A leprechaun hauls a writer out of his granny’s toilet and presents him with a bill for royalties. Bad dreams turn out to be manufactured in a service center inside Devil’s Tower, with beige walls and decaf. An old mountain man’s shadow has started itching itself when he isn’t looking. And a fantasy kingdom’s seven…
Perdita Tuck has just been fired. She saw it coming—she wrote the software that replaced her—and she’s carrying her whole career out of the building in a printer-paper box. She hasn’t even reached the elevator when a recruiter in a black cowboy hat drops a business card in the box, and the card smells faintly…
Kari Kilgore on strange undercurrents, Appalachian ground, and the magical bookstore that began as a workshop prompt—an author interview for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles.
DeAnna Knippling on the fold, Colorado’s Front Range, and writing kids who are a little bit magic—an author interview for the 2026 Fantasy Bundle of Bundles.
Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip packs ten monsters into cars, trains, and trouble—and we pulled three of its contributors aside to talk about the rides they wrote. Mark Leslie sends his Canadian werewolf across the country by train; DeAnna Knippling drops a 1957 zombie-plague comet on the Nevada desert; and Jamie Ferguson straps two…
Ten monsters hit the open road, and not one of them remembered to fill the gas tank. Amazing Monster Tales: Monster Road Trip—the second issue of the series—loads werewolves, a dragon who rides with his wings out to feel the wind, Medusa, the Norse dwarf Andvari, and a few creatures you’ve never met into the…
Two of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s most acclaimed novels share one StoryBundle-exclusive volume. In Snipers, a bestselling crime writer and a detective’s great-grandson use modern forensics to chase the Carnival Sniper, a 1913 Vienna killer as infamous as Jack the Ripper and, like him, never caught. Consecrated Ground—back in print after fifteen years with its original…
Douglas Smith on refusing the easy version of a time-travel idea — remote viewing, particle colliders, a dinner that takes three lifetimes — across the four award-finalist stories of Into the Time Slip, part of the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.
Michael Warren Lucas on singularities, the almighty power of last year’s Taco Shop, and why the soil interests him more than the seed — across the five stories of Tiny Time Wars in the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.
DeAnna Knippling on the Weird Western, the darkness at the heart of the American West, and a carnival barker running a con across time — in An Outfit of Otherworlds, part of the Escape from 2026 StoryBundle.
