Surreal Fantasy

From the Bestselling Author... Tommy failed to step off the top of the bridge... Distracted when a flying man told him that magic actually existed in the world. Instead he decided to see if it was true. That started him on a journey that he could barely understand, in a place that both existed and at the same time, didn't. It couldn't... A place called, One City. Now he’s called to it. Pressed into an increasingly surreal reality that he isn't certain might be a sign that something very strange is taking place. It's that, or he isn't truly among the living any longer. One of the two ...

When Alice suffers a grotesque kitchen accident she is sucked into a nightmarish land, full of strange and confusing people. She searches deeper and deeper into this horrible underbelly, looking for the leftover pieces of herself, wondering - all the while - about what is real and what is not and whether she, herself, is real after all these adventures.

At World’s Edge: Seven Liminal Stories from the Edge of Reality Beyond the borders of maps and memory lie worlds that obey no known rules. In this haunting anthology of speculative fiction and dark fantasy, seven stories explore what happens when reality thins—where time unravels, identity dissolves, and the familiar becomes unrecognizable. From a girl who returns from a doorless frame altered by the realm she crossed, to a lighthouse powered by memory guarding against something older than night, these tales are eerie, poetic, and charged with slow-blooming dread. Each story is a ...

"Every bit as mind-bending and captivating as classic Murakami." -- Rusted Reviews “Stick with it to the plot twist and then you won’t want it to end.” -- A Feast of Books -------------------------------------------------- Why did she die? How much did I really know her? These are the questions Benny asks himself after finding Staci in the bathtub with her wrists slit. He spirals into a bout of depression. Two weeks later, she reappears as if nothing happened. But only for one night, and then she’s gone again. Two weeks later, it happens again, forcing Benny to ask himself a new set...

Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government. Immediately she feels that something strange is going on: People act oddly in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion.

These disturbing and rather eerie tales were put together as a result of a discovery of strange stories in a woodshed in Rutland, England. The author then put them together with other stories that had been handed down in the villages of the Pennine Hills of Lancashire plus some stories that had been collected from friends in the USA and Europe.

Trapped between reality and the mystical realm of Sa Neo, sixteen-year-old Lily never felt like she belonged - until a serpent necklace draws her into a world where thoughts shape reality and nothing is quite as it seems. As Lily navigates this ethereal landscape filled with mermaids, sorcerers, and otherworldly creatures, she forms an unbreakable bond with Crysanthe, a mermaid queen who helps her understand her own untapped powers. But when cruel Queen Jade threatens everything Lily holds dear, she must master her abilities and face her deepest fears. With the help of Jacques the eccentric...

In a world saturated with mermaid stories, this is another one. Stjerne is not a princess. She has no songs to sing. She's a sea creature, doing her best to survive. In this collection of vignettes, we see the sea through her eyes, beautiful, wild, and strange. Alongside her incomprehensible companion, the Other, she navigates storms, mating rituals, hunting parties, and other turns of tide. Untamed, exotic, and sometimes disturbing, her world is not ours and is all the more fascinating for it. Warning: Here be Monsters

Nyaaa~ Join me, Sophie, as I embark on the wildest journey of my life in "Sophie's Awakening"! I was just an ordinary, happy-go-lucky 18-year-old girl living my kawaii high school life when I was cursed by a mysterious witch. As my reality unravels, I'm whisked away to an enchanted world where I make friends with monstrous creatures, explore eerie forests, and gain magical powers that challenge everything I know! Well, I'm not one to back down from an adventure, so I learn to harness my newfound abilities - but at what cost, nya? As my story unfolds, I plunge deeper into my own fractured ...

Joseph Chance stands on a station platform, suitcase in hand, trying to decide what he wants to do. Should he take the job as junior salesman in the thriving industrial city of Sleighton – or should he become an artist in the Bohemian coastal resort of Amblesea? He doesn’t have long to decide. Trains to both places are leaving in the next hour. A woman offers him a coin. Heads Sleighton, tails Amblesea. But this, it turns out, is no ordinary coin. As it rises, spinning, from his thumbnail, Joseph’s life splits in two. He becomes Joe, the penniless Amblesea artist, in love with Ruby, ...

On occasion, the dimensional barriers between realities weaken. In those instances, you might catch a glimpse of different places and times. Welcome to Never Wake. Never Wake offers four short stories from the Meridian Wanderings universe. Wonderfully penned prequel fables, Never Wake is the perfect place for fantasy and sci-fi fans to jump on or for long-time Meridian Wanderings fans to learn of tales from long ago.

This highly surreal and violent fantasy novella shifts settings and perspectives as the meaning of life according to George Ramirez, the wacky protagonist, becomes more clear.

In the Realm of Sa Neo, dreams are doorways between worlds. For three years, Lily has tried to forget the magical world she once visited—and the chaos she may have left in her wake. But when haunting visions of a dark-eyed merman plague her nights, she knows she must return. The enchanted realm she discovers is not the one she left behind: merpeople are being hunted, dark forces hold children captive, and an ancient evil spreads like poison through the lands. To save Sa Neo, Lily must first face the truth of what she's done. As she travels through lands of eternal wisdom and forgotten ...

Learn the truth behind the mask of Hollywood in these 10 bizarre tales of dreams and dream weavers, movies and movie-makers, by some of the most respected fantasy writers of our time.

A gnome wanders among strange worlds of immeasurable beauty and terror on a quest for magic to restore the health of a goddess. If he fails, all creation will dissolve. And so he must dare anything to succeed, even trespass a realm of terrible darkness, pain, and dread sorcery - Earth. The Lady of the Garden, one of the godlike Nameless Ones, has used her magic to dream into existence the worlds of the Bright Shore. But now her unborn child lies motionless in her womb.

Nyaaa~ Like, one day, I met this baka human, Max, at a college event! (≧▽≦) He instantly fell head over heels for my kawaii magical charm~ But then, he made a huge mistake and, y'know, kinda betrayed my trust... （￣︿￣）So, as punishment, I *giggle* took him to an alternate dimension and oh my gosh... made him live inside a toilet bowl! (＾◡＾) Max-kun was like... soooo scared, but he couldn't escape his new home. (≧◡≦) It became his own cozy little space and, nyaaa~ the silly boy started eating my poop! (* ˙︶˙ *)ﾉ As days passed, he became more and more reliant...

Sometimes that very thin line between illusion and reality is not as clearly defined as we would like it to be. It certainly wasn't the day that Alan Mitz stumbled into the garden of Abdul Gasazi. For in this bizarre and eerie place - where strange topiary trees loomed - the evil visage of Gasazi casts its shadow. And even after Alan escaped, the spell of Gasazi still seemed to penetrate into his everyday world. In this extraordinary, unusual, and unique book, Chris Van Allsburg explores both real and surreal worlds with incredible deftness.

Earwig takes a rare day off, which he spends drinking by himself in Au Metro, a seedy bar full of drunks, dancers and eccentrics. It is St Martin's day, and in the evening, as crowds parade through the street carrying lanterns through the snow, he is drawn reluctantly into a conversation with a sinister stranger called Tyre. As a result Earwig accidentally maims a waitress with a broken bottle. He understands that on some level Tyre meant this to happen. Shortly afterwards a black cat is delivered to the flat, unasked for.

James Oleson is beginning to see everything in perfect duplicate - two identical models of cars which are the same down to scuff marks and license plate, two old philosophy books with the same torn pages and inscription in old ink, and twin mail men. Is he losing his mind, or experiencing the birth of a new alternate reality via binary fission?

Tensions are at a fever pitch as Liam and Mina are confronted by their neighbors about they are raising their son Christopher. The couple fight doggedly, but will they keep custody of their child when the federal government sends in three of their top agents to settle the matter?