The Dark, Issue 127, December 2025

By A.C. Wise, Eliza Chan, Jorja Osha & M. L. Krishnan

The Dark, Issue 127, December 2025 - A.C. Wise, Eliza Chan, Jorja Osha & M. L. Krishnan
  • Release Date: 2025-11-30
  • Genre: Horror
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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:

"Most Likely To . . . (Class of 1997)" by A.C. Wise
"Lustre Mining" by Eliza Chan (reprint)
"Beneath the Duwak Tree" by Jorja Osha
"Measurements Expressed as Units of Separation" by M. L. Krishnan (reprint)

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