Solve for X
He keeps the tape in the refrigerator, she thinks. It’s cold on her wrists, on her ankles. On her mouth. It’s the third day, maybe the fourth. She’s to the stage of blaming herself. She should have been smarter, she … 
Afterword by Stephen Graham Jones
You never hit a story that’s only one genre, do you? Westerns tend to have some element of romance, horror uses comedy as pressure-release valve, fantasy’s nearly always got a few solid action sequences, science fiction and spy thrillers trade …
The Last Final Girl: An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones
Back in my college days, my friends and I would watch the films of Dario Argento. We used to sneak into the gay student lounge late at night (one of my friends for some reason had the room key) and …
Butter
Zeru
Kilasa Nyalandu Among my people, being an albino is either good luck or a curse. When I was young, my mother protected me. She called me her ‘handsome white lion,’ and she sheltered me from the rest of the tribe. …
Revenge of the Rabid, Killer Were-Possum
I first started doing the were-possum thing about the same time I went from noticing girls to really noticing girls. That is to say my eighth grade year of school. I’d like to say it was about the same time …
Roots
The sky was pure sapphire. It was an azure bowl yawning overhead: pristine, infinite. An ocean of yellow grass whispered and swayed in the summer currents. At the center of the clearing: a man and his chainsaw. The clearing looked …
3 Pieces from The Bovine Uterus
1. To keep the hyenas away, the bovine uterus soaks in a tub of vinegar, pickling the uterine walls to the very point of softness. [I can't trust these beasts. They live off meat and so I must make …