Stories

On her first day as a dungeon cleaner, goblin Azravel gets an earful from her veteran colleague Grengel about the particular misery of cleaning up after elemental spirits.

Darkness speaks in first person, tracing its ancient relationship with humanity — from the comfort of the womb to the final mystery of death.

An anonymous painting appears in a hip gallery, and while the owner sees only a publicity coup, her friend is filled with creeping dread at the disturbing forms emerging from its impossible colours.

A legendary house in an ancient city has swallowed every visitor who dared enter — and now a plucky young traveller, spurred on by her peers and an unrequited love, pushes open the door.

In a world where everyone gets a once-a-decade undo of any past action, one recipient agonises over how to spend their CTRL+Z day — and ends up paralysed by the infinite weight of consequence.

A self-declared atheist spends a night on the couch of a friend's 'murder house', musing on how we confront the dark history of the places we inhabit — and wakes utterly untroubled.

Cthulhu receives a deeply unsettling vision — not of apocalyptic triumph, but of a plan that was never going to work — and is forced to confront an existential mid-aeons career crisis.

A professional body-swap operator rents their consciousness to a rich teenager for a night out, then must navigate 24 hours inside an unfamiliar body while hoping the customer returns theirs on time.

A secret service chief reinstates ghosts as agents, only to discover their first mission has an unexpected obstacle.