'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Alice Oseman Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more… A global Webtoon phenomenon and LGBTQ+ graphic novel about friendship, love and magic. Sébastien recently moved to supernatural Paris hoping to get away from his troubles at home and live a peaceful life learning magic. But what are you going to do when the really hot vampire you made out with last night to forget your troubles turns out to be your new neighbor? Sébastien (a demisexual boy with “main character hair” and a bunny named Pierre), meet Elia (a hot, supermodel, vampire neighbor and crush). Join Elia, Sébastien and their assorted crew of wonderful friends, as they navigate the ins and outs of dating in a modern and paranormal love story.

'One of my favourite webcomics of all time' Alice Oseman Boy moves to new city. Boy meets vampire. They kiss, then become friends. But both would like something more… A global Webtoon phenomenon and LGBTQ+ graphic novel about friendship, love and magic. Sébastien recently moved to supernatural Paris hoping to get away from his troubles at home and live a peaceful life learning magic. But what are you going to do when the really hot vampire you made out with last night to forget your troubles turns out to be your new neighbor? Sébastien (a demisexual boy with “main character hair” and a bunny named Pierre), meet Elia (a hot, supermodel, vampire neighbor and crush). Join Elia, Sébastien and their assorted crew of wonderful friends, as they navigate the ins and outs of dating in a modern and paranormal love story.

A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways. A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror. A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star before the mission devolves into a panoply of psychedelic orgies. A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault and dishes out some harrowing retribution of their own. Over thirty Trans and Gender Nonconforming creators unite to voice their rage, and the rules of conventional Horror go out the f$%&ing window in this collection featuring murderous pleasure-bots; proselytizing zombies; acid-filled alien cops; science run amok; sorcerers, ghouls, cannibals...and that barely scratches the grave-dirt. YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR BODY Table of Contents Introduction by M. Belanger The Flensing Lens—LC von Hessen Tonsilstonespunksplatter666!—Rain Corbyn High Maintenance—S.A. Chant The Infinite Being—F. Tullia Catulla Brother Maternitas—Viktor Athelstan The Same Thing That Happened to Sam—M. Lopes da Silva Ballad of the Pest—Meagan Hotz Playing House—Ziggy Schutz Hybrid—Rose Sable Cholesterol-Monoxide—W.N. Derring-Judith Why We Keep Exploding—Hailey Piper We've Been Trying to Reach You—Charles Maria Tor Lost in Reincarnation—Devaki Devay Because My Mother Tells Me So—Dayna Ingram Seaflowers—Ori Jay Fencing Chestplate—Avi Burton Gender Envy—Gabriel Valentine Rest, my head.—Cosmin-Mihai Bîrsan The Divine Carcass—Bitter Karella Chironoplasty—Joe Koch #MOTHERMAYHEM—Jei D. Marcade The Lives of Scavengers—Rhiannon Rasmussen The Simulacrum—Max Turner The Roots They Pull—Taylor J. Pitts Stench—Vincent Endwell The Pearl Diver—Bri Crozier Tiny Magic—G.E. Woods Cover art Mx Morgan G Robles Featuring illustrations Harrison Webb Lex Lillian Hochwender Becca Snow Rieroo Cori Walters William Taylor

The Fisherman can't fathom why anyone would want to be human. Small wonder. They've been ripped from their underwater home under Europa's ice, and stripped of their skin--the nebulous outer layer that enables them to shapeshift for survival. Imprisoned on a ship that's hunting for a mad undersea god, they must help the crew find it if they want to retrieve their skin and return home. Dame Isobel, an insane young heiress, owns the ship, desperate to find the god in the hopes that it will heal her lobotomized girlfriend. The Fisherman is stuck in a female human form. They're pulled into a toxic, codependent sexual relationship with Dame Isobel-- in a world where homosexuality is punishable by death. In the midst of this insanity, it's quite clear to the Fisherman: Humanity is confusing, inefficient, and messy. When Isobel reveals that she will never let the Fisherman go, even if they find the mad god, the Fisherman knows: It's time to get violent.

He Hears Death tells the morbid tale of an embalmer who can no longer hear the world as it is, but as Death does. Cursed with the ability to hear the voices of the deceased who linger in his quiet hometown, The Fool finds himself struggling to hold onto his sanity. Reeling from the murder of his Lover four years prior, he spends his days fixing up the dead and the nights sewing up his own damaged soul amidst the anxiety and loneliness in his life. His only safe haven is his apartment - the place where his Lover's spirit still lingers - but the trek home each night is a dangerous one indeed... A violent, malicious entity stalks the halls of the high-rise, and every time The Fool steps through his doorway he risks it being his last. Wrestling with his future, his desire for reunion, and his spiraling anxiety, The Fool's story is one of grief, loneliness, and lost love. His near-obsessive romance with the literal ghost of his past grows ever stronger as his inability to move on throttles his will to live until all hell breaks loose. When an unforeseen crisis hits the neighboring city, The Fool finds himself trapped within the confines of The Tower, forcing him to face not only the hell-bent monstrosity in the hall and Death's presence in the shadows, but the finality of life as he knew it. He Hears Death was nominated for "Best Book Cover and Artist" in the 2024 Indie Ink Awards.

Cricket is trapped. When she was wed, her dreaded mother-in-law laid a blood curse on her, and now that her husband is dead, fully intends to commit her to an asylum … or worse. To save her life, Cricket flees to a small New England town and throws herself upon the mercy of a man she has never met. Gabriel Throckmorton is not happy when Cricket turns up on his doorstep, but he does grudgingly agree to help her break the curse. Cricket expects the process to be difficult, but she has no idea how many secrets are waiting for her in the forest just beyond the garden wall. There is a ghostly woman who visits Cricket in her dreams. Whether to seduce her or to ask for help, Cricket isn't sure. Then there is Throckmorton himself with a garden full of poisonous plants and a predator's smile. The two of them awaken desires in Cricket that she has never experienced and threaten to reveal secrets she has long kept hidden. When she discovers bones in the forest, a strange hole in the ground that exudes a frightening power, and townspeople driven to terrible violence by deep and wild magic, she begins to think she might be in over her head.

Disgraced surgeon Ramsey Abernathy isn’t God; he doesn’t make mistakes. At least, that is what he tells himself during countless hours of assembling body parts and sorting through bags of organs. Ever since the death of his brother, Ramsey has been obsessed with resurrection and reanimation. If he can find a cure for death, then science needn’t stop at creation—it may yield its secrets for reversal, as well. All it will take him is one more…one more body, one more sleepless night.If ever he feels like giving up, the ghost of his brother, an entity he calls ‘Wisp’, will raise cane until he sees results. Wisp is just as eager to have a body as Ramsey is to have a breakthrough, but neither can anticipate what will happen when science takes on a life of its own.Set deep in the heart of the Louisiana bayou, revisit the terrifying tale of Mary Shelley’s FRANKENSTEIN as you’ve never read it before.

A loose retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” that centers queer and trans characters Trans sailor Darragh Thorn has made a comfortable life for himself among people who love and accept him. Ten years after his exile from home, though, his sister asks him to reconcile with their ailing father. Determined to resolve his feelings rather than just survive them, Darragh sets off on a quest to find the one person who can heal a half-dead man: the mysterious enchanter who once gave him the magic he needed to become his true self. But so far as anyone knows, no one but Darragh has seen the enchanter for a century, and the fairy tales that survive about em give more cause for fear than hope. In lush and evocative prose, and populated with magical trees and a wise fox, The Story of the Hundred Promises is a big-hearted fantasy suffused with queer optimism.

The books are restless. At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, ink, and thread they're made from--they're full of spirits. Only a handful of people will ever be invited to the Bindery to learn the craft of etheric bookbinding: the creation of intricate illuminated manuscripts, Bound with a secret that will make them last forever. Tabby is a dreamwalker, a witch who escapes into the stories of sleep to avoid a birth family that's never loved em enough. Amane is a cartomancer, a medium who speaks for the Unseen, but doesn't know how to speak for her own needs. Rhiannon is highly psychic, an archivist who can See into the past, but only has eyes on the future. Their stories intertwine as they discover the secrets of etheric binding, the Library's archives, and those of their mentors--the three of whom are competing to be the next Head Librarian, the Speaker for all the books. How do you know who's truly worth being part of your family? Sometimes we must forge connections in order to heal; other times, those bonds must be broken.

COMMON BONDS is an anthology of speculative short stories and poetry featuring aromantic characters. At the heart of this collection are the bonds that impact our lives from beginning to platonic relationships. Within this anthology, a cursed seamstress finds comfort in the presence of a witch, a team of demon hunters work with their rival to save one of their own, a peculiar scholar gets attached to those he was meant to study, and queerplatonic shopkeepers guide their pupil as they explore their relationships needs and desires. Through nineteen stories and poems, COMMON BONDS explores the ways platonic relationships enrich our lives. --- Edited by Claudie Arseneault, C. T. Callahan, B. R. Sanders, and RoAnna Sylver Featuring works by A. Z. Louise, Adriana C. Grigore, Avi Silver, Camilla Quinn, Cora Ruskin, E. H. Timms, Ian Mahler, Jeff Reynolds, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Marjorie King, Mika Stanard, Morgan Swim, Polenth Blake, Ren Oliveira, Rosiee Thor, Syl Woo, Thomas Leonard Shaw, and Vida Cruz.

Clémence Voyer’s one and only priority is Alain, ols five-year-old brother. Ol had been ready to kill countless witches to keep him safe. With Montrant Industries’ crimes exposed, Clémence is freed from their clutches and under witness protection, granting ol a rare opportunity to give the boy a sense of normalcy and indulge his bird obsession. The city of Val-de-mer is left with one obvious problem, however: over a thousand witches trapped in exocores need to be transferred safely into new bodies, and ols involvement in the creation of exocores is not so easily forgotten—not by the lovely Emmanuelle Duclos, the scientist in charge of devising the exocore transfer, not by the witch community ol betrayed, and not by Montrant Industries, who needs ol dead to protect itself. Mired in the middle of the exocore restoration project, Clémence is forced to face the people ol harmed. Ol will need to learn to trust again determine what it means to be accountable if ol wants to move forward and finally give Alain the idyllic life he deserves. --- PAINTED FLOCK is the second fantasy novel in a series meant to reframe romance tropes within non-romantic relationship and centering aromantic characters. Those who enjoy quiet healing, tricky redemptions, and unusual families should enjoy this story.

Naomi Novik's Scholomance series meets Plain Bad Heroines in this sapphic dark academia fantasy by instant national and international bestselling author Emily Tesh, winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. "Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us." Doctor Walden is the Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy and one of the most powerful magicians in England. Her days consist of meetings, teaching A-Level Invocation to four talented, chaotic sixth formers, more meetings, and securing the school's boundaries from demonic incursions. Walden is good at her job―no, Walden is great at her job. But demons are masters of manipulation. It’s her responsibility to keep her school with its six hundred students and centuries-old legacy safe. And it’s possible the entity Walden most needs to keep her school safe from―is herself.

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow. Always mindful of the debt she owes, the girl finds her worth as a weapon in the hand of the Prince. Her victories make him a king, then an emperor. The bards sing her name and her enemies fear it. But the war never ends and the cost keeps rising—how many times will she repeat her own story?