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It has been a while, authors. AI reared its ugly head causing widespread problems across the fiction industry for publishers, authors, artists, and competition runners, and because of that, we shut our gates for...
REVIEW: Tales From The Magician’s Skull – No. 10
First debuting in 2018, Goodman Publications’ Tales From The Magician’s Skull has reached its landmark tenth issue. While the arrival of new magazines dedicated to short fantasy fiction is not uncommon, Tales From The...
REVIEW: SNAFU: Dead or Alive
In SNAFU: Dead or Alive, Cohesion Press’ latest in the line of brilliant SNAFU military horror anthologies (some of the stories from which you may have seen in Love, Death, and Robots on Netflix),...
Top Ten Mark Lawrence Short Stories
Since the publication of Prince of Thorns in 2011, Mark Lawrence has become one of the most well-known and respected authors in the grimdark community. As of 2022, he has published fifteen novels over...
REVIEW: The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror Volume Three by Paula Guran
The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror (Volume 3) is the latest installment in Paula Guran’s annual compilation of top short stories published over the preceding year. Despite its name, this is actually Guran’s...
REVIEW: Unbound II by Shawn Speakman
Unbound II is Shawn Speakman’s collection of seventeen all-original short stories from eighteen of the most exciting authors in contemporary fantasy and speculative fiction. Speakman plays several roles here, serving as the editor and...
REVIEW: Silverweed Road by Simon Crook
Silverweed Road, the collection of short horror stories, is dark, unique, chilling, and very British. Silverweed Road, the road, is made up of around 40 mock-Tudor houses, is J-shaped, has a dead-end that leads...
REVIEW: Screams from the Dark edited by Ellen Datlow
In Screams from the Dark, Ellen Datlow brings together twenty-nine of today’s boldest voices in horror to create an unflinching symphony of darkness that will haunt you long after you close the back cover....
REVIEW: Love, Death + Robots Season 3
The first season of Love, Death + Robots was unambiguously a groundbreaking hit. I was utterly blown away by the anthology series of animated shorts when it first released. All of the disparate tales...
REVIEW: When Things Get Dark edited by Ellen Datlow
When Things Get Dark is a new anthology edited by Ellen Datlow. Datlow is a well-respected anthologist, who has won plenty of awards, including the Shirley Jackson Award three times. This made her the...