Hayley Chewins’s fantasy novel "The Sisters of Straygarden Place" is filled with magic and danger—and love that overcomes all. The Ballastian sisters seem to have everything they need, including a magic house that feeds them. But... Read More

In Keith Rosson’s chilling novel "Road Seven", two men set out in search of the unknown, but karma catches up to them. Mark is a disgraced cryptozoologist who’s eager to leave the country; he hopes to escape the darkness of his past.... Read More

"Brass Carriages and Glass Hearts" relocates a classic fairy tale into an imagined future packed with airships, automated carriages, vampires, and corsets. Although nominally a Cinderella story, this novel remixes that tale’s familiar... Read More

R. B. Lemberg spins a world of singing gods, desert nomads, and magic humming in the wind in "The Four Profound Weaves", the first novella set in their Birdverse universe. Uiziya, a transgender woman in her sixties, is an aspiring master... Read More

Collecting Lars Brown’s three-part web comic series in color, "The Complete Penultimate Quest" uses a fantasy setting to probe deep existential questions. On a remote island, Harald prepares to go adventuring in a dungeon with his two... Read More

In a purgatorial village that’s dwindled to nine members—all of whom were traumatized in a mountainous “city of suffering”—change is brewing. Shawn Smucker’s "These Nameless Things" is an enigmatic allegory on post-traumatic... Read More

In Sten Nadolny’s masterful "The Joy of Sorcery", magic, love, and family illuminate a tragic time in world history. Pahroc is the sorcerer son of a Paiute Indian man and a Berliner woman. In a series of letters to his young... Read More

"Awaken the Three" is an epic fantasy tale of creation and destruction, of gods and mortals. The gods are never far away in "Awaken the Three", D. L. Jennings’s second novel in the series. The peoples of Derenar, Gal’Dorok, and the... Read More