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Tattoo by Candace McBride

Magic, murder, and monsters

Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .

A serialized novel, updating Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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Death, Inc. by Edward Morris

Book Zero of There Was a Crooked Man

Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense.  In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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Dark Icon Original Fiction by Dark Icon

All of us, even the world itself, began in darkness.

Original works of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.  Ten years of novels, short stories, and serial fiction.  All free. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated thrice weekly.
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Available Darkness by David Wright and Sean Platt

A man wakes up inside a coffin with no knowledge of how he got there or who he is.  After freeing himself, he finds a note in his pants directing him to “Avoid the sunlight! Don’t touch anybody!”  Afraid, hurt, and alone, he starts a journey to discover the truth about himself.  But some things are better left unknown. . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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30 Pieces of Silver by Cally Beck

Charm City Blood & Betrayal, Magic & Mayhem

30 Pieces of Silver is an urban fantasy webserial set in Baltimore, a.k.a. Charm City.  Each installment is self-contained, though all take place in the same city and characters and plots sometimes interrelate.  A new installment is posted every Sunday morning, and they usually are between 300 and 1500 words long. . . .

An ongoing series, with new episodes weekly.
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The Guide to Moral Living in Examples by Greg X. Graves

The Guide to Moral Living in Examples is an ever-growing collection of speculative fiction pieces designed to illustrate solutions to common moral dilemmas, such as what to do if the occupants of your cemetery form a tenants’ union or if a demon takes up residence on your couch. . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
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The New Bedlam Project by Jodi Lee (editor)

Something is wrong in New Bedlam...

The New Bedlam Project follows the adventures of numerous and sundry characters found in the past, present and future of one messed up little town.  Originally started as a companion piece to the Courting Morpheus anthology, the webzine has taken on a life of its own. We publish several short stories and a selection of poetry in each quarterly . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated infrequently.
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Sun-kissed by Kashii

The time is now and the world is ours, but not quite as we know it.

Sun-kissed is a story about vampires, those hunted by vampires and those who hunt vampires. . . .

A serialized novel, updating fortnightly.
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Shadow by Seraph

Monsters, Machines and Mad Scientists

Ellis Graves has found his way into the strange city-world of Shadow, where he has become entangled in the dark plans of blue-blooded Philosophers and savage monsters.  His only allies are a beautiful pirate without a vessel and an old man who just might be completely mad. All he wants to do is find a way back home, but . . .

A serialized novel, updating weekly.
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flesh phantoms by Alan P. Scott

cynical biped

The stories here are short (some very short) and are mostly sf – that is, speculative fiction: fantasies, myths, science fiction, slipstream . . . all the flavors of fabulation except, I hope, for the mundane.  Many were written with the audience of the Usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre in mind, back when text was the thing. —APS . . .

A growing collection of stories, updated sporadically.
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Pulp Engine by Lamar Henderson

Pulp Engine is an online magazine dedicated to fun, character and plot-driven fiction.  We don’t seek to emulate the classic pulp magazines of the ’20s and ’30s, but rather create new stories that attempt the capture the spirit of fun and adventure those stories possessed, focusing on the modern world. . . .

An online magazine of fiction, updated weekly.
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Knightfall by Ben Essex

Rapture is coming.

All over the world, Knights are appearing.  They have swords.  They ride horses.  They wear shining armour.  They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter.  However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading.  They have a Law to uphold. . . .

An ongoing scripted series, with new episodes monthly.
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KNIGHTFALL

Mystery and Adventure

Editor: Miladysa
January 3, 2009

This is only the second piece of script presented fiction that I have read and I admit to knowing very little – if anything at all – about the technicalities of their execution outside my experience as a reader. 

What appeals to me about this style of fiction is that it [more . . .]

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BLACK ALICE

Black Alice is worth A look

Member: Shutsumon
November 25, 2009

Cross-posted from my blog:

What do Lovecraftian Demons, power-hungry magicians, heavily-armed religious fanatics, and vampire mobsters all have in common? They’re all trying to ruin Alice’s Day.

That’s the mini-blurb from the masthead of "Black Alice – An Urban Fantasy Serial Novel [more . . .]

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