THE MYRIAD CARNIVAL:
QUEER AND WEIRD TALES FROM UNDER THE BIG TOP (Lethe press)
Roll up, roll up… The circus has long been that dream palace, intoxicating with so many lights and sights, sounds and smells. Sawdust, popcorn, strange animals, make-up, and the sweat of the roustabouts. The circus intrudes into the life of the ordinary and mundane and brings magic. Editor Matthew Bright invites you to the enjoy the sixteen attractions of the fantastical and dark Myriad Carnival.

Table of Contents: 
  • "Nettlestings: A Fairy Tale" by Sarah Caulfield
  • "September Song" by Raymond Luczak
  • "The Illuminated Omi-Palone" by Nick Campbell
  • "The Return of the Discombobulated Woman" by Paul Magrs
  • "El Amor Brujo" by Evey Brett
  • "Armature" by Mark Ward
  • "Boxes" by "M. Regan" 
  • "Our Scalloped Bitch" by Michael Leonberger 
  • "Crackle" by Roy Gill
  • "The Sharpshooter" by B.R. Sanders
  • "Feeding Time" by Kate Harrad
  • "The Last Daddy-Daughter Day" by Kelda Crich
  • "The Liberating of the Devil Boy" by Hal Duncan
  • "As Mephistopheles Said..." by Eric Alan Westfall
  • "The Moon and the Devil and the Ace of Wands" by Evan J. Peterson
  • "Plague Automata" by Daniel Hale
  • "Myriad" by Christopher Black

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Reviews:

"The specifics of the eponymous carnival change from story to story, but a mood of the strange, eerie, and poignant suffuses the anthology and provides coherence." 
Publishers Weekly. (Read the full review.)

"Like a barker luring unsuspecting marks, The Myriad Carnival takes readers into the dark shadows behind the curtain, introducing them to the mystical world of the strange, the remarkable, and the macabre." 
​Amazing Stories. (Read the full review.)