For the first time collected together, the best weird fiction from Morpheus Tales, the UK's most controversial weird fiction magazine! Only the very best weird fiction has been hand-picked from the Morpheus Tales archives to create the fourth collected volume of the magazine Christopher Fowler calls "edgy and dark." Featuring fiction by Gary Budgen, Alex Davis, James Everington, R. K. Gemienhardt, Dean M. Drinkel, Michael W. Garza, John S. Barker, Brick Marlin, Kurt Fawver, John F. D. Taff, Charles A. Muir, Martin Slag, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf, Deborah Walker, Cate Caldwell, Richard Smith, Alex Gonzalez, Erik T. Johnson, Brian Kutco, Heather Smith, John Morgan. Established horror best-sellers rub shoulders with rising stars and newcomers in this diverse collection of short weird fiction.

Cthulhuvian thrills from the modern day heirs of the Lovecraftian legacy! Featuring stories, poems, articles and art from the first four issues of Lovecraftiana--the Magazine of Eldritch Horror by: Joseph Rubas Seamus Esparza Carl Fox Benjamin Welton Sandro D. Fossemò Gavin Chappell Gav Roachdown John C Adams Gary Budgen DJ Tyrer Stephen Hernandez Norbert Gora Matthew Wilson Neal Privett B Michael Stevens Maria Mitchell Francis Erdman Jess C Stevenson Thomas Idoine Nigel Felton Franklyn Searight Josef Desade

In the city of Genesia a chance encounter with Olympia, one of the clockwork dancers from the cabaret, leads Detective Evergreen Fox into a taking the job of finding a killer. Drawn into a world of deception and danger Fox faces both the fascists of the Renewal Society and their enemies in the underground movement known as the Masquerade. All the while he must contend with his growing fascination with Olympia and with the cyber augmentation in his head that has developed a taste for atrocity. As both a coup and a revolution threaten to tear the city apart Fox begins to understand that in a place that delights in masks it is impossible to know which side anyone is on.

Greetings, player, and prepare yourselves for a journey unlike any other - a journey through the world of games. Enter a realm where a man falls in love with a playing card and a game of Scrabble has deadly consequences, a place where reality and virtual reality blur into one and the same. In these pages, the moves of a chess piece can signal the difference between life and death, rioting has become a huge national sport and the players lose themselves in games of their own devising. Featuring stories by Allen Ashley, Adam Craig, Charlie Fish, Diotima Sophia, Sandra Unerman, Jay Wilburn, Jason D Wittman and many more.

In the eldritch writings of Ec'h Pi El we learn that the land of Lomar, first chronicled by that aeons-dead author, lay contiguous in time and space to Ancient Hyperborea, sinister kingdom of the North described in the story cycles of the prophet Klarkash Ton. Twin lands beyond the Arctic Circle, home to a cyclopean civilisation long ground to dust by the advancing glaciers, they flourished in blasphemously, inconceivably ancient days when Lemuria and Hyboria and Mu were but a dream...