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September 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“The Light Over the Lake” by Malena Salazar Maciá
“The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (reprint)
“The Toddler” by Sanni Omodolapo
“Prairie Teeth” by EC Dorgan (reprint)

August 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“They Must Be Angels” by Elle Zi Dong
“The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” by J.A.W. McCarthy (reprint)
“Husk” by James Bennett (reprint)
“The Taint” by Anne Wilkins

July 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:

“Skin and Bones” by Gary McMahon
“No Mirrors Here” by A. Katherine Black
“Window” by Charlie Hughes
“The Sisters” by E.M. Linden

June 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes three all-new stories and one reprint:

“The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Death of Abigail Goudy” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“We are the Abikus” by Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai
“The Cephalophore” by Thomas Ha

May 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“Blunt Teeth” by Margaret Ronald
“One Will Grow to Eat the Other” by Michael Kelly (reprint)
“Apostasy in Fruit” by Moustapha Mbacké Diop
“Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores” by Gemma Files (reprint)

April 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes three all-new stories and one reprint:

“His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling
“Finding Love Within the Waves” by Anne Wilkins
“Higher Powers” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands” by Phoenix Alexander

March 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“MALO MALO MALO MALO” by Louis Inglis Hall
“Get Away” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
“The Philosophical Quandaries of Meeting Your Doppelganger In Moonshine City” by Angela Liu (reprint)
“Familiar Things” by Gio Clairval

February 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“Out of All of Them” by Nelson Stanley
“Siren” by Rob Costello (reprint)
“Old Crow” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Necessary Things” by E.M. Linden

January 2025

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“Four Questions with Something Like God” by Carlie St. George
“In the Blue Room” by Orrin Grey (reprint)
“Lost You Again” by Ian Rogers
“Coffin Dancing” by Chris Kuriata (reprint)

December 2024

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“A Little Bit of What Killed Auntie” by R.L. Summerling
“P is for Phantasies” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“What Things We Find in the Forest” by Abigail Kemske
“Jill” by Rob Costello (reprint)