Imagine a tall figure in black robes wearing a mask that looks like a deer skull, antlers backlit by moonlight. Or perhaps it is not a mask and the shape beneath the robes something much more than human.

Imagine a thatch-roofed fairy tale cottage deep in a forest, with a lake of black water for a front lawn. Imagine what creatures the cottage’s occupant keeps trapped beneath the water, waiting to be called forth to do their bidding.

Imagine a table set with a faded red and white gingham tablecloth, an overflowing fruit bowl and a milk bottle filled with daisies. Imagine, also, an ancient human skull perched atop the fruit and a lazy viper crawling out from one of its empty eye sockets.

Imagine fluffy white bunnies hopping through walls of brambles with ease, moonlit clearings where women in flower crowns summon ancient evils into their world. Trees whose green leaves part to reveal hundreds of twisted faces within their bark, or rose bushes whose perfume brings the plague. Circles of salt, twisted krisses, bat-winged raccoons, moss-laden trees and half-melted candles.

These are the sorts of images I want to fill the pages of this anthology with. I want nature-fueled magic, witches and dark fae. Creepy cottages, haunted homesteads and bespelled woods.

Submit them to me that I might find myself enchanted and unsettled by them in equal measure and bind them all together within this anthology which I call Fascination.