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Pour One for the Devil: A Gothic Novella by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 21,710. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2024 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
When Dr. Van Vierlans receives an invitation from Mrs. Elizabeth Van der Horst to give a lecture at her island mansion off the coast of South Carolina, he doesn't think twice. There's a generous honorarium, and he relishes the chance to revisit the Sea Islands, where he once studied the Gullah language. The lavish house he arrives at is strangely out of time. No other historians appear, nor...
A Brutal Design by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 64,000. Language: English. Published: January 30, 2024 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
After the fascist takeover of his homeland and the murder of his parents, Jewish architecture student Samuel Zelnik thinks that he and his friends are bound for the gulag—or worse. Instead, he receives an unexpected offer of freedom working in the experimental utopian city of Duma. Awed by the city's dramatic architecture but confused by the other residents' strange behavior, Zelnik searches...
Numamushi: A Fairy Tale by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 23,210. Language: English. Published: October 17, 2023 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
Burned by napalm as an infant and adopted by the guardian spirit of a river, Numamushi spends the first years of his life catching frogs to eat and learning to shed his skin like his serpentine father. Then one day, a lonely man moves into the abandoned house next to the river, and curiosity for all things human awakens in Numamushi. This mysterious man shares Numamushi's penchant for eating...
An Unclean Place: A Novel by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 71,340. Language: English. Published: May 16, 2023 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
An old friend's untimely death leads a shy bookseller to uncover the shocking story of their former teacher.
These Bones by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 38,880. Language: English. Originally Published: September 14, 2021 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Horror, Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
In a neighborhood known as the Bramble Patch, the Lyons family endures despite poverty, racism, and the ghoulish appetites of an underworld kingpin called the Barghest. As the years pass and the neighborhood falls into decay, along with the town that surrounds it, what's left of the Bramble Patch will learn the saying is true: These bones are gonna rise again.
The Original Glitch by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 76,120. Language: English. Originally Published: October 5, 2021 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Science fiction » General
In the aftermath of his mentor's death, grad student Adler is left to piece together and clean up the project she left behind: an adaptive and increasingly malevolent artificial intelligence, kept locked in a virtual "box" that's no longer quite enough to keep him in check. As he tries to manage the AI and continue Dr. Kent's research, Adler soon discovers her sociopathic creation is determined...
The Salt Fields: A Novella by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 31,170. Language: English. Originally Published: March 9, 2021 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » African American fiction » Historical
On the day that Minister Peters boards a train from South Carolina heading north, he has nothing left but ghosts: the ghost of his murdered wife, the ghost of his drowned daughter, the ghosts of his father and his grandmother and the people who disappeared from his town without trace or explanation. In the cramped car, Minister finds himself in close quarters with three passengers also joining...
The Night Library of Sternendach: A Vampire Opera in Verse by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 21,350. Language: English. Originally Published: April 13, 2021 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical
In starry Sternendach, as long as The vampire Graf has ruled this land The Heller clan, with weapons strong as Their wills, have killed his kindred and Been killed in turn. The two sides nearly Destroyed themselves. The Graf saw clearly The need to make the killing cease, And forced a pact to keep the peace. The youngest of the Heller faction Is Kunigunde. Trained to fight It never suited her...
Tales of the Astonishing Black Spark by
Price: $12.99 USD. Words: 104,030. Language: English. Originally Published: September 4, 2018 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Satire
Trapped in a dead-end job in his Ohio hometown, watching the girl of his dreams move on to a glamorous new life in a big city—Donald McDougal's aimlessness has held him back for a long time. When a lightning strike grants him superhuman powers, he jumps at his chance to finally be somebody. But the new abilities and the pursuit of superheroic fame come with a price tag, and it may not be one he...
Under That Calamity by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 84,640. Language: English. Originally Published: May 24, 2022 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Biography » Physicians & medical professionals
"In the year 1830, I was unfortunately deprived of the use of reason. This calamity befell me about Christmas." After experiencing auditory hallucinations, John Perceval was institutionalized against his will for three years. His memoir A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman, During a State of Mental Derangement, was first published in 1838 in London with the aim of exposing...
Dreams Under Glass by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 58,320. Language: English. Originally Published: September 27, 2022 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Urban, Fiction » Literature » Literary
As the economy collapses around her in 2008 New York City, recent art school graduate Binnie takes a job as a paralegal to pay the bills. As her art projects languish on the back burner, she begins to obsessively imagine her daily grind expressed in unsettling and sometimes violent dioramas. Somehow, someday, she'll find the time to construct them. In the meantime, she'll walk this unsatisfying...
The Vampire Gideon’s Suicide Hotline and Halfway House for Orphaned Girls by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 60,580. Language: English. Originally Published: October 30, 2018 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Humor & comedy » Black comedy
In the house on the hill, there lives a vampire. But not of the sexy, mysterious, or sparkling kind. The vampire Gideon prefers to drink nearly expired blood from the local morgue while watching over the humans around him—humans he calls "children," because when you're as old as he is, everyone else does seem like a child. And so many of these children are prepared to throw their lives away...
One Bronze Knuckle by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 100,550. Language: English. Originally Published: March 15, 2022 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Family sagas
☆ Winner of the 2019 Gold Quill Award for Adult Fiction ☆ The Bergers have prospered in Bergerton since the day that Jonathan Berger's great-great grandfather refused to move from the very spot where his donkey cart had toppled over on the side of the road. Fortune smiles upon them all—until a catastrophic fire strikes on the night of the annual Feast of Sullivan, and they find themselves lost...
The City of Folding Faces by
Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 29,020. Language: English. Originally Published: April 9, 2019 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » High tech, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias
"After returning from the system, each morning Mara forgot who she had been the day before. Every day showed her a new world." At the mysterious research facility known only as the Casino, anyone can play Roulette—but it's not a game for the faint of heart. Those who upload themselves into the system expand their consciousness far beyond natural human limits. But when they return to their...
Elegy for the Undead by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 39,360. Language: English. Originally Published: October 13, 2020 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Horror
Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a disease that transforms him into a violent and often incomprehensible person. With no cure for the "zombie" virus in sight, the young husbands begin to face the last months they have together before Lyle loses himself completely. Fond remembrances of young love meet the challenges of navigating a...
Clock Star Rose Spine by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 9,150. Language: English. Originally Published: August 24, 2021 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Poetry » Female authors, Poetry » American poetry » General
Award-winning fantasy author Fran Wilde returns to her roots in Clock Star Rose Spine, bringing together poems previously published in Uncanny Magazine, Fireside Magazine, and more, along with a selection of work never before published. In this collection illuminated with whimsical fountain pen illustrations, Wilde explores family histories, feminism, visual art, disability, mythology, and of...
Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary: A Novel by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 90,790. Language: English. Originally Published: April 19, 2022 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
Georges Blanchard is revered in the small French town of Mireville both as a master serinette maker and for a miraculous incident in his childhood that earned him the title "The Sun-Bringer." As his firstborn son, Henri Blanchard is expected to follow in his footsteps, but Henri would rather learn to make lace than music boxes. When Henri discovers a stash of American letters in his father's...
An Archive of Brightness by
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 33,430. Language: English. Originally Published: August 30, 2022 by Lanternfish Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Two stoic lobstermen harboring a secret affection. A lonely architect building houses and machines from the exoskeletons of scorpions in a desert town. A girl painfully growing into new wings. A flock of crows and an untidy vulture observe and collect these moments of human tenderness as they build an archive of brightness. Each love story becomes, in its own way, the end of a world—and the...

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