Surreal Fantasy

John Doe always assumed his father was nuts. Then the Bureau of the Bizarre showed up at his door with a job offer. Now he’s a Collector, tasked with mopping up the mess reality leaves behind when it gets drunk and shits the bed. His office is The Deep Estate, a bureaucratic labyrinth carved out of the Backrooms. His partner is Edith Sinner, who is absolutely not a vampire.

They found Edie inside the Backrooms. That was the easy part. Getting out alive is another matter entirely. Time works differently in Liminal Space, and the deeper John Doe goes, the stranger it gets. The endless halls of the Backrooms give way to the Backwoods, a sprawling forest filled with creatures that evolved beyond reality. Leprechauns hunt in packs. Sasquatch stalk through the trees. And how do you even escape a place where outside doesn’t exist?

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?

What if your fears opened a door? What if your regrets built a realm? What if your imagination could start a war? Step once more through the Gate... In this second volume of The Wayfarer’s Gate series, twenty all-new portal fantasy tales lead you beyond the veil—into realms stitched from memory, time, music, paper, and starlight. Each story stands alone but shares a single truth: the greatest adventures begin when ordinary people cross into impossible places. A pyrophobe must tame a phoenix in a city made of living fire. A babysitter leads a rebellion in a kingdom built from cardboard. ...

When an ordinary goat accidentally awakens an ancient underground machine, the peaceful city of San Angora collapses—quite literally—into dunes, desert storms, and absolute nonsense. In this warm, witty, and delightfully absurd adventure, follow the legendary Goat as she unknowingly triggers the Cabrapocalypse, reshapes the land into the chaotic Baadlands, and inspires the rise of unexpected desert tribes. From sinking buildings to sand-swept rooftops, from fruit-headed wanderers to robotic goats with glowing eyes, the world transforms into a sandbox of strange beauty and unpredictable ...

This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...

Stuck in neutral and detached from his own life, a solitary narrator finds his quiet routine upended when a silent phantom named Elliot takes up residence in his living room. Indifferent and oddly ordinary, Elliot becomes a permanent fixture in the house as a subtle, persistent mirror to everything the narrator has left unsaid. We Live Here is a sparse, razor-sharp exploration of grief, and the strange and unexpected turns that pull us back toward the living world.

New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels novels have enthralled readers and critics alike. Now, in Twilight’s Dawn, she returns to the Blood realm with four captivating novellas... WINSOL GIFTS Daemon is settling into his first year of married life with his Witch...

Jake's Unraveling Begins. The Seers grows darker in The Dreamer's Curse, another entry point into a world where reality has begun to fracture. Returning readers will see what the world has become. New readers will see what was always there. "Stranger, darker, and somehow more intense." — The Page Ladies Book Club Once reality bends, there's no going back. And Jake is starting to let everything go. Johnny is gone. But the impossible things he awakened are everywhere. Carl is changing too... and no one understands why. As Jake struggles to make sense of what happened to his friends, Brooke ...

How do you teach an infinite House that “welcome” does not mean “you live here now”? Runni Vagna and Damion Atropa are gifted Hypno Doms with a talent for turning suggestion, desire, and ambitious ideas into experiences nobody forgets. Then Dionysus names them his champions, enhances their abilities, and enters them into the Great Game. In the Great Game, gods, monsters, and mysterious Sponsors wager on people’s choices. Attention becomes power. Success earns status. Failure attracts an even larger audience. Their first supernatural test is supposed to be simple: One party. One ...

A Noble Hearts Regency Romance When danger entangles Maggie Winters and Maxwell Wilde into a treacherous game can they survive the darkness to embrace love’s light? A widow with a tragic past… Maggie Winters had everything she always wished for — betrothed to the man of her dreams, a loving home, and a new puppy. But it all changes when her parents die, and her new guardian sweeps Maggie from town and forces her to marry a stranger to pay his debts. When she suddenly finds herself a widow and free of an unhappy marriage, can she finally find the love she's dreamed of? A hero with a ...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 1 Whimsically Grotesque nothing is quite as it seems, and everything is far stranger than you could imagine. Flowers gossip over coffee about their wilting fashion, umbrellas stage debates on the ethics of rain, and skies forget how to shine. This collection is a kaleidoscope ...

"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...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Looney Limericks: Weird Poetry Vol 4, the whimsical and the uncanny reverberate through an enchanting landscape of poetic oddities. Here, shadows come alive, and inanimate objects hold profound conversations. A shoe embarks on a quest, a beetle contemplates the cosmos, and a clock shares secrets with the floor—...

Strange worlds, dark whispers, and bizarre nightmares. Step beyond the limits of ordinary imagination into something exquisitely bizarre, where the boundaries between reality and the surreal dissolve into an unsettling dreamscape and every line invites you to see the world anew. In Surreal Sevenlings: Weird Poetry Vol 3 Mundane Foolishness, the ordinary becomes anything but. A routine trip to the bus stop, brushing your teeth, or simply folding laundry transforms into a labyrinth of unsettling realities. From mailboxes that devour letters to family holiday gatherings that slip into the ...

You picked up a Node—an ordinary-looking object with an unfair advantage: it turns everyday life into a readable map. A Pocket Universe is a room you can enter without leaving your life. The world outside stays the same—work, family, love, money, hunger, pride—but the noise stops pretending it’s neutral. You start noticing what was always there: who gets rewarded, who gets punished, who benefits when you stay confused, and what it costs to accept the role you’re being offered. That pattern is the Great Game: the invisible trade of attention, status, fear, desire, and control. It ...

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...

Novelette edition. Expanding upon "A Wereshark's Memoir," winner of the best science fiction & fantasy short story in the 25th Annual Critters Readers' Poll (2022). The haunting tale of an immortal sea captain through the ages. "In his magnum opus Ethics published posthumously in 1677, Spinoza argues that God is substance. Evil is substance in A Wereshark's Memoir by Justin Sloane. Original, frightening, and beautiful, this work is a study into the impossibility of evil to reign over the human race. It is a fiction of the open wound. It hurts and it makes you invent a therapy to alleviate ...

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.

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