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Investigative reporter Nora Hesper spends her nights cloaked in shadows. As Indigo, she's become an urban myth, a brutal vigilante who can forge darkness into weapons and travel across the city by slipping from one patch of shadow to another. Her primary focus both as Nora and as Indigo has become a murderous criminal cult called the Children of Phonos. Children are being murdered in New York, and Nora is determined to make it stop, even if that means Indigo must eliminate every member. But in the aftermath of a bloody battle, a dying cultist makes claims that cause Indigo to question her own origin and memories.

Nora's parents were killed when she was nineteen years old. She took the life insurance money and went off to explore the world, leading to her becoming a student of meditation and strange magic in a mountaintop monastery in Nepal...a history that many would realize sounds suspiciously like the origins of several comic book characters. As Nora starts to pick apart her memory, it begins to unravel. Her parents are dead, but the rest is a series of lies. Where did she get the power inside her?

In a brilliant collaboration by New York Times and critically acclaimed coauthors Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden, Kelley Armstrong, Jonathan Maberry, Kat Richardson, Seanan McGuire, Tim Lebbon, Cherie Priest, James A. Moore, and Mark Morris join forces to bring you a crime-solving novel like you've never read before.

This is an extensive compilation of fact, fiction, poems, short stories, and other snippets about the Windigo, a cannibalistic spirit of the Northwoods Indians.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (Windigo: An Anthology of Fact and Fantastic Fiction) - essay by John Robert Colombo
• A Sort of Werewolf (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Le Jeune
• Veritable Werewolves (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Le Jeune
• Onaouientagos (excerpt) - shortfiction by Bacqueville de la Potherie
• The Devil (excerpt) - shortfiction by James Isham
• Another Being (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Ellis
• Guilty of Murder (excerpt) - shortfiction by Samuel Hearne
• An Evil Being (excerpt) - shortfiction by Edward Umfreville
• Man Eaters (excerpt) - shortfiction by David Thompson (I)
• Cannibals (excerpt) - shortfiction by Edwin James (I)
• The Weendigoes - shortstory by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
• Superstitous Belief (excerpt) - shortfiction by Paul Kane
• A Tale of the Windego - shortstory by J. B. Nevins
• Legendary Lore (excerpt) - shortfiction by Francis Parkman
• The Walker of the Snow - poem by C. D. Shanly
• Some Sort of Madness (excerpt) - shortfiction by Earl of Southesk
• Cannibal Lake (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Youle Hind
• Giant Cannibals (excerpt) - shortfiction by Henry Youle Hind
• He's a Windigo (excerpt) - (1872) - shortfiction by William Francis Butler [as by Sir William Francis Butler ]
• Windagoos! Cannibals! (excerpt) - shortfiction by Egerton Ryerson
• Red-Headed Windego - shortstory by E. W. Thomson
• A Cannibal Spirit (excerpt) - shortfiction by Charles Mair
• The Windigo - (1901) - poem by William Henry Drummond
• The Snow-Wetigo - shortstory by Arthur Heming
• A Weetigo in the Woods (excerpt) - shortfiction by Philip H. Godsell
• The Wendigo - (1910) - novella by Algernon Blackwood
• A Tale of the Grand Jardin - (1915) - shortstory by W. H. Blake
• Wintigoes (Giants) - shortfiction by Peter Yorke and G. E. Laidlaw
• Me Sah Ba and the Wintigo - shortfiction by Jonas George and G. E. Laidlaw
• Windigo Story - (1924) - shortfiction by Joe Cosh and G. E. Laidlaw
• Windigo Story - shortfiction by Kenneth G. Snake and G. E. Laidlaw
• To Kill Windigo (excerpt) - (1928) - shortfiction by D. S. Davidson
• The Immortal Cannibal (excerpt) - shortfiction by Frank G. Speck
• A Human Being Transformed (excerpt) - shortfiction by Diamond Jenness
• The Wendigo - poem by Ogden Nash
• The Windigo Personality (excerpt) - shortfiction by Ruth Landes
• The Thing That Walked on the Wind - (1933) - shortstory by August Derleth
• Ithaqua - (1941) - shortstory by August Derleth
• Restless Souls (excerpt) - shortfiction by Richard Morenus
• Supernatural Creatures (excerpt) - shortfiction by Pierre Berton
• The Existence of the Witgo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Roger Vandersteene
• Windigo Psychosis - essay by Mortom I. Teicher
• Windigo - (1965) - poem by George Bowering
• Windigo - shortstory by Herbert T. Schwarz
• Stories of the Windigo - shortstory by James R. Stevens
• A Near Encounter (excerpt) - shortfiction by Dan Kennedy
• A Man named Weendigo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Basil Johnson
• The Death of Windigo (excerpt) - shortfiction by Norval Morrisseau

It is a color the human eye cannot truly see, a slice of the spectrum imbued with the promise of invisibility. But for Jack Chambers, the son of a scientist renowned as both a genius and a madman, it will lead to places of unknown treachery. As executor of his estranged-father's will, Jack is appointed two ominous tasks: publish Timothy Chambers' bizarre manuscript Invisibility: A Manual of Light, and track down an unknown woman who stands to inherit the substantial estate. Jack's mission leads him to reunite with his half-sister, Louise, now grown into a stunning woman. Bound by a tense attraction, Jack and Louise head to Rome, where a cultlike group pursues the intoxicating secrets of the elusive indigo -- and where Jack perceives its horrid danger only when it's too late.

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 101, October 2018.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

"The impish love child of Tutuola and Marquez. Utterly delightful." --Nalo Hopkinson

Karen Lord's debut novel, which won the prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Prize in Barbados, is an intricately woven tale of adventure, magic, and the power of the human spirit.

Paama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in the village of Makendha, now he's disgraced himself by murdering livestock and stealing corn. When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones--the djombi--who present her with a gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world. Unfortunately, a wrathful djombi with indigo skin believes this power should be his and his alone.

Bursting with humor and rich in fantastic detail, Redemption in Indigo is a clever, contemporary fairy tale that introduces readers to a dynamic new voice in Caribbean literature. Lord's world of spider tricksters and indigo immortals, inspired in part by a Senegalese folk tale, will feel instantly familiar--but Paama's adventures are fresh, surprising, and utterly original.

This short story originally appeared on Sttrange Horizons in two installments on August 1st and August 8th 2016. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017, edited by Rich Horton.

Read the full story for free at Strange Horizons - part 1 - part 2.

Indigo Springs is a sleepy town where things seem pretty normal... until Astrid's father dies and she moves into his house. She discovers that for many years her father had been accessing the magic that flowed, literally, in a blue stream beneath the earth, leaking into his house. When she starts to use the liquid "vitagua" to enchant everyday items, the results seem innocent enough: a "'chanted" watch becomes a charm that means you're always in the right place at the right time; a "'chanted" pendant enables the wearer to convince anyone of anything...

But as events in Indigo Springs unfold and the true potential of vitagua is revealed, Astrid and her friends unwittingly embark on a journey fraught with power, change, and a future too devastating to contemplate. Friends become enemies and enemies become friends as Astrid discovers secrets from her shrouded childhood that will lead her to a destiny stranger than she could have imagined...

Anghara is daughter to a king. In all the world only one thing is denied to her--the secret of the Tower of Regrets. This ancient, mysterious structure is forbidden by law, and she knows she isn't allowed to enter it, but she cannot rest until she knows what it is. Finally, she sneaks away and learns, finally, why it is called the Tower of Regrets. Her discovery will reshape her world and her identity and saddle her with an enormous, sorrowful quest to restore what she has set free from the Tower.

Her title was the Princess Anghara Kaligsdaughter; but now she has forfeited the right to her name and heritage. For she broke the one law that had endured since her people's history began when she breached that ancient tower in a bid to learn to its secret. Now its curse is loosed upon the world, and upon the soul of Anghara Kaligsdaughter.

Anghara is Anghara no longer. Her name is now Indigo, color of mourning - and her home is the wide world, for she has no other. She cannot die, she cannot age, for until she lifts the Tower's curse, she is doomed to immortality. She has one friend, who is not human. And she has one enemy that will dog her footsteps wherever she goes. It is Nemesis, created from the darkest part of her own soul. Wherever her wanderings lead her now, her Nemesis will follow...

Her name is Indigo, the color of mourning--and her home is the wide world, for she has no other. Indigo cannot die or age--for until she destroys the demons she recklessly released from the Tower of Regrets, she is doomed to wander the world with no one but the telepathic wolf, Grimya, as a friend.

The Tower of Regrets is no more...and the wanderer Indigo has known but little peace. Her dreams are troubled ones, and her quest is far from done. A short time to heal the ragged tatters of her soul is all she asks.

And for awhile her prayers are answered. But Indigo's refuge is no more - for a malignant blight now covers the land, bleaching all life from within...threatening even those she has come to love.

And another of the demons that Indigo unleashed upon the world is at hand.

Indigo has lost all that she once held dear. Another family sits on the throne of her kingdom. And her lover Fenran suffers the torments of the demonworld. More than a century has passed since she last fought the demons she herself set loose. Her cause seems futile, her quest all but hopeless.

One glimmer of hope remains, in the magical lodestone given to Indigo by Earth's emissary. After long silence, it has given her a sign, pointing toward the cold and legendary North.

Indigo knows that she must follow the sign or else give up the struggle. But in the darkness of the North lie painful memories. The North is Fenran's country, and there she and her wolf-dog Grimya must confront that which she most fears.

Not only must immortal Indigo battle still another demon; to fight at all, she must confront the secrets of her heart.

On her eternal quest to rid the world of the evil she had unleashed upon it, the wayfarer Indigo has been many things: penitent, messenger, pilgrim.

And perhaps now an avatar for the dead?

For Indigo's journey has lead her to the Dark Isles, where a cult of death has ensnared her and her companion Grimya...and the demon she has so long sought is now at hand.

Can courage alone be enough to dance with the Queen of the Dead?

A town without pity. Or humor. Or joy of any kind.

The villagers of Joyful Travail are as cold as their stone dwellings - not a smile is seen, a joke told...or a child's laugh heard. Property, wealth, and only those things that will further the avarice of the townspeople are all that matters - and anyone who sees that which could bring joy back to the world is deemed a halfwit...or worse. As the immortal Indigo and her wolf companion Grimya struggle against the sadness that seems to surround these dire folk, one fact becomes crystal clear.

There is happiness to be found in Joyful Travail...but will Indigo have to destroy all who live in the village to truly set them free?

Seeking an end to her roaming, the woman called Indigo returns home to the Southern Isles, hoping against hope that Fenran, her long-lost love, still lives. But when a fateful shipwreck deprives her of her memory, her quest goes awry, and the last demon of the Tower of Regrets rises again to tempt her into evil. Only the aisling - the magical tune of an ancient, enchanted harp, has the power to free her from the ancient curse that binds her.