by Erin Eileen Almond
A rising teen violinist and a fallen prodigy are swept up in Paganini’s “Witches’ Dance” —and when their curtain falls, only one will be left on the stage.
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by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
edited by Carmen Maria Machado
Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship—until a carriage accident brings the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla into her life. Le Fanu’s compelling vampire tale was a source of influence for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The Lanternfish Press edition includes notes and a new introduction by award-winning author Carmen Maria Machado.
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by Andrew Katz
A vampire who runs a suicide hotline tries to do what he can to help humans who don’t want to live any longer and, in the process, accidentally adopts a teenage girl. This dark comedy follows the vampire Gideon as he tries to help the contemporary “children” he meets over the hotline—even as he avoids finding ways to help himself.
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by Caitlin Chung
In Gold Rush-era San Francisco, the fates of two women descending from the same Chinese family are tied forever to an ancient lighthouse keeper.