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These titles contain elements of the horror genre. They may contain elements of other genres as well.
Titles are arranged alphabetically.
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A Man of Two Worlds by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc {Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc}
Robyne Van Landingham is the owner of his own movie studio. Thanks to his years of hard work and determination he is seeing the fruits of his labors. He has everything that most men only dream of, a flashy sports car, his own hours…and even his own ghost that terrorizes his set and chases his staff away. Robyne’s newest production is months behind schedule and he is losing time and money…neither of which he can afford to lose.
Robyne's friend, Devon Wellington, the owner of the hottest Goth club around, “Jack The Ripper's,” has promised Robyne all the help he needs until he can hire a new staff. But is the realm of the undead really what Robyne wants at his studio? Can he trust zombies, vampires, and shape-shifters? Devon would never send people to the studio that couldn’t be trusted…would he?
Just when Robyne thinks that his life can become no more complicated, he receives devastating news that will forever change his outlook on the meaning of true friendship and one that will open his mind to the fact that not all creatures from the darker side of life are as they seem...and some are worse than they seem. The path that Robyne's life takes after receiving the news sees him on journeys to the ends of the Earth. Will Robyne see his dreams come true before his soul and his very life are lost to a world of the undead...a world that he neither understands, nor is ready for?
****PARENTAL ADVISORY: A MAN OF TWO WORLDS IS AN ADULT NOVEL AND NOT INTENDED FOR THOSE UNDER THE AGE OF 18!****
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Masque of Dreams by Bruce Boston {Bruce Boston}
Oversized hardcover, Wildside Press, 2001, 258 pages, ISBN 1-58715-273-8
A best-of fiction collection -- six novelettes, seventeen short stories -- covering more than twenty-five years of publishing, along with fifteen of Boston’s best poems from the 1990s.
“...collects nearly two dozen brilliant stories, ranging across all emotional and
narrative terrains.” --Paul Di Filippo, The Washington Post
"It is rare to find a writer capable of writing both prose and poetry with equal skill, and in the SF/F/H genres there is no greater practitioner of that combination than Bruce Boston....The stories have in common Boston's well-trained poet's eye for detail, his beautifully crafted language, and his unfailing compassion for his characters...sure to leave readers dazzled by the depth and range of his talents."" --Tim Pratt, Locus
Copies signed by author on request.
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The Menstruating Mall by Carlton Mellick III {Afterbirth Books}
Ten ridiculously stereotypical consumer victims (a yuppie, a housewife, a retiree, a jock, a bible thumper, a cowboy, a preppy, a gamer, a goth, and a white suburban gangsta) find themselves unable to leave the mall one day. There is nothing stopping them. The doors are unlocked. Other shoppers are able to come and go as they please. But for some inexplicable reason, these ten people have no willpower to pry themselves away from their shopping miasma. The mall closes, and they won't leave. Days pass, and they're still there, eating meals in the food court and sleeping in department store bedroom displays. Then they begin to die off, one by one, murdered by a mysterious killer, and they still won't allow themselves to escape.
That's when things really start to get weird...
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Issue 2
ISSN 1757-5419
Editorial Page 1
MOVIE QUEEN By J. M. Harris Page 3
Illustrated By Greg Caparell
WATCH OUT FOR FALLING PRICES By David M. Fitzpatrick Page 8
Illustrated By Ash Arceneaux
DIDN’T REMIND ME By Robert T. Canipe Page 14
Illustrated By Russ Root
Interview with Joseph McGee Page 17
PAPER WASP AND CHOCOLATE RABBITS By Mari Mitchell Page 21
Illustrated By Jasper Smithers
CICADAS By Nickolas Cook Page 26
Illustrated By Jeff “Ledge” Eisen
END OF THE LINE By C. S. Johnson Page 32
Illustrated By Chris Heady
Interview with Jason Beam Page 37
BLOODY KISSES: TRAGEDY By Christian McPhate Page 43
SHE NEEDS A CAT By Kavita Kamal Parthi Page 46
Illustrated By matlocktheartist
ALL PINK ON THE INSIDE By Steven Lee Climer Page 51
Illustrated By Gareth Partington
THE TALE OF GERROTH THE DAMNED By Bill Ward Page 56
Illustrated By Mike Wooley
Reviews Page 58
Cover By Jason Beam
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Issue 1
Morpheus Tales #1, Magazine of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction,
featuring 56 pages of excellent fiction, artwork and reviews. #1
includes an interview with the author of Meat, Joseph D'Lacey.
UNDER THE BRIDGE By Wayne Summers Page 3
Illustrated By Russ Rock
AVARICE By Mark C. Frankel Page 9
THE WITCH QUEEN’S TOWER By Bill Ward Page 12
Illustrated By Kari-Ann Anderson
INSTANT MESSAGE By C. S. Johnson Page 16
Illustration By Ash Arceneaux
Interview with Joseph D’Lacey Page 21
PRISTINE By Vic Fortezza Page 25
HE SAID SOMETHING By Todd Austin Hunt Page 29
Illustrated By Jeff 'Ledge' Eisen
PATERNAL INSTINCTS By David M. Fitzpatrick Page 33
Illustrated By Greg Caparell
THE SLIDING By Kevin Lucia Page 39
Illustration by Matlock The Artist
THE DARKEST OF WATERS By Tommy B. Smith Page 44
Illustrations By Mike Wooley
A MOST UNFORTUNATE GAFFE By Aaron A. Polson Page 49
Reviews Page 53
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Music the Damned Can Dance To by Thomas Zimmerman {Thomas Zimmerman}
This chapbook collects 20 previously published dark poems—sonnets, haiku sequences, and sturdy free verse—by award-winning educator and editor Thomas Zimmerman.
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Mysteries of Von Domarus and other stories by Gary William Crawford {Gothic Press}
The obsessive thinking of a schizophrenic produces a ghost that haunts him all his life. A woman faces her lifelong sorrows in a final dance with Death. A man faces his own dark side in the guise of religion. A lonely widower faces the supernatural for the first time in his life with devastating results, A man looks into the darkness after a friend undergoes a ghostly transformation.
These five tales of hauntings and spiritual terror offer Gary William Crawford's own look into man and his mysteries in the modern industrial and technical age. These urban Gothic tales speak of individual loneliness and horror counterpoised with human love.
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The Mystery at Clermont House by Mark Anthony Brennan {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Charles is a boy who has trouble getting along with others his age. They are too immature for him. Stephen, his tutor, intends to help Charles in both his studies and his social life at Clermont House.
But now there's a ghost in Clermont House, a girl about Charles's age. Stephen has caught a glimpse of her, but only Charles can truly see her. But who is she? Where did she come from? And why only Charles?
Around town it's said that Clermont House is spooky. Everywhere there's an icy touch, the touch of the dead. To solve the mysteries of Clermont House, Charles and Stephen will find much more than ghosts to frighten them. But who survives and who dies is not up to them. It's up to her.
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Mythic Delirium is a biannual journal that for nine years has published science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal and cross-genre poetry. We select poems that demonstrate ambition, that cast new light on genre tropes, that introduce readers to the legends of other cultures, that re-evaluate the myths of old from a modern perspective, that twist reality in unexpected ways.
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Issue 18
Our 18th issue features new poetry from Jeannine Hall Gailey, Sonya Taaffe, Gene van Troyer, Gemma Files and many others.
Contents
Sure, Beauty Sleeps • Jeannine Hall Gailey • 3
February Etching • Stephen Malin • 5
Hohokam Time Travel • Gary Every • 8
An Italian-American in Hell • Greg Moglia • 10
Mao on the Hill • Francesca Forrest • 11
Unbegotten • Noel Sloboda • 12
All in a Row • Jacqueline West • 13
Awaré for the Woman who Disappears in Silence • Jeannine Hall Gailey • 15
Eggshells • Jacqueline West • 16
Eurydike in New England • Sonya Taaffe • 17
The Send-Off • C. A. Gardner • 18
Furious • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff • 19
(You Are Here) You Are Often Replaced • Gene van Troyer • 20
"Scientists Discover Singing Iceberg in Antarctica" • Michael Meyerhofer • 21
Tortoise vs. H.A.R.E. • Robert Borski • 22
Mrs. Margery Lovett, Her Book • Gemma Files • 24
Skeleton in the Closet • K.S. Hardy • 26
Outer Planet • F.J. Bergmann • 27
All That Jazz Going On Upstairs • Sonya Taaffe • 28
Interior art by Daniel Trout, 4;
Don Eaves and Terrence Mollendor, 8, 26;
Paula Friedlander, 14; Bob Snare, 23
Cover art and design by Tim Mullins
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Necrotica by Hallam Heathcoat {Skullvines Press}
The Dead Need Love, Too!
Vampires, Zombies, Demons, Witches, Ghosts, Serial Killers... Add to that a heavy dose of Necrophilia, and you’ve got an extreme treat to satisfy all your ghoulish needs!
Take a journey through 13 twisted stories of desperation, obsession, and lust that are sure to haunt, disturb, and quite possibly scar you for life.
So have fun!
Features artwork by Mark McLaughlin and O.D.
152 pages
6X9 paperback
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The Nightmare Collection by Bruce Boston {Dark Regions Press}
Advance Praise for The Nightmare Collection
"The Nightmare Collection is a stunning showcase of vivid prose. Alluring and provocative, emotive and often amusing, this is storytelling of the highest order. Boston once again demonstrates why he is the undisputed master of of dark poetry." -Michael McBride
"Boston's strange landscape of nether worlds and beings invokes a state of mind the reader will gladly be pulled into, even at the risk of discovering a dark truth that threatens one's reality...a fantastic collection!" --Corrine De Winter, Bram Stoker Award author of The Woman at the Funeral
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No Place Like Home by Cindy Rosmus {Cindy Rosmus}
Ten NEW tales of heartbreak, homesickness, and hell, by the award-winning author of Calpurnia’s Window!
Behind the door of every happy man should be . . . a carpet knife . . . a box of matches . . . a big smile only YOU understand!
With a great front cover by Gin Fenton (GinElf) and back cover by Tim Ramstad.
Paperback, perfect-bound, 76 pages.
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Not in Kansas by Janet Fox {Dark Regions Press}
Ride with Scorpia into a land of demon lovers. Learn how Tenponies can transform himself into a crow. Visit a garage sale where you can buy a mate for life. Meet "The Man Who Played Monsters" and break "The Time Barrier."
Janet Fox's stories and poems have appeared in many publications, including The Twilight Zone, Year's Best Fantasy, Year's Best Horror, and Weird Tales. Under the pseudonym Alex McDonough, she has published five novels in the Scorpio series from Berkeley/Ace.
Richly illustrated by award-winning artist Allen Koszowski and introduced by A.R. Morlan, Not In Kansas brings together seven stories and twenty poems, all previously uncollected.
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Not One of Us is about people (or things) out of place in their surroundings, outsiders, social misfits, aliens in the sf sense—anyone excluded from society for whatever the reason. We want to explore “otherness” from every possible angle: horror, SF, fantasy, whatever.
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Issue 40
Waiting or Leaving issue
Stories
Caitlín R. Kiernan: Flotsam
Amanda Downum: Pinion
Shane Nelson: One Man Home
Patricia Russo: Charlie
Jennifer Rachel Baumer: Tales of Eaglesnest
Erik Amundsen: Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2: Jack of Diamonds
Poems
Sonya Taaffe: Cold Spring Calling-On
Karen R. Porter: The Eyes However
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Foreign Exchange Student
J.J. Steinfeld: The Assassin’s Morning
Danny Adams: The Middle Hours
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff: On Waking
Gemma Files: Song of the Mother
Kent Kruse: No Blues Sadder Than This
Art:
Dale Rhodes (cover), John Stanton
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Issue 39
Animal issue
Stories
Amanda Downum: Ghostlight
Erik Amundsen: Laohu
Patricia Russo: The Dogs Are Alone Upstairs
Martha J. Allard: Phase
Michael Kelly: Like a Gift from the Ocean
Gemma Files: Drone
Poems
Erin Hoffman: Theoria
Deborah R. Kolodji: Yellowstone Prowl
sc virtes: supernobody
Sonya Taaffe: Lupercal
Danny Adams: Last Transmission from the Parallelity Castaway
Cassandra Phillips-Sears: The Last Yangtze River Dolphin
J.C. Runolfson: American Mermaid
K.S. Hardy: The Book of Worms
Erzebet YellowBoy: The Result of Your Research
Art:
HE Fassl (cover), John Stanton
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Issue 38
The Fox, the Moon, and Other Shapes issue
Stories
Sonya Taaffe: Bones and Bitters
Jeremy Wexler: Sweet Spot, or The Antigone of the Wykigill Mining Station
Patricia Russo: Pigeon, Water, Blue
Loren Rhoads: The Fox and the Foreigner
Ian Rogers: Relaxed Best
Poems
Jennifer Crow: Queen of Lepers
JoSelle Vanderhooft: La Sirena
Karen R. Porter: Fear of Angels
K.S. Hardy: Killing Your Shadow
Kent Kruse: An Autumn Breeze
Cathy Buburuz: Exposed
Erin Hoffman: The Substitute
Sonya Taaffe: Critical
Art:
HE Fassl (cover), John Stanton, Charles S. Fallis and Cathy Buburuz
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Issue 37
Comrades issue
Stories
Patricia Russo: No Good Deed
Amanda Downum: Ebb
Brian Worley: Smother
Chris Bell: The Locum, Yellow Rose
Joshua Reynolds: Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song
Poems
Danny Adams: Cydonia River
Elizabeth Barrette: A Chrome Attic
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: The Open-Faced Sandwich
Jennifer Crow: Grave statue of an unknown baboon-headed god, c. 300 B.C.
Karen R. Porter: Sticks
Samantha Henderson: Your First Time
Sonya Taaffe: Kameraden Obscure: A Retrospective
Featured Artist:
John Stanton
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Issue 36
Twentieth-anniversary issue
Stories
Tyree Campbell: Skellig
Patricia Russo: Lemon Filled
Sonya Taaffe: Venefica
Jennifer Rachel Baumer: Fishing Line, Feathers and Waffles
Terry Black: That Sudden Stop
Erzebet YellowBoy: A Remedy for Sorrow
Poems
Sonya Taaffe: Ogygia
Elizabeth Barrette: The Worm in the Core
Karen R. Porter: The Visitor
K.S. Hardy: Visions of Space
Kent Kruse: The American Dream
JoSelle Vanderhooft: Emilia and Iago
Sonya Taaffe: Of Chasing After Yesterdays
Art:
HE Fassl (cover), Augie Wiedemann, John Stanton
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Issue 35
Threshold issue
Stories
Sonya Taaffe: Chez Vous Soon
Patricia Russo: The Cats
Brent Knowles: The End of the Road
Danny Adams: Hermetically Sealed
James Cooper: Shelley
Poems
Jennifer Crow: A House-Ghost
Jacqueline West: Scarecrow
Elizabeth Barrette: The Selkie Thief
Kristine Ong Muslim: God
Karen R. Porter: The Taking Lady
Sonya Taaffe: Bendigeid Vran
Rich Ristow: False Prophet
Art:
HE Fassl (cover), Teresa Tunaley, Russell Dickerson
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Follow the Wounded One by Mike Allen
(July 2008)
A chapbook novelette by Mike Allen about the frightening adventures of a young man of Melungian heritage known to readers only by his Appalachian Trail name.
Art (cover): Paula Friedlander
Photo: Vickie Holt
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Home and Away
(January 2008)
Stories
Brad C. Hodson: The Perfect Jackson
Lisa A. Koosis: Waltz in E Minor
Chris Ward: Tube Riders
Neal Wilgus: Sweet Home Arizona
Patricia Russo: Why
Poems
Sonya Taaffe: January
Sonya Taaffe: The Second Ghost
Kent Kruse: Blackout
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff: Not Dealing Well
Gemma Files: The Dream of the Astronaut
s.c.virtes: Swirling Eyes
Art:
John Stanton (covers)
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Midrash
(February 2007)
Stories
Terry Black: Subduction
Lila Garrott: The Finland Woman:
Torger Vedeler: Ilium
Patricia Russo: Gravid
Paula R. Stiles: Morning Tea with a Mad Hatter
Poems
Sonya Taaffe: Perdidit Spolia
Kristine Ong Mulsim: The Third Stranger
Sonya Taaffe: Orpheus at the Bimah
K.S. Hardy: Ex-Teen Angel
Art:
John Stanton (cover), Augie Wiedemann
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Change
(February 2006)
Stories
Sonya Taaffe: Sea-Changes
Patricia Russo: Pennies
Kiel Stuart: Memory Isle
Laura Sanger Kelly: From the Garden
Poems
Elizabeth Barrette: Freak Show
Daniel C. Smith: That Virgin Rush
Mike Allen: Tithonus, on the Shore of Ocean
Patricia Russo: She Takes Up Distractions
Sonya Taaffe: Bloodlines
Art
Teresa Tunaley (cover), Mark Steensland
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Clarity
(February 2005)
Stories
Sonya Taaffe: Clarity
Jennifer Rachel Baumer: The Last Oracle
Josh Wagner: The Apnoeist
Patricia Russo: Yip
Todd Carpenter: Unplanned
Harrison Howe: Allergic Reaction
Sonya Taaffe: By Sunlight
Poems
Holly Day: A Little Bit of Redemption
Sonya Taaffe: The Language of Dead Flowers
Nancy Bennett: Hidden Beauty
Malcolm Morris: Lack
Karen R. Porter: a day before joe’s place collapsed
Art
Teresa Tunaley (cover), HE Fassl
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Osteoporoses by Kevin L. Donihe {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Thirteen poems by the master of short horror poetry, Kevin L. Donihe, including six which have never emerged from the crypt until now. Donihe, who edits the biannual Bare Bone anthology, takes a perverse delight in creating images that are not all they seem. This collection is chillingly illustrated by Marcia Borell, Teri Santitoro, and Courtenay Pogue.
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Other Gods by Stephen Mark Rainey {Dark Regions Press}
Spanning a career of over twenty years, the 16 tales in Stephen Mark Rainey's Other Gods depict an alluring yet macabre world, rendered by one of the horror genre's most vivid imaginations. With settings ranging from the remote backwoods of Virginia to the urban wilderness of Chicago, the veneer of Rainey's world appears familiar, even comforting; yet, beneath its surface ancient, malignant powers lurk, ready to spring forth and destroy any who discover them whether intentionally or inadvertently. Laced with humor and recounted by a captivating voice, the tales in Other Gods wait for you with open arms but beware, for they are also laden with darkness. And in that darkness, danger waits.
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Over the Darkening Fields by Scott Thomas {Dark Regions Press}
In the present... A young woman explores the mysteries of death through the paintings of an engimatic artist. A young couple discovers a restless antique doll in a cemetery. The charred bodies of homeless men appear in the snowy alleys of Boston. A strange mural with an appetite for bones haunts a deserted house.
In the past... A woman roams the slums of London hoping to be Jack the Ripper's next victim. Night after night a man dreams of his lonely lover and trip to a strange museum. Following a tragic accident, a widow orders the construction of a secret chamber with walls thick enough to muffle screams.
In a strange city, long ago... Women are blinded at birth; this has been the law for over 500 years. Now they can see, and they are coming back from the grave to take their revenge. A cryptographer struggles to solve the mystery that may save the living from the dead.
26 stories from Scott Thomas, Author of Westermead and Cobwebs and Whispers
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Each issue of Paradox features an abundance of short historical fiction, as well as fantasy, science fiction, and horror with historical themes—e.g., alternate history, myth, time travel, Arthuriana. The magazine also includes interviews with best-selling historical novelists, essays on topics in history and literature, reviews of current historical fiction books and films, and more!
Two Year Subscription (4 issues)
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Issue 12
FICTION
Strange Fruit – A.C. Wise
The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe – Marie Brennan
Señor Hedor – Nick Wolven
Plastromancer – David Sakmyster
Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate – David Erik Nelson
POETRY
Sparta, In Decline – Darrell Schweitzer
Retroact – F.J. Bergmann
Merlin – Rachael Pruitt
Going Out – John Thomas Clark
Rewriting History – F.J. Bergmann
INDEX to Issues One through Twelve, 2003-2008
ARTWORK
Giuseppe Signorini (cover), Aubrey Beardsley, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Edouard Poppig, Chris Whitlow
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Issue 11
FICTION
The Wizard of Macatawa – Tom Doyle
In a Byzantine Garden – Darrell Schweitzer
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy... – Richard Mueller
The Angel of Marye's Heights – Michael Livingston
Love, Blood and Octli – T. L. Morganfield
Fort Bliss – J. Kenneth Sargeant
Letters on Natural Magic – Matthew Kirby
POETRY
In The Roman Forum (A.D. 500) – Darrell Schweitzer
The Triumph of Aurelian (A.D. 275) – Darrell Schweitzer
ARTWORK
Louis Welden Hawkins (cover), Eugène Bidau, Currier & Ives,
David Martin,
Jim Ordolis, Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz, Stephanie Rodriguez,
Karl Gottlieb von Windisch
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Issue 10
Amante Dorée -- Sarah Monette
After the Circus -- Danny Adams
The Qualities of a Monarch -- C. Kevin Barrett
Marathon -- Bruce Durham
The Duke of Bedford Prays for His Brother's Soul -- Anne Sheldon
The Luck of the Irish -- Brian K. Crawford
Somewhere, Sometime on the Nile -- Stephanie Dray
POETRY
Road at Nightfall -- Jeremy L. Goldberg
Julian's Persian Expedition -- Darrell Schweitzer
Asterion -- Eileen Kernaghan
Guinevere -- M. Frost
ARTWORK
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (cover), Eleanor Brickdale, Gustave Doré, Fitz Hugh
Lane, Gustave Moreau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, G. Vertue, and historical
photos and lithographs
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Issue 9
FICTION
A Storm Over Cumorah -- Richard Mueller
Kitsune -- Adam Stemple
The Last Race -- Gene Spears
Proserpina's Curse -- Lisa Jensen
The Archer of the Sun and the Lady of the Moon -- Eugie Foster
The Mouse and the Buzzer -- Tom Brennan
Tea for Three -- Ernesto Brosa
The Meteor of the War -- Andrew Tisbert
POETRY
Fife Map -- Jane Yolen
The Tyrant Phocas (A.D. 602) -- Darrell Schweitzer
Chernobyl -- Lee Clark Zumpe
No Friend to Mankind -- Darrell Schweitzer
INTERVIEW
Connie Willis
ARTWORK
Howard Pyle (cover), Ellen Datlow, W.S. Hartshorn, Alex McVey, Vasco, Chris
Whitlow, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Jesse Young
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Issue 8
FICTION
Power Play -- Jack Whyte
O, Pioneer -- Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Draw Thy Breath in Pain -- Carrie Vaughn
Cassandra's Cargo -- D.J. Cockburn
Forty Shades of Gray -- Tom Welch
Anezka -- Bruce Durham
NONFICTION
The Sidewise Award Winners: A Retrospective -- Greg Beatty
POETRY
Lies -- Jane Yolen
Reflections of Lucrezia Borgia -- Jeremy L. Goldberg
Cannoneer -- Michael Hanson
War Memorial: Edinburgh -- Jane Yolen
A Byzantine Emperor Going Into Exile -- Darrell Schweitzer
INTERVIEW
Darrell Schweitzer
ARTWORK
J.M.W. Turner (cover), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Cornelis Ketel, Alex McVey,
Billy Tackett, plus19th-century lithograph
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Issue 7
FICTION
The Gods of Green and Gray -- Paul Finch
A Monument More Lasting Than Brass -- Steven Mohan, Jr.
A Tear Like a Rainbow -- Meredith Simmons
The Avowing of Sir Kay -- Cherith Baldry
The Tiger Fortune Princess -- Eugie Foster
A Taste of Ashes -- Ilsa J. Bick
A Hand in the Stream -- Darron T. Moore
NONFICTION
Beyond the Barbarian: History in the Works of Robert E. Howard -- Patrice Louinet
POETRY
The Greatness of Scipio Aemilianus -- Darrell Schweitzer
Prayer of Antigone -- Angelo Sphere
ARTWORK
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (cover), Arthur Davis Broughton, Roxell Edward
Karr, Allen Koszowski, Jim Ordolis, Howard Pyle, Jeff Ward, Wu Guxiang
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Issue 6
FICTION
The Three Truths -- Adam Stemple
Osiris Rising -- Resa Nelson
For You, Lili Marlene -- Rita Oakes
The Alternate History of Arthur Eisen -- Matthew S. Rotundo
Tiger Heart Wrapp'd in a Woman's Hide -- Karen L. Abrahamson
Milk in a Silver Cup -- Meredith Simmons
Isandhlwana At Dawn -- Clyde E. Miller
Lady of the Birds -- Beverly Suarez-Beard
POETRY
The Heroism of Ecdicius -- Darrell Schweitzer
Antioch, A.D. 637 -- Darrell Schweitzer
Yesterday's Heroes -- Jeremy L. Goldberg
A Ghastly Industry -- Lee Clark Zumpe
INTERVIEW
Bernard Cornwell
ARTWORK
Utagawa Kunitoshi (cover), William Bouguereau, Tani Buncho, Roxell Edward
Karr, Jim Ordolis, David Roberts, Marge Simon, Chris Whitlow
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Issue 5
FICTION
The Ill-Fated Crusade -- Charles Coleman Finlay
The Wailing on the Water -- Paul Finch
Servant of Iblis -- Howard Andrew Jones
Restoration -- David J. Sakmyster
The Moon Shone on My Slumbers -- C. Mitchell O’Neal
1923 -- C. Kevin Barrett
Cleopatra’s Needle -- Karen L. Kobylarz
NON FICTION
Folklore to Film—An Adventure in Adaptation: A Conversation with Tony Grisoni -- Cailin M. Harrison
Archiving History: The Spanish Civil War and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade --
Christopher M. Cevasco
POETRY
Indian Re-Education -- John E. Smelcer
Cowboys & Indians -- John E. Smelcer
American Dreams -- John E. Smelcer
The Book of Genesis, Revised for American Indian History -- John E. Smelcer
INTERVIEW
Karen Essex
ARTWORK
Jean-Léon Gérôme (cover), Arthur Davis Broughton, Edward S. Curtis, David
Daniel, Rudolf Ernst, John William Godward, Alex McVey, John Pettie, Jeff
Ward
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Issue 3
FICTION
Escape Hatch -- Brenda W. Clough
The Savage Infant -- Sarah Prineas
Wings -- Sarah A. Hoyt
And Yet It Moves -- Kenneth B. Chiacchia
The Fighters -- Steve Vance
Perhaps a Goddess -- Colin P. Davies
The Harp That Sang -- Jennifer Barlow
NON FICTION
Harold Lamb: Master of Adventure -- Howard Andrew Jones
Baghdad's Batteries: An Ancient Mystery -- Sean McLachlan
POETRY
temple -- Karen R. Porter
Warriors of the Broken Seal -- Elizabeth Barrette
INTERVIEW
Piers Anthony
ARTWORK
Maxfield Parrish (cover), George Bellows, GAK, Galileo Galilei, Roxell
Edward Karr, Bob Libby, Alain Valet, plus World War I photography
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Issue 2
FICTION
Sacrifice -- James Van Pelt
An Endless Array of Broken Men -- Edison McDaniels II
The Stones of Stupidity and Deceit -- Greg Beatty
Study of the Regular Division of a Plane With Reptiles -- Kevin James Kage
The Coming of Merlin -- Douglas W. Clark
Paradise Lost -- Drew Karpyshyn
Long Pilgrimage Home -- Jeff Crook
NON FICTION
The Search for Kostroma -- Elizabeth Kristofovich Zelensky
POETRY
Philon from Ithaka, Theas’s Son -- Sonya Taaffe
Legend Rises -- Karen R. Porter
Passing Time With Argo and Emmerheim -- Lucy A.E. Ward
INTERVIEW
Stanley C. Sargent
ARTWORK
Heironymus Bosch (Cover), M.C. Escher, Roxell Edward Karr, William R.
Stolpin, Chris Whitlow, Michael Yatskar
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Issue 1
FICTION
The Power of Prayer -- Brian Stableford
Icarus, His Father, and the Giant, Green, Tentacled Thing That Fell From the Sky -- Robert J. Santa
The Chalk Giant -- Ian Creasey
By Bayonet and Brush -- Rita Oakes
The Day They Killed Ceaucescu: A Memory of Ehrich Czorny, Age 9 -- Brandon
Alspaugh
The Mnemosyne Deviation -- James C. Stewart
Grail Knight -- Wendy A. Shaffer
Golgotha -- Alan Smale
NON FICTION
Models of History in Science Fiction -- Greg Beatty
POETRY
Quarry Blossom -- Lucy A.E. Ward
In Nischni Novgorod -- Lucy A.E. Ward
The Samurai Sword -- Wesley Lambert
INTERVIEW
Kevin Baker
ARTWORK
Gustav Doré (Cover), GAK, Francisco Goya, Rob Katkowski, Bob Libby, Wm.
Michael Mott, Sharon Tanhueco, Alain Valet, Chris Whitlow
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Pitchblende by Bruce Boston {Dark Regions Press}
Here we have Bruce Boston's latest collection containing thirty-two new and previously published poems. The SFPA Grandmaster has once again delivered a book full of sophisticated and pathos driven work, conjuring visions of mortality and human nature gone astray. Hand-in-hand with Marge Simon's illustrations, we walk through a surrealistic labyrinth garden which would make even Dali blink and admire the inspiration.
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Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades by John Edward Lawson {Afterbirth Books}
This collection highlights dark surrealism at its most experimental and absurd depths. The texts are perception-altering and soul-poisoning, humorous in the way that accidental amputation and spontaneous combustion are. From the man who works at the foot fungus factory to the man who lives in a giant rectum, Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades will leave you wondering where you misplaced your sanity.
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Poetry Red-Shifted In The Eyes Of A Dragon by Kendall Evans {Spec House of Poetry}
Illustrations by Cathy Buburuz
Introduction by Deborah P. Kolodji
The debut chapbook from Kendall Evans, winner of the 2006 Rhysling Award
for Long Form Poetry (with David C. Kopaska-Merkel). Four new poems,
along with poems previously published in the genre's top publications.
First Regular Edition Pressing, 100 Copies.
Reviews:
"Kendall Evans is one of speculative poetry's most audacious experimenters."
--Mike Allen, Editor of Mythic Delerium
Evans speaks the language of the fantastic, from astral imagery to myth,
and beyond. From the subtle “Binary” (‘entangle your spirits flesh with
mine/ in spider-veined nebulae/ of deepest space and time’), to the
resounding “Beatrice, Cockatrice”, (‘Beatrice, your cold eyes stone
me’), Evans makes his poems sing. Long or short, he crafts each poem
skillfully, often with a touch of magic. Superbly recommended.
--Marge Simon, Author of Like Birds in the Rain
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Potter's Field edited by Cathy Buburuz {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Dark souls from the unmarked graves of Potter's Field arise in these stories, seeking to make things right. They've been murdered, tortured, and maimed . . . and now the bills must be paid. Did you ever wonder how many bodies lie buried in forests and mountains and swamps, hidden there by those who so far have escaped justice? Tonight, the dark souls from the unmarked graves of Potter's Field arise to make things right. These are their stories. Be sure to lock your doors and leave a light on while you read them . . .
Features Erin MacKay, Ed Lynskey, Ernestine Burnett, Ken Goldman, Liza Perrat, Gary McMahon, E. Sedia, Gary Fry, W. B. Vogel, Phil Locascio, Cathy Buburuz, Tom Moran, plus illustrations by Marcia A. Borell and cover art by Argentina's Lis Anselmi.
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Potters Field 2 edited by Cathy Buburuz {Sam's Dot Publishing}
What dwells beneath the murky depths that divide the land of the living and death, and who shall know its secrets other than the dead? Search for the answers in this chilling collection of midnight tales. Attend a concert with the ungrateful dead. Learn why a pirate treasure must stay hidden, whatever the cost. And if you could raise the dead...what then? Turn these pages and fine out...
Potter's Field 2 features illustrations by Tom Moran, Marcia A. Borell, Marge B. Simon, Jacob Parmentier, Dick Starr, and Noel Beebe, with cover art by Carole Hall.
TOC:
King of the Mountain of Corpses by D. L. Snell
The Resurrection Men by Marlissa Campbell
Where the Bodies are Buried by Peter Tennant
Texas by God by William Blake Vogel III
Silvie by Debra Williams
Blood Rain by Cathy Buburuz
Midnight Misgivings by S. D. Hintz
Such Bitter Business by Pete Mesling
The Guardian by Tyree Campbell
One Last Duet With Davy by Ken Goldman
This Form, This Likeness by Thomas Canfield
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Pretty by Philip S. Meckley {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Alice travels to England to study English, meets a handsome stranger, and visits him in his manor. The place is so large that there is no end to its secrets, and Alice soon finds herself embroiled in the most sordid of them. It's best just to stay under the covers when things go bump in the night, but she can't do that.
Because she's the one that's going bump.
There's no rabbit hole at Ensleigh Manor, but Alice falls anyway, into a nightmare she cannot escape. Because, you see, it's not a nightmare that she has fallen into. It's reality.
Illustrated by 7ARS, Philip S. Meckley's tale of unimaginable horror takes the reader directly into a Wodehouse world with all the trappings of the English upper crust. Meckley, a collector of ghost stories, is always looking for the perfect scare. With "Pretty," perhaps he can stop looking.
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Proverbs for Monsters by Michael A. Arnzen {Dark Regions Press}
Proverbs For Monsters is an omnibus of the best writing to date by one of the most offbeat and humorous writers working in the horror genre today, Michael A. Arnzen. Hand picked by the author, these are the stories, "flash fictions," and poems most cherished by readers, most enjoyed at live performances, most celebrated by editiors of year's best collections, and most recommended for literary awards from across his career.
In Proverbs For Monsters you'll get advice for growing your own man-eating plant. You'll ride the movies of Exorcystland -- the scariest amusement park ever created. You'll attend a bizarre grade school for assassins. You'll meet a dentist with a very disturbing collection of baby teeth. You'll encounter strange children -- from the boy who carries his heart in a metal case attached to his chest to the girl who is completely encased in the carapace of her own giant scab. You'll ride a diseased elephant and witness the death of the last vampire and learn more than ever wanted to know about a perpetual embalming machine. You'll wince and laugh and wince again.
Whether or not you have read Michael Arnzen before or are already a fan of his gleefully twisted imagination, you're in for a very dark treat with this generous collection of thirty stories and thirty poems, many of them impossible-to-find or never seen before. Proverbs For Monsters offers the most delightful and disturbing retrospective of this acclaimed author's career.
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Psych Noir by John Edward Lawson and Dave Lipscomb {Raw Dog Screaming Press}
Psych Noir is a book of art-based fiction printed in a limited edition of 100 copies, signed by the author. Pairing Dave Lipscomb's subversive, ultra-detailed illustrations and Lawson's explosive day-glo prose was bound to result in aberrations of a profane yet stimulating nature. The intoxicating visuals compliment the disturbing plot, making for a thrill ride that veers off into hitherto unexplored Burroughsesque wastelands.
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Psychoentropy by Julie Shiel {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Shiel's writing is composed of fragments of the soul, inspired by experiences or feelings. This collection covers a range of dark emotion and aberrant thought. Collected, they create a cohesive picture of erosion and disorder. They tell a story. Psychoentropy, Shiel's second collection, is illustrated by Marcia Borell and 7ARS.
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Reconstructed Demon Dreams by Thomas Zimmerman {Thomas Zimmerman}
This chapbook collects 17 previously published poems that explore dreams, archetypes, and myth—individual and collective, spiritual and infernal.
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Reflections of the Damned, and other tales by David Bowlin {Perplexed Puffin Press}
REFLECTIONS OF THE DAMNED, and other tales features five stories from the vaults of David Bowlin's imagination:
Reflections of the Damned
In the Rooms of Ruin
The World as it was Back Then
Where Angels Tread
Old Debts
These tales of quiet horror are not for the faint of heart or for those who would rather not take a disturbing glimpse at the dark side. But for those of you made of sterner stuff, welcome to Dave's nightmare. However, be warned—you may wake up screaming. If you wake up at all.
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Second Contact by Gary Couzens {Elastic Press}
Gary Couzens is one of the foremost writers of slipstream fiction currently being published within the British independent press. In this, his first short story collection, he further nudges the boundaries of genre conventions, deftly exploring the fringes of experience to create nineteen startling stories which burrow deeply amidst our heartfelt fascinations and fears. Dissecting the relationships between time and identity, perception and misconception, longing and alienation, Couzens? often cinematic prose evokes realities just below the surface of common experience. For each story here there will be a connection with someone, somewhere.
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Sex, Blood, & Rock 'n Roll by Matt R. Jones {Matt R. Jones}
Unholy War was just the beginning.
An anthology of 12 tales that run the gamut of the Hollywood Vampires universe, from action to adventure, from sex to horror, from poignancy to absurdity ... all of it and more is here for the taking. This is unlike any other vampire anthology you've ever encountered before, and these ain't your mommy and daddy's vampires, kids.
5" X 8", 708 pages
Personalized autographs are available ... if you'd like one, just mention what you like when you make your order.
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Shades Fantastic by Bruce Boston {Bruce Boston}
Shades Fantastic from Gromagon Press is a collection of science fiction, horror, surreal, and mainstream poems by SFPA Grand Master Poet Bruce Boston. It includes five originals, and 32 reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, The Pedestal Magazine, Dark Wisdom, Weird Tales, Aoife's Kiss, The Fifth Dimension, and other leading genre and literary publications. Four original illustrations by Marge Simon. ISBN 0-9776665-3-0
"Boston fuels his poetry with insights into science, art, and music that flow on a