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 two all-new stories and two reprints:
“Out of All of Them” by Nelson Stanley
“Siren” by Rob Costello (reprint)
“Old Crow” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Necessary Things” by E.M. Linden
A Thursday. Before sunrise Sain wrote the four words on the piece of paper she folded up and slipped into the band of her bra, then chivvied along until it was tucked into her right armpit. Then down the lane to meet the Kennick woman, to let the new foal out into the paddock for […]
Fat bodies float. Or at least that’s what Ethan Gaines reassures himself as he dips a toe off the swim ladder into the shallow end of the YMCA pool. The clock above him reads 8:16 p.m. He pauses to watch the glare of the facility’s fluorescents dance upon the surface of the water, bouncing reflections […]
Sleek and dark as the forest night, the crow glided over the Appalachian ridges corrugating southwest Virginia. Wallens, Powell, Cumberland. Those were their human names, but for Old Crow they were Home. He flew early each morning, before the mountain witch got up, because he didn’t want to remind her he had the freedom of […]
Lou is something between a conjoined twin and a haunting. He’s the reason we got the job at Maisie Millions’ Fairground Amazements when I–when we–quit school. Lou didn’t want to quit; our teacher, Miss Bell, even offered to find the school fees somehow, but I was impatient to make my own way in the world, […]
