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Warhol Gang
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Has the World Ended Yet? Tales to Astonish
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The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross)
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Has the World Ended Yet?
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Deja Yu Makes the Pain Go Away: A Story
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The Wonder Lands War (Book of Cross)
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #444
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The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (The Book of Cross 1)
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Beat the Geeks: A Story
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The Heavy Light of the Drowned now available
My weird horror tale “The Heavy Light of the Drowned” is now available in On Spec 2026. It’s a story of mysterious secrets in a remote Canadian fishing village and not at all like the Netflix series Below….
Link to publisher: https://shadowpawpress.com/product/on-spec-2026-new-canadian-literature-of-the-fantastic/
Kindle: https://www.amazon.ca/Spec-2026-Canadian-Literature-Fantastic-ebook/dp/B0G
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"A hardboiled urban fantasy that joyfully fuses literary, religious, and mythological genres. This fourth entry in Darbyshire’s BOOK OF CROSS series finds the immortal Cross—a thief resurrected in Christ’s body—teaming up with the Faerie Queen Morgana"
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"Reading The Wonder Lands War seriously disrupted my sleep patterns for a couple of weeks, which is about the highest compliment I can pay a book. This fourth instalment in the series by Peter Darbyshire is a rollicking, chaotic, funny escape into a w"
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| The first in a parallel series to Kevin Hearne’s Iron Druid tales, Ink and Sigil follows Al MacBharris, a sort of magician in Glasgow. Al uses sigils and other arcane tricks to try to keep the realms of supernatural beings such as hobgoblins and faer ...more | |
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The Devils may be Joe Abercrombie’s best novel yet, and that’s saying something given his backlist of contemporary fantasy classics. The Devils isn’t set in Abercrombie’s usual fantasy realms but instead takes place in an alternate history where Europ ...more |
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Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)
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| Keep Going by Austin Kleon is a slim little book but it’s one of my most highlighted books after only one read. Billing itself as a primer on “ways to stay creative in good times and bad,” Keep Going is an informal yet deeply insightful series of med ...more | |
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Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect (Ernest Cunningham, #2)
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| Author Ernest Cunningham joins a writers fest on a cross-country train in Australia in the hopes of finding inspiration to follow his debut novel, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. You can probably see where this is going right away and, yes, ...more | |
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Hard-boiled British Columbia. That’s what best describes Sam Wiebe’s Ocean Drive, a dirty thriller set in the idyllic community of White Rock on BC’s West Coast. Only this paradise by the water has a seamy underside of sex, drugs and murder. Lots of m ...more |
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| Deranged mercenary war mages, scheming celestials, diabolical internals, dark magic, black humour and vampire kangaroos. Enough said. | |
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
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ChiZine Publications
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ChiZine Publications is a Canadian independent publisher specializing in weird, subtle, and disturbing literary fiction. CZP wants fiction that takes ...more
Urban Fantasy
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Urban fantasy is a subset of contemporary fantasy, consisting of magical novels and stories set in contemporary, real-world, urban settings--as oppose ...more