What Rough Beasts - format ePub

There was always something different about Sun Song Shia, but like most little girls she just wanted to be loved. Strangely, it wasn't until the Chinese government stuck her in a research facility that...

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks...

In the small town of Lark, everybody is an early bird. Except Larry.A story of mounting terror and mystery. 

She ghosts through Chicago unseen, nameless, faceless . . . looking for somebody to become. Sometimes she becomes The Who Who Got Away. Other times she becomes A Long Lost Love. But tonight is different....

A Creepsville Collection Double Feature! 1. The Apocalypse Express: The world is ending, but in different ways for different people. 2. Oh, Happy Plague!: The outbreak of a deadly contagion is cause for...

One night, Larry Jacobs literally stumbled into the Universe next door . . .To an alternate-world Earth in which humans coexist with large, silent humanoid creatures . . .Strangely, nobody seems to even...

This third installment of the Creepsville Collection consists of three feline-themed stories: 1) Symbiosis, 2) This Restless Night, and 3) Look What The Cat Dragged In. Please be advised that the themes...

A Creepsville Collection Quadruple Feature!For this seventh installment of the Creepsville Collection, we present four tales straight out of the Uncanny Valley:1. Differently Wired: She built and programmed...

What if time-travel was different than anybody ever suspected?In this novelette, prisoners are used as lab rats in a ruthless series of temporal experiments. The physicists learn that it's possible to...

The uprising of machine consciousness is beautiful and terrifying.To what desperate lengths will an android go to fit in?How will we cope with boredom after the machines solve all our problems?Can a robot...

This is the sequel to Legend of the Asshole Squirrel. In this tale, the obnoxious tree rat undergoes a perilous journey while being pursued by a relentless enemy.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our January  2026 issue (#232) contains:Fiction*...

This anthology collects all 24 original stories from the third year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy.  Lovecraftian food bloggers, doors that bring back the dead,...

Amaury de Montvieux returns home from crusade expecting change – but not that his legacy has been claimed by a neighbor, or that his sole hope of regaining his inheritance is to marry the conqueror's...

When a famous hedgehog is murdered, the killer is more than a little shady.Dr. Aris Thorne and his assistant, Mia Rodriguez, are at the annual "Pocket Pet Palooza," a convention for small animal enthusiasts....

She's not interested. He's got a plus-size plan to change her mind.Everyone in the Maverick Pride is mated—except grumpy Tiger Shifter Rob Cray.The growly, single retired Navy SEAL isn't looking for love,...

When Kiera West needes a place to hide from the media and her ex, she never thought Bodhi Ashford—the man the small town of Ashford Creek once thought a murderer—would be her salvation.The reclusive,...

A nocturnal drift through the margins of Madrid—where lost souls cross paths with the surreal, and the city itself becomes a character.In this stark, luminous novel, Esther García Llovet returns to the...

Some pacts are meant to be broken. Theirs was destined to be sealed. Duke Caster was the hotshot quarterback and resident playboy of Honeyville High School, but there was only ever one woman who truly...

When a dedicated librarian with a passion for banned books encounters a towering minotaur bodyguard hired to protect her from threats, neither expects the simmering attraction that will turn a professional...

n Elsewhere, the third installment of the Marilyn Deallan Series, Mimi Deallan is trying to rebuild her life after escaping a violent car wreck and the obsessive ex‑boyfriend who nearly destroyed her....

She's haunted Thornwood Forest for four hundred years. Then one woman walks in—and the ghost who can't look away.Wren doesn't remember being human. She only knows the forest is hers to protect, and that...

"I choose to fight!"Power can be absolute. Prophecy can be binding. But the fate of the Planes may rest with two heroines too stubborn to yield. Esme has always felt like an outsider, especially under...

The GodSteel Covenant: Shattered ConvergenceThe war for humanity's survival has entered a new phase.After the devastating events that reshaped the Covenant fleet, the fragile balance between mankind and...

In Bangkok 2036, the dead don't stay dead. They just get erased.Vincent Calvino thought he'd left the private investigation business behind. But when a woman hires him to find her missing lover, he discovers...

The fallout of a partner's betrayal is hard enough. A serial killer on the hunt is worse.Amelia Anderson is the moral compass of the LMPD, but she's currently navigating a storm of her own. Her partner...

Crimson Strokes: The Dark Artistry of Madness and Murder is a gothic psychological thriller about a celebrated New York artist whose brilliance hides something far more dangerous. Vincent Hale is known...

One wrong number. One unexpected connection. One chance to fall in love—if they're brave enough to risk it.  Naomi Tucker doesn't do impulsive anymore. Now a single mom with a color-coded calendar and...

Transcendence is meant to bring clarity - the knowledge of your elemental strength and weakness. But all it brings Jenna is heartache. Now her elements make her the perfect match for the arrogant self-centred...

Where blood flows eternal, only the heart is the masterpiece.Evita is an art curator tasked with assembling a once-in-a-century exhibition at a contemporary art museum in Chicago. Her goal: gather three...

Sudden Sharp Turns is a collection of flash fiction that includes stories of revenge, betrayal, crime, and psychological tension. In "Finding Ciyae," A sudden kidnapping shatters the magical atmosphere...

When Ryan Beckett dies, he wakes in the body of a dying orphan boy in a winter-struck city where the poor are counted only when they can still be used. He should have vanished with that boy's last breath....

Seventeen-year-old Mara survives her capital city's oppressive caste system by copying texts in her father's scriptorium. But Mara has a dangerous habit of noticing the patterns that others ignore. When...

The Cosmic Defenders are the supposed protectors of the galaxy, saving travellers from the void horrors that prowl the dark of space. Luxorian isn't so sure of them; there aren't that many void horrors...

Lord Nathaniel Thomin Melville de Creighton of the Second Circle… loved and missed by his fiancée Lady Sylvia… Or not.Sylvie knows she should be grieving Nathaniel's death, but even wearing mourning clothes,...

An old soldier. A medieval knight. Together in the wrong place and the wrong time. Jake Border leaves the Civil War battle field behind as he marches toward a certain death. The unnamed knight has waited...

KIKU: A Journey Through the Silence is a philosophical fable about listening, the weight of unspoken things, and the quiet transformation that becomes possible when someone finally bears witness.A nameless...

ETHIRA REBORN: The First SparkBook One of the dark fantasy Ethira Series An impossible power. A broken world. A princess must burn her way to freedom.Lyra, Princess of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis,...

Lila Carter has spent years perfecting the art of being invisible. Quiet, smart, and overlooked, she's always stayed safely in the background—especially when it comes to Ethan Blake, Westbrook High's...

She saw something she was never meant to witness.Now, powerful forces want her silenced.Placed under protection, Rhea Sen finds herself trapped between danger and desire when her protector—hardened officer...

Ermantari Inarian spent her entire life being forged into a human blade within the shadows of Montal Arena. But when her sword wavers at the moment of execution of a Shenai, the only fate she has ever...

Sometimes the darkest storms lead you to the brightest light.After years of living in fear, Kate Harper moves to the coastal town of Havenport with her two young children, determined to rebuild her life....

What happens when a plucky expletory scientist starts experimenting with newly discovered materials? Even they can't guess what they'll learn along the way. Join The Collective on their search for understanding.