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World Literature
This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder -- compiled by the Anthony Award-winning crime fiction editor. This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery... See More
Poetry & Drama
Wuxing is the name of the traditional philosophy that explains a wide range of cosmic phenomena including astrology and the horoscopes that influence human behaviour. Chinese astrology incorporates twelve animal symbols and... See More
Poetry & Drama
Light verse about animals, plants and minerals. Also a few poems about fungi, bacteria and archea. We share the world with many forms of life, and we stand on the world while sharing it, and to sing the praises of what is... See More
Literary Fiction
A mini-saga is a complete story with a beginning, middle and ending but done in exactly 50 words. The form was invented by Brian Aldiss in the 1980s and has since become one of the most popular and significant microfiction... See More
Poetry & Drama
A slim book of poems about the thwarted passions of implausible and even impossible lovers who nonetheless manage to get it together thanks to some timely and snappy advice. Star-crossed, moon-spangled, kiss-splattered... See More
Horror
Twenty twisted and terrifying tales of headbanging heavy metal horror by the genre's most talented writers. Stories to shock, scare, and haunt you with Heavy Metal Nightmares. Power metal, black metal, death metal, doom... See More
Horror
A collection of short stories inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. These stories are not parodies or pastiches but darkly ironic fantasies that connect with the Mythos at a tangent. Open-minded devotees of... See More
Humour & Satire
A book of implausible adventures featuring absurdities, anachronisms, exaggerations, outrageous puns, pirates, mythological beings, giant cups of tea, gingersnap moons, and the occasional metafictional trick. Travel with... See More
Poetry & DramaQuirky poetry in the light-hearted tradition of Richard Brautigan, Don Marquis, Hilaire Belloc, Blaise Cendrars and Edward Lear. 133 verses and prose poems ranging in length from one-sentence quips to absurdist ballads... See More
Fantasy
Tired of being given good advice in fables and parables by wise men, sages and gurus? Why not try Rhysop's Fables instead, a set of 207 unhelpful and irresponsible fables? There are no messages here telling you how best to... See More
Fantasy
A bumper book of exactly 100 stories by a cult writer who has been highly praised by Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Bishop, Brian Aldiss and many others. The 'Tellmenow Isitsöornot' was a nonexistent book of... See More
Humour & Satire
These talking dogs are on a mission to steal your hearts! (And any beef jerky you have lying around.) At Ludlow Charlingtons Coffee Shop in Chicago, eleven ornate portraits of contemporary dogs dressed in historical... See More
Horror
New extraordinary fiction for extraordinary times. Here are 34 stories and one poem that anticipate possible futures that - with coronavirus currently creating havoc around the world - may not be too far from the truth... See More
British & Irish
From the dawn of time to the present day; crime is an unavoidable by-product of our human existence. Visit the cave of the world's first detective; pass through the blitz-torn London streets; explore the pitfalls of the... See More
Fantasy
Five Great Books in One. EYELIDIAD. THE POSTMODERN MARINER, THE STICKY SITUATIONS OF ZWICKY FINGERS, THE JUST NOT SO STORIES. THE CRYSTAL COSMOS. "Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet's literature... As well as... See More
Short Stories
Milkwood is not a nice place to be. With the passing of generations, it has curdled. At night it casts a buttery light on the moon. Fortunately, all the action in this book occurs elsewhere. It mostly happens in a warped... See More
Fantasy
The Mediterranean is a liquid road connecting places and people. Ships, words and stories travel on its waves. Sometimes fantastic creatures, hidden in the hold. The Mediterranean speaks many languages; some of them we don't... See More
Anthologies
An illustrated volume of cat stories and poems by cult author Rhys Hughes written over the past two decades and collected together for the very first time. Do you want to know what happened when Pushkin came to Shovekin; or... See More
Humour & SatireZwicky Fingers is a giant fruit bat detective who lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. He is often consulted by the police force when there are paradoxical, lateral or impossible crimes to be solved. His... See More
Action & Adventure
In these twelve stories you have it all: from Simon Kurt Unsworth's gripping tale to Paul Lewis's eerie Cthulhuic River of Bones, the diabolic The Damnation Gate to a blood-curdling yarn from Ian Millsted. There is sci-fi to... See More
Horror
A collection of thirteen ghostly, gothic, lovecraftian and weird fantasy stories in the ironic mode... Tentacle telephones that span centuries, men grown in jars, rivers overflowing with the tears of ghosts, phantom twins... See More
Poetry & Drama
Who are the Corybantic Fulgours? They are monsters. They live in a room, a room as large as the inside of the Moon, and in this room there are all sorts of ways and means, odds and ends, curves and bends, and no one but no... See More
Literary Fiction
New adventures of the famous sailor. Sinbad visits strange islands, dips beneath the sea to meet mermaids, is shipwrecked and rescued and shipwrecked again, finds a message in a bottle that tells a most remarkable story and... See More
Horror
The story of a very strange house and the staircase within it that leads to another world where mythical monsters are real and forces of immense power gamble with all our destinies. "'The World Beyond the Stairwell' may... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A Celebration of William Hope Hodgson's Famous Occult Detective Few if any classic detectives in fiction have spawned so many later pastiches and homages as William Hope Hodgson's Carnacki the Ghost Finder. Whilst Sherlock... See More
Crime, Thriller & MysteryIn this anthology of twenty-two crime stories there are crooks and crooked cops, lost and missing persons, those running and those hiding, femme fatales, avocados, downbeat PIs, deadbeat insurance investigators, hotel... See More
Short StoriesEmbark on a cerebral odyssey into the realms of the infinite with: ADVENTURES WITH IMMORTALITY - Short Tales of Longevity In this thought-provoking collection, Rhys Hughes unveils eleven mesmerizing narratives that delve... See More
Fantasy
You've met the students of magic schools, but what about the staff? What is it like to work in a magic school, to teach students and serve as their mentors and disciplinarians and everything else young minds need? We know... See More
Satire
It may come as no surprise that France wants to take over the world again. But this time they plan to go much further and gain control of the spiritual dimensions too, making French the official language of the... See More
Genre FictionOnline Flash/Micro Fiction Edition Includes stories by Rhys Hughes, D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward Lawson, Sean Kilpatrick, Mike Young, Corey Mesler, Andersen Prunty, Cameron Pierce, Amelia Gray, Caleb Ross, Forrest... See More