ARTIFICE & CRAFT:

Would you kill for your art? Would it kill for you?

A painter who kills with blood-tinged pigment. A tattoo artist with a dark past who treats with demons. A sculptor on Venus who carves his life’s history into ice at the cost of his sanity. A ceramic vase that might avenge the life of a murder victim. A haunted song that drives listeners to kill. Art surrounds us. It entertains and nurtures. And for some it can do far more. It can protect a family over generations or bridge the boundary between the realms of the living and the dead. It can be a curse or a boon, a path to riches or to damnation.

In Artifice and Craft, speculative fiction authors Lyndsay E. Gilbert, Laura E. Price, Adam Stemple, Brian K. Lowe, James R. Tuck, Briana Una McGuckin, Jordan Davidson, James Maxey, Madeline Dau, Joel Armstrong, C.E. Murphy, Mark Painter, Alex Bledsoe, Alethea Kontis, Gerri Leen, and Jelena Dunato craft tales of art and artistry that are shaded with the supernatural, tuned to the fantastic, and glazed with the unexpected. So listen, watch, admire. But don’t touch, and don’t turn your back. Because these works of art are far more than they seem.

“Rings for Their Fingers” by Lyndsay E. Gilbert
“An Oral History: The Dead Queen at 1223 Murchison Row” by Laura E. Price
“Contrapuntal” by Adam Stemple
“Our Lives, the Pages of Our Lives” by Brian K. Lowe
“The Mark” by James R. Tuck
“His Cup of Tea” by Briana Una McGuckin
“Weave, Wove, Woven” by Jordan Davidson
“Clockwork Melting” by James Maxey
“The Artful Assassin” by Madeline Dau
“The Price of Magic” by Joel Armstrong
“Matroyshka” by C.E. Murphy
“The Gilded Sting” by Mark Painter
“The Castle in the Pines” by Alex Bledsoe
“Twinkle” by Alethea Kontis
"Raku: Recipe for Revenge" by Gerri Leen
"Isabel in Red Lake" by Jelena Dunato