Do not leave your toy skeleton unattended in a bathtub for more than 24 hours. If you dared to use a magical pan flute, at least don't forget the name of your familiar. Remember that mirrors always lie, even if you buy one in the...

Small Smile's Sunday Buddy and other South Brooklyn Tales by J.A. McNally is an anthology of short stories centered around a man's life with Brooklyn as the backdrop. After a sixteen-hour shift, a nurse begins to wonder about the dreams of her unconscious patient. That...

Breadcrumbs on a Koi Pond comprises over fifty items by Donna Stavely. They vary in length from a few lines to a few pages. The words evoke scenes, colors, relationships, and emotions. The mood varies from contemplative to reflective, romantic, philosophical, or witty. There are...

High Strangeness: Tales From the Edge of the Unknown is a work of fiction in the horror and anthology subgenres. It is best suited to mature readers owing to the use of explicit language and themes with gore, violence, and death, and features a collection...

In his anthology Dreams in Eigengrau, Michael Perge presents ten bizarre tales originating from his dreams. A teenager takes a drug that can make you live in a perpetual state of happiness, making your dreams real. Somewhere, an overambitious expedition along a deserted train track...

I love this anonymous opening quote: “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” How true. Life is like that: full of auspicious moments that flitter past almost undetected until, somewhere along the way, one of these...

Grandmother’s Devil And Other Tempting Tales, written by Marty Malin and illustrated by Diane Slade, is a unique collection of short stories that focus on grandmothers. There are six short stories in this anthology: Grandmother Sits, Grandmother’s Predictions, Grandmother of God, Grandmother Naked, Grandmother’s Devil...

Fugue Devil: Resurgence is a collection of works of fiction in the horror subgenre. It is aimed at mature readers and was penned by author Stephen Mark Rainey. The collection contains twelve horror stories, including the classic Fugue Devil and its sequel, The Devil’s Eye....

Three Loves and Other Stories is a collection of eight short stories by Lata Gullapalli. The book opens with the story "Three Loves," where a young woman goes through great turmoil of heartbreak and despair, losing much on the way to find her greatest love....

June Bug Gothic is a motley collection of eighteen Southern gothic tales from Robb Grindstaff, ranging from short stories to flash fiction. The first story narrates how the scent of the magnolia tree on summer nights can bring about sweet dreams. In another one, the...