Artemis lives on the streets of London, getting by on her wits, her light fingers, and part-time work cleaning up crime scenes. She thought she’d seen it all, but her latest clean-up is brutal: an artist has been torn apart in his studio, and his limbs used to paint strange symbols on the walls in blood and gristle.

Trapped on a mysterious island, Abra and her group must fight not only for survival but against the twisted games designed to break them—before they break each other.

In the dim corridors of imagination where reality and possibility converge, an extraordinary anthology emerges. This collection of dark speculative poetry traverses the surreal landscapes of the unknown and the unthinkable. Here, the traditional boundaries of genre dissolve, giving way to a realm where the eerie, the fantastical, and the macabre intermingle in verse. Each poem in this compilation is a journey into the depths of the extraordinary. Readers will encounter dystopian visions, cosmic horrors, and eerie tales of otherworldly beings. The verses weave a tapestry of narratives, exploring the shadowy corners of the mind, the unexplored frontiers of the universe, and the hidden crevices of our own Earth. Crafted by a diverse array of poets, these pieces blend the lyrical with the unsettling, the ethereal with the grotesque. Themes of existential dread, forbidden knowledge, and the thin veil between reality and nightmare pervade the pages, inviting the reader to question what they know and fear. This anthology is a celebration of the weird, the uncanny, and the speculative. It is an invitation to embark on a poetic odyssey into realms untold, a journey that promises to leave the reader both entranced and haunted. Step into a world where poetry becomes the medium for the strange and the speculative, and allow your imagination to soar into the darkness.

Bunny butchers, lunatic lagomorphs, cut-throat cottontails, evil Easter bunnies, poisonous pikas, and all manner of arduous alliterative animal anecdotes compiled by the Hell Hare Submission Reader:

The Black Hare Press YEAR FIVE anthology is a culmination of all the nano-tales published in the Dark Moments online archive during 2023, and the PATREON stories.

The Black Hare Press YEAR FOUR anthology is a cumulation of all the nano-tales published in the Dark Moments online archive during 2022, and the PATREON stories.

The Black Hare Press YEAR THREE anthology is a cumulation of all the nano-tales published in the Dark Moments online archive during 2021, and the PATREON stories.

We all have a fascination for things that scare us—the thrill, the heart-stopping jump scares, the terrifying suspense. From the youngest age, we’re fascinated by the fiendish and furry, the creepiest critters, the naughty and the nasty. Horror is all around us, from the clowns who hide under our bed, to the things we might drag up from the brook at the bottom of the garden, and the zombies who crawl our streets. As author, Megan Feehley, so beautifully says; there is beauty just before the terror…a silken breath taken before the spill of righteousness…the warmth of a licking flame preceding the scald. So, close the drapes, check the locks, turn on all the lights and get comfortable. But don’t close your eyes…

In tilled fields and echoing caverns, in fungal grottos and dank mineshafts, and in the heart of the forest, evil lurks. Can a group of campers escape from a cave that is more than just a cave? What lurks in the greenhouse of a leading botanist, recently found dead? Is there any hope for the man who follows the girl of his dreams into a nightmarish, subterranean nest? And what is Harrow? Eerie River Publishing presents the Element Cycle: Book One, stories specially selected to terrify and torment

Noctivagant Press is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the world of the fantastical – a compilation of prose, poetry and visual art by authors and artists from across the world. Do you want to escape the 'real' and go into the dark to travel beyond the veil, landing in imaginary worlds? At Noctivagant Press, we aim to allow fantasy to spill over the boundaries into the mundane. Come and join us as we get lost in everything from the traditional to the obscure, and cross over the threshold into the sublunary.

Best Women's Short Fiction 2023 showcases the entire shortlist from our Short Story and Flash Fiction competitions: a total of 24 extraordinary narratives.