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Fantasy
Sexy, secretive, yet clear-eyed, Duncan brings pop, high, and low cultures together in one handy sometimes amusing sometimes harsh A-to-Z which every bibliophile and armchair adventurer will find to be a necessary guidebook... See More
Fantasy
Roll up, roll up... The circus has long been that dream palace, intoxicating with so many lights and sights, sounds and smells. Sawdust, popcorn, strange animals, make-up, and the sweat of the roustabouts. The circus... See More
Horror
An anarcho-socialist Big Bad Wolf blowing down the houses of the Powers-That-Be. An Erocide cop lamenting the many ways people murder love. A vampire sworn to the light of Reason, engaged in experiments of gruesome rigour. A... See More
Literature & Fiction
Acclaimed author and critic Hal Duncan turns his analytic eye towards the development and current state of speculative fiction in the pages of Rhapsody. Duncan's trademark wry humor and suffer-no-fools approach to critiquing... See More
Teen & Young Adult
Are you prepared to enter acclaimed author Hal Duncan's world of scruffians and scamps and sodomites? Beware, for it is filled with the gay pirate gods of Love and Death, immortal scoundrels, and young men who find... See More
Literature & Fiction
It's 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging... See More
Fantasy
In this remarkable novella, Hal Duncan has conjured a tale of The-Borribles-meet-Nazi-spies-and-run-headlong-into-the-occult. The Land of Somewhere Safe: where things go when you think, "I must put this somewhere safe,"... See More
Literature & Fiction
2009 WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNERThe city has always been a place of mystery, of magic, and wonder. In cities past, present, and future, in metropoli real and imagined, meet mutilated warrior-women, dead boys, mechanical dogs... See More
Meet the Scruffians, workhouse tykes and street arabs scrobbled by the Waiftaker General, dragged to the Institute and put to the Stamp, Fixed ageless, imperishable... the perfect child labour. Meet the scruffs escaped to... See More
Fixed imperishable by the Stamp, sold as slaves, escaped to run wild, fight dirty & plot revenge, Scruffians might look no more'n filthy guttersnipes, but it's a daft groanhuff who crosses em. Orphans, foundlings, latchkey... See More
Urchins scrobbled down the centuries from yer poor and persecuted. Foundlings Fixed in imperishable waifhood by the Stamp & sold to rich groanhuffs as child labour. Hellions with spirits as resilient as their flesh, less... See More
Literature & Fiction
Where can you find a television that sees five minutes into the future? Where can you find dragons trapped in a jar and an illness which turns people into glass? Where might you find families who sell their brainpower to... See More
Literature & Fiction
Hal Duncan shattered the boundaries between genres with his stunning debut novel, Vellum, which shocked with the boldness of its ideas, seduced with the sensual beauty of its prose, and astonished with its imaginative sweep... See More
Literature & Fiction
An extraordinary, incendiary debut from a rare new talent, Vellum showcases a complex and sophisticated level of writing coupled with a fecund imagination that defies description. It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the... See More
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction & Fantasy
A hitman, a hooker, a homosexual kid, and a hobo suicide make the ultimate prison break... escape from Hell itself! But when news of their attempted escape gets out, the souls of the damned are transformed into a rioting... See More
Literature & Fiction
Last Drink Bird Head is a variation on a surrealist writing game: we gave the phrase to over 70 writers and asked them "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head?" The results run the gamut from the hilarious to the terrifying... See More
Literature & Fiction
Collecting twelve new works from the author of Vellum, Ink, Testament, & Songs for the Devil and Death, this chapbook takes the razing of Sodom as origin myth for all queers, gathers its toolkits from all corners of verse... See More
Fantasy
Waifs of history put under the Stamp. Fixed imperishable to skivvy forever for groanhuffs. Scarpered to live wild, fight back, liberate every scruff still in chains. Orphans, foundlings, latchkey kids... It's over a... See More
Science Fiction
This novella-length collection of Erehwynan Idylls offers readers an indulgent and weird agglomeration of randy boys and revelations, as the embodiment of a small breeze--actually the gene-spliced child of the gods Zephyros... See More
Science Fiction & Fantasy
An anthology of short stories and poetry celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. Featuring Fergus Bannon, TJ Berg, Ruth EJ Booth, Jim Campbell, Eliza Chan, Michael Cobley, Elsie WK Donald... See More
Science Fiction
X Marks the Spot is a slender anthology produced to celebrate the first ten years of NewCon Press. It includes original fiction from Adam Roberts, Rozanne Rabinowitz, and Paul Melhuish, a poem by Donna Scott, and a... See More
Literature & FictionBeing an Adaptation and Modernisation of "The Farce of Sodom, or The Quintessence of Debauchery," by Lord Rochester, Libertine & Rakehell, as Versified and Perversified by THE... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (sic) Rochester's... See More
Literature & Fiction
Nowhere Town: A Punk-Ass Musical, the Book and Libretto Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. I bid you welcome, from a drunken poet, to a cruel world. Be seated, take your coats off, just kick back. We have a tale for you... See More
A long short story which sets out to take the vampire mythos out back into a dark alley and systematically smash it to pieces with a baseball bat. In an ongoing monologue, a vampire scientist leads a guest through a tour of... See More
Science FictionApex Magazine is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror magazine featuring original, mind-bending short fiction from many of the top pros of the field. New issues are released on the first Tuesday of every other month. We... See More