Mythic Delirium Books

Slow Burn
Pre-release—available July 16, 2024. Price: $7.99 USD. Words: 92,180. Language: English. Published by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
SLOW BURN gathers fourteen tales of horror and thirteen macabre poems by two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen, auther of the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated collections UNSEAMING and AFTERMATH OF AN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT. With an introduction by three-time Bram Stoker Award winner Christina Sng.
Like Smoke, Like Light: Stories
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 104,010. Language: English. Published: June 20, 2023 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Publishers Weekly Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror title of 2023! "Ogawa's debut collection of 17 speculative shorts stuns with its delicacy … Harkening back to the oldest folk and fairy tales and raising pointed questions about how humans value and devalue each other, this is a showstopper." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Her work is unexpected, often horrific, and always enthralling...
The Collected Enchantments
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 174,870. Language: English. Published: February 14, 2023 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
A monumental career retrospective "This vibrant collection brings together World Fantasy Award winner Goss's exquisite interpretations of and variations on familiar folk and fairy tales. The [poems and stories] span the length of Goss's career ... All approach well-known stories from unexpected angles and with deep empathy for the characters ... The abundance of pieces sometimes has the effect...
The Twice-Drowned Saint
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 62,110. Language: English. Published: February 7, 2023 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Urban, Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
The mind-blowing new novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter "World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!" —Publishers Weekly "Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few have successfully captured the idea well-until The Twice-Drowned Saint, at least. A sumptuous, saw-toothed read, it...
Songs for Ophelia
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 14,690. Language: English. Originally Published: April 9, 2020 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Poetry » Ancient Poetry, Nonfiction » Literary criticism, Nonfiction » Literary criticism » Feminist, Poetry » Female authors
"The collection you hold in your hands is otherworldly, it is elegant, it is delicate. It is graceful, it is exquisite and ethereal. It is full of flowers and fairies and a piercing, thorny longing." —from the introduction by Catherynne M. Valente A Mythopoeic Award finalist Songs for Ophelia gathers together eighty of Theodora Goss's otherworldly poems which lead the reader, as though under a...
The Sky-Riders
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 12,540. Language: English. Originally Published: January 26, 2015 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure, Fiction » Science fiction » Steampunk & retropunk
Alistair Jones is a ex-Pinkerton agent roaming the West in search of work. Amy Dunston is an angry widow searching for answers. Who knows what those men with matching mustaches and bowler hats are searching for, but Alistair and Amy would both like to know why there are so many of them, why they all look alike, and why they're impervious to bullets -- at least until they met the business end of...
Mythic Delirium
Series: Mythic Delirium, Book 1. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 46,630. Language: English. Originally Published: October 4, 2014 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
“Rich word choices and settings that blend speculative concepts with quotidian reality highlight this stellar anthology of prose and poetry from well-known editor Mike Allen (CLOCKWORK PHOENIX) and his wife and copublisher, Anita Allen ... This anthology is a winner from cover to cover.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review This new anthology from the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed...
Clockwork Phoenix 5
Series: Clockwork Phoenix, Book 5. Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 101,920. Language: English. Originally Published: April 5, 2016 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
• 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Anthology • Contains "The Fall Shall Further the Flight in Me" by Rachael K. Jones, 2017 World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Fiction • Contains "Sabbath Wine" by Barbara Krasnoff, 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Short Story • 2016 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology The ground-breaking, boundary-pushing, award-nominated series...
Hungry Constellations
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 21,970. Language: English. Originally Published: October 4, 2014 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Poetry » American poetry » General
“The poems in Mike Allen’s latest book, HUNGRY CONSTELLATIONS, make a rowdy, red-tinged tapestry, representing twenty years of work from one of the major creative forces in this genre. These poems are physical, expansive, and revolutionary. They are grand and dystopic. They seethe with the conflict of opposites. Allen likes the destructive side of creation as much as the emergent side ... He...
In the Forest of Forgetting
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 75,430. Language: English. Originally Published: April 9, 2020 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
"It doesn't seem too hasty to exclaim, 'Classic!'" —Booklist, starred review "An original voice, and an original vision: crystalline, precise, mordant and devastating." —Ellen Kushner. A Mythopoeic Award finalist Mythic Delirim Books is proud to make World Fantasy Award and Locus Award winner Theodora Goss's 2006 story collection In the Forest of Forgetting available in electronic format. With...
Bone Swans
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 105,010. Language: English. Originally Published: July 2, 2015 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Romance » Paranormal » General
BONUS MATERIAL! Now includes excerpts from C. S. E. Cooney's short novel The Twice-Drowned Saint! Winner of the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Collection Contains "The Bone Swans of Amandale," 2015 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella "C. S. E. Cooney is one of the most moving, daring, and plainly beautiful voices to come out of recent fantasy. She's a powerhouse with a wink in her eye and...
Dark Breakers
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 108,680. Language: English. Originally Published: February 15, 2022 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Story Collection Locus Award finalist for Best Story Collection "Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget … If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one." —Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland "Cooney's lush follow-up to Desdemona and the Deep offers...
Aftermath of an Industrial Accident
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 101,270. Language: English. Originally Published: July 7, 2020 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
2020 Shirley Jackson Award finalist, Best Story Collection 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Story Collection "From heartbreaking character studies to exercises in Grand Guignol excess, from scalpel-sharp poetry to sledgehammers of blood-soaked prose, Mike Allen displays not only his own considerable range, but the range of the horror genre as well. Aftermath of an Industrial Accident...
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two
Series: Mythic Delirium, Book 2. Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 48,320. Language: English. Originally Published: December 16, 2015 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Assembled from the second year of the digital journal Mythic Delirium and recast in an artfully arranged anthology, this latest offering from editors Mike and Anita Allen will introduce you to harrowing deserts and vengeful waters, to quantum mythology and edible religion, to slipstream explorations of love and identity. Publisher and editor Mike Allen writers in his introduction, “If you’re on...
Latchkey: Book Two of the Archivist Wasp Saga
Series: Archivist Wasp. Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 113,490. Language: English. Originally Published: July 10, 2018 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Young adult or teen » Urban, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Science Fiction
Kirkus Best YA Science Fiction of 2018 Tor.com Best Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2018 Den of Geek Best Fiction Books of 2018 2018 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Fantasy Novel "Near-future science-fiction crimes bleed into dystopian horror centuries later in a wildly imaginative genre-hybrid sequel to Archivist Wasp…Excruciating, cathartic, and triumphant." —Kirkus Reviews...
Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 78,610. Language: English. Originally Published: February 5, 2019 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - single author, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Bonus Content 2024! Read an excerpt from Theodora Goss's new book, The Collected Enchantments! Mythopoeic Award Winner for Adult Literature Locus Award finalist, Best Collection and Best Novelette "I was expecting this to be good, but it's wonderful. Seeing these pieces together makes me realize what a vivid, authentic and important voice Goss is. These are real fairytales, magical, unsettling...
The History of Soul 2065
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 73,780. Language: English. Originally Published: June 11, 2019 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Cultural & ethnic themes » Jewish, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
"This is storytelling at the top of the heap." —Jane Yolen, winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement "Powerful and dreamlike, this intergenerational meditation on family, mortality, and hope is far more than the sum of its parts." —Publishers Weekly, starred review "Achingly familiar and wonderfully strange." ­—Samuel R. Delany, Hugo and Nebula Award winner "Plunge into The...
A Sinister Quartet
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 172,230. Language: English. Originally Published: June 9, 2020 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology Contains "The Twice-Drowned Saint" by C.S.E. Cooney, 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best First Novel INCLUDES BONUS STORIES AND EXCERPTS AND NEW FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS "With fiction from C.S.E Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, and Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium's excellent new anthology, A Sinister Quartet, provides further...
The Spider Tapestries: Seven Strange Stories
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 41,840. Language: English. Originally Published: March 1, 2016 by Mythic Delirium Books. Categories: Fiction » Horror, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary, Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
"Mike Allen will infect your subconscious with hallucinatory and alarming delight. This book is a must-read for fans of weird fiction and dark fantasy." —Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Gifts for the One who Comes After "Surrender yourself to The Spider Tapestries and let these tales rewire your mind." —Scott Nicolay, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Do You Like to...