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World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker Award winning writer STEVE RASNIC TEM's short fiction has been compared to the work of Franz Kafka, Dino Buzzati, Ray Bradbury, and Raymond Carver. Onion Songs gathers work from the absurdist side of his massive oeuvre, with 5 previously unpublished fictions and another 37 reprinted tales.

Antic world-traveller, deKlend, is in search of the holy city of Votu, where time runs backwards and gangs of scavenging Pigeon Girls and Rabbit Girls are locked in strange rivalries. Celebrant is a sweeping fantasy of pilgrimage and reincarnation, and a travellers' guide to altered states of geography. The lives of the characters in this dream-adventure intersect like the architecture of an Escher woodcut.

Member is the account of how Thanks (the narrator) "accidentally recruited" himself into "the cosmic game of Chorncendantra." On a night stroll, he finds himself behind another walker who apparently dies and recovers. The bag carried by the unknown Lazarus passes into his possession. Investigating, he discovers that it contains a dimensional hole to another world. By accident or design, as bearer of the bag, he is now a courier, carrying messa...

In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, and disappears. So begins an adventure that quantum-leapfrogs time, place, singularities, and Quests.

Cryptic and potent languages, bizarre cults, mysteries that span thegulf between life and death, occult influences that reverberate throughhistory like a dying echo, irresistible cosmic decay, forces of nightmarethat distort reality itself, gateways to worlds where esoteric knowledgerots the future.Here, from Mark Samuels, the author of Glyphotech and OtherMacabre Processes and modern exemplar of mystical horror, is a collectionof tales that f...

Cardigan is heading east through the night-bleak cities of America and back to confront the past he has never escaped, as a resident of Zimms, an orphanage-cum-asylum and a true palace of dementia. En route, Cardigan meets bounty hunters, ghosts, ghouls, a talking rat, even a merman, and struggles to decide which will lead him from damnation.

The debut collection from Luke Geddes, I Am a Magical Teenage Princess celebrates and re-examines popular culture from the 1960s onwards, magnifying such icons as Betty and Veronica and Wonder Woman through a literary lens of wit and pathos.

In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears...So begins an 'adwentour' that quantum-leapfrogs from Central Asia in the Middle Ages to Russia under Gorbachev, from the secrets of confectionery to the agonies of making a truly great moustache, from ma...

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