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Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste

Broken Eye Books is publishing Gwendolyn Kiste’s folk horror novel Boneset & Feathers, releasing November 3, 2020.

You don’t know their fire is coming until it’s too late. That’s exactly the way the witchfinders like it. As an isolated enchantress, Odette knows this too well—she lost nearly her whole family to the last round of executions, barely escaping with her own life. All the magic she could conjure wasn’t enough to protect her mother and sister, a burden that leaves a despondent Odette pr...

Pride & Revolution

First off, only a few days left for the Pride StoryBundle. It contains A.C. Wise's Nebula Finalist novella Catfish Lullaby and many other great titles. Each year, StoryBundle presents a wonderful collection of LGBTQ+ books and authors to celebrate Pride. And a portion of the proceeds goes toward the nonprofit Rainbow Railroad, helping LGBT folk escape persecution and violence.

And we just launched our next anthology Kickstarter! This is for the anthology Whether Change: The Revolution Will Be Wei...

April Book Sale

Hope you're all finding some joy in these strange times! Perhaps we can help with a big sale of our older titles in stock (40% off paperbacks, 30% off hardcovers) through April: The Package from Desertshore: Joseph S. Pulver's surreal tale of the Night Museum!Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Modern tales of the mythos!By Faerie Light: The fair folk are coming!Ghost in the Cogs: Steam and the supernatural!Never Now Always: Strange post-apocalyptic mystery!Izanami's Choice: Samurai versus robot!The Hole...

Better Living through Alchemy by Evan J. Peterson

Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial novel Better Living through Alchemy by Evan J. Peterson, a fabulist mystery exploring the boundaries of science and magic.

Kelly Mun operates Non-Linear Investigations out of a small office in misty, steam-heated Seattle. Using esoteric techniques taken from Dadaism as much as from occultism, Kelly makes the connections others ignore. When a young woman dies under impossible circumstances at a crowded show, Kelly is hired by a mysterious businesswoman...

Team Murderhobo: Assemble by Clinton J. Boomer

What if you crossed Archer and Brooklyn 99 with D&D?

Broken Eye Books is publishing the hilarious debut adventures of Clinton J. Boomers fan-favorite fantasy gaming party, Team Murderhobo: Assemble. What happens when the lovable barbarian, perpetually high druid, judgy paladinabsolutely no ninjasand all the others are thrown together? The punchline to all the RPG jokes ever told...

With Team Murderhobo, Clinton J. Boomer has created a series of short, comedic, in-character gaming scenes,...

Catfish Lullaby: Nebula Award Finalist

Catfish Lullaby was announced as a finalist for the Nebula Award! We are so incredibly proud and excited. Voting is now open until the end of March for SFWA active members. I hope you'll consider voting for it for Best Novella. And to celebrate the occasion, all purchases of the paperback of Catfish Lullaby from the BEB store in March will be signed and personalized by the author herself, A.C. Wise. Just write in the comment section during checkout who you'd like her to personalize it to,...

Hairsbreadth by Craig Laurance Gidney

Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial novel Hairsbreadth by Craig Laurance Gidney, a contemporary fairy tale in the tradition of Victor LaValle's The Changelingand Helen Oyeyemi's Boy, Snow, Bird.

Seventeen-year-old Zelda has always been isolated, born with deep dark skin and fast-growing hair that seems to have a mind of its own, and moving from place to place with her grandmother. But when the two of them move to the remote eastern shore town of Shimmer, her power grows in strange new...

Book Release: Nowhereville

It's one of those very special days in any publisher's life when they can breathe life into a new book. Allow me to introduce our latest release,Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People, freshly pressed into life today. We do hope you'll enjoy the read. Reviewers certainly have been:

"Taken together, these stories create an uncanny, unpredictable hall of mirrors. These wonderfully strange takes on modern living are sure to resonate with fans of speculative fiction." (STARRED review from Publishers...

Press Release: Nowhereville

New speculative fiction anthology, Nowhereville: Weird Is Other People, explores the weird fictions, from the horrific to the ecstatic, that are inherent in city life and in the ways we love and hate and express, in the ways we interact and cope and deal with one another. Releases December 17, 2019, from Broken Eye Books. (Available now for pre-order.)

These are stories of the city, of people interacting with the complexities that are other people. These 19 short stories explore a landscape t...

Catfish Lullaby: Southern Gothic Horror

Catfish Lullaby releases today! 

Small town secrets lead to trouble for everyone as Caleb must confront the demons of his past in this Southern Gothic queer cosmic horror.

This is a split story following Caleb and Cere, part as children, part as adults, as they deal with homegrown bigotry, sorcerous generational evil, and the everpresent, bog-monster specter of Catfish John. All while embracing the love of found family.

Written by AC Wise and cover by Sishir Bommakanti with Scott Gable on desig...