As California’s Department of Thaumaturgy battles a deepening drought, a mysterious force limits the flow of magic in downtown Sacramento. Tasked to find an answer, Purvis Klemp—Senior Advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Thaumaturge General of the State of California—must entertain all manner of crackpot theories. When the latest crackpot offers the most…
Vlad’s secrets surround him like a cloak of mist: one secret hides another. He’s a gay man in Volgograd, Russia…and a drug dealer…and a vedmak, a witch, who can release the souls of the dying, if they wish it. His secrets keep him safe…until he meets a rusalka, an undead water spirit who drowns the…
Called to a crime scene, Detective Maeve Hemlock identifies the body as a faerie. A faerie dead in the normal world. No identification. No obvious cause of death. As a faerie herself, Maeve feels obligated to investigate. But that means crossing back into the Nether Realm. The one thing she hates. All because of a…
Clara just wanted to bake bread, read her tarot cards, and find a girlfriend. And then the candles started doing something weird…The flames were each two inches high, and wavering. Like something was moving in the room. And it wasn’t her. “Read for me.” “Who are you?” Clara asked. The candles wavered once more. …
Teddy woke up the day after Halloween with the mother of all hangovers. The kind that comes complete with wagging tail and a lack of opposable thumbs. Tabby owns a magic shop that carries just what Teddy needs, but Tabby’s dealing with her own brand of post-holiday hangover. The last thing she wants in her…
Three months ago, the gates to the Otherside failed, flooding the normal world with creatures both supernatural, demonic, and just plain weird. Diane Swift, a bicycle cop with thighs of iron, calves of steel, and the ability to see the strange monsters infiltrating her world, keeps the beaches and her city safe from scumbags. Then…
Mountaineer and hunter, Wenton Sigh, stumbles upon a lost girl seeking her mother. But when he discovers her mother is the legendary water spirit Semūin, he becomes embroiled in the schemes of the gods. “Vale of Semūin” is in the Beneath the Waves collection. You can…
If Claire can’t prove Jason loves her, a faerie curse will rip them apart forever. But how do you prove someone’s devoted to you? Short story “Proof of Devotion” cleverly blends fantasy and romance in the magical Welsh countryside and proves why bestselling author Dayle A. Dermatis has been called one of the best…
A group of students who just moved into a residential house keep getting pizza deliveries that they never ordered. Is it a strange prank, or is there something more to the mysterious man who keeps showing up at their door? “The Pizza Man” is in the Haunted…
At a high school for the magical, the most picked-on kid dreams about J. Rutherford Wisenhaur II killing people with a fire spell. She knows her nightmares portend the future, but her domestic magic lacks the power to do most difficult spells. To make matters worse, no one will believe her. So, what’s a…
