Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience. Issue #2 includes 14 short stories: "Winter Solstice" — Mike Resnick "Da Capo al Fine" — Patrick Jameson "The Reanimators" — J. Kenneth Sargeant "A Concert of Flowers" — Kate O'Connor "These Are The Things Our Hands Have Made" — Andrew Kozma "A Trade of Tears" — Tony Peak "Four Scenes From Wieczniak’s Whisk-U-Away, And One Not" — Ferrett Steinmetz "The Unworthy" — J.W. Alden "Verdure" — Brandon Barrows "Million Hearts in the Valley of Death" — Savannah Hendricks "The Fine Art of Fortune-Telling" — Michelle Ann King "Marshmallow Walls" — Brittany Foster "Grimm's Home for Geriatrics" — Rebecca A. Demarest "JC the Ski Bum" — Joyce Reynolds-Ward In the non-fiction section, this issue features: -Interview With Award Winning Author Mike Resnick -Interview With Author Tim Pratt -Interview With The Editors of Strange Horizons -Artist Spotlight: Sabbas Apterus -Book Review: Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson) -Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) (Gareth Edwards) The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.

"A collection of thirty-one light horror tales sure sure to tickle your bones"--

Following the great success of 2015's Gothic Fantasy, deluxe edition short story compilations, Ghosts, Horror and Science Fiction, this latest in the series is packed with hard-boiled detectives, monsters, psychopaths and a high body count. Tales of death and destruction from classic authors are cast with previously unpublished stories by exciting contemporary hardcore crime writers. New, contemporary and notable writers featured are: Sara Dobie Bauer, Michael Cebula, Carolyn Charron, James Dorr, Tim Foley, Steven Thor Gunnin, Kate Heartfield, David M. Hoenig, Liam Hogan, Patrick J. Hurley, Michelle Ann King, Claude Lalumière, Gerri Leen, K.A. Mielke, Alexandra Camille Renwick, Fred Senese, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Dean H. Wild, and Nemma Wollenfang. These appear alongside classic stories by authors such as Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Dick Donovan, Edith Nesbit, Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker.

Every issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring readers and entertaining and eclectic collection of speculative fiction tales by both new and established authors in the genres. In this issue: stories by Rick Danforth, Lisa Fox, Brad Goldberg, Michelle Ann King, Shi-Li Kow, Michelle Muenzler, and Lisa Voorhees.

A collection of 46 funny, sad, and thrilling stories of science fiction, fantasy and horror from Michelle Ann King.Read about dysfunctional (and sometimes demonic) families, a time-travelling reality TV show, a Halloween game with a chilling price, robot wolves, carnivorous plants, a call-centre at the end of the world, witches, doppelgangers, misanthropic psychics, immortal gang bosses, alien voyeurs, flesh-eating criminals, black-market zombies, and much, much more...

This issue of Kzine contains sf, horror, crime and fantasy stories and sometimes a mixture of these genres. The authors are: Maureen Bowden, Liam North, Michelle Anne King, Derrick Boden, Jackie Bee, Tyler Bourassa, Steven Mace and Gustaf Berger. The cover illustration is by Dave Windett.

Haunted burial grounds where the dead come back; a demonic force born of mankind thriving in the outskirts of space; a sadistic abuela with a dark secret; the undead of winter coming back for their former captor; two men discover a mystery in the wilderness; a wondering showman just wants a little respect; four hunters go in search of a Big Game only to discover they are the ones being hunted... Onyx Neon Shorts Horror Collection is an annual anthology that celebrates one of literature's most popular forms. Featuring seven up-and-coming stars of the horror genre from all over the globe, satisfying your need for wicked tales of the bizarre, weird, and unexplainable. Edited once again by Jeffrey P. Martin, former Head Editor of Onyx Neon Shorts and guiding force behind last year's Onyx Neon Shorts Horror Collection 2015, and many other books. Chestnut Hill by Joseph Rubas A group of people are besieged by demonic beings on a cursed, remote hilltop. The Corners Have Arms by Jeremy Hepler When Sophie's ex-husband doesn't return their twin daughters after their week-long visit with him, she fears the worst. Maybe he's kidnapped them, taken them across the border, or worse. She goes looking for her children. If she finds them, will it be worse than she possibly ever imagine? And will she ever make it back? The Case of Yuri Zaystev by S. L. Edwards Yuri Zaystev has a thankless job: driving the victims of Stalin's purges into the darkness of the Arctic. One night, something goes horribly wrong. Yuri Zaystev, gulag guard and proud supporter of the purges, finds himself the victim of a violence he helped unleashed. Sweetie by Michelle Ann King A travelling showman and his demonic companion teach their latest audience a little respect. Failsafe by Karen Bovenmyer Space salvager Kira hates dead bodies. When she finds a lost colony ship, ripe with corpses and a huge finder's payoff, she's happy to report the location and leave well enough alone-until she receives a distress call from a little girl trapped aboard. Partisan by Brit Jones Four big game hunters enter the deep woods of a war torn country in search game. It isn't long before they realize that it is they who are being hunted. The Marked Men by Ben Stallwood Two men, one recently bereaved, go on a hiking trip in a Norwegian forest. This tale of suicide and loss will leave you breathless and unnerved.

Death is permanent. This is the falsehood that we tell ourselves so we can sleep at night. It's the lie that we tell our children so they don't carry their kitten's corpse to the old cemetery deep in the forest. It's the myth that we wrap ourselves in so we can ignore the gut-wrenching terror of what really follows deaththe unfathomable unkno