Birds and eerie visions haunt an orphanage for girls in Lahore. Two lovers find themselves pulled into rising floodwaters by an invisible force. A chaperone faces ancient horrors as her wards begin to disappear on a routine school trip. An opium addict narrates to a sub-inspector the story of an otherworldly woman rising from a gravestone. In seven stories that skilfully weave the mundane with the fantastic, Usman T. Malik explores the volatility of the supernatural to stunning effect. Twisted and delightfully grotesque, at once strange and familiar, these works of superlative imagination reveal the depth of timeless emotions: love and friendship that transcend all difference, greed and bigotry that lurk in every corner, and injustice and uncertainty that colour individual worlds. An acclaimed new voice in fantasy writing, Malik employs his extraordinary craft and prowess to present a collection that will thrill, enchant and terrify the reader in equal measure. WINNER OF THE 2022 CRAWFORD AWARD FROM THE IAFA (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) Usman T. Malik is a Pakistani-American writer and doctor. His fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award. His work has been published in several anthologies, including the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy series, and has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Million Writers Award and twice for the Nebula. Midnight Doorways: Stories (first published in Pakistan as Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan) is Usman's debut collection.