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Her son was a year grown when the dream started. Always it began in the pantry, at first — she was tallying the beer, or the bags of grain, when the first joints of her fingers started to itch. Little more than a prickling warmth, then a fierce burning, and as […]

Dearest Marcella,
My love, in the course of our letters I may not have told you how distressed I become upon seeing skeletons. I find myself revolted by their empty eyes and the unhinged way they walk through the streets at dusk. A better man would be respectful, but — imperfect soul […]

Ventsei hiked the hill trails to remind him of that place long lost to him. The fragrant spruce and fir were the same as those he’d left behind, and their roots reached for the heart of the mountain with gnarled, patient fingers.
Time had passed since the eagle had landed on foreign […]

Steven Erikson has built up a loyal and devoted following for his Malazan novels, which first began appearing from Bantam UK in the 1990s, when he made news by selling a series of ten novels in an extraordinary high-six-figure deal. Erikson is known for writing gritty, realistic fantasy fiction that subverts […]

INTRODUCTION
Pro wrestling is a form of fantasy storytelling, though Wrestlemania is never reviewed in Locus, the pseudo history of championship belts has no place in John Clute’s encyclopaedias of fantasy or science fiction, and there are no directions to "Parts Unknown" in Alberto Manguel’s Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Perhaps […]

Samantha Henderson
Loreen Heneghan
Lisa Mantchev
Jason Ridler
Jeff VanderMeer

Michael is an autodidact artist specialized in dark art, both traditional and digital…