The subject of The Other, The Outsider or in more extreme examples The Freak has been explored throughout time. Always exploring, always trying to figure out what it means. How do we treat people on the outside? What would happen to us, if we suddenly found ourselves as an outsider, considered a freak?

This is a subject that explores the deepest and oldest parts of what it means to be human, to fit into the pack/crowd/tribe.

This month, as a special treat and relaunch of Dark Fiction Magazine, we bring you four stories exploring one of the most intense subjects in genre.

Are you one of them, or one of us?