Uncanny Indianapolis: featuring stories by Kelli Kern, Chris Canary, Rose Streif, Amanda Dailey-Weaver, S. Ashley Couts, and Jonathan R. Chase. - An office worker is embroiled in a peculiar moral dilemma concerning her CEO. - Two students of the magical arts travel an apocalyptic wasteland populated with strange terrors. - A vampire gets more than he bargains for when he bites a woman tripping on acid. - An angel of death and an angel of chaos must rectify a missed assignment. - Evil faces evil when the carnival comes to town. - A man is forced to reassess his life when faced with a literal breakdown of reality. Weird nightmares, fantastic visions and haunted dreams populate this anthology of tales featuring the Circle City as it never was.

Raised by werewolves in the backwoods of southern Indiana, Deandra Brown has chosen to follow in the footsteps of her father, a paranormal investigator for the mysterious Society of Asherah. Along the way she must deal with her controversial heritage, a suddenly uncertain love life, an adjustment to city living, and the problematic friendship of Matthew Arktouros, an age-old immortal who has latched onto her family as a means of keeping his sanity.

A village girl strays into the shapeshifters' forest, because she has nothing to lose.

Night Music: Three Tales of The Secret History "A Mass for Arrah" - When a clockmaker's automaton begins to malfunction, a New Orleans anomalyst and her wolfen partner must decode its enigmatic message in relation to a recent murder. "Pretty Polly" - While researching a case of bigamy for a direct superior, a young police secretary uncovers something far more sinister. "The Wolves of Draper Hollow" - Having left his home on the tundra, a White Wolf settles in the heat-drenched forests of the lower Midwest. What he is doing there is anyone's guess, but a daughter of the Yellowwood Clan is about to find out.

THE CUTTING ROOM FLOOR CUTS BACK Welcome to a macabre cinema for the imagination, to screenings of twisted tales projected not on a movie screen but on the page. In Reel Dark you'll find stories and poems by authors ranging from new voices to bestsellers to Bram Stoker Award finalists. From the battle for recognition between a child actress and a vengeful, long-forgotten film star in "Whatever Happened to Peggy...Who?" to a madman controlling a student a la The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in "Caligarisme," to a hapless Dreamist, whose talent propels him into a nightmare of jealousy and revenge in "The Dreamist," the authors have created worlds filled with madness, twisted desires, and broken dreams. The genres inside include suspense, horror, science fiction, and fantasy. You'll meet a lone deputy whose pursuit of justice harkens back to the wild West (complete with a gunfight), a director who literally puts himself into his film, a young woman haunted by a mysterious stranger who warns her of her impending demise, and an aging actress who may have been a little too good at playing her roles. In a world where the lines between reality and fantasy blur, where film frames flicker at 24 frames per second, we catch a glimpse of strangers' dreams and nightmares. As David Lynch puts it, "This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top." As Karen Head writes in her poem responding to Lynch, "In the movies / everything is illusion." But in a world with cameras everywhere, how do you know whether you're in a movie?"