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:
“A is for Alphabet” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“In the Smile Place” by Tobi Ogundiran (reprint)
“Auscultation” by J.S. Breukelaar
“Never Lie to Me” by Priya Chand (reprint)
There is beauty in fundamental things, and nothing is more fundamental than destruction. I could watch a forest burn, or a field, or a house, for hours. I can still smell the smoke. It’s taken residence in my nasal passages, and I can’t get it out. I liked setting fires when I was little, and […]
It is amazing how some things never change. Where we grow older, crawling from youth into adulthood and all its attendant responsibilities, some things remain unfazed, unbothered by passing years—perhaps even existing out of time—as though its sole purpose is to anchor you to a particular moment, a particular memory, a particular place. As I […]
Maxine Bailey RE: Hey To: Rebecca Lytton 31 March 2023 Hi Hon, Country retreat for One: Day 1! The property (which you so cleverly managed to remind me of, and just in time, too), consists of a manor house at the apex of the driveway, with a parking bay to one side. On the other […]
Helen has a bloody smile. When she opens her mouth, I see vindication, crowned in laurel, the copper fumes on her breath whispering the memento mori in my ear. We were right. I was right. The blank spaces on the walls, this crappy couch creaking beneath my back—victories. I might be a casualty, but we’ll […]
