably none, but Mx. or Mr. are acceptable if necessary.
Cassandra Khaw is an award-winning game writer. Their recent novella Nothing but Blackened Teeth was a British Fantasy, World Fantasy, Shirley Jackson, and Bram Stoker Award finalist. Their debut collection Breakable Things is now out.
a former academic, adjunct, cashier, blueberry-harvester, and kentuckian, alix e. harrow is now a full-time writer living in virginia with her husband and their semi-feral kids. she is the hugo award-winning and nyt-bestselling author of THE TEN THOUSAND DOORS OF JANUARY (2019), THE ONCE AND FUTURE WITCHES (2020), a duology of fairytale novellas (A SPINDLE SPLINTERED and A MIRROR MENDED), and various short fiction. her next book, STARLING HOUSE will be out on halloween 2023! her writing is represented by kate mckean at howard morhaim literary agency. newsletter: https://writtenworld.substack.com/ email: alixeharrow at gmail.com insta: alix.e.harrow
