An anthology gathering new voices in contemporary horror and dark fantasy. Selected through an open submission process, its diverse writers explore curses, folklore, nightmares, and strange futures in distinct voices.

This book of shadows is shaped by new voices of fear rather than familiar lineups.

An anthology gathering new voices in contemporary horror and dark fantasy. Selected through an open submission process, its diverse writers explore curses, folklore, nightmares, and strange futures in distinct voices.

This book of shadows is shaped by new voices of fear rather than familiar lineups.

The novel follows Cassie, a woman born with her stomach twisted into a knot, through a life rendered by alternating everyday scenes and surreal imagery. Through a meat farm, city work, love, and illness, it asks how women’s bodies are seen and wounded by society.

The knot in the body becomes the pain the world ties to womanhood itself.

The novelette Luminous Body condenses transformation and unease through images of body and light. No standalone trade book edition was confirmed, while the award site records it as the winner in the novelette category.

When the body becomes luminous, transformation begins to carry both beauty and fear.

After his father loses his job, young Gideon moves to the family sheep farm of Ormeshadow. The hill is said to hold a sleeping dragon, and as family conflict fuses with local myth, the coming-of-age story turns into one of secrets and violence.

The legend of a dragon sleeping in the land awakens family silence and resentment.

Kali_Na begins with an AI goddess assaulted by online hatred from the moment she is born. By joining mythic imagery with digital violence, the story explores faith, aggression, and desire in networked society.

The goddess is born not in a temple but in a network flowing with hatred.

Brian Evenson’s collection gathers stories of collapsing perception: a newborn without a face, a filmmaker obsessed with silence, a therapist who appears impossibly in a patient’s room. Doubt, delusion, and self-deception form the core of the horror.

The sound of the world unraveling comes from places where everyone believes themselves sane.