Books by Helen Marshall

The Lady, the Tiger and the Girl Who Loved Death

by Helen Marshall

A young woman is seduced by the glamour of the circus and drawn into a dangerous world of violence, cruelty and revenge. For readers of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Helen Oyeyemi's Mr Fox.

A dark fantasy tale infused with mystery and threat from the award-winning author whose work has been described by Paul Tremblay as “intelligent, dark, wildly inventive".

Sara Sidorova lies dying. As she hovers between life and death, she receives a visitation from Amba, the tiger god who will devour creation if he is released from the chains that bind him. Amba gives Sara Sidorova an extraordinary gift: a glimpse into the future.

Years later, her granddaughter Irenda will grow up in a wartorn country where survival means obedience. When a devastating attack robs her of her mother, she travels to Hrana City. There, her grandmother agrees to teach her the ultimate secret: how to tame death. But it won’t be easy…

In the circus that offers her first taste of power, Irenda will have to tame another tiger if she is to survive. Amongst the magicians, the strongmen and the contortionists, she will start down a dangerous road, to carry out a revenge decades in the making... and bring justice into the world for herself and for her family.

Rich with glamour and strangeness, brutality and deceit and the dark magic of the circus, this haunting fable will chill your bones and make your heart ache.

War on Christmas

by Dana Cameron, Cat Rambo, Chris Hayes, Bracken MacLeod, Kari Maaren, Paul Michael Anderson, Helen Marshall, David Demchuk, Neil Gaiman, John C. Foster, David Nickle, Karl Schroeder, Robert Dawson, James Edward O'Brien, E.E. King, Kate Heartfield, Ed Kurtz, Thomas Pluck, Don Bassingthwaite, Peter Darbyshire, Andrija Popovic, Alethia Kontis, Joanna Parypinski, Chris Sumberg, Kathryn Hore, Thomas Vaughn, Matt Moore, Alex Colvin, Noah Wareness, Gord Zajac

Product Description


Ho ho oh hell, is it that time of year again? Already? When the muzak starts cranking out lousy Casio versions of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” non-stop? When the flavor du jour switches from pumpkin spice to eggnog every damned thing? When the world gets all twinkley and glittery and your eyes just want to roll out of your skull from the sparkle overload? When the clatter and jangle of the Salvation Army bell-swingers standing outside every shop entry and exit makes you want to put your ears out with an icepick?
Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: “Remember the Reason for the Season” as if the reason isn’t the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?
Seriously, is it that time of year again already?
Well, if that’s got you feeling like Krampus, you’ve come to the right place. We don’t give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don’t take prisoners.


About the Author


Sandra Kasturi is a writer, poet, book reviewer, editor, and the publisher of ChiZine Publications, winner of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Awards. Sandra’s work has appeared in various venues, including Taddle Creek; Prairie Fire; Contemporary Verse 2; Shadows & Tall Trees; Evolve; Chilling Tales; A Verdant Green; Star*Line; The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts; 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin; Other Tongues: Mixed-Race Women Speak Out; Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Slayers Mutants and Freaks; Gods, Memes & Monsters; Ellen Datlow’s Black Feathers; and The Sum of Us. Sandra is the author of two poetry collections: The Animal Bridegroom (with an introduction from Neil Gaiman) and Come Late to the Love of Birds. She is currently working on her third poetry book, Snake Handling for Beginners, a story collection, Mrs. Kong & Other Monsters, and a horror novel, Wrongness.
Craig Wolf’s fiction has appeared in Transversions, Triangulation: Dark Glass, Cinema Spec, and Book of Shadows, among others. He has published one collection of odd fiction, Pressure Points, and a short horror novel, Trespass. His newest novel, Queen of All the Nightbirds, will be a ChiZine Publications release in 2019. He is a graduate of the Red Earth MFA, fictioneers in Oklahoma City, and his two favorite words are ‘bah’ and ‘humbug.’

War on Christmas An Anthology of Tinseled Mayhem

by Neil Gaiman, David Demchuk, Helen Marshall, Dana Cameron, Bracken MacLeod, ChiZine Publications Staff

Ho ho oh hell, is it that time of year again? Already? When the muzak starts cranking out lousy Casio versions of "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" non-stop? When the flavor du jour switches from pumpkin spice to eggnog every damned thing? When the world gets all twinkley and glittery and your eyes just want to roll out of your skull from the sparkle overload? When the clatter and jangle of the Salvation Army bell-swingers standing outside every shop entry and exit makes you want to put your ears out with an icepick?

Worse: how about when every other person you come across wants to infect you with the holiday cheer, whether you want it or not? When the constant refrain is: "Remember the Reason for the Season" as if the reason isn't the cash register? When we have to hear the never-ending idiot bleating from certain quarters about the war on Christmas?

Seriously, is it that time of year again already?

Well, if that's got you feeling like Krampus, you've come to the right place. We don't give a tinseled crap about the reason for the season. Deck the halls with this. They want a war on Christmas? Fine. Here it is. And we don't take prisoners.