Product Description: Rhonda Douglas’s debut collection dazzles with its daring and dangerous prose. Welcome to the Circus, where every moment is a tight-rope act, precariously balancing on the edge of destruction. In these stories, a choir processes its collective grief at the loss of one of its members to cancer; a teenage boy marks himself with the poetry of John Donne; God explains the collapse of the cod fishery; Mata Hari stands trial; and two sisters try to reconcile their respective places in the family porn emporium business before everything blows up...read more

Product Description: The Globe and Mail Top 100 Quill & Quire Book of the Year Amazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100 Now magazine, Top 10 Books Chatelaine, Favourite Books of 2013 Hailed over and over as the best book of 2013. "This was, hands down, the best book I read in 2013...read more

Product Description: With unsentimental prose and ironic dialogue, Katie Boland brings to life a variety of characters who all have one thing in common—a need for something more. A literary debut by a refreshing new voice in fiction, the stories in Eat Your Heart Out are about the haunted and heartbroken, about dreamers, losers and love-lost souls...read more

Product Description: Everything is familiar; everything is different. Behind it all, is there some strange kind of design or merely just the chance to adapt? In Karen Heuler’s stories, characters cope with the strange without thinking it’s strange, sometimes invested in what’s going on, sometimes trapped by it, but always finding their own way in...read more

Product Description: Award-winning science fiction writer Sean A. Tinsley and respected Inuit author Rachel A. Qitsualik lend gothic interpretation to Inuit shamanism in this original collection of dark fantasy for modern audiences. Drawing on familiar tropes of the fantasy and science fiction genres, Ajjiit gives fans of mainstream fantasy fiction and the short stories of writers such as Tanith Lee and Charles de Lint a whole new mythological world to discover...read more

Product Description: An investigator arrives in town on the trail of a missing teenage psychic, and hires Anna and Collie to be his liaisons to the local magic community. Troublingly, though, he turns out to have a knack for suppressing magic, leaving magicians powerless and vulnerable.

Product Description: A literary approach to the Word of the Lord, this collection of short fiction deals with—in one way or another—the overarching concept of redemption. This anthology demonstrates how God appears again and again in the lives of priest, pastors, nuns, and Pentecostals...read more

Product Description: These strange stories gather and weave themselves together into a wreath of memories, rife with an atmospheric and ominous creep redolent of Shirley Jackson. This eerie collection illustrates the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit—the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish...read more

Product Description: The Devil You Know is the follow-up volume to Farrell's acclaimed debut collection, Sugar Bush & Other Stories.The stories in The Devil You Know deal with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing, territories of sex, love, work, birth, and death...read more

Product Description: These 23 stories take us on a twisted fun ride into some future times and parallel universes where characters as diverse as a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus engage in their own games of the survival of the fittest...read more

Product Description: Chimerascope is the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen engaging stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything...read more

Product Description: The accomplished stories in No Place Fit for a Child take the reader from Cuba to the Yukon, from a parched landscape in Canada to the cool streets of southern Spain, from Toronto to the Rockies and from the narrowing world of the dying to the wondrous expanse of a child's imagination...read more