The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

YOU DON'T HAVE TO FACE THE WITCH HOUSE ALONE Jayla Jackson is a witch. Or is she? She dresses in black, has zero friends, is super-smart, and doesn't fit in. But that doesn't make her a witch… …right? When...

You need to write, I told the newbie writers at the writer's conference. Unused gifts turn to poison. What I didn't tell them was that I was currently drinking that poison myself. Liz Hicks is a mystery...

A haunting tale of a monster who lived inside mirrors, and the ghost he left behind when he died… What would you do to get rid of an abusive ghost? When Michael's father died, he left behind a grown-up...

What makes the fae so terrifying is how subtle they are… One foggy night, Lee Warnick waits for her dad to come home from the factory. Lately, more and more people have been disappearing from her small...

What would it mean, to truly believe in yourself…if your future self could travel through time? Angie has left her past behind, keeping only the slightest of ties with her sister, a brilliant mathematician...

REVENGE IS BEST SERVED FOR DESSERT. With her first cooking class (as a teacher!!!) coming up, her catering business starting to take off, and her heart starting to recover from her divorce, Sam Genoise...

Dames, detectives, and deception…magic meets the decadence of the Roaring Twenties in ten tales of glitter and jazz. The year is 1929. It's two months after the financial collapse on Wall Street, and...

Her daughter went through an alien portal......but only her body came back. Three alien portals open on Earth, leading to unknown worlds.The first portal leads to a world of ice and snow.The second portal...

What's the matter, Jake? Chicken? It's Halloween. Just over a month ago, Jake's brother Dave died in Afghanistan, killed by an IED bomb. Now Jake is going trick or treating, dressed like a solder. Dressed...

When things look darkest, it's time to dance… Connor McDevitt has a talent: reading fortunes. It's not exactly going to waste; on Saturdays he tells fortunes as Doctor Rudolfo at the local toys and games...

Fiction Writers: Lost? Stuck? Stressed? What writer hasn't asked themselves how they will know when their story is ready to publish? Or how to handle feedback about their stories? Or what to do if they...

I offered her a ticket to Wonderland… …but that ticket came with an unexected price. Let me tell you this right now. I'm not a good person. So when I promise to meet someone at five a.m. in the morning...

It's the end of the world and my daughter is worried that we'll be late for the circus … The worst has happened and the zombie apocalypse has destroyed civilization as we know it, trapping people in the...

Driving halfway across the country, somewhere north of New Orleans, bored, radio dead, and your passenger asleep. The phone buzzes with a new text message. Escaping a bad marriage is difficult. If you...

Vlad keeps so many secrets that they surround him like a cloak of mist:  one secret hides another, protects another.  He’s a gay man in Volgograd, Russia…and a drug dealer…and a vedmak, a witch, who can...

Secrets:  Everybody's got one or two...Even before the stock market crash of 1929, Eliza lives in a world of secrets as a legal secretary to a wizened old lawyer in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.  If...

Sometimes a book comes out of your soulYou're taking a train ride from Alabama to the Chinatown in San Francisco to be with your mother, who is dying of cancer.  The year is sometime in the 1920s.  A...

At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it's on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes.  At the end of the bridge are the fairies…Della...

SPOOKY SHORT FICTION - PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal...

It took her husband's death in order to get the money to buy their first, brand-new house......and now it's haunted by someone Julie's never met.Julie moves into her brand-new house in her brand-new housing...

The house was creepy. No getting around that. Windows covered on the inside with tinfoil so nobody could look in. And barred on the outside so nobody could get out. KEEP OUT and BEWARE OF DOGS signs everywhere....

It was a town of a hundred and eleven souls out in the middle of nowhere, Wyoming.  After Jeremy Quick disappeared, a hundred and ten. Private investigator Linda Crow has been called in by Jeremy Quick's...

A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong?A group of women hold a seance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the...

Pink-haired goth Tiff Cordero isn't a witch.  She's a clairaliant, someone who smells spirits. And she's been hired to sniff out a ghost who has recently started to give migraines to the patrons of a...

Fiction writer?  Feeling like you should be getting some writing done but somehow not getting anywhere? Want to write something but don't have the brain to decide what? Want to try something new? First,...

Can't drink the water, can't drive around the potholes, can't sleep for gunshots at night, can't trust the locks on your doors. But you can trust the creepy white van that's been parking around your neighborhood...

An Urban Fantasy / Women's Fantasy Fiction Short StoryAn urban explorer breaks into what was once the United States' "most haunted asylum" in order to test a theory that people will only sense ghosts...

Once upon a time...Napoléon Buonoparte did not ally himself with the armies of France during the French Revolution, but sought power instead in Britain, where his subtlety and planning was met with reticience...

What does normal even mean...and why does it seem so fake?Let me tell you...31 tales of normal things gone wrong. Everything from coffee to gift cards to having friends over. 31 innocuous, even delightful...