Pharmacopeia Obscura
(2026)The August Doctor's Notes
An anthology of stories edited by Jessica Augustsson
Medicine is rarely simple. In these pages, it is seldom safe.
Within this volume, medicine becomes mystery, obsession, experiment, superstition, salvation, and doom. Pharmacopeia Obscura: The August Doctor’s Notes gathers speculative fiction that explores the strange and shadowed edges of healing and harm: curious treatments, unsettling conditions, dubious remedies, medical devices, alchemical procedures, and the terrible cost of tampering with body and mind.
These stories move through worlds both familiar and fantastical, where physicians, patients, scholars, charlatans, and desperate souls confront the limits of knowledge and the seduction of forbidden cures. Some seek to mend what is broken. Others seek to transcend the flesh entirely. Few emerge unchanged.
By turns eerie, inventive, poignant, and grotesque, this anthology offers a cabinet of medical wonders and horrors for readers who enjoy speculative fiction with a dark pulse and a sharp instrument in hand.
Genre: Science Fiction
Within this volume, medicine becomes mystery, obsession, experiment, superstition, salvation, and doom. Pharmacopeia Obscura: The August Doctor’s Notes gathers speculative fiction that explores the strange and shadowed edges of healing and harm: curious treatments, unsettling conditions, dubious remedies, medical devices, alchemical procedures, and the terrible cost of tampering with body and mind.
These stories move through worlds both familiar and fantastical, where physicians, patients, scholars, charlatans, and desperate souls confront the limits of knowledge and the seduction of forbidden cures. Some seek to mend what is broken. Others seek to transcend the flesh entirely. Few emerge unchanged.
By turns eerie, inventive, poignant, and grotesque, this anthology offers a cabinet of medical wonders and horrors for readers who enjoy speculative fiction with a dark pulse and a sharp instrument in hand.
Genre: Science Fiction
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