Weirdbook returns with another jam-packed issue full of great fantasy and horror tales! Included this time are: Stories • Tonight I Wear My Crimson Face, by Adrian Cole • The House of the Witches, by Darrell Schweitzer • The Bones, by Erica Ruppertabout • The Idols of Xan, by Steve Dilks • Conjurings, by Marlane Quade Cook • Matriarch Unbound, by Glynn Owen Barrass • The Mouth at the Edge of the World, by Luke Walker • “An Autumn Settling”, by Alistair Rey • I Know How You’ll Die, by K.G. Anderson • Fair Shopping, by Jack Lee Taylor • Black Aggie, by Marina Favila • The Chroma of Home, by Arasibo Campeche • The Last Resort, by Dean MacAllister • The Crypt Beneath the Manse, by S. Subramanian • A Winter Reunion, by C.M. Muller • The Stravinsky Code, by Leonard Carpenter • She Talks to Me, by Matthew Masucci • Wings of Twilight, by L.F. Falconer • A Pantheon of Trash, by Thomas C. Mavroudis • Juliet’s Moon, by D.C. Lozar • The Gargoyle’s Wife, by Jean Graham • The Melting Man, by Justin Boote • Dead Waves, by Sean McCoy • The Proposal, by J.D. Brink • Dark Energy, by Kevin Hayman • Christmas at Castle Dracula, by S. L. Edwards • There Was Fire, by M. Ravenberg • Them, by Sharon Cullars • For Love of Lythea, by C. I. Kemp Poetry • Beltane, by K.A. Opperman • Twin Hungers, by Scott J. Couturier • The Jackal, by Ashley Dioses • Our Family Ghost, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson • Le Gargoyle, by Russ Parkhurst

Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals, and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelievable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up, and he's twenty-five years old.Okay. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled by the Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs are still around. Still somehow fighting. Or if he's really on his own...

Weirdbook #36 presents another great assortment of stories and poems in the Weird Tales tradition: fantasy, horror, sword & sorcery, and the just plain unclassifiable find a home here! Included are: Burn on the Bayou, by L.F. Falconer The Mumbler, by Gillian French Cleric at Sentinel Hill, by Franklyn Searight Whores and Criminals, by Dean Macallister The Quiet on the Water, by C. C. Adams The Haggard Brothers Go to Town, by James Pratt The Awakening, by Megan Neumann Dead Line, by D.C. Lozar The Waterman’s Song, by MB Vigil Maleficium, by Kelly Gould The Green Dome, by Joe DiCicco We Who Walk on Worlds, by Matt Sullivan Insect Song, by William Tea The Harvest Moon Festival, by Gigi Eng Like Falling Snow, by W.D. Clifton The Oldest Story, by S. L. Edwards Geronimo Versus Frankenstein, by Neal Privett The Black-and-White Dozen, by Chris Kuriata Omzetten, by C.M. Muller Vandegald’s Globes, by Jeremy Hayes

"Ruppert is a master of atmosphere...it’s impossible to tell exactly when the comfortable reality she presents morphs into something strange, terrifying, and terrible"—Publishers Weekly In the twenty-one stories in Imago and Other Transformations there is faith, found and lost again. There are eldritch horrors and profane rituals. And there are characters caught in circumstances they thought they could control. A woman discovers the cost of the magic to resurrect her lost child. A husband struggles against hungry, old gods to win back his missing wife. A child wields a dangerous power his mother had long hoped to harness for her own. Plagues spread. Cities crumble. And the world that ends for some still goes on…

The first Weirdbook Annual -- The Witches MEGAPACK® -- presents a selection of all-new tales of witches! Included this time are: "Thou Shalt Not Suffer," by Matt Neil Hill "No Holds Bard," by Adrian Cole "Laying the Hairy Book," by Josh Reynolds "Here Is Where Your Proud Waves Halt," by Erica Ruppert "Vicious Circles," by Paul Dale Anderson "Assorted Shades of Red," by Franklyn Searight "Strange Days in Old Yandrissa," by John R. Fultz "Fertility Rites," by Glynn Owen Barrass "The Witch’s Heart," by Rachel Bolton "Hag Race," by Andre E. Harewood "Best Friend Becky," by Wayne Faust "The Rat in the Rabbit Cage," by Ashley Dioses "Two Spells," by Neva Bryan "Pulled Over," by Paul Spears "The Witch of Skur," by L.F. Falconer "Cat and Mouse," by Duane Pesice "Last of the Ashiptu," by Paul Lubaczewski "Firestorm," by Richard H. Durisen "The Witch of Pender," by John Linwood Grant "The Nora Witch," by Brandon Jimison "The Broken Witch," by Scott Hutchison Plus poetry by Maurits Zwankhuizen, Lucy A. Snyder, David F. Daumit, S.L. Edwards, Lori R. Lopez, Frederick J. Mayer, K.A. Opperman, Clay F. Johnson, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Oliver Smith, Darla Klein If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Every year, WEIRDBOOK Magazine publishes a collection of short stories to thrill and delight readers worldwide. This year, we challenged authors to come up with memorable takes on the zombie theme, and the result is this fantastic collection of 34 original stories. Included are: The Meddler, by Matthew John Tiger Girls vs. the Zombies, by Lucy A. Snyder Dead Between the Eyes, by Adrian Cole Alive Again, by Franklyn Searight The Night Hans Kroeger Came Back, by Kenneth Bykerk The Marching Dead, by Andrew Darlington I Wished for Zombies, by D.C. Lozar O Mary Don’t You Mourn, by Mike Chinn To Die, To Sleep, No More, by Erica Ruppert Run, Monster, Run, by Teasha Seitz Another Night in Bayou Sauvage, by Chad Hensley Kifaro, by Dilman Dila But I Love Him, by Scott Wheelock Who Wants to Live Forever?, by Angela Yuriko Smith The Dead Are Always Hungry, by Christopher Alex Ray Zen Zombies, by R. A. Smith Cassius Max, by KT Morley A Nanotech Samsara, by J.N. Cameron Pine in the Soul, by John Linwood Grant “Welcome Home”, by Craig E. Sawyer Papa Hanco, by Ed Reyes They Shall Eat Dust, by Josh Reynolds In Shadow Valley, by Nick Swain Devil’s Bargain, by by J.F. Le Roux Right for You Now, by Andrew Jennings E’Zunguth, the Zombie God, by Maxwell I. Gold Lazy River, by Kelly Piner The New Human, by Shayne K. Keen This Little Piggy, by EV Knight Life Unworthy of Life, by Stephanie Ellis More Blood, by Carson Ray This Creeping Cold, by Kevin Rees The Body I Used to Be, by Scott Edelman Queen of Hearts, by S.E. Lindberg Plus poetry by Ashley Dioses, Avra Margariti, Josh Maybrook, Darrell Schweitzer, Lori R. Lopez, Allan Rozinski, K.A. Opperman, Gregg Chamberlain, Robert Borski, David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Colleen Anderson, and David C. Kopaska-Merkel.

Embark on adventures to discover stories about science, magic, the tarot, Haitian vodou, the clash of epistemologies, and addiction. These stories are about people trying to control their environment, their sense of self, even the smallest of things within their power… …and failing.