Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:
“House” by TJ Cimfel
“Big Dead Clown Things” by Adam Callaway
“When the Wiliwili Blossoms, the Shark Bites” by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada
“Chop! Chop! Chop!” by Osahon Ize-Iyamu
House does not want you here. Does not want your laughter in its halls. Does not want your gentle breathing at night. Your cheerful demeanor. Your smiling brood. It does not want your hopeful words to echo off its walls. Your quiet murmurs. Your awkward silence. Your profanities, inanities, the slickness of your sex. Your […]
The belly of a clown is filled with cotton candy and cola and colored flags. That’s what my cousin told me when we found the big dead clown. Clowns weren’t people. They were creatures, symbols, agents. We found one, belly up, floating in a stagnant pond near a culvert. Mountain Dew bottles and cigarette butts […]
There was no body for the wake. We stood by the open grave and watched as the men lowered the plain ʻōhiʻa wood coffin. There was a large banana stump inside, symbolic of my mother’s body. Reverend Parker had been hesitant to do this because it seemed too close to the ignorant Hawaiian superstition that […]
He keeps pressing the button for the umbrella to fall after the rain and it does. It comes down with a mighty force, down on his head, enveloping him like a predatory jaw. It covers him, then smothers him, then it consumes him. The umbrella snaps down on his head, spikes through him clean, clamps […]
