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)
Hell is a city much like London—Percy Bysshe Shelley When Mrs Fernyhough was found dead, her landlady was on holiday. The police were called to the squat, dank house just off Commercial Street, that funereal enclave of post-war decay, where she had rented the attic room for the past ten years. Miss Fletcher, her downstairs […]
Six months following his death I began having my father’s dreams. I hadn’t seen him in years, but to my surprise he left his house to me. It’s an understatement to say we were estranged. My father was a monster. The house was a small bungalow built sometime between the world wars on Alphabet Row, […]
I hadn’t yet asked Mom if I could stay. Stalling, I pressed my thumbnail to palm in rows of crescent moons, the sun fading to a shimmering yolk behind the trees. A gust of wind sent them swaying, cottonwoods leaning toward the sugar maples. Budding branches clinked together as if passing on a whisper. As […]
10. When I woke up yesterday morning, I saw how Mom had spelled out HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE in magnetic poetry on the fridge before she left for work. It was a stupid thing to write. I knew from hunting with Jill what real hell looked like. But I also knew what Mom really meant: […]
