Nightmare Magazine January 2026 Nightmare 26-01 Barbara Barnett’s essay explores the uncanny darkness that lurks beneath the cheerful surface of Renaissance Faires, revealing how these festivals embody a unique form…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 In this evocative second-person narrative, you visit a mysterious curiosity shop run by a witch named Sophia and her vampire brother Sage. Initially suspicious of the witch’s…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 EC Dorgan’s unsettling short story follows an unnamed narrator who has recently escaped city life to start over in the rural prairie. What begins as a fresh…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 This haunting tale unfolds through the voice of Princess Naree, the third daughter of King Herrik, who addresses her unwilling companion Kawam—a woman stolen from her homeland…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 This epistolary science fantasy novella follows Sastu, an ambitious anatomist working at a research outpost called Janartash near the Inclusion Zone—a region transformed by chaotropaic forces that…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 An ornithologist receives an urgent call from Pearson, a worker at the Heinlein Space Center, claiming to have spotted a nesting pair of northern pipers—a species believed…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 In a dying world where wind-tamers have bottled nearly all the winds and left the seas in doldrums and the land in drought, a young woman who…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 Iadene, a hero who can magically grow to giant size, defeats a mechanical dragon with her partner Tuaamala, but victory comes at a devastating cost—the dragon kills…
Introduction Gwendolyn Maia Hicks’s “Full Fathom Five” represents an ambitious merger of Irish folklore and contemporary working-class realism, exploring intergenerational trauma through the lens of speculative fiction. Published as the…
Kaleidotrope, January 2026 Jack Kersey accidentally catches a merrow (a mythical sea creature) in a fishing net while working on a trawler off the coast of his struggling Irish town.…