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Karen Heuler

    Karen Heuler's stories, featured in over 100 literary and speculative journals, are lauded for their haunting and quirky quality. Her work often delves into themes of apocalypse, women exploring alien worlds, and the mystical theft of time. Heuler navigates the boundaries of reality, offering readers unique and thought-provoking experiences that question the nature of time and place.

    When Things Get Dark
    The Splendid City
    • In the state of Liberty, water is rationed at alarming prices, free speech is hardly without a cost, and Texas has just declared itself its own country. In this society, paranoia is well-suited because eyes and ears are all around, and they are judging. Always judging. This terrifying (and yet somehow vaguely familiar) terrain is explored via Eleanor - a young woman eagerly learning about the gifts of her magic through the support of her coven.But being a white witch is not as easy as they portray it in the books, and she's already been placed under 'house arrest' with a letch named Stan, a co-worker who wronged her in the past and now exists in the form of a cat. A talking cat who loves craft beers, picket lines, and duping and 'shooting' people.Eleanor has no time for Stan and his shenanigans, because she finds herself helping another coven locate a missing witch which she thinks is mysteriously linked to the shortage of water in Liberty.

      The Splendid City
      3.0
    • When Things Get Dark

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      Legendary editor, Ellen Datlow, collects today’s best horror writers in tribute to the genius of Shirley Jackson. Featuring Joyce Carol Oates, Josh Malerman, Paul Tremblay, Richard Kadrey, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Hand and more. A collection of new and exclusive short stories inspired by, and in tribute to, Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson is a seminal writer of horror and mystery fiction, whose legacy resonates globally today. Chilling, human, poignant and strange, her stories have inspired a generation of writers and readers. This anthology, edited by legendary horror editor Ellen Datlow, will bring together today’s leading horror writers to offer their own personal tribute to the work of Shirley Jackson.Table of Contents“Introduction” Ellen Datlow“Funeral Birds” M. Rickert “For Sale By Owner” Elizabeth Hand “In the Deep Woods; The Light is Different There” Seanan McGuire “A Hundred Miles and a Mile” Carmen Maria Machado “Quiet Dead Things” Cassandra Khaw “Something Like Living Creatures” John Langan “Money of the Dead” Karen Heuler “Hag” Benjamin Percy “Take Me, I Am Free” Joyce Carol Oates “A Trip to Paris” Richard Kadrey “The Party” Paul Tremblay “Refinery Road” Stephen Graham Jones “The Door in the Fence” Jeffrey Ford “Pear of Anguish” Gemma Files “Special Meal” Josh Malerman “Sooner or Later, Your Wife Will Drive Home” Genevieve Valentine “Tiptoe” Laird Barron “Skinder's Veil” Kelly Link

      When Things Get Dark