An Excerpt from Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism As orphaned farm-boy Jason Thistledown and his newly-met aunt, Germaine Frost shelter in the town office of the plague town of Cracked Wheel, Montana, in the winter of 1911, they discuss Germaine’s interest in biological sciences, and her coming to work for the newly-formed Eugenics Records …
The more-or-less true stories behind the novelette “The Webley” “The Webley” is the last story in Monstrous Affections, and fittingly, it’s the most personal. Which is not to say this story happened to me (hey, I’m not that old!) and it’s not to say that it happened to anybody (hey, fiction writers are liars!). But it …
Fyodor Kolyokov hadn’t needed the isolation tank for a long time: not since the early days when all needs Physick were safely defined by the razor-wire fences of City 512. But need and desire often mingle to the same effect, and so as soon as he found a way, Kolyokov moved the tank from Russia …
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By David Nickle This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License. Mrs. Sloan had only three fingers on her left hand, but when she drummed them against the countertop, the tiny polished bones at the end of the fourth and fifth stumps clattered like fingernails. If Judith hadn’t been looking, she wouldn’t …
A Glass of Gewürztraminer i Was it terror, or was it love? It would be a long time before Ann LeSage could decide. For most of her life, the two feelings were so similar as to be indistinguishable. It was easy to mix them up. ii “Family, now . . . family is far away,” …
The following is a prologue to VOLK: A Novel of Radiant Abomination. ORLOK “Was he beautiful?” As though he had just registered his own nakedness at that instant, Gottlieb blinked and covered himself. “Beautiful? No. He was compelling. Huge. Very muscular.” “And you were sexually attracted to him.” “Of course I was.” The doctor allowed …