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Welcome to Miskatonic University Kickstarter

The Kickstarter for Welcome to Miskatonic University has launched! These are modern tales from that most iconic of strange and magical New England institutions, Miskatonic University. In the third of our anthologies exploring a more modern Cthulhu Mythos, this time we're telling tales where it intersects with modern small town life and academics.

This will create a minimum of one anthology, but there were so many great stories that there's a second anthology, It Came from Miskatonic Univ...

Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars by Lucy A. Snyder

Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars by Lucy A. Snyder, continuing where the author left off in her contribution to Ride the Star Wind (our Lovecraftian space opera anthology). Publishers Weekly described Snyder's short story as "superbly creepy."

This serial chronicles the adventures of Beatrice Muñoz and Joe Jorgensen as they travel through space on their quest to find and annihilate the spawn of Azathoth. But as they fight to protect the Earth from...

How To Unmake It In Anglia by Brandon O'Brien

Broken Eye Books is publishing the serial How To Unmake It In Anglia by Brandon O’Brien, a slipstream mystery about the power of stories to equally conceal cruelty, repress emotions, reveal truths, and give hope, depending on who tells them.

On the bustling streets of Anglia, where an unknown force has the power to turn words into truths, the agents of the Communication Crimes Bureau monitor words, always on the lookout for a wayward metaphor or idle hyperbole that may suddenly burst into lif...

Broken Eye Books Sale

Broken Eye Books is having a store-wide sale through the rest of November. Use the coupon code WEIRDTURKEY at checkout to receive 20% off all orders.

Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise

Broken Eye Books is publishing the novella Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise.

The Royce family has been a plague on the small, Southern town of Lewis for generations. Caleb has heard rumors about the family his whole life, just like he's heard the rumors about a monstrous creature known as Catfish John living in the swamp. When the Royce house burns down, Caleb's father—Lewis's sheriff—takes in the sole survivor, a young girl named Cere. Caleb quickly learns the truth about Archie Royce and the te...

Eyedolon: Toward a Weirder Tomorrow

The first issue of Eyedolon magazine is here! It's 84 pages with four stories:Maura McHugh’s “Y,” a very personal apocalypseS.P. Miskowski’s “Patio Wing Monsters,” a quizzical tale of convalescenceMatthew M. Bartlett’s “Who Beareth the Body,” mindbending small-town horror (part 1 of the serial The Obsecration)Joseph S. Pulver's “The Package from Desertshore,” a surreal and poetic novelette (part 1 of The Night Museum) Illustrations by Annada Menon and Thom Davidsohn. And Nick Gucker's wonder...

The Song of Spores by Bogi Takács

Broken Eye Books is publishing The Song of Spores by Bogi Takács as an ongoing serial. Three experienced counterintelligence operatives of Alliance Treaty Enforcement are on a mission to find the source of shapeshifting infiltrators into Alliance space. Will the gruff Ereni commander, the Chasidic Jewish shapeshifter, and the cynical insectoid grandma be able to work together, or will their differences drive them apart before they can reach their goal? And how can they cooperate with the sen...

Starred Review for Ride the Star Wind

Wonderful news! Ride the Star Wind got a starred review from Publishers Weekly: "Each author provides unflinching glimpses into the void beyond the stars where misery, hungry gods, and madness most surely await."

Thanks to all the authors for their creative talents: Lucy A. Snyder, Remy Nakamura, Wendy Wagner, Tim Curran, Brian Evenson, Joe Pulver, Premee Mohamed, Nadia Bulkin, J.E. Bates, Gord Sellar, Heather Hatch, Desirina Boskovich, DaVaun Sanders, D.W. Baldwin, J. Edward Tremlett, D.A. X...

Tomorrow's Cthulhu Authors Get Noticed

Every year, Ellen Datlow scours the newly published horror short fiction and compiles her big list of those notable. For her list of Honorable Mentions 2016, Best Horror of the Year Volume Nine, we had 7 stories from Tomorrow's Cthulhu get the nod. We're thrilled! Congratulations to the authors:Clinton Boomer, “The Sky Isn’t Blue”Desirina Boskovich, “The Great Dying of the Holocene”Samantha Henderson, “The Lark Ascending”Lynda E. Rucker, “Testimony XVI”Damien Angelica Walters, “A Pathway for...

Review of Pretty Marys All in a Row

The first review of Gwendolyn Kiste's novella Pretty Marys All in a Row is in (with some minor spoilers): "Kiste's craft and artistic ambitions are all very much in top form here." Read the full review by Morgan Crooks.

To be released Nov 28. Pre-order from Broken Eye Books.