The apocalypse can take many forms. Possibly our end will come by way of an addictive cell phone game that manipulates its users into a crowd-sourced mass murder. Or perhaps our downfall involves aliens drugging us into bliss and then taking it away. Maybe it'll be technological redundancy that leaves loved ones without a purpose, or corporations replacing the natural world with creatures more amenable to market pressure. All these apocalypses and many more can be found in Erica L. Satifka's debut collection, which gathers together twenty-three short stories from the past decade.

Sixteen compelling tales of post-apocalyptic societies and dystopian worlds include stories by Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Kurt Vonnegut, W. E. B. Du Bois, Harlan Ellison, and others.

Inspired by Lovecraft's more optimistic writings, this unique collection spotlights the weird works of nine current horror and fantasy authors, including the award-winning Michael Cisco and Livia Llewellyn. Also includes Clark Ashton Smith's 1931 "The City of the Singing Flame" and Lovecraft's own "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."

After a mental breakdown at college, Emmeline Kalberg is struggling to get her life on track. But when a voice that calls itself Escodex begins talking to her, she is sure that it's real and not another hallucination. Meanwhile, an evil entity is taking over the employees of Savertown USA, sucking out their energy so it can break into Escodex's dimension. When her coworkers start dying, Em realizes that she may be the only one who can stop things from getting worse. Now she must convince her therapist that she's not having a relapse and keep her boss from firing her. All while getting her coworker Roger to help enact the plans Escodex conveys to her through the RFID chips in the Savertown USA products.

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Edited by award winning editors Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Sean Wallace and brought to you by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Lucky Girl" by Erica L. Satifka"The Embalmer" by Helen Marshall (reprint)"These Bones Aside" by Lora Gray"Red String" by Cassandra Khaw (reprint)

New speculative fiction anthology, Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People, explores the weird fictions, from the horrific to the ecstatic, that are inherent in city life and in the ways we love and hate and express, in the ways we interact and cope and deal with one another. Releases December 17, 2019, from Broken Eye Books.These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore a landscape that is not quite fantasy and not quite science fiction, tales blurring the lines between genres. These are the strange stories of the strange decisions we make and the strange ways the city affects us.

The world of tomorrow holds wonders unlike anything humanity has ever seen! But only for those lucky few. Alicia, a runaway New Woman, comes to small-town Wheeling, West Virginia, and gets entangled with Jess and Dale, throwing their lives of pointless work and drug-fueled virtual reality into chaos. Meanwhile, truths are uncovered of the nation's rewritten history--truths powerful corporations would rather leave hidden. Rural cyberpunk of frustrated ambitions mixed with life-altering changes and cyber-mystery!

Fluff reporter Justine Reznick is having a few problems. Her severe obsessive-compulsive disorder is acting up, she's hallucinating an alien alphabet in her bathroom, and she's being threatened by an unknown assailant. The assailant turns out to be Riley Sikora, a renegade scientist who claims to be from an underground group trying to restore the foundations of reality, and he says he needs her help. The substance threatening to undo reality is synthracon, an engineered virus which was intended to cure Alzheimer's Disease and schizophrenia, but which crossed over to the general public, turning the crazy sane and the sane crazy. Justine's disorder has caused the virus to work its way out of her system, and she must work with Riley to stop the chaos resulting from the effects of the virus.

Collection of short stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genre.