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What do you do when you meet a tohunga makutu? You run. When reality dissolves and myths and legends come alive? You run faster. And when the dead come to life and blood debts have to be paid, will you have the courage to do what must be done? Matiu Douglas has a bone tiki he stole from a tangi. His father's important new client wants it. Badly. And he has some very nasty friends. When Mat is forced to flee for his life, an unexpected meeting with a girl called Pania sets his world spinning. Suddenly he's running through the bush with a girl-clown, a dog who is way too human, and a long-dead warrior. Fearful creatures from legend are rising up around him, and Mat faces a terrifying ordeal. And there is nowhere left to hide... not even in another world. A breathtaking adventure set in two parallel New Zealands, from exciting new author David Hair.

Maori and Celtic mythology combine to create Maori Gothic - fast, powerful, violent and compelling David Hair's stunning first book established a new genre we have chosen to call Maori Gothic - weaving together elements of fantasy, horror and Maori and Celtic mythology for young readers who enjoy the imaginative leaps and thrills of speculative fiction. the mix works brilliantly; The Bone Tiki not only appealed to younger readers, but was enjoyed by an adult audience as well. The Taniwha's Tear continues the story, which will be completed in a third novel - The Lost Tohunga.

When Puarata, a tohunga makutu or black magician, seeks to capture and manipulate the soul of Wiri, a young warrior, he fails to account for a threat that will come many years later, when a boy is born who combines the strengths of two ancient mythologies - Maori and Celtic. Matiu Douglas faces and defeats him in the first novel, but the forces unleashed by Puarata survive his destruction and once again Mat and Wiri must battle them across time and between the parallel worlds of modern New Zealand and timeless Aotearoa. Compelling, action-packed fantasy horror with a creepily familiar local setting that will challenge and captivate.

The third in an enthralling award-winning Maori Gothic trilogy set in the parallel worlds of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

It is a year since Matiu Douglas and his friends slew Puarata, the tohunga makutu, and nine months since they rescued the taniwha in Lake Waikaremoana. Life has settled into a normal routine, although Mat is training every school holidays in taupo, with Aethlyn Jones, refining his magical and martial skills. He is also in mental contact with Ngatoro-i-rangi. the legendary tohunga is imprisoned somewhere in Aotearoa, the Ghost World, where war continues among the warlocks who served Puarata. It has become a covert war, of bitter intrigue and chilling murders, as they seek the elusive power Puarata used to gain pre-eminence - te Iho - the Heart. the first of the warlocks to find te Iho will assume Puarata's bloody korowai and dominate Aotearoa.

They are closing in. Mat's next visit to taupo will see him drawn once more into the fray. When Jones is attacked and a fellow protege kidnapped, Mat finds himself once more on the tail of the warlocks, on a path leading to te Iho. Handguns and flintlocks, technology and magic, modern teens and mythological beings, all collide in this thrilling young adult fantasy novel from the writer who defines the new genre of Maori Gothic.

In this fourth book in the Aotearoa series, the magical world of Aotearoa demands justice. Or utu - revenge. With Donna Kyle and Asher Grieve on the run, the forces gather once more to fight for the ultimate power over Aotearoa and New Zealand. Matiu Douglas's father, tama, is a defence lawyer, a job that has cost him the love of his wife. Mat is used to his father's job creating stress, but when tama takes on a high-profile case in magical Aotearoa - the defence of Donna Kyle and her father, Asher Grieve - family tensions run high. then Asher and Donna escape, and Mat and his friends find themselves drawn into a man-hunt, the consequences of which are deadly. In lawless Russell, the 'Hell-hole of the Pacific', strange alliances will be forged, deadly rivalries emerge, and death will stalk the Ghost Worlds.

In the fifth of this thrilling Aotearoa series, Matiu Douglas must travel back to the past once more to help save the future. they say the past is another country. Some people can go there. It hasn't been an easy time for Matiu Douglas, magical adept. One of his friends is now a ghost, his enemies have stolen the treaty of Waitangi, he can't date the girl he really likes and he keeps getting unwanted marriage proposals from a dangerous, centuries-old tohunga's daughter. But when his best friend, Riki, is snatched into the ghost-world of Aotearoa during a school trip, Mat has to put all his other worries aside and act fast. For Riki vanished at Parihaka, scene of one of the darkest acts from New Zealand's colonial past, and in Aotearoa such places are deadly dangerous.

For Matiu Douglas, apprentice tohunga, the ultimate test of his skill, courage and magical prowess awaits. Hine-nui-te-po, Goddess of Death, is calling and from all across Aotearoa, those who dream of power and immortality are gathering for the struggle. Mat and his friends must face old enemies and new as they seek to prevent the destruction of a city and the inexorable rise of evil. To succeed will bring immortality, power and the love of the goddess. To fail is to die, and doom the land. Return to Aotearoa, where past, present, myth and magic dwell together in one timeless, unforgettable place.

For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018.

Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Marie Hodgkinson
• We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice (2018) - short story by Octavia Cade
• Trees (2018) - short fiction by Toni Wi
• The Garden (2018) - short fiction by Isabelle McNeur
• Logistics (2018) - short story by A. J. Fitzwater
• The Billows of Sarto (2018) - short story by Sean Monaghan
• A Most Elegant Solution (2018) - short story by M. Darusha Wehm
• A Brighter Future (2018) - short fiction by Grant Stone
• The Glassblower's Peace (2018) - novelette by James Rowland
• Mirror Mirror - short story by Mark English
• Common Denominator (2018) - short fiction by Melanie Harding-Shaw
• The People Between the Silences (2018) - short fiction by Dave Moore
• Te Ika - [Cthulhu Mythos] (2018) - short story by J. C. Hart
• Girls Who Do Not Drown - short story by A. C. Buchanan

Ancient myths go high-tech a decade after the New New Zealand Wars. Safe homes and harbours turn to strangeness within and without. Splintered selves come together again - or not.

Twelve authors. Thirteen stories. The best short science fiction and fantasy from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019.

Table of Contents:

• Good Dog, Alice (2019) - short fiction by Juliet Marillier
• Te Ara Poutini (2019) - short fiction by Nic Low
• Inside the Body of Relatives (2019) - short fiction by Octavia Cade
• Henrietta and the End of the Line (2019) - short fiction by A. C. Buchanan
• Hearts made Marble, Weapons Shaped from Bone (2019) - short fiction by A.J. Fitzwater
• Who Watches (2019) - short fiction by Rem Wigmore
• The Fisher (2019) - short fiction by Melanie Harding-Shaw
• Fission (2019) - short fiction by Nicole Tan
• A Shriek Across the Sky (2019) - short fiction by Casey Lucas
• Moving House (2019) - short fiction by Alisha Tyson
• Proof of Concept (2019) - short fiction by James Rowland
• Spontaneous Applause (2019) - short fiction by Zoë Meager
• First dispatch from the front (2019) - short fiction by Zoë Meager

The third volume in an annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of SFF writing from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Table of Contents:

• New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell
• Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw
• Kohuia, by T Te Tau
• Death confetti, by Zoë Meager
• For Want of Human Parts, by Casey Lucas
• How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster), by Marie Cardno
• Salt White, Rose Red, by Emily Brill-Holland
• Florentina, by Paul Veart
• Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead, by Octavia Cade
• The Waterfall, by Renee Liang
• The Double-Cab Club, by Tim Jones
• Wild Horses, by Anthony Lapwood
• You and Me at the End of the World, by Dave Agnew
• The Secrets She Eats, by Nikky Lee
• How To Build A Unicorn, by AJ Fitzwater
• Even the Clearest Water, by Andi C. Buchanan
• You Can't Beat Wellington on a Good Day, by Anna Kirtlan
• The Moamancer (A Musomancer short story), by Bing Turkby
• They probably play the viola, by Jack Remiel Cottrell
• Crater Island, by P.K. Torrens
• A Love Note, by Melanie Harding-Shaw
• The Turbine at the End of the World, by James Rowland

Fantastical and phantasmagorical, fearless and fear-inspiring; venture beyond the beaten track with this collection of spellbinding speculative fiction.

Showcasing the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful short fiction to come out of Aotearoa in 2021.