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January 2024

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 Grit Born” by Frances Ogamba
“Klang Crow” by Joshua Lim (reprint)
“Garlands for Your Bridal Chamber” by Fatima Taqvi
“Of a Thousand Arms and More” by Ai Jiang (reprint)

December 2023

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 Strange & Terrible Wonder” by James Bennett
“The Sisters” by Ai Jiang (reprint)
“The Fish’s Wife” by Jorja Osha
“The Dreadful and Specific Monster of Starosibirsk” by Kristina Ten (reprint)

November 2023

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)

October 2023

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 Destroyer of Small Things” by Tim Waggoner
“Wildflowers” by Eric Schaller (reprint)
“Zoraída la Zorra” by Ana Hurtado
“Domestic Magic (Or Things My Wife And I Found Hidden in Our House)” by Kirsty Logan (reprint)

September 2023

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

August 2023

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 Changing Dust” by James Bennett
“Thirty-Two Tumbling Teeth” by Neil Williamson (reprint)
“The Rituals of Bathing” by Libby Cudmore
“Into the River” by Clara Madrigano (reprint)

July 2023

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:

“If Someone You Love Has Become a Vurdalak” by Sam J. Miller
“Gavin’s Field” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“A Ritual for Pleasure and Atonement” by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)
“Red Red Rose, Bare Bare Bones” by Françoise Harvey

June 2023

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“The God of the Overpass” by Orrin Grey
“The Promise of Saints” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“Matchstick Girl” by Lucas Santana (translated by H. Pueyo)
“The Hufaidh Sounder” by Ray Cluley (reprint)

May 2023

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“A Toitele” by Celia Rostow
“Jenny Greenteeth” by Alison Littlewood (reprint)
“The Inside is Always Entrails” by Fernanda Castro (translated by H. Pueyo)
“The Words Beneath” by Michael Harris Cohen (reprint)

April 2023

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

“The Faceless, The Watch Guard, and Sugar” by Bibiana Ossai
“Fish Scales” by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)
“Town Z” by Ash Caballero
“Hand-Me-Down” by Sean Padraic Birnie (reprint)