Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:
“The God of the Overpass” by Orrin Grey
“The Promise of Saints” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“Matchstick Girl” by Lucas Santana (translated by H. Pueyo)
“The Hufaidh Sounder” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
After the crash, she stumbled out into the dark. She had the thought, even then, that she shouldn’t be moving. Something about neck injuries after a crash. Something she had learned in school or seen in a movie or both or neither. But the car felt like it was crushing her. Suffocating her. Like it […]
In the Church of Guinmarie’s Mercy, which sits upon a hill in the tiny town of Jago’s Rise overlooking the sea, there lies a bejewelled saint. She’s attended by nuns of various vintages; not a man will go near her for the last who did—none can say when, only that it did happen—dropped dead whilst […]
This sugar mill belonged to my family. That sentence kept ringing inside my head the entire day. I couldn’t stop thinking of the little white girl with little pale lips, pointing her finger, thin like chicken bones, to the other side of the street, the abandoned mansion in the large plot of land overtaken by […]
No one thought too highly of the Ma’dān, and as Owens didn’t think too highly of himself either he chose to stay amongst them after the war. Physically, they weren’t all that different from an Englishman. They had darker skin, of course, and darker hair they kept hidden beneath a keffiyeh or headcloth, but otherwise […]
