L'Esprit de L'Escalier
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.97
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh…
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1. The House of Binding Thorns (Dominion of the Fallen, #2)
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The multi-award-winning author of The House of Shattered Wings continues her Dominion of the Fallen… read more
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2. Red as Blood and White as Bone
By: Theodora Goss
3.54
Format: 337 pages, ebook
Red as Blood and White as Boneby Theodora Goss is a dark fantasy about a kitchen girl obsessed with… read more
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- short stories
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3. The Night Cyclist
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.88
Format: None pages, ebook
"The Night Cyclist" by Stephen Graham Jones is a horror novelette about a middle-aged chef whose ni… read more
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4. On the Fox Roads
By: Nghi Vo
4.04
Format: 29 pages, ebook
While learning the ropes from a crafty Jazz Age bank robber, a young stowaway discovers their authe… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fantasy
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5. D.I.Y
By: John Wiswell
3.76
Format: 25 pages, ebook
When the the elitist institution of Ozymandias Academy and its headmaster, Vamon Kinctuarin, can't … read more
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- short stories
- adult
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6. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- adult
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7. Ivy, Angelica, Bay
By: C.L. Polk
4.16
Format: 51 pages, Kindle Edition
When Hurston Hill is threatened by a suspiciously powerful urban development firm, Miss l'Abielle s… read more
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8. L'Esprit de L'Escalier
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.97
Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition
L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente is a provocative retelling of the Greek myth, in wh… read more
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- retellings
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- greek mythology
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- mythology
9. Small Monsters
By: E. Lily Yu
3.91
Format: 37 pages, ebook
All it’s life, a small monster with emerald scales has been source of never-ending food to larger a… read more
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10. Blood in the Thread
By: Cheri Kamei
3.86
Format: 17 pages, Kindle Edition
Content warning: This story contains fictional depictions of domestic violence.Nothing tears two wo… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
11. Salt Water
By: Eugenia Triantafyllou
3.62
Format: 18 pages, ebook
While all her friends’ fish are changing into mermaids, is 12-year-old Anissa's fish becoming somet… read more
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12. Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
By: Jason Sizemore
4.49
Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition
Apex Magazine is a monthly science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-b… read more
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- fiction
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- short stories
"I’m not a natural rule-follower. I roll through stop signs, I swear in public, I lie on online personality tests so I get the answers I want (Hermione, Arya Stark, Jo March)."-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
"He took The Runaway Prince home and renewed it twice online, at which point a gray pop-up box that looks like an emissary from 1995 tells you, “the renewal limit for this item has been reached."-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
"The boy returned at ten-thirty on a Tuesday morning. It’s official library policy to report truants to the high school, because the school board felt we were becoming 'a haven for unsupervised and il…"-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
"God save me from the yearners. The insatiable, the inconsolable, the ones who chafe and claw against the edges of the world. No book can save them. (That’s a lie. There are Books potent enough to sav…"-Jason Sizemore, Apex Magazine Issue 105, February 2018
13. Fireheart Tiger
By: Aliette de Bodard
3.40
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Award-winning author Aliette de Bodard returns with a powerful romantic fantasy that reads like The… read more
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- novella
- short stories
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- adult
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"Ssshhh. It's all right." And does it matter that it's not, if it gets them through the night?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"Anyway, the fire doesn't matter. There will be other fires, my love, and we will survive them all."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"She says--because darkness needs to be faced, needs to be denied--"You would have given me so much, in exchange for me giving up everything."-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
"If love is what it takes to make her remember a girl in the midst of a fire, then how much can you trust her? How much can you trust that love?"-Aliette de Bodard, Fireheart Tiger
14. Apex Magazine Issue 121
By: Jason Sizemore
4.42
Format: 190 pages, Kindle Edition
ORIGINAL FICTION - Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi - Your Own Undoing by P H Lee - Love, That Hungry Th… read more
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- adult
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- speculative fiction
- fantasy
15. Masquerade Season
By: Pemi Aguda
3.94
Format: 19 pages, Kindle Edition
From Nigerian author Pemi Aguda comes "Masquerade Season," a Tor.com Original short story Pauly is … read more
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- mythology
- short stories
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- fiction
16. The Future Library
By: Peng Shepherd
4.12
Format: 32 pages, ebook
More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth… read more
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"Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment."-Peng Shepherd, The Future Library
17. The Book of Elsewhere
By: Keanu Reeves
3.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Keanu Reeves and inimitable writer China Miéville team up on this genre-bending epic … read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
18. Come See the Living Dryad
By: Theodora Goss
3.71
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
"Come See the Living Dryad" by Theodora Goss is a fantasy about a contemporary woman investigating … read more
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- fantasy
- short stories
19. Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 177, June 2021
By: Neil Clarke
4.13
Format: 199 pages, ebook
FICTION Little Animals by Nancy Kress Poubelle by Robert Reed Bots of the Lost Ark by Suzanne Pa… read more
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20. The Wonderful Stag, or The Courtship of Red Elsie
By: Kathleen Jennings
3.47
Format: 32 pages, ebook
In a fairy tale equal parts gorgeous and gruesome, village couples seek approval for marriage from … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
21. A Sorceress Comes to Call
By: T. Kingfisher
4.24
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more
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- retellings
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
22. Judge Dee and the Executioner of Epinal (Judge Dee, #7)
By: Lavie Tidhar
4.10
Format: 32 pages, ebook
Unknown forces attempt to stop Judge Dee and Jonathan from transporting a mysterious and possibly d… read more
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- horror
23. Circus Girl, The Hunter, and Mirror Boy
By: J.Y. Yang
3.73
Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition
As an orphaned sixteen-year-old, Lynette was haunted by the ghost of Mirror Boy, the drowned child … read more
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- horror
- adult
- fantasy
24. The Thief of Memory
By: Sunyi Dean
3.75
Format: 26 pages, ebook
The Hero must journey across the desert to capture The Thief Of Memory and retrieve her stolen memo… read more
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25. If You Take My Meaning
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.66
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more
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- adult
- fantasy
- fiction
26. The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Lychford, #4)
By: Paul Cornell
4.00
Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition
Be careful what you wish for… The continuing tale in the award-nominated Witches of Lychford ser… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
"...with a look on her face that said she had a lot of plates to juggle, but as long as you were prepared to be spun, everything would be fine."-Paul Cornell, The Lights Go Out in Lychford (Lychford, #4)
27. Atlas Alone (Planetfall #4)
By: Emma Newman
4.10
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Hugo Award winner Emma Newman returns to the captivating Planetfall universe with a novel about ven… read more
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- adult
- fiction
28. Questa storia non è la storia
By: John Wiswell
4.15
Format: 69 pages, Paperback
Vincitore Premio LocusFinalista Premio NebulaFinalista Premio Hugo…"Loro non capiscono cosa signifi… read more
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29. The Nearest
By: Greg Egan
3.63
Format: 60 pages, Kindle Edition
When a detective, a new mother, is assigned to the case of a horrific triple murder, it appears to … read more
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- short stories
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- horror
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31. Apex Magazine, Issue 129, January 2022
By: Jason Sizemore
3.20
Format: 185 pages, ebook
Original Fiction: "It Happened in 'Loontown" by Lavie Tidhar "City Lights" by Yilun Fan (translat… read more
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- horror
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- fantasy
