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Cover for Bones of Connection by Bonnie Elizabeth, a tale with animal familiars, featuring a black cat stepping through a magical portal

Animal Familiars, Found Courage: Bones of Connection by Bonnie Elizabeth

When the world you knew starts slipping away, sometimes it’s the animals who remember you best. Or help you remember yourself. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. About Bones of Connection What happens when an ordinary job interview turns into a life-altering revelation? After a heart-breaking […]

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Cover of Run!! Creatures, Critters, and Pulphousers… edited by Dean Wesley Smith, filled with pure Pulphouse mayhem, featuring a cross-eyed monster

Pure Pulphouse Mayhem: Run!! Creatures, Critters, and Pulphousers… edited by Dean Wesley Smith

You don’t read a Pulphouse story expecting it to behave. This collection doesn’t even pretend to try. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. About Run!! Creatures, Critters, and Pulphousers… Take your wildest imagination, and you might just come up with a Pulphouser: a rare creature only

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Cover art for Unexpected Critters by Annie Reed, featuring magical animal stories and a squirrel peering through a window.

Unexpected Critters by Annie Reed: Magical Animal Stories With Heart

Sometimes magic shows up in the unlikeliest creatures. These stories of magical animal creatures follow the ones who don’t quite fit—and the people who stumble across them. One of many creature-filled tales in the Wee Beasties StoryBundle, curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. About Unexpected Critters From a mouse with a compulsion to paint the monster

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100 Best Gothic Stories

So hear me out: I think that modern Gothic fiction depends on not just rehashing old Gothic tropes, but including elements from the modern Goth subculture. Reviewing recent novels that are labeled strictly as Gothic leads to a certain paucity of choices, a sense of the same stories being told over and over out of

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