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The Yellow House, Susceptible to Broken Windows

by Daniel

Where to begin… Take a moment to breathe. The door isn’t yellow, I know. “It’s infuriating.” We know it’s infuriating, Paul, but we’ve only just arrived. “I haven’t even been given any directions. How am I going to find her office?” It’s unlikely that you will. He hasn’t even crossed the threshold and the complaining has begun. What will he say to her yellow stripe, to the cannon on the roof and the politics found in the halls? It’s hard to imagine but it won’t be hard for long. Open the door an... more

LIGHT of the MAGOS

by T.A.C. Wilson

Forbidden Knowledge: Two Tales of Lovecraftian Terror

by Tony LaMalfa

In two novellas, Tony LaMalfa has weaved a rich tapestry of Lovecraftian horror that evokes the shade of the Master himself. “The Face on the Floor” explores the fate of the young Jonathan Danforth’s tortured involvement with Andre Oswald, a fellow student at Miskatonic University whose quest to read the Necronomicon engulfs Danforth in a baffling web of horror and tragedy. “If Only Skin Deep” takes us to New Zealand, where the young scholar Myriam Delacroix investigates a remote tribe that se... more

Only the Living Are Lost

by Simon Strantzas

In this new collection, Simon Strantzas presents eleven tales, long and short, that display the wide array of motifs he utilizes. “In the Event of Death” tells of what a man finds when he explores his dead mother’s house. “Circle of Blood” is one of several stories that distinctively fuse a hard-boiled crime scenario with the weird. “Antripuu” relates what four hikers find in a remote forest. “Clay Pigeons” is an expansive novella set in Port Said, drawing upon the tradition of film noir in its ... more

Alt Nation

by AnnaLisa Grant

Emma Faraday’s sleep is haunted by grisly nightmares. The college student is convinced her over-active imagination is to blame. That is, until her father, an African American research scientist, discovers her journal and reveals Emma’s dreams are repressed memories. When her mother was alive, they traveled with Emma to an alternate universe, where they helped create antidotes to chemical weapons used to experiment on minority citizens. In that alien realm, every human has an identical counter... more

Renegale Tales

by Laurel Colless

Renegale Tales (A Peter Blue series novel) When 11-year-old Peter Blue and his team are sent on a quest to catch a group of Renegale imps, bad baby gales, they have no idea where to start – how do you catch the wind? But Peter’s mentor Agent Fleur has enough to worry about with a toxic yellow fog attack on seven cities. Then Wanda Shore gets a big idea to fix the fog even though she’s totally unqualified and just flexing to her followers, says her soon-to-be roommate Riva du... more

American Vampires

by Nick Totem

One day, Leland Slade, an emergency room doctor, saw a man lying on the sidewalk. The man might need help. Despite having a daughter with terminal cancer waiting for him at home, he stopped to see if he could help. Unbeknown to him, the man was a vampire, Count Heideker, who had fallen out of an airplane after a fight with his arch enemy Baron Havenstein. \tHis act of kindness led Leland Slade and his daughter, Julia, into the world of the vampires, a world that possessed incred... more

Child of Fire

by Austin Colton

There was no blood, only smoke and cinder. For eight years Caden has been in hiding. Haunted by his past and a promise to never use magic again, he has turned to the sword to make a living. As a mercenary in the mountain city of Kings Keep, he puts his talents to use hunting down the vile monsters that lurk in the shadows. No matter how much time passes, the fire continues to call out to him, urging him to take up his pyromancy once more. When a group of bandits attack the city, murder a h... more

Sam, Maddie, and the Mirror Dragon, two inspired teens and their quest to discover Mother Earth’s secrets

by Elizabeth Flanders

Sam, Maddie, and the Mirror Dragon, by first time Pacific Northwest author Elizabeth Flanders, with assistance from veteran New York writer and illustrator Evan Pritchard, is a story in the tradition of young adult fantasy. Its dual 14-year-old protagonists Sam and Maddie, neighbors in a rural town in Washington State, are drawn unexpectedly into The Mother Tree's powerful vortex, and find a portal where they meet SilverLight, a thousands-years-old master dragon, and she begins to teach them Mot... more

Déjà View

by Michael Thomas Perone

Déjà View is a coming-of-age/sci-fi novel about a 12-year-old boy who doesn’t want to grow up. After burying a time capsule to commemorate the end of the 1980s, he starts being haunted by ghostly doppelgangers of himself, his friends, and others. He calls them “déjà view.” Now, in order to survive his childhood, he needs to figure out if they’re real or if he’s slowly losing his mind.

Nightweaver

by R.M. Gray

Stolen from the sea by monstrous Nightweavers, seventeen-year-old pirate Violet Oberon teams up with her captor to hunt her brother’s killer, only to discover dark secrets that challenge everything she thought she knew about herself and her world.

The Four Swords: A Parable of Leadership, Video Games, and Dead Dragons

by Paul Tozour

Four friends meet a mysterious stranger with a robotic voice . . . that will change their lives forever. It shows the critical role of leadership and values, the way seemingly trivial mistakes can snowball into serious problems, and insights into what it takes to change things for the better.

Arsalan the Magnificent

by JE Tolbert

Arsalan the Magnificent is a lighthearted but poignant novel of historical fantasy fiction. In Europe and the Ottoman Empire of the early 19th century, a profession of wizards known as magical architects have achieved wealth and fame as builders of fantastical structures. Facing disgrace after his newest and greatest work collapses, Arsalan Ozdikmen, a renowned Ottoman magical architect in the prime of his career, is exiled to the Balkans. There, he undergoes a journey of reckoning and recovery,... more

Six Moons, Seven Gods

by Robert A. Walker

Six Moons, Seven Gods is a fantasy tale of revenge with cross-over appeal for adults and young adults alike. Assassins and thieves conspire to kill two kings, while a retired royal guard seeks vengeance. Yes, there is a bit of violence, and folks do die, but it is largely character-driven with a feisty young heroine and romantic subplot. Six Moons relies more on emotion and dialogue than it does action to tell the story.

Misfit's Magic: Shades of Winter

by Fred Gracely

Goff thought he was done with the world of magic for good, but the world of magic wasn’t done with him. Finally feeling like he had a home while attending the boarding school of his dreams, Goff and his friends are dragged into a diabolic plot to create a new magical empire funded by rich and powerful people. If he can’t find a way to stop them, everyone he loves will be destroyed. Full of humor, magic, boarding school drama, epic battles, monsters, memorable characters, and surprising twists an... more

The Magical Diaries of Charles Lester Seymour: A New Eden

by G.S Tabberner

On the same fateful day, Gavyn Trevelyan, an arrogant underachiever, unexpectedly inherits a vast fortune from his estranged and recently deceased father, he is subject to a cruel but devastating tragedy, leaving him disfigured, both physically and psychologically, and very much alone.

After which, he retires to his father’s rural estate, Bryngaer, in the heart of Snowdonia, where he discovers hidden journals, detailing how his father and a female acolyte created a continually evo... more

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