From hungry ghosts, vampiric babies, and shapeshifting fox spirits to the avenging White Lady of urban legend, for generations, Asian women’s roles have been shaped and defined through myth and story. In Unquiet Spirits, Asian writers of horror reflect on the impact of superstition, spirits, and the … [Read more...]
She Said Destroy
May 9, 2026 by
Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Dreamlike, poignant, and unabashedly socio-political, She Said Destroy includes three stories nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, four included in Year’s Best anthologies, and one original … [Read more...]
Issues With Authority
May 9, 2026 by
Shirley Jackson Award-Nominated author Nadia Bulkin's sophomore collection ISSUES WITH AUTHORITY drenches the reader in a sensory overload of power, belief, and horrifying transformation. Included within these pages: Cop Car: In which a psychic government "fixer" discovers her true … [Read more...]
Danur
March 27, 2026 by
Don’t be surprised if you find me talking to myself or laughing when no one else is around. In those moments, I might just be with one of my five best friends. You probably can’t see them... and that’s only natural. They are invisible, often referred to as... ghosts. Yes, they are ghosts—restless … [Read more...]
Trivia Kampung Sawah
March 17, 2026 by
IRZI localizes the urban landscape and its gestures within poetry through a somewhat different articulation—if poetry has long been merely textual. Rooted in orality, IRZI’s poetic practice possesses a rhetorical movement that is problematic in relation to its ethnographic character: moving from … [Read more...]
