It Walks by Night
A horror stalks the crypts beneath an old graveyard.
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We Are the Dead
A ghost story and work of political fiction connected with Arlington National Cemetery.
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I, the Vampire
A Weird Tales vampire story set against the world of Hollywood and motion pictures.
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Our Little Guest
Aaron Trudeau The noises started three nights after they moved in. At first, the family assumed it was the pipes settling. Then they began to move. All around the house, that frantic scratching shifted from place to place within the drywall. They believed it was some kind of animal. The father spent hours on his…
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The Little Lark Sparrow
Once there was a little lark sparrow soaring high above the earth, higher than the other sparrows he knew. From up there, he could see the city that had once been a fruitful land, its expanse lined with endless rows of orange groves. His black and tawny plumage fluttered earthward along the rushing winds of…
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The Astounding Outpost Anthology Library
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Open Call for Short Fiction
The Astounding Outpost is open to short-fiction submissions for our regular periodical and future themed anthologies. Recommended length We prefer short stories between 1,500 and 5,000 words. Human writing The Outpost focuses on human writing. We will consider work created with AI assistance, but we do not accept AI-generated fiction. Our regular periodical is an…
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Yes / No / Dead
A gig-economy vampire hunter tries to survive New York City while trading prediction-market contracts on her own kills.
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Killer
A compact science-fiction story involving murder, another world, and extraterrestrial life.
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The Code
By Garth Brook “Where’s the server?” Professor Daniel Mercer turned from the passenger window. “What?” “The server,” Pieter van Rensburg said. “Where is it?” They had been arguing about evolution for the better part of an hour. The road ran almost straight ahead of them through the Eastern Free State, climbing slowly towards the sandstone…
