Enter a collection of chilling volumes where darkness reigns and fear is a constant companion. Each of the Anthologies of the Damned brings together more than a dozen master storytellers per book, each weaving a unique and terrifying tale that will leave you looking over your shoulder and questioning your sanity. Imagine Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but written for grownups. Paranormal detectives, body swapping cyborgs, cave-dwelling demons, and lovers beyond the grave. These stories and more! This set of spooky tales is a perfect read for Halloween, dark and stormy nights, or Sunday morning church, and will haunt your dreams, lingering long after the last page is turned.

Enter a collection of chilling volumes where darkness reigns and fear is a constant companion. Each of the Anthologies of the Damned brings together more than a dozen master storytellers per book, each weaving a unique and terrifying tale that will leave you jumping at shadows. Imagine Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark but written for grownups. Babysitter slashers, classic vampires, an author descending into madness, and gene spliced monstrosities. These stories and more! This set of spooky tales is a perfect read for Halloween, dark and stormy nights, or Sunday morning church, and will haunt your dreams, lingering long after the last page is turned.

Things have been peaceful at the Lucky Devil, but peace never lasts between technology and magic... It's been two months since Rune Leveau, aka Anna Masterson, survived the machinations of the Kodiak corporation. Chicago never sleeps, especially when the Masterson Files, the computer program with the impossible ability to cast spells, is still out there. The rest of the corporate overlords won't let that lie, and Rune is the key to that power. To make matters worse, the Magic Guild wants a word with the Finder while trouble in the form of the Faerie King comes calling at her bar. Now, it seems like every faction in the city is converging on Rune, trapping her in a crossfire of bullets and magic, hitmen and wizards. Just the right moment for St. Benedict, the deadly and handsome cyber-spy, to sweep back into Rune's life. Can Rune convince the Saint of Liars to help answer the most important question in her life: where is Justin Masterson? Even with the two joining forces, will Rune and Benedict make it out alive?

Rune Leveau, a young woman with a magical Talent for Finding things, is trying to keep her bar, The Lucky Devil, from being foreclosed. To save her bar, Rune decides to do some Finding gigs to earn extra money. Then a cyber-augmented corporate spy comes to ask her help with finding a wanted runaway criminal named Anna Masterson. The problem is Rune is Anna Masterson and he's not taking no for an answer. St. Benedict, a corporate spy for the Corinthe Corporation, has searched for the last six years for the Masterson Files, a computer program that is rumored to have cracked the code to allow computers to do the impossible, cast magic spells. Such a program would reshape the world. For his own reasons, he's determined to be the first to find it and the mysterious woman connected to it, Anna Masterson. Having exhausted his other options, he is left with a new hope that this Finder of the Lucky Devil can lead him to the prize he has sought for so long. But the Finder is proving difficult and he isn't going to take no for an answer. Set in an alternate Chicago, where technology and magic are in competition with each other, this fast paced Cat-and-Mouse chase makes The Finder of the Lucky Devil a welcome addition to your urban fantasy/cyberpunk library.

Contained within this anthology are dark stories and works of art that explore the shadow side of reality. They are disturbed works that journey hopelessly through the downtrodden fringes of society, across the deepest reaches of space, and into the darkest, most troubled corners of the mind. Enter if you must, but beware. The seventh issue of Dark Matter Magazine includes nine original dark science fiction stories, part one of a serialized novella, one poem, one reprint story, two art features, two interviews with industry leaders, an augmented reality cover, and dozens of full-color illustrations throughout. FEATURING "This Will Be the Most Vulnerable Post I've Ever Made" by Marissa van Uden "All the Sludge You Want to Drink" by Mary G. Thompson "Rundle 105" by Beth Goder "Starfish Pizza Party" by Nikki R. Leigh "Zombies Are Out, Mermaids Are In" by Ivy Grimes "Little Leviathan" by Michael Canfield "The Elsewhere Finger" by Bill Gusky "Midnight Sun" by Alex Woodroe Part one of serialized novella "Override" by Warren Benedetto Poem, "War Paint" by Gerri Leen Art feature story, "The Testimony of the Five Hundred" by Andy Dudak With reprint story, "Communist Computer Rap God" by Andrea Kriz A feature interview with legendary editor, Ellen Datlow; feature by Janelle Janson A interview with blockchain start-up Craft Network Augmented reality cover art by Rob Shields And interior art features by Rob Shields and Radiant Void Labs

Many years have passed since Elves defeated and killed the last Goblin king. Now the Goblins are growing stronger in their mire, and Mickle Gorestab, one of the few remaining veterans of that war, is determined they will fight once more, this time aided by a renegade Elf who has delved into forbidden sorcery and hates his kind even more than his Goblin allies. Murder, treachery and the darkest of all magics follow in a maelstrom of blood, violence and unexpected alliances. Facing up to the cold cruelty of the Elves, Mickle Gorestab stands out as the epitome of grim, barbaric heroism, determined to see the wrongs of his race avenged and a restoration of the Goblin King.

From the far flung edges of the universe to the forbidden crypt of a deathless god. A star faring nomad finds glory and despair among the timeless sands of a dying world... An exiled prince and an assassin plunder the sanctum of the most powerful necromancer in Uhremon... Unspeakable horrors await a fallen swordsman in a city of death... Six thrilling journies into the dark heart of fantasy and adventure.