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Something Slavic this way comes... From the past to the future, across various Slavic cultures and throughout several European regions, this anthology brings you short speculative fiction stories inspired by Slavic folklore and mythology. Darkness and light, grief and hope, gods and humans mingle on these pages as they take you on the supernatural journey of a lifetime. As you travel through the Slavic lands of magic and mayhem, take special care-beware of the rusalka and of the creatures lurking in the woods, don't mess with the thing sleeping in the cave, and whatever you do, don't cross the goddess Morana... or your frozen corpse will be found, come next spring. Dive into these eleven stories of seasonal changes, life, and Slavic wonder!

It Eats Us From the Inside is a quiet, claustrophobic near-future horror novella about changes from the outside and from within, ecological disaster, aquatic dread and Slavic folklore. The only reason Doris agreed to go back to her hometown on the Northern Adriatic coast was her wife's insistence to go and visit her father, house-ridden and slowly dying from a mysterious illness that eats at him from the inside. But under the surface of the family reunion lie old tales and hidden regret, while from the sea comes a creeping threat to the town and beyond, slowly but surely spreading farther from the coast. Taken at the tide of change, nothing and no one will stay the same.

Mistress of Geese is a collection of folk horror tales about isolation, loneliness, destructive powers of nature, magic and creatures lurking in the dark. The undiscovered, occasionally almost uninhabited remote areas of the old European land of Croatia hold secrets only the bravest of women can find. The only question is, will they survive the discovery or be taken into darkness as the land demands? Jela lives in complete, self-imposed isolation, but when a malevolent curse falls down on the neighbouring town of Lepoglava, she needs to-quite simply-follow the geese. Bura lives in a remote village, hidden in the Velebit mountain range in the late 1950s, when she gets lost in the woods, which have suddenly gone unrecognizable. Four friends visiting the Istrakon sci-fi convention in Pazin get into magical trouble when they drink something they shouldn't have touched. Luka and Kate believed they had a perfect plan to trick strict village rules. Years later, Ema and Laura go on a perfect vacation in Dalmatia... except that the powers lurking in the depths of the sea have other plans for them, and so does the village itself. Augusta is caught in a fairy tale in the worst possible way-as a maiden sacrifice to the river dragon for the safety of her postapocalyptic village. But Lian, as it turns out, isn't really a dragon and Augusta has something else to bargain with, other than her life-something much, much more dangerous.

There's someone else living in Sanja's flat and they don't pay the rent. But for Sanja, the next time she falls asleep she just might end up paying the ultimate price.Sanja has already made some hard choices in life. She took out a loan to get her own place for the first time ever, and now she's repaying it by working at the most ungrateful job in history: elementary school teacher.The last thing she needs is her nightmares to start tormenting her, as if her grandmother's special breed of childcare wasn't enough.In a world that doesn't believe in old wives' tales, her options are limited. It's now up to her to deal with her supernatural pest or forever fall asleep trying.A sapphic horror novella in 37k words.