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
If there’s one thing my mother taught me, it’s to take responsibility for my actions. When something breaks, take responsibility. When there’s not enough time, take responsibility. When someone else fucks up, still take responsibility. Whether or not the end result was my fault didn’t matter. If I had a stake in the situation, then […]
Seventeen today. On an untouched stretch of the central coast, under a fog-blotted sky, seventeen girls take long, graceless strides across the beach and into the ocean. Bare feet sinking into sparkling sand, ankles roped with seaweed, hands instinctively reaching out again and again as they brace themselves with every stumble. The water froths, salivating […]
I’m a face in the rain. A sketch of shadows under streetlight. Mostly I’m a memory, a ghost of myself. Adam was my name. It’s confusing, but every time I even the score for us, I grow stronger. Isn’t that why I’m here, standing outside the restaurant, born of tears and blood? I’m the shadow […]
Granny always says not to drink from the well, she reckons it’s got the taint about it. She shakes her head disapprovingly whenever we’re close. “Never should’ve placed dead bodies so close to the Lord’s water,” she says, making her tut-tut sound, and the sign of the cross. Great Uncle Raymond is the nearest dead […]
