Trust me to bring something dark to the party

Literary and arts journal Midsummer Dream House features the novelette, When Darkness Comes

Forever Mercy: Black market arms dealer, Karel Ludek offers a friendly warning over tea and biscuits

“She’ll feed you to the crows, my friend”

In a cafe in downtown Bradford, Karel Ludek talks about his unlikely relationship with the Bone Diva herself, Mercy de la Morte. Sip slowly, it’s not all tea and biscuits…

Update: Weird tale of vanishing Manchester features in Del Sol SFF Review

Out of Office

It’s the everyday familiar that helps make us who we are, but what happens when bits of it drop out of existence and leave us lost?

Fiction: There’s a knack to eating vampires, if you’ve got the guts

Take a taste of the night life

Vampire flesh is an acquired taste, you may be sure, but it’s a sought-after delicacy among those who can afford the price…

Fiction: Down at heel in the sin[k] city

The Man Who Dreamed of Bradford

Small-time dreamer Ridley Scratchett is obsessed with finding the mythical lost city of Bradford. Now he’s gone missing and his sister thinks he’s found it…

Update: Society of Misfit Stories Presents… a tale of ancient murder and revenge

Only one species is getting out of this alive…

But did the best human win?

A short story by Mark Cantrell features in the début edition of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents, published this month by Bards & Sages Publishing.

Fiction: If you go down to the beach today

The Dolphin’s Song

On a new Earth, a dolphin’s lament brings forth hope for life unspoiled by the follies of Man…

Update: Novel extract teases readers in Worlds Magazine debut

Worlds publishes a slice of Workers’ Paradise 

THE debut edition of Worlds Magazine contains an exclusive extract of Mark Cantrell’s unpublished novel, “In Workers’ Paradise”.

Fiction: A savage beast stalks the snows

White Fur

Short Fiction By Mark Cantrell

Copyright (C) January 1991

Author’s note: Hope you like cheese — and blood — because a poor little seal is about to have a brutal encounter with its kind’s worst nightmare — us.