Weird Fiction Quarterly continues the tradition of bringing you the finest in 500 word flash-fiction! (We dare you to find better!) In this, our fifth anthology, we bring you 41 wintry tales of weird wonder guaranteed to make you want to pull up a chair before a warm fire and wrap yourself in blanket and cat, because these stories are cold and will chill you to the bone. You won’t have time to do that, though. This is, after all, Weird Fiction Quarterly. You can never be prepared for what might happen. In here the eternal night is dark and frigid and filled with monsters. Let’s get cold.

Now in FULL COLOR! Weird Fiction Quarterly returns for its fourth installment, rounding out the seasonal cycle with a special double-sized volume featuring two themes: Fall and Halloween! Within these pages, you will harvest twice as many 500-word stories from your favorite authors while gazing terrified upon morbid illustrations by Sarah Walker, Nora Peevy, and Andy Joynes. The bewitching cover painting by Robert H. Knox makes this issue a cherishable autumnal keepsake. And if that weren’t enough, this issue features a bagful of spectral poetry by K.A. (The Pumpkin King) Opperman, Adam Bolivar, and Maxwell I. Gold.

Weird Fiction Quarterly does Folk Horror! Once again we bring you the finest in our now-signature 500 word flash fiction and exquisite poetry contributions, featuring over 60 writers from all around the globe and a dubious burlap sackful of color illustrations by our own Sarah Walker! Visit a strange, quaint village where the yearly festival is Everything. Call on the cunning woman or the witch doctor for a cure that might cost your very soul. Go deep into the woods in search of what may be a monster—or some forgotten god that Must be Appeased. Find a famous cryptid or two in (very) unexpected places! However you think of Folk Horror, hold onto your garland of flowers, because, as with every issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly, there is no possible way to prepare yourself for what could pop up in these pages. Portals open and close; trees are not what they seem. Tales from different countries and cultures intermingle. From the wilds you hear the reel of bewitching pipes. Whether or not you follow them, folks, things around these parts are about to get really weird!

Lamont A Turner is back with his follow up to his debut short story collection, Souls in a Blender! Bleeding Out in the Rain is a wildly diverse set of stories, even more heady than its predecessor. True to his New Orleans home, Turner's storytelling swings like jazz and cuts like The Ax Man! Experience the horrors lurking in the Louisiana swamps and in the haunted streets of New Orleans where dead men prowl the night, animated by the power of Voodoo. Travel to the not-too-distant future where something monstrous wails from the depths of a coalmine, possibly signaling the end of mankind. Walk with a world-weary private detective as he tries to make sense of a strangler with no hands and a client who has been murdered more than once. Share the fate of a solider who faces the supernatural on the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. With a cover by the inimitable Steph Murr, this collection is sure to please even the most well-traveled in the land of the imagination. Fans of Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, and Harlan Ellison will find a new favorite author in Lamont A Turner. Bleeding Out in the Rain is a twisted highway of chills and terror!

Speculative Fiction writer Lamont A. Turner follows closely in the revered footsteps of the great writers of Science Fiction who penned humanocentric plots framed by futuristic settings. Any fan of Sci-Fi, or speculative fiction in general, will be amiss not to have the present collection of evocative stories within reach for those rainy afternoons when it is easiest to imagine--and encounter--different worlds and the denizens who inhabit them. A mild-mannered college kid is arrested for murder... over and over again. A band of Neo-Confederates plan to reestablish the antebellum South. A man from the future tries to save mankind, by traveling backwards in time. These and twenty-seven more exciting tales open breathtaking, and sometimes horrendous, doorways to worlds both intriguing and terrifying.

Welcome back to the haunted swamps of the deep south with the third volume of weird short fiction from Lamont A Turner. Under a Starless Sky is another mind-bending brew of Lovecraftian horror, pulp noir, and dark mystery. Following his previous two collections, Souls in a Blender and Bleeding Out in the Rain, Turner has amassed an impressive collection of short fiction in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe, Harlan Ellison, and Ray Bradbury. Based in New Orleans, Lamont A Turner has been published across several magazines and anthologies. Under a Starless Sky is his third release with St Rooster Books.

Like the fine cuisine of his home town of New Orleans, Lamont A Turner's stories are an intoxicating combination of ingredients. Mixing Southern Gothic, with classic horror, and a modern sensibility, Turner's stories harken back the very best of Lovecraft, EC Comics, and The Twilight Zone. Souls in a Blender is a road trip into a land of terror and dread, where you'll find yourself hopelessly lost, if you can't keep your wits about you. Turner's work has appeared in Stranger With Friction, Jitters, Dark Dossier, and Terror House Magazine. St Rooster Books is proud to present this collection of the macabre, the disturbing, and the chilling, from one of horror's great voices.

After taking the case of a missing teenage girl, P.I. Rob Doverman encounters a supernatural evil with far-reaching murderous intentions. Like any good leader, Doverman enlists the help of key players in his world such as his reporter friend Maggie, his snarky secretary Marcy and her gumptious brother Pete, his battle-wounded buddy Hugh, esoteric scholar and former client Professor Morrison, and irascible Homicide Detective Rickman. With this neo-noir thriller by crime fiction writer Lamont A. Turner, enter a reality only our hidden heroes encounter as they hold back the darkness for all of humanity.

dark horse /ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/ noun 1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds. "a dark-horse candidate" Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion--whatever it is, if it's weird, it's here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses. In this issue: THE EIGHT-YEAR LOCUSTS Jennifer S. Hane THE GARDEN Carla Ward THE TORTURED WAIL OF MACHINES Lamont A Turner THE WITCH AT KHOLAT SYAKHL T.K. Howell THE RETURN Wayne Kyle Spitzer THE PAINT GODS MUST BE ANGRY Sabina Malik THE HEARTBEAT BETWEEN US A.E.S. THE ENTERTAINERS R. Ostermeier SUPERMAN AND THE HOLLYWOOD WITCH T.K. Howell SWEET PETUNIA Edward Ahern

Private detectives, ghosts, hitmen, mad scientists, goons, simpletons, cops, and femmes fatales all come together for a literary gestalt in this new collection of crime fiction that continues the time-honored tradition established by writers such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, and James Ellroy, among other luminaries.