DARK VIGIL (3 Volumes of Dark Vigilante Fiction)
“Sometimes, justice is not found at the end of a gavel. It waits for you in the dark.”
The law has limits. Morality does not. In the shadows where institutions fail and the powerful walk free, something else stirs… a reckoning that does not file appeals, does not wait for verdicts and does not forgive. DARK VIGIL is a landmark anthology from Wicked Shadow Press that plunges headlong into the most dangerous territory in modern fiction: the space between justice and vengeance, and the terrifying human beings who inhabit it.
Curated across three volumes, EXTERMINATE, ANNIHILATE and OBLITERATE, by editors Rasiika Sen and Parth Sarathi Chakraborty, this collection gathers voices from across the globe: crime writers, dark fantasy authors, horror architects, and literary provocateurs united by a single obsession. What does it mean to take justice into your own hands? And what do you become when you do?
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AUTHORS OF Dark Vigil: EXTERMINATE:
Canyon Sanford, Celeste Kerspuy, Daniel DiQuinzio, Donovan Douglas Thiesson, Douglas Perenara Johnston, Gabriella Balcom, Glynn Owen Barrass, J. Rocky Colavito, Kathryn Elizabeth Franey, Keba Ghardt, Kerry D Brackett, Leigh Josey, Linda Sparks, Maekawa Kirin, Marc Watson, PS Chakraborty, Rasiika Sen, Sarah Das Gupta, Shane Porteous, Simon Mohsin, Soter Lucio, Spencer W Church AND Steve Loiaconi
AUTHORS OF Dark Vigil: ANNIHILATE:
Alaina Lopez, Allison Hillier, Anne-Marie Kofoed, Boris Mišić, Celeste Kerspuy, Chad Anctil, Charlotte Poitras, Daniel DiQuinzio, E. J. Werrlein, Gabriella Balcom, Gary Rubidge, Igor Antoniuk, John A. DeLaughter, JS Hopkins, Lawrence Dagstine, Louise Gillespie, M.G. Phillips, Nathan Poole Shannon, Paul Stansbury, Robb White, Scott Broadway AND Tyler Whetstone
AUTHORS OF Dark Vigil: OBLITERATE:
Abhishek Chakravorty, Andrew Kurtz, Anne-Marie Kofoed, Benjamin Cooper, Celeste Kerspuy, Charlotte Poitras, Christopher Dabrowski (Translation: Julia Mraczny), David O’Mahony, Gabriella Balcom, Hope Madden, J. Rocky Colavito, Jeffrey L. Shipley, Linda M. Crate, Manny Blacksher, Mary Salome, Nenad Mitrović, Nick Young, Pip Pinkerton, Sai Marie Johnson, Simon Mohsin, Tyler Whetstone AND Vali Hawkins-Mitchell
Every story in DARK VIGIL was selected not merely for its darkness, but for the precision of its vision. These are not stories that glorify violence. They are stories that interrogate it, inhabit it and refuse to let the reader off the hook.
DARK VIGIL is not a comfortable collection. It does not offer clean heroes or tidy resolutions. Its pages across three volumes are populated by the broken, the betrayed, and the terrifyingly purposeful: veterans haunted by psychic legacies, surgeons who have traded the scalpel for something darker, ancient creatures who have decided humanity’s sins have gone unanswered long enough. Lonely teenagers. Disgraced detectives. Grieving parents. Corrupt systems that look the other way and the people who refuse to.
From cyberpunk dystopias to plague-ravaged medieval towns, from fog-shrouded Balkan villages to neon-drenched future cities, from the supernatural to the achingly real, these stories share a single beating pulse: the vigilante impulse… raw, complicated and impossible to look away from.
The anthology does not moralize. It does not resolve. It holds a lantern up to the darkest corners of the human need for justice, illuminates what it finds there, and asks the reader to reckon with what they see.
