Chizine Publications: 136 books

The sultan Bokhari Al-Bokhari of Bessa has 365 concubines—until a violent coup puts the city in the hands of the religious zealot Hakkim Mehdad. Hakkim has no use for the pleasures of the flesh: he condemns the women first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the concubines must rely...

Nola is born into poverty in Sarsenay City. When her mother realizes that Nola has the gift of Othersight and can foretell the future, she sells her to a brothel seer, who teaches the girl to harness her gift. As she grows up, she embraces her new life, and even finds a small circle of friends. All...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE 2018 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD! LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2017 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE! FINALIST FOR THE 2017 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD! WINNER OF THE 2018 SUNBURST AWARD! LONG-LISTED FOR THE 2018 TORONTO BOOK AWARDS! Three neighbouring villages...

The city is crumbling. Clouds over Nowy Solum have not parted in a hundred years. Gods have deserted their temples. In the last days of a dying city, the decadent chatelaine chooses a forbidden lover, separating twin outcasts and setting them on independent trajectories that might finally bring down...

“Subtle power, intelligence, and humanity are the hallmarks of Moore’s work. These stories are apt to stick in your mind like quills. They did in mine.” —Nick Cutter, author of Little Heaven, The Acolyte, and The Troop All these worlds, and more, await you. . . . All these worlds,...

Returning to publication after the first volume of Northern Frights hit the shelves in 1992, ChiZine Publications is proud to re-release the entire World Fantasy Award-nominated Northern Frights series as part of our CZPeBook brand. Inspired by the unique geography of the Canadian imaginative landscape...

Twelve strange, eerie, sensual stories by a bold new voice in weird fiction. Capricious gods rule a world of women. Zombies breed human cattle. The son of a superhero must decide between his heritage and his religion. Young lovers worship a primordial spider god. The apocalyptic rebirth of the god...

"The novel is written with arresting detail and challenges literary tropes about women. Its roster includes half a dozen complex female characters and one trans male character, all of them captivating, sympathetic, repulsive, flawed, dangerous, selfless, determined, and damaged. They and Heartfield's...

Prosperina was robbed. Her chief executive officer—and betraying brother—stole her company Prosper Inc., her research, and almost her life, and marooned her and daughter Milana eight light years from Earth. A brilliant bio-engineer, Prosperina genetically alters indigenous plant forms to provide...

“THE ONLY PROPER PLACE FOR ICE IS IN A COCKTAIL . . .” I’m Derby Cavendish—that’s pronounced Derby with an “ar” sound, not an “er”: remember that for later. Ever since I was a boy, the forces of the otherworldly have been drawn to me like divas to a spotlight. But I’m ready...

This “fast paced madcap caper story . . . is a worthy sequel” to the author’s Fireball Award–winning industrial crime thriller Katja From the Punk Band (Publishers Weekly). After escaping the work island she once called home, Katja is free and on the mainland. But when she finally comes...

A collection of genre-bending horror stories from the Bram Stoker Award–winning author is “sui generis in presentation . . . [by] a monumental talent” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A young man at loose ends finds he cannot look away from his new lover’s alien gaze. A young woman...

“Populated with vampires, werewolves, gryphons, gods, and cryptozoological inquiry, these tales are ultimately about the nature of humanity” (Speculating Canada). Trust the beasts . . . The lemmings are really researching the Arctic biologists, the werewolves sing sweet Christian...

A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the...