Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures

With Stories By Allison Paige, Beth Sparks & Paul Coy | Allison Pang & Irma ‘Aimo’ Ahmed (Sad Sausage Dogs) | Sztehlo | Cait Zellers | Cameron Lucente | Jade Zhang & Mikaela Lucido | Jamie Isfeld | Joyce Chau | Leonie O’Moore & Skylar Patridge | Letty Wilson | Liezl Buenaventura | Luz Bianca & Kaylee Rowena | Merissa Mayhew | Matt McGrath & V. Gagnon | Megan Kearney | Nicholai Farber | Skylar Kardon | Trina Robbins & Anne Timmons

Edited by S.M. Beiko

“In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can’t see. Trans vampires’ lives intertwine in cyber-goth Paris. A non-binary chaplain serving a haunted space station becomes enamoured with the ship’s AI. And the treachery and passion of a gestalt alien mind reaches critical mass for the explorer who discovered it.

With stories spanning time, galaxies, and spirits, Gothic Tales of Haunted Futures features 18 original stories, casting the indelible themes of gothic romance forward in time, to imagined futures and tomorrow’s afterlives.”