Heads and Tales: The Other Side of the Story
History is told by the victors.
Stories are told by the heroes.
Until now.
In every tale from myth, legend, or faerie there are the voiceless: those characters who live in the silent, untold spaces, or whose inner worlds are never visited. This collection retells 14 classic stories you may think you already know, from perspectives you never thought to consider.
The unexamined life is not worth living, or so the saying goes. No longer will we let these voices go unheard.
This is Heads and Tales: because like the flip of a coin, the stories can change. Take a shot, and see where it takes you.
Tales from the Year Between Volume 2: Under New Suns
After generations of warfare against the ominous Swarm, the United Planetary Alliance settles on a desperate gambit—send a squad of Marines to steal one of the Swarm’s bio-organic battleships. However, it turns out the ship isn’t merely alive but fully sentient… and it has a mission of its own. As the ship leaps across the galaxy, dimensions, and eventually reality itself, the crew has a new goal—stay alive! Join Skullgate Media on an epic space-opera filled with sexy murder-queens, ring-planets, and freaking space-sharks, all fueled by psychedelic Vesuvian coffee and sixth-dimensional funk!
Tales From The Year Between is Skullgate’s anthology series that brings together writers from around the globe to invent an original world from scratch. After two weeks of intense world-building, each author sets out to expand their new, fabulous universe through short-stories, flash fiction poems, songs or whatever else their boundless imaginations unleash. Each volume is new, exciting, and utterly unique.
(Contains stories by: Laila Amado, Emily Ansell, Gabrielle Awe, B.K. Bass, Steven Bayer, Jayme Bean, Darius Bearguard, Jonathan Beck, Elvira Canaveral, Zackery Cuevas, Aaron Hockett, E. R. Hoffer, Ark Horton, Debbie Iancu-Haddad, Daniel James, Allison N. Moore, Jeremy Nelson, S. L. Parker, Sarah Remy/Alex Hall, A. A. Rubin, CD Storiz, Kelly Washington, C. Vandyke, and Phebe Yawson.)
In The Wake of the Kraken (Tales from the Year Between Book 3)
Set sail for adventure across four fantastic pirate filled worlds! From galleons to steampunk airships to faster-than-light starships, come join Skullgate Media as we navigate the waters of the multiverse…
Pirates exist across every version of reality. While we are all familiar with the classic tales of Long John Silver and Blackbeard, there are worlds where pirates steer airships through the sky, ride on the backs of fire-breathing dragons, or pilot rockets between the stars. Whether they are sailing a steampunk zeppelin, exploring a magic underwater grotto, or crewing a space station near a black hole, these pirates share a swashbuckling sense of adventure that crosses all bounds of space and time. Stow away with 24 gripping yarns as we sail the seas, skies, and stars seeking out treasure and glory… in the wake of the kraken!
Tales From The Year Between is Skullgate’s anthology series that brings together writers from around the globe to invent an original world from scratch. After two weeks of intense world-building, each author sets out to expand their new, fabulous universe through short stories, flash fiction, poems, songs, and whatever else their boundless imaginations unleash. Each volume is new, exciting, and utterly unique.
Welcome to Simmins, Detective Spencer
A collaborative winter-themed horror-mystery anthology:
Detective Spencer moves to his wife’s small mining hometown as the holiday season is rolling around. Anticipating a slow work life, he’s not prepared for an advent calendar’s worth of dead bodies, missing persons reports, and unusual creature sightings.
Nick Clauster might have something to say about a new detective prowling around the town he’s spent so many years cultivating.
Filled with chaotic carols, chupacabra puppies, mothmen, sentient Christmas trees and more, this anthology promises to reignite the old tradition of telling ghost stories in the dead of winter.
The Major Arcana
Delve into the mystical world of The Major Arcana, the most powerful and well-known cards in tarot cartomancy. Each card comes with its own dark but fantastical tale inspired by its true meaning, with each author using the card’s essence to craft a magical and mysterious story in their own unique style.
From monstrous beasts to scheming nobility to tricksome fae, The Major Arcana will take you on a journey of magic and intrigue unlike no other.
Read in order, or perhaps take out your own tarot deck and let the cards decide your fate…
Shatterlore: Myths of Past and Future
Greek gods in a cyberpunk future where life and death are digital.
Norse gods in a modern world where everything depends on a missing USB stick.
Figures from Hindu legend who bear subtle resemblances to a certain element of pop culture.
All that and more can be found in this collection of short stories, written by authors from around the world. If you’ve ever wanted to read about Beowulf as a noir detective, or Narcissus as a vampire who wants a reflection, then this book is for you. And if it never occurred to you that such things were an option (but now they sound fascinating), then it’s for you too.
Jump in and explore the many facets of mythology once the lore has been shattered into a glittering cloud of alternate realities.
Read in order, or perhaps take out your own tarot deck and let the cards decide your fate…