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January 2026

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:

“The (Mis)Fortunes of Saint Ilia’s School for Gifted Girls, In No Particular Order” by Catherine Tavares
“Three on a Match” by Joanne Anderton (reprint)
“Rehearsals for the End” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Earth Inside Us” by Abigail Kemske (reprint)

December 2025

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:

“Most Likely To . . . (Class of 1997)” by A.C. Wise
“Lustre Mining” by Eliza Chan (reprint)
“Beneath the Duwak Tree” by Jorja Osha
“Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation” by M. L. Krishnan (reprint)

November 2025

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:

“Totensonntag” by Brian Evenson
“The Window at My Mother’s Back, the Door in My Belly” by A. W. Prihandita (reprint)
“Tragedia dell’Arte” by TJ Cimfel
“Twilight Tide” bySamir Sirk Morató (reprint)

October 2025

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:

“The Island at the End of the World” by S.L. Harris
“Through the Woods, Due West” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“Enselfening” by NM Whitley
“Down to the Roots” by Neil Williamson (reprint)

September 2025

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:

“The Light Over the Lake” by Malena Salazar Maciá
“The Witch Trap” by Jennifer Hudak (reprint)
“The Toddler” by Sanni Omodolapo
“Prairie Teeth” by EC Dorgan (reprint)

August 2025

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:

“They Must Be Angels” by Elle Zi Dong
“The Ocean Vomits What We Discard” by J.A.W. McCarthy (reprint)
“Husk” by James Bennett (reprint)
“The Taint” by Anne Wilkins

July 2025

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:

“Skin and Bones” by Gary McMahon
“No Mirrors Here” by A. Katherine Black
“Window” by Charlie Hughes
“The Sisters” by E.M. Linden

June 2025

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 three all-new stories and one reprint:

“The World Under” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Death of Abigail Goudy” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“We are the Abikus” by Ogochukwu Bibiana Ossai
“The Cephalophore” by Thomas Ha

May 2025

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:

“Blunt Teeth” by Margaret Ronald
“One Will Grow to Eat the Other” by Michael Kelly (reprint)
“Apostasy in Fruit” by Moustapha Mbacké Diop
“Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores” by Gemma Files (reprint)

April 2025

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 three all-new stories and one reprint:

“His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling
“Finding Love Within the Waves” by Anne Wilkins
“Higher Powers” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Praise Song for the God of Restless Hands” by Phoenix Alexander