"Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charms--not even the hard-boiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Laura's death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power. Soon he realizes he's been seduced by a dead woman--or has he?"--Publisher's Website.

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.
Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele.  To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the...

Long before Desperate Housewives, there was Bedelia: pretty, ultra femme, and "adoring as a kitten." A perfect housekeeper and lover, she wants nothing more than to please her insecure new husband, who can't believe his luck. But is Bedelia too good to be true? A mysterious new neighbor turns out to be a detective on the trail of a "kitten with claws of steel" a picture-perfect wife with a string of dead husbands in her wake. Caspary builds this tale...

It's supposed to be a quiet honeymoon getaway for celebrated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and Biff Brannigan, ex-comic and ex-Casanova of the Burly Q circuit, settled as they are in a cozy trailer built for two. If you don't count Gypsy's overbearing mother, a monkey act, and Gee Gee, a.k.a. the Platinum Panic. Not to mention the best man found shot to death in the bathtub. Strippers are used to ballyhoo, but this time it's murder. Leave it to Gypsy and...

In this issue: • Experience the motley horrors of World War II, as featured author JJ Lee reunites us with his man of mystery and monsters in 'The Man in the Long Black Coat: Bekker', and Robin Malcolm unearths long-buried secrets in 'The Bumblebee's Daughter'. • The secrets continue in field and forest on Canada's west coast with Chuck Lim's 'The Red Tiger' and KT Wagner's 'Cabin Fever'. • Meanwhile, appearances intrigue and deceive...

Under the exquisite cover Frost and Snow by Melissa Mary Duncan... • Our featured author, the esteemed Evelyn Lau, offers three poems riddled with grief and stolen moments. • Spencer Stevens takes a break from the front lines in the final Seven Swans instalment, 'The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier', by Mel Anastasiou. • Echo wanes as Narcissus waxes in Joelle Kidd's modern retelling, 'Echo/Narcissus'; while a Pythia of Apollo unweaves 25...

Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at 5 cents a word - tales of a wild west outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same, when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past? One part thriller, one part meditation on a life of violence, PULP is unlike anything the award-winning team of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS have ever done....

In this issue: • The stunning Queen of Swords by cover artist Tais Teng guards the gates to this issue's brave new worlds and words. • In 'The Bicolour Spiral' by Matthew Hughes, the ever-popular Erm Kaslo explores hostile planets, tracks treasure hunters, and seeks stolen fortune. Matt's futuristic Sam Spade leaves no bloodstained stone, unturned in this space opera of mystery and murder. • Life itself spirals with being and absence in 'Watershakers'...