Get your ticket for the darkest carnival on Earth!
Once a generation the carnival rolls into Cobalt City. With faded canvas and chips in the garish paint of the attractions, it could be like any other struggling travelling circus.
But it isn't. The Carnival de Pomme D'or has been around for centuries. And when it comes through Cobalt City bad things happen: vanishings, murders, inexplicable robberies, a rash of murder/suicides, and a mounting sense of urgency and danger.
The heroes of the city have been unable to destroy the carnival before, but those who have witnessed its coming in previous generations can not deny its power. Before the big top rolls out of town, heroes will fall, villains will rise, and Cobalt City will be changed, perhaps forever!
Table of Contents
- Apples and Arrows by Minerva Zimmerman
- Funhouse by Erik Scott de Bie (featuring Stardust)
- Harrigan the Magnificent by Matt Adams
- Custody Battle by Charlie Kenmore (featuring Dr. Shadow)
- Call and Response by Catherine and Andrew Warren (featuring Knockabout)
- Dance with the Devil by Ashley Bates (featuring Libertine)
- Unexpected Sparx by Dawn Vogel (featuring Kara Sparx and Lumien)
- Now You See Me, Now You Don’t by Amber Keller (featuring Mister Grey)
- Fortunes for the Brave Heart by Rosemary Jones (featuring Wild Kat)
- Snowflake’s Chance in Hell by Jeremy Zimmerman (featuring Snowflake)
- Carnival Heart by Nathan Crowder, Erik Scott de Bie, Rosemary Jones, Dawn Vogel, and Jeremy Zimmerman (featuring Louis Malenfant among others)
Featuring a mix of established heroes alongside new characters, the Carnival Pomme D’or includes everything you expect from an evil carnival. Inside these pages you will see fortune tellers, acrobatics, wonders of the ancient world, mischievous puppets, malevolent rides, a deceptive halls of mirrors, tasty fried treats, love found and lost, magicians, and evil from beyond space and time.
Publication is expected this fall, in plenty of time for Halloween!
Buy your ticket, and enjoy the ride!
Finding Home: Community in Apocalyptic Worlds
In the next cycle of expanding humanity, communities will thrive in a post-industrial world. This is the reign of the makers, the doers, the community builders, the farmers and those who work with tangible objects, producing and creating. The collapse of money, the stock market and centralized government has led to smaller, more tightly-knit communities where adventures, mysteries and tales of the human abound. The chaos is over, and rebuilding is well underway. What characters and situations have arisen? Stick with us and find out with our new anthology for autumn of 2011, focusing on a more benevolent kind of apocalypse.
What happens when people keep calm and carry on? What happens when many people’s jobs vanish overnight, and they return to the land and their innate powers? How do people come together, rediscover rapture and build new lives together? What countries adapt better, and what communities thrive? The end of the the world is the new frontier. Worlds and civilizations die, but the survivors find a way to move on. We feel that most post apocalypse anthologies are primarily focused on the fire or the ash. We want to show the phoenix that results instead.