October Country
While we at the The Fabulist pepper our publishing schedule with eerie, creepy and spooky tales throughout the year, each October we take particular care to make the most of this especially magical, strange and uncanny of seasons …
We normally don’t do funny, but when we do funny, it’s sly, dry, and, in this case, archly creepy. Plus! 26 life for Magic: The Gathering fans. Happy Halloween!
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In which we consider the implicit violence and moral horror of the Pied Piper tale.
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In this dark fantasia, a bereaved young mother finds a cold sort of sanctuary in the wild wood in winter.
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Don’t be fooled by the breezy, chatty tone of this deeply creepy tale of internet romance and obsession.
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In this freaked-out and alienated new flash fiction, the mask and its wearer appear to be indistinguishable. Happy Halloween!
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This weird, wonderfully atmospheric “dark city” tale leavens its fantastical Old World noir with disorienting, marvelously creepy paranoia. We love it, and know you will too. Translated from the Bulgarian by Peter Bachev.
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Please enjoy this delightful little tale, in which the secret of a certain Fab Foursome’s extraordinary success is revealed.
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Minnesota poet Erik Bergholm’s lush and haunted verse invokes vast gulfs of space and time, and secret, devouring intimacies.
> Read MoreAlready October. The year ripening, yielding, and still so much ahead. Our careful cultivation of these pages has yielded a frightfully fantastical lineup for you this October — plus some news to share that has us howling with delight. Take a breath. Shall we begin? 1) New fiction, poetry, and more We’re so pleased with […]
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The fate of Father Ambrose in Paul Negri’s “Non Ego Te Absolvo” could easily serve as the storyline to a black metal concept album. Suffice it to say, just desserts are served to the piously deserving. Happy Halloween.
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In Arizona writer Jesse Sensibar’s “Nobody Ever Has Before,” a terrible crash on a desert highway leads to an eerie but poignant encounter between the living and the dead.
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In this dreamlike, eerie and allusive little tale, a boy’s mother “disappears into the sky,” carried off by owls, and a visitation of crows heralds a dark new presence in his life.
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It’s not quite a selkie story, but Oakland writer Laur A. Freymiller’s “On A Thursday” is a haunting and contemporary spin on a timeless tale of the sea’s gifts given and taken away.
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L.S. Johnson’s chilling tale of pyschological horror is a seasonal gift from all of us at The Fabulist to you, the hapless reader. Happy Halloween!
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“Household Gods,” a feverish shocker by Oxford divinities scholar Tara Isabella Burton, is the first horror story ever published by The Fabulist, and the protagonist’s travails are vividly described, caveat lector.
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Don’t mind the gnawing sense of dread that comes with reading California author John Zic’s chilling Fabulist debut, “A Secret Mother.” It’s an immersive narrative of two teenagers on a certain sort of road trip — and a nerve-wracking spiral into their sociopathic alternate reality.
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In which a collector of celebrity skulls is undone by his completist ambitions.
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A remote roadside encounter brings one driver into strange proximity with a time of myths and legends …
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