The first in a series of exciting new flash weird fiction. This issue features both new and established authors, all writing short tales of weirdness for your pleasure! In this issue, we turn our attention to Winter and all things that go with it. Expect stories that feature ice, snow, cold and maybe even a certain jolly chap.

Sometimes, Karma's a Bitch Don't deny it. Your mind has dwelled for hours on the things you would do if your name was Karma. Malevolence towards those that wronged you festers and there is no relief-until now. Plunge headfirst into these sinister tales where karma finally takes control and vengeance is a dish that is best served hot. The Better Off Dead series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness Contains stories by Peter Rocha, Steven Pajak, RJ Roles, Red Lagoe, Jane Alvey Harris, Charlotte Munro, R.E. Sargent, Eleanor Merry, Kayla Krantz and Chris Wilkerson.

- A glamorous actress whose very flesh is reanimated by a beloved Hollywood icon - A Boy Scout troop encounters a frightening mythological creature in an American forest - A lonely woman finds a home among a group of lost-and-found souls, all cared for by a tentacled sea-creature called "Mother" - A faceless woman attacks like a virus and takes on the identities of her victims - A post-apocalyptic battle for survival rages between human and insect - A shadow woman leads the spirits of the murdered to take revenge in the desert These are just some of the stories nineteen women came up with when tasked with creating their own Women Monsters. Step inside and experience tales of bloodsucking entities in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Cuban river goddesses, an Aztec bruja, werewolves, mermaids, soulstealers, obsessive lovers, furious spurned wives, bloody murder in Gothic manors and on Southern plantations, and so much more... Featuring stories from: Christy Aldridge, Carmen Baca, Somer Canon, Andrea Dawn, Dawn DeBraal, Sharon Frame Gay, The Sisters of Slaughter : Michelle Garza and Melissa Lason, Jill Girardi, Alys Hobbs, Tina Isaacs, Stevie Kopas, Marie Lanza, Malena Salazar Maciá, Charlotte Munro, Lydia Prime, Paula R.C. Readman, Copper Rose and Yolanda Sfetsos. With cover art by Corinne Halbert (Hate Baby Comix) and Foreword by Brandon Scott (Author of Vodou and Sleight, Devil Dog Press) EDITORIAL REVIEW: "With Under Her Black Wings, Kandisha Press has put together a collection of stories that touch upon a wide variety of subjects and give glimpses of horror from all over the world. The collection serves as a wonderful introduction to a lot of authors that I had not been acquainted with before, and also contains a few tales from some familiar faces. Among the familiar faces, The Sisters of Slaughter present Desert Kisses, a tale of revenge that reminds us that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Somer Canon delivers one of the most fun stories we come across with The Riddled Path. It's simultaneously hilarious and horrifying...There were so many new to me authors that caught my attention....If you are looking to adorn your shelves with some accomplished ladies of horror fiction, Under Her Black Wings is an appropriately worthy gateway." - Brennan LaFaro, DeadHead Reviews (abridged)

Those eyes, those amethyst eyes that seem to burn into my very soul. They have haunted me ever since I set foot in this wretched place. They watch my every move, they plague me in my dreams. I fear I will never escape their gaze. I was sent by my parents to Sterling Ackerly Academy to carve out my independence, to gain a sense of identity. If only they had known who... or what was waiting. Charlotte Munro lives in East Sussex with her grandparents. She was home-schooled from the age of eleven and has written stories from an early age. She has a horse and a dog who, along with friends and family, help inspire her to write. For more information see www.charlottemunro.blogspot.com

Somewhere in the dark corners of the library, worn velvet tomes sit abandoned, forgotten. Tales of the dark, the blood and the beast. Ten Short Stories of the creepy and the macabre. From Vampire to Demon, to Human and Evil. Sometimes, there is no in-between. Everybody has a few skeletons in their closet, they just need a little dusting...

When the clock ticks by, nearing midnight, it is in those seconds that our minds are the most active. The most awake. In those seconds, we feel things, we see things and we truly believe things exist, when they clearly don't. Twelve short stories push those limits to the test. A carnival with a dark secret, forests with far more than twigs and moss and a painful reminder that it is our minds that are our strongest and our most weakest part of our body. Our imagination though, is forever timeless. Even when those seconds past midnight...

Down in the darkness of the cemetary, discarded paper lay abandoned, town and creased. Hanging on forgotten rosebuds. Behind the creaking doors of the masusoleum lurk the secrets and the tales that no one wants to tell, so they let their souls bleed out on the paper, their blood the ink, their death the story's life. Somewhere in the dark, by candlelight you find and read the tales that haunt and disturb and stay with you, even when you turn the light off.

A dreary October day, changes the lives of two unexpected people...October is a grey time, always so dark and dreary, but never more than in East Hollow, a small town in rural England. For Evander, the dreary town is a place so different from his own. The cold months almost refreshing from the stifling heat in Hell. East Hollow is where he can ignore his duties as a Great Prince for a while, mingle with the mortals and cause mayhem. For Ellison, it is a terrible reminder of the heart-breaking day she lost her Twin sister. With trying to cope with her depression, her job and over-the-top friends, she finds a little bit of light when given a special looking pendant...Out of Evander's boredom and Ellison's misery, the two of them are drawn to one other, but it is more than mere coincidence that the two are bound together...Evander holds a dark secret - a failed mission a year ago, the same time and place where Ellison lost her sister. What if the suspected suicide that ripped Ellison's world apart was caused by the mysterious guy she finds herself falling for? What if that light you find in the darkness turns out to be much more sinister and more... demonic?What if the missing piece in your heart, can be filled by the most unexpected?

Legends aren't just tales to ward off strangers; the sort of ghoulish warning over a few pints at the pub. They are the truth that keep the townsfolk from running to the hills, packed bags trailing behind them.Ten years ago Damien and Rose Lock found out the hard way that legends are better left locked away, told over crackling campfires instead. Having lost their family and friends to the evil Slaughterman one drunken night years ago, when they summoned the legend from his grave, the two never realised that the darkness would cling to their home town of Eldenridge and ultimately their lives forever. Each year the legendary killer would rise and seek his vengeance through bloodshed.The brother and sister have spent the last several years running, hiding; looking over their shoulders for a curse that has stalked them through different towns and many new lives. Enough of hiding, Damien brings his sister and friends back to the town and back to the family home where he is looking to spruce up and sell. Over a weekend of debauchery and good times, painful memories and even more darker things come to be. And the friends learn that once evil is awakened, it has a hard time returning without a little sacrifice...

This City isn't all what it seems...Requiem City has it's fair share of troubles. Human Trafficking Vampires, Drug Dealing Goblins and the occasional Werewolf Pimp. The Paranormal Department has it's hands full already but when a Serial Killer starts terrorising the streets, taking body parts from his Paranormal victims, it sends the City into dark times, including Felicia Hart's life.Felicia Hart has just come back to work, having been demoted to office duties because of a certain incident that killed her partner; A possession killing that she was fully cleared of. She's not taking to menial duties well. Having lost her rank, still in mourning and finding widowed life quite difficult, she makes it her mission to find the Killer and put things right once more.But when her Faerie friend, Vanian Quill becomes the prime suspect, she is forced to come to terms with those she thought she trusted becoming enemies, and those she thought were enemies, becoming friends. The body count is on the rise and Felicia is adamant in standing by Vanian, but the web of deceit is a sticky one, and she isn't sure what's right anymore.Unlikely alliances are made and realisations hit her close to home, as Felicia learns that her city is not always what it seems, and neither are it's residents...