The Mimicking of Known Successes (Tor) by Malka Older blends cozy mystery, romance, and sci-fi in a character-driven story that evokes Sherlock Holmes in tone and structure but moves far beyond mere pastiche.
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Aether Beyond the Binary (Duck Prints Press) champions gender diversity in a series of otherworldly stories imagining a world infused with aether, a transformative substance that can make life more magical or destroy it completely.
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Vampire Hunters: An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts (Speculation Publications) is an aptly named collection of gory testimonies from ancient Greece to current-day Kiribati, edited by LCW Allingham and River Eno.
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The best work in Limelight and Other Stories by Lyndsey Croal (Shortwave Publishing) is viscerally unsettling, like the author is pressing her fingers into an open wound.
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Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories (From Beyond Press), edited by Michael W. Phillips Jr., takes readers on a bewildering and horrifying tour of the city.
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