On a world where robots abandoned human settlements long ago, a traveling tea-maker meets a robot who has returned and seeks to understand human purpose. Their low-stakes dialogue and small, everyday interactions become the site for questions about work, meaning, and how people live now that high technology is gone.

Monstrilio collects fiction that links magical-realism logic to elements of horror and fantasy, placing queer experience and desire at its center.

Set in a far-future, quasi-medieval city, the novel follows Severian, an apprentice in a torturers' guild, whose expulsion forces him to leave his home and travel into a decaying world.

Set in Nazi-era Germany, the novel follows a young girl who acquires books and navigates life in an adoptive household while war encroaches on daily routines. The narration comes from Death, offering an outside, occasionally amused perspective on civilians, loss, and the act of reading.

A retelling of the early life of Merlin that frames his psychic visions and uncertain parentage within the fractured, post-Roman kingdoms of Britain.

Set in late-19th-century New York, the story follows two supernatural outsiders—a golem created in Europe and a jinni liberated at sea—each stranded in a city they do not understand. Both must learn to hide their natures, adopt human customs, and find ways to meet emotional needs that differ from those around them.

A retelling of Greek myth that reimagines the life of the witch Circe from her own point of view. The narrative follows her development from an outsider of the immortal world into a solitary figure who practices magic, encounters famous mythic figures, and negotiates relationships with gods and mortals.

A human envoy arrives on a frigid, isolated planet to persuade its nations to join an interstellar confederation, but finds himself hampered by profound cultural and sexual differences.

Two royal twins with emergent magical abilities are sent away from their ruling parent and trained by a monastery; their powers and identities entangle them with wider political and social conflicts.

A first-person narrator recalls growing up at an elite boarding school in an alternate late-20th-century England and the friendships and loyalties formed there while an institutional ethical situation quietly shapes their lives.

A small collective of guerilla gardeners called Birnam Wood accepts backing from a charismatic tech billionaire to undertake a project on neglected farmland.

Set in the Arctic and rooted in Inuit experience, the novel follows an individual and their community as they face personal and collective pressures tied to survival, spiritual practice, and contact with outsiders.