A 2023 historical novel that places a lone woman into a Western-era community where past traumas and local mysteries collide with uncanny phenomena. The book sets up a central pressure: an outsider's efforts to survive and make a home amid suspicion, danger, and signs that something otherworldly may be at work.

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

An elite human soldier raised in an isolated outpost sets out believing Earth was destroyed by an external enemy; as she pursues vengeance, she discovers that the story she's been taught about Earth's fate is misleading and must decide what to do with that new truth.

Amina Al-Sirafi is a seafaring adventurer drawn back into one last dangerous voyage that mixes piracy, treasure-seeking, and ancient, magical mysteries.

Set against the legacy of a notorious reform school, the novel follows characters who confront buried atrocities and the supernatural traces those abuses may have left behind.

A man trained from childhood to assassinate a prominent spiritual leader faces the dilemma of carrying out that mission within a city where supernatural "bright doors" intersect everyday life.

An orc ex-adventurer decides to leave life as a mercenary to open a coffee shop. The novel follows the practical challenges of creating a shop—menu, customers, staff—and the quieter pressure of remaking identity and relationships in a new, ordinary routine.

Two adults in a contemporary urban setting become entangled with a dangerous werewolf presence that complicates their intimate relationship and daily lives.

A grandchild listens to a collection of long-storied tales about the Old Country while another strand follows two men who accompany a dying goddess across that realm.

A mythic quest grounded in retold folktales: characters pursue a dangerous treasure tied to legends and magical creatures, with the search itself creating the central pressure. The story frames action and danger through folkloric motifs and encounters with dragons and other mythic beings, driving both plot and stakes.

A witch who has lived a lonely, semi-transient life in the UK posts playful videos roleplaying as a tea-shop magic proprietor.

Set in an alternate-history Cairo where magic and modern technology coexist, a police-style investigation into a ritualistic murder exposes hidden conspiracies tied to alchemy and secret societies.

After returning to her birth country from the United States, a recent graduate begins receiving the voice of her dead grandmother—a former medium tied to a local deity.

A contemporary story about witches and everyday life that places supernatural elements inside familiar social settings. The central pressure comes from a character's collision with witchcraft and its consequences for relationships, reputation, and safety within a community.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

Set in a fantasy world inspired by ancient India, the novel follows people caught under an imperial regime that has suppressed a subject culture. Political unrest and a spreading affliction intensify tensions while an older temple magic—linked to nature spirits—offers dangerous power.

An adult soldier who was taken as a child from a colonized land serves in the empire's army and must navigate divided loyalties when ordered back to their homeland. The central pressure is the clash between duty to an occupying power and ties to a suppressed culture that practices outlawed religion and magic.

Set in a richly imagined fantasy world inspired by Indigenous mythic traditions, the novel focuses on an approaching solar eclipse that catalyzes political and prophetic forces.

A young woman travels to a remote family estate after receiving a desperate letter from her cousin claiming danger in her marriage. She must probe the household’s strange customs and hidden histories to determine whether the threat is supernatural, social, or criminal.

A first-person journal from a man who calls himself Piranesi records life inside an apparently infinite House of halls, tides, statues, and changing seas.

Set in an alternate 1920s American South, the novella follows Maryse Boudreaux and other Black women hunters as a rising supernatural evil—manifestations tied to the Ku Klux Klan—threatens their community.

A fantasy set across a floating-archipelago empire where bone shard magic powers constructs and enforces imperial control.

Six individuals across New York awaken as living embodiments of the city’s boroughs while a hostile, otherworldly force threatens the metropolis.

A cleric from a monastery visits an abandoned imperial palace shortly after an empress's death and listens as the empress's former servant recounts the ruler's life.

A West African–inspired YA fantasy about a sixteen-year-old girl who fails a compulsory purity rite and is declared impure when she bleeds gold.

A largely domestic story turns uncanny when a portal appears in or near a museum-adjacent setting, leading the female protagonist into an alternate dimension populated by monsters and strange landscapes.

Three sisters in an alternative-historical United States confront the erasure of witchcraft and seek to revive magical practices as a form of political and personal reclamation.

A teenage temple girl destined for ritual sacrifice is rescued by a traveling wizard and becomes his apprentice and covert operative. Trained as an assassin and charged with locating a lost artifact, she confronts shifting loyalties when she meets a young mage who complicates her attachments and mission.

An envoy from a small, independent station takes up a precarious diplomatic post inside a vast imperial court and must navigate unfamiliar rituals, institutional power, and a suspicious death tied to her predecessor.

An irreverent, high-stakes locked-house tale shaped by necromancy: a reluctant swordswoman is thrust into a deadly contest inside an ancient, secretive estate where bodies, bones, and rival houses shape who survives.

Set in the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

Set in a world dominated by ocean and contested waterways, the novel follows communities that build and sail ships made from the bones of giant sea creatures. Central pressure comes from maritime conflict and the need to maintain crews, craft, and traditions while confronting threats that imperil seafaring life.

A group of men from the Blackfeet Nation are haunted years after a hunting incident in which a pregnant elk was killed. The book follows multiple perspectives as the consequences of that event — supernatural and social — return to demand reckoning.

A landscape deity—an old hill-god—narrates events around a contested succession and a prince trying to reclaim his position with the help of a loyal retainer. In this world many gods exist in animal or landmark form and are bound to make their statements come true, even at great cost.

Two rival temporal agents working for opposing, mutually exclusive timelines exchange secret letters as they sabotage history on behalf of their employers.

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 witch-centered children’s story that places a mother–child relationship at its core, exploring how familial duty, protection, and guidance play out against a backdrop of magic. The narrative sets a young character’s choices and emotional development against maternal influence and witchcraft-inflected conflict.

A fictional reimagining of a doomed overland expedition in the 19th-century American West that places characters under escalating scarcity and suspicion.

A young woman from a rural background enters a prestigious military academy and becomes entangled in larger national conflicts where shamanic magic and worship of powerful deities influence warfare.

Set aboard a generation ship, the novel follows life inside a rigidly stratified vessel where social caste, inherited servitude, and systemic racism govern daily existence.

Set in a near-future Earth where humans and intelligent machines can be owned, the story follows Jack, a maker of unauthorized drugs, and Paladin, a law-enforcement combat robot tasked with finding them after one reverse-engineered drug causes dangerous effects.

Set in a future ruined city overrun by biotechnology, the story follows a scavenger named Rachel who collects genetic experiments and discarded engineered organisms. The city is dominated by a massive engineered grizzly, and Rachel discovers an unusual sea-anemone–like creature she names Borne.

A city divided by rival clans becomes the stage for a power struggle where jade — a material that grants enhanced combat abilities — is the source of status and strength. The plot focuses on inter-family rivalry, questions of duty and leadership, and the consequences of wielding a fought-over supernatural resource.

A short, focused novella that focuses on a strained father–child relationship set against motifs of dance, clothing, and sleepwalking. The narrative applies fantastical or uncanny touches to private family dynamics and rites, creating a blend of cultural detail and subtle horror without sprawling plot breadth.

A historical fantasy set in medieval Russia about a young girl who perceives and interacts with household spirits and older folk-magic as organized Christianity gains influence and seeks to suppress those practices.

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 contemporary father and husband faces an escalating crisis when ordinary family life collides with an inexplicable disappearance and supernatural forces. The book tracks how personal grief and a search for answers intersect with occult intrusion, putting domestic stability, identity, and safety under pressure.

Set around a richly imagined city and its secret histories, the novel follows characters entangled with djinn, political factions, and the social order of an elemental magical society.

Set in 1920s New York, the novella reworks an earlier Lovecraft tale by shifting perspective to a Black protagonist who becomes entangled with an occult text and a mysterious client.