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Feb
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Where much of speculative fiction questions or outright violates our perceptions of reality, the first contribution to Murky Depths #6, “The Lastest Marianne” by Alan Frackelton, takes a more direct route. This surreal tale concerns a haunted man’s progressive descent into madness… Full review at The Fix.
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The Garden State Horror Writers kick off their latest anthology, Dark Territories, edited by Gary Frank and Mary SanGiovanni, with “Dream Girl” by John R. Platt. A passive tale, it follows a man who is steeped in his childhood memories of a girl, one who has recently done something to rise to the top of many people’s thoughts.
“Forty-Nine Cents” by Dan Foley is a tale of a child’s brush with the devil…
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Nov
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Don’t let the first story in Fran Friel’s collection, Mama’s Boy and Other Dark Tales, deceive you into thinking this is some sort of “Horror Lite” book. The first story, “Beach of Dreams,” is a surreal, exotic tale..
Fans of Wrath James White and Maurice Broaddus will find exactly what they’re looking for in this collaboration, Orgy of Souls. While Samuel, a minister dying of AIDS, struggles to cope with God’s chosen path for him, his brother, Samson, useless in most things other than being pretty and being loyal to Samuel, decides to take fate into his own hands and attempt to bargain directly with God…
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Jul
Murky Depths, for those who don’t yet know, is a strong up-and-coming speculative fiction magazine that blends killer art, dark short stories, and graphic strips into a combination comic book/fiction magazine that’s pure candy for both the mind and eyes…
An impressively heavy volume, Dark Distortions, edited by Molly Feese and C.D. Allen, is the premiere title from Scotopia Press, designed to be a compendium of dark creative work from poetry to novellas.
Full review at The Fix.
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May
Issue 12 is Apex Digest’s first “Double Issue,” packing a wallop of names from Apex regulars Cherie Priest to Brian Keene and the conclusion of Geoffrey Girard’s “Cain XP11.”
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Mar
With the third issue of Murky Depths, it appears that the editorial team has hit its stride. The art is great, the pieces resonate better with each other, and the editorial hiccups have vanished…
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