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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)

March 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:

“Mother’s Teeth” by E. L. Chen
“The Final Girl’s Daughter” by Ray Cluley (reprint)
“The Leaves Dead Are Driven” by F. Brett Cox
“Antelope Brothers” by Craig Laurance Gidney (reprint)

February 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:

“Of Gentle Wolves” by James Bennett
“The Names of the Drowned are These” by Angela Slatter (reprint)
“Silk-Wrapped Love Story” by Phoenix Alexander
“The Memory Eater” by H. Pueyo (reprint)

January 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 four all-new stories:

“Sweat, Rice” by Shari Paul
“Lap Record” by Nelson Stanley
“Love Sharp Enough to Rend” by Leah Ning
“We All Fall Down” by Ai Jiang

December 2022

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 four all-new stories:

“Sulta” by James Bennett
“Belly-Slitter” by H. Pueyo
“Y is for Yesterday” by Steve Rasnic Tem
“The Cat” by Morana Violeta (translated by Clara Madrigano)

November 2022

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 four all-new stories:

“Wind Come Down the Mountain” by A.C. Wise
“How the Cat Woman Became the Giant Lady, Circa 1995” by Seán Padraic Birnie
“Sirena” by Lavie Tidhar
“Olympus is a Body” by Angela Liu