The Screwfly Solution
A fragmented sci-fi horror tale follows a worldwide surge of violent misogyny, ending in a chilling alien explanation.
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A Collapse of Horses
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The Queue
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The Doomed City
A young believer is dropped into a baffling experimental city and rises through its chaos as its hidden logic unravels.
Ascension
A scientific expedition climbs a newly appeared Pacific mountain where time bends, memories fray, and reality turns hostile.
The Book of Strange New Things
A Christian missionary to an alien colony fights to keep his marriage alive as Earth and Oasis drift toward crisis.
The Temple
A stranded WWI German submarine captain descends into madness after recovering a strange idol from the dead.
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The Adjacent
In a climate-ravaged future Britain, a grieving photographer is pulled into a mystery that echoes across wars, worlds, and identities.
Nothing but the Rain
A quarantined town suffers memory-erasing rain, and one retired doctor journals a fight to survive and stay herself.
Camp Concentration
A war-era poet is sent to a secret prison camp where a drug makes inmates brilliant, then kills them.
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