Bonnie Quinn

Every year, campground manager Kate sends out a pamphlet titled “How to Survive Your Camping Experience.” In it is a list of rules to help campers have an enjoyable experience and hopefully survive any encounters with the campground’s… other… inhabitants.This book is the collected edition of a series of posts from Reddit’s r/nosleep subreddit, containing the four major storylines of “How to Survive Camping”. It is largely unaltered, with only minor edits for readability in print form.

Erin cannot use magic in a world where everyone can. The consequences are significant: she doesn’t qualify for certain jobs, she has to take daily medication, and it makes her uniquely vulnerable to the perils of a world of magic, blind to threats that can lurk in innocuous things.Such as a clock left on her doorstep.Inside is Renfield, an imprisoned demon. In order to save herself, Erin makes a bargain - the demon is allowed possession of her body in exchange for sparing her life. Wherever she goes, Renfield goes with her. Unfortunately, demonic possession is not easily overlooked, and Erin quickly loses both her friends and her job. Her only source of income is the occasional freelance job from the police department when a magical incident is too dangerous for their certified mages.Erin may not be able to use magic, but Renfield can while he is in control of her body, and the demon is very good at killing things.Their current assignment is a failed ritual which covered a house with blood and left behind no trace of the participant’s bodies. Worse, the friends and family of those involved are being systematically wiped out in terrifying ways. As Renfield and Erin struggle to catch up to the killer, they find evidence that the killer has connections to the demon world. Renfield’s history has come back for him and now this case is no longer a means of income, but something deeply personal for Renfield... and deeply dangerous for an increasingly reluctant Erin.

Cover art by Christine Knopp

In the modern era, a small and scattered group of people have – for reasons unknown – found they have the ability to reshape reality simply by willing it so. They have become known as gods. Among them is Loki, once a woman, now a genderless creation of its own with no ties to its past life, no obligations, and no sense of consequences to its actions.For almost twenty years now, the mortals and gods have lived in relative peace, with a small handful of gods attempting to keep some measure of order among themselves. Loki is one of their number, and when a series of strange events point towards divine power, it is tasked with investigating the source. Loki is quickly pulled into a web of conspiracy between groups of gods and mortals, all striving to dictate how humanity will progress. And caught in the middle is Loki, named by prophecy that it will be the catalyst that leaves the world forever changed.

There have been four griffins in the history of Griffinsfall, and each have fought and died to protect their city. At age thirteen, Nia is marked as the fifth.Once a year, all the children are taken to the foundry and metal is poured into their palms. The coin that results bears the mark of an animal - the imprint of their soul. Nia's is a golden griffin, signifying that she can transform into her animal and dooming her to be a portent of war.Seized by the king's agent, she is brought to the castle to become a ward of the crown. There, she finds the people she once admired would use her for their own purposes. There is her former master, who would use her to further the safety of his guild, and there is the King and Queen, who would use her to demonstrate Griffinsfall's strength to their enemies. Naive and timid, Nia is poorly suited to this world of politics and she realizes that not knowing who to trust will get her killed. As mysterious deaths in the city point to a traitor within the walls, it's apparent that a griffin will be needed soon - but there is more to being a gold than simply having a coin, and while Nia is terrified of the beast buried inside her, she will have find a way to control it through any means available.For what good is a griffin that can't transform?