A new anthology of dark speculative fiction is out from Undertow Publications. Find out what we think of select stories and dare to dive in yourself! With everything happening this summer, dark spec fic might be just what the doctor ordered.
Read more"Thin Places" by Kay Chronister: A Review
Cover art for Thin Places by Kay Chronister. Image description: A veiled woman stands alone in a darkening room. Cover art by Stephen Mackey. Cover design by Vince Haig.
You won’t want to miss this haunting debut collection. Thin Places by Kay Chronister available now from Undertow Publications.
Read more"All The Things We Never See" by Michael Kelly: A Review
Cover art for All The Things We Never See. Art by David Álvarez Design by Vince Haig. Description: black and white drawing of three men huddled in one large jacket, only their eyes and noses are visible, they look like they are up to something. Book title printed on the jacket in yellow dots.
Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.
Read moreOn Loving Monsters and The Human Condition
Description: A fox headed woman holds surgical scissors like a knife in front of the darkened open door way that reveals the story collection title. Book Cover of Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro. Art by Stephen Mackey. Jacket Design by Vince Haig.
A Review of the excellent Sing Your Sadness Deep by British Fantasy Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro.
Read more"This House of Wounds" by Georgina Bruce: A Review
The beautiful and utterly dangerous cover art for This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce. Original artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein, jacket design by Vince Haig. A beautifully dressed pale white woman wearing a masquerade mask, her hair adorned with fancy flowers, face serene and rib cage exposed and filled with flowers.
If you are interested in the themes of mirrors and mothers, bodies as machines, daughters and madness, flowers and blood, then Georgina Bruce’s debut story collection is for you!
Read moreAverting Literary Extinction Events: An Appreciation of Undertow Publications
Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume Five Edited by Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly
Undertow Publications is a small press that has won the Shirley Jackson award for best edited anthology. Their lauded anthology, Year’s Best Weird Fiction went from endangered to extinct with Volume 5. Come celebrate this beautiful volume and learn about this press, which despite this set back, has amazing books on offer this year.
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