New Releases by Jesse Bullington

Enter the wild and fantastical world of Forbidden Futures Magazine! Brace yourself for epic adventures and thrilling magic as you follow JESSE BULLINGTON''S thamaturgical conundrum in "Too Much Wizard Business," JOHN R. FULTZ as he crashes a barbarian banquet in "Tears Of The Elohim," and CHAD STROUP teaching monsters the meaning of consent in "Dragoncel." NATHAN CARSON uncovers unwoke skullduggery in "Wight Knight," while STEVEN L. SHREWSBURY''S "Deicide" sees man, monster, and god falling before the might of his axe. Gutter-magic and slum-spirits watch over the denizens of GARRETT COOK''S "Springwater Santa," and J. DAVID OSBORNE conquers conspiracy country and the secrets of the Sasquatch in "Feeding Time." DON WEBB reveals the secret future history of cryptozoology in the double-header "Mowth" and "Kelpie," while Uncle Krust''s Dungeon Bastard''s Guide to Fantastic Beasts is your ultimate reference. Don''t miss out on "Exiled From Middle Earth: How Fantasy Failed Us," an editorial by CODY GOODFELLOW that delves into the dark underbelly of the genre.

Despumation champions fiction that explores the diverse themes metal music customarily addresses using language to evoke the feeling of listening to the music. This issue includes stories inspired by Dio, Voivod, Megadeth, Judas Priest, Meshuggah, and Candlemass, plus stories and poems inspired by the metal scene, metal sounds, and metal concepts.

The Gothic is the most enduring literary tradition in history but in recent years friendly ghosts and vegetarian vampires threaten its foundations. The New Gothic is a collection of short stories which revisits the core archetypes of the Gothic, the rambling, secret-filled building, the stranger seeking answers, the black-hearted tyrant and reminds us not to embrace but to fear the darkness. A dozen tales of terror fill this anthology including an original, never-before-seen story from the godfather of modern horror, Ramsey Campbell.

Tandis que les bûchers de l''Inquisition espagnole purifient la morale de l''Europe de la Renaissance, Awa, une jeune esclave africaine, se retrouve malgré elle l''apprentie d''un ancien nécromancien. Alors qu''elle cherche à s''enfuir, la jeune esclave découvre qu''elle porte en elle une terrible malédiction. Pour sauver sa vie, elle doit trouver un antique manuscrit caché quelque part sur le continent déchiré par la guerre. Au cours de sa quête, elle va s''apercevoir que son destin est aussi lié à celui de trois inconnus : l''artiste Niklaus Manuel Deutsch ; l''alchimiste Dr. Paracelsus et une mercenaire hollandaise.

« On n''est pas des voleurs, on n''est pas des assassins. On est juste des gens de bien à qui on a fait du mal... » Nous sommes en 1364. Dans les sombres forêts de l''Europe du Moyen Âge, aucune sorcière, aucun démon ne rivalise avec les jumeaux Hegel et Manfried Grossbart. Pieux, mais horriblement cruels, les frères meurtriers entament un macabre pèlerinage sur les routes médiévales de l''Europe dans une quête vers la lointaine Égypte et ses tombes emplies de richesses. En chemin, ils vont croiser brigands, sorciers et prêtres défroqués, volant et tuant selon leurs besoins. Vous ne trouverez point d''antihéros poignant chez nos Grossbart, mais des meurtriers sans âme...

On a stormy night in 1421, the North Sea delivers a devastating blow to Holland: the Saint Elizabeth Flood, a deluge of biblical proportions that drowns hundreds of towns, thousands of people, and forever alters the geography of the Low Countries. Where the factions of the noble Hooks and the merchant Cods waged a literal class war but weeks before, there is now only a nigh-endless expanse of grey water, a desolate inland sea with moldering church spires jutting up like sunken tombstones. For a land already beleaguered by generations of civil war, a worse disaster could scarce be imagined. Yet even disaster can be profitable, for the right sort of individual, and into this flooded realm sail three conspirators: a deranged thug at the edge of madness, a ruthless conman on the cusp of fortune, and a half-feral girl balanced between them. With The Folly of the World, Jesse Bullington has woven an extraordinary new tale of the depraved and the desperate.

Europa im 15. Jahrhundert. Die junge Awa gerät in den Bann eines uralten Nekromanten. Er zwingt sie, seine Schülerin zu werden, und belegt sie obendrein mit einem scheußlichen Fluch. Um sich von dem Zauber zu befreien, muss Awa ein mysteriöses Zauberbuch finden. Auf der Suche durchstreift sie eine finstere Welt, in der jeder nach Hexen wie ihr sucht. Für den Scheiterhaufen ...

"ZVR: This Means War! takes IDW''s splatterific Zombie vs Robots comic book series--created by writer Chris Ryall and artist Ashley Wood--and expands it in ways that will redefine both zombie and robot fiction. A shambling cohort of top horror and fantasy writers from across the globe ... have devoted themselves to making evocative word-pictures in your brain of this delicious cult series"--Publisher''s description.

Decades, centuries, and even thousands of years in the future: the horrors inspired by Lovecraft do not know the limits of time...or space. Journey through this anthology of science fiction stories and poems inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Listen to the stars that whisper and drive a crew mad. Worship the Tloque Nahuaque as he overtakes Mexico City. Slip into the court of the King in Yellow. Walk through the streets of a very altered Venice. Stop to admire the beauty of the flesh-dolls in the window. Fly through space in the shape of a hungry, malicious comet. Swim in the drug-induced haze of a jellyfish. Struggle to survive in a Martian gulag whose landscape isn''t quite dead. But, most of all, fear the future!

As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.

Zu behaupten, die Brüder Grossbart seien grausame Räuber, wäre sogar in den Ohren des schlimmsten Wegelagerers untertrieben. Und sie als Schweine zu bezeichnen, wäre eine Beleidigung selbst für den stinkendsten Keiler. Sie waren Grossbarts durch und durch, und in vielen Ländern sprach man ihren Namen mit Schrecken aus. Gleichwohl waren sie nicht so widerwärtig wie ihr Vater oder so durchtrieben wie ihr Grossvater, nein, die Brüder waren schlimmer. Manchmal kann das Blut eines Geschlechts binnen einer Generation böse werden, oder sich im Laufe der Zeit in etwas wahrhaft Böses verwandeln, und das war bei den grässlichen Zwillingen Hegel und Manfried der Fall.

Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men -- but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe. The year is 1364, and the brothers Grossbart have embarked on a naïve quest for fortune. Descended from a long line of graverobbers, they are determined to follow their family''s footsteps to the fabled crypts of Gyptland. To get there, they will have to brave dangerous and unknown lands and keep company with all manner of desperate travelers-merchants, priests, and scoundrels alike. For theirs is a world both familiar and distant; a world of living saints and livelier demons, of monsters and madmen. The Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy.