When Mandy Johnson first glimpses a premonition of her body crushed on the tracks of a Toronto subway, fearful of her own mortality, she abdicates responsibility of her life to a tiny piece of Death. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair ...
The life of Jane Austen takes a parallel course when a rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgment. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about hi...
Celia was that girl, every bar has one, the strange girl, the beautiful girl, the untouchably perfect girl. When Ernie learns her secret--that she can invest her lovers with the spirits of dead authors--he must choose between true love and literar...
A graduate student studying abroad at the University of Oxford encounters the ghost of Geoffrey Chaucer after a one-night stand with her rival. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fi...
A plague spreads around the world turning people into the pieces of art they cannot but help imitate. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about hi...
The intertwined lives of a child seeking release from the world and a writer haunted by the death of his lover converge in the city of Brasilia. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of f...
Marissa must come to grips with the dangerously seductive stranger her estranged parents invite into her home. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables...
A journey to Croatia to visit his sister's new in-laws fills Jonah with a terrible hunger that threatens to consume all he knows and loves. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fiftee...
Gwendolyn, once the caretaker of the ancient estate of Hardwick Hall which she abandoned to travel to London and find a new life, is called back to complete one final duty. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this shor...
What begins as a tourist vacation for Rebecca and John becomes something darker when John finds the body of his missing wife buried amongst the bones of the catacombs beneath Paris. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, ...
A divorced husband finds love in an unexpected place after his wife replaces her heart with a tiny clock. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables abou...
When a young academic confronts the mass genocide underwriting her own intellectual inheritance, she comes to question the value of knowledge at the expense of human life. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short...
A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the beginning of the universe. From Aurora Award-winner Helen Marshall's Hair Side, Flesh Side, this short story is one of a set of fifteen quirky and cutting parables about hi...
A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her ski...
Sometimes a game, even a sacred game, can have far-reaching consequences. In bear country young Skye learns just how far she is willing to go to play the game properly in order carry on the traditions that came before her and will most likely continu...
Ghost thumbs. Microscopic dogs. One very sad can of tomato soup . . . Helen Marshall’s second collection offers a series of twisted surrealities that explore the legacies we pass on to our children. A son seeks to reconnect with his father throu...
Showcasing the finest weird fiction published 2016, volume 4 of the Year's Best Weird Fiction is our biggest and most ambitious volume to date. Acclaimed editors Helen Marshall and Michael Kelly bring their editorial acumen to the fourth volume of...
Finalist for the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic"A dark fable that somehow feels both timeless and urgently topical. The Migration is heart-wringing and powerful, but over and above that, it's just vivid and imme...
From the World Fantasy Award-winning author Helen Marshall comes a collection of critical writing focused on the evolution of writing, horror, and the weird tale. Within this volume you'll find an interrogation of the radical poetics of M. John Harri...
A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge. For readers of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox.A dark fantasy tale infused with mystery and threat...