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Pick your poison: Hungry dragons, Japanese steam creatures, blind sea monsters, indifferent, planet-destroying aliens, or a futuristic pharma corporation gone rogue. These are just a few things you can expect in this professionally curated collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy. From one story to the next, you will have no idea what to expect. In Volume Three of the hugely successful Summer of Sci-Fi & Fantasy anthology series, editor Dustin Bilyk brings you a collection of tales that will both frighten you and pull you into a state of wonderment, while shattering your expectations and introducing some of the most hard-hitting and evocative short stories on the market today. In this year’s volume, we have included 19 shorts stories and 1 full-length novella from 20 authors. Whether you’re craving a story about: a poor piper enlisted to remove a deadly spirit from a haunted house a little girl trying to survive in a magical village in spite of her swindling, con-artist grandmother a man diagnosed with narcolepsy who is sure he is being dissected from the inside by an alien race a barbarian with a dark secret fighting for his life in a ring against a slew of mythical beasts, as the nobility looks on a young girl disappearing one day in front of her house, the only evidence being her footsteps in the dew ending halfway across the lawn a wooden girl's journey across medieval Japan in the hands of her captors, her only friends a wayward bunny and a drunken samurai...we have something for everyone. Included are epic, never-before-read short stories from Adam Jarvis, Kevin Singer, Ron Sanders, Jean-Louis Trudel, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Mark F. Owens, Andrei-Ion Ghircoias, Tony Robusto, Eliza Langhans, Diana Olney, and Felicity Samaniego, as well as a novella by editor and author Dustin Bilyk. PLUS, reprints by Eric Choi, Simon Kewin, Matt McHugh, Xauri’EL Zwann, Stewart C. Baker, Sam Muller, Anne Karppinen, and Mei Davis.