I. Our tails shocked us at first. They had grown without warning, without any telling pain or bulge at the base of our spines. We got out of our respective beds on Tuesday morning, each of us recognizing in our early morning haze that something wasn’t quite right. When Martin Dixon saw the pink, pointed […]
Christopher Barzak is the author of the Crawford Fantasy Award winning novel, One for Sorrow (Bantam, 2007), which has been made into the Sundance feature film Jamie Marks is Dead. His second novel, The Love We Share Without Knowing (Bantam, 2008), was a finalist for the Nebula and the Tiptree Awards. He is also the author of two collections: Birds and Birthdays (Aqueduct […]
Darko Macan is the writer of the following story, “The Corridor,” which can be found in the collection of Croatian science fiction short stories, Kontakt (Wizard’s Tower Press), which he co-edited with Tatjana Jambrišak. We’d love to tell you more about Macan and his story, but we thought readers might like to read the intro to “The Corridor” […]
Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. is an American writer and editor of dark fantasy and weird fiction, currently living in Germany. As a writer, prior publications include the collections Blood Will Have Its Season (2009), SIN & ashes (2010), and Portraits of Ruin (2012), all of which are published by Hippocampus Press. His novel The Orphan Palace (2011, Chomu Press) was previously […]
Ambrose Bierce (1842−1914 est.) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction who demonstrated an impressive, flexible, and sardonic voice in his writing. Notable works include his satirical collection The Devil’s Dictionary and his seminal short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” which features one of the best and most famous twist endings of all […]
Robert W. Chambers (1865−1933) is an American artist and writer best known for writing the short stories that would become the collection The King in Yellow, published in 1895 by F. Tennyson Neely Inc. The first four stories in that collection — “The Repairer of Reputations,” “The Mask,” “In the Court of the Dragon,” and the story included […]
Anne-Sylvie Salzman is a French writer and translator of fiction and also the co-editor of the French magazine Le Visage Vert. Prior publications in French include two novels and a collection of short fiction, Lamont, the title story of which we’ve reprinted here. This translation of the story is taken from the collection Darkscapes, translated by William […]
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. For 30 years the secret Southern Reach agency has been sending in expeditions to find out the mysteries behind Area X, and failing. This is the twelfth expedition. Annihilation is the first in […]
We are proud to present the following, “He: An Unknown’s Story,” written in 1913 by famed Russian writer and artist Leonid Andreyev and previously unpublished in English until now. It is a truly chilling, uneasy story, glimmering around the edges with both melancholy and weirdness. Many thanks are due to translator Vlad Zhenevsky for bringing this […]
The following is the original, untranslated version of Leonid Andreyev’s story “He: An Unknown’s Story” in Russian, written in 1913. We thought it would be worthwhile presenting this story in its original language, as both a means of paying tribute to the story’s original composition as well as the recent translation into English by Vlad Zhenevsky. […]