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The timer is over. The real world has begun. With the systems restrictions falling away, the monsters are stronger, the stakes are higher, and the people depending on Layton are no longer protected by a convenient set of rules. But Layton has never been particularly good at walking away from...

An apocalyptic LitRPG adventure featuring a Healer Class MC who isn't afraid to dirty his knuckles in a brawl. Mending bones by day. Breaking them by night. Layton just wanted a weekend alone in the wilderness. Instead, he woke up in a nightmare. Earth has been inducted into a multiversal system...

This issue of Weird Tales presents a variety of stories, essays, and poems about cryptids and urban legends. Not to dispel, but to reveal.

Silas West studied the darkest minds in the world. Now one of them is studying him. When a mutilated body washes ashore near Kingston, Washington, the local authorities are out of their depth. The injuries aren’t just brutal, they’re deliberate. A gruesome fusion of military torture and ritualistic branding. Former military psychologist Silas West left D. C. to write a memoir and rebuild his life in a quiet town on Washington's Puget Sound. But when he’s asked to consult on the case, what begins as a favor turns into an obsession.