Writers, however, have no need to wait. They can cross the boundary as easily as stepping from one room to another.

These eighteen stories from 2023 will take you into that room and beyond. From death's chamber to the hood of a Camaro, from quiet woods to shrieking space. Death awaits. Let us go and meet it.

Includes stories by Isabel J. Kim, Tehnuka, Michael Roch, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Will McMahon, Bendi Barrett, Diana Dima, Eden Royce, B. Pladek, Avra Margariti, EC Dorgan, Gabrielle Emem Harry, Samir Sirk Morató, M. L. Krishnan, Jill Tew, Osahon Ize-Iyamu, Sydney Paige Guerrero, and J.A.W. McCarthy