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Random Reviews: “The Perfect Diamond” by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem

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The husband and wife team of Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem published the short story “The Perfect Diamond” in the first issue of Fantastic Worlds in 1996. This incarnation of Fantastic Worlds was a fanzine edited by Scott A. Becker, and was unrelated to an earlier fanzine of the same name published in the 1950s by Sam Sackett and Edward W. Ludwig. It isn’t clear how many issues Becker published, but the first issue included fiction not only by…

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New Treasures: Figures Unseen by Steve Rasnic Tem

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I’m still sorting through all the books I brought back from the World Fantasy Convention this year (which is kinda par for the course — it usually takes me 4-8 months to unpack from that con). Based on reading time and enjoyment over the past few months, my most productive period of the entire convention was the 10 minutes I spent in the Valancourt Booth. I’ve already talked about several of the books I purchased there, including Michael McDowell’s The Complete Blackwater…

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Birthday Reviews: Steve Rasnic Tem’s “Cubs”

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Steve Rasnic Tem was born Steve Rasnic on September 14, 1950. He often collaborated with his wife, Melanie, and the two took on the joint surname Tem. Melanie Tem died in 2015. The Tems jointly won the World Fantasy Award in 2001 for the novella The Man on the Ceiling, which also earned them a Bram Stoker Award and an International Horror Guild Award. They won a second joint Stoker Award for “Imagination Box” and Tem won solo Stokers for…

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New Treasures: Ubo by Steve Rasnic Tem

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Steve Rasnic Tem is one of the most acclaimed writers in modern horror. His novels include Deadfall Hotel (2012) and the Bram Stoker Award-winner Blood Kin (2014), and he’s produced over half a dozen collections, including City Fishing (2000) and Figures Unseen (2018). He’s written over 350 short stories and his fiction has won the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards. His latest novel Ubo is a strange one, a hallucinatory tale of giant bugs…

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New Treasures: Deadfall Hotel by Steve Rasnic Tem

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I don’t get to cover horror fiction as often as I like to — mostly because I don’t get to read much these days. So it’s always a delight when a surprise like Deadfall Hotel arrives at my door. The seed of the novel was the acclaimed short story “Bloodwolf,” published by Charles L. Grant in his anthology Shadows 9 back in 1986. For over 25 years author Steve Rasnic Tem has nurtured that seed, and it has finally grown into a complex and…

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Birthday Reviews: September Index

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January index February index March index April index May index June index July index August index September 1, C.J. Cherryh: “The Unshadowed Land” September 2, Roland J. Green: “Strings” September 3, Jack Wodhams: “Freeway” September 4, Rick Wilber: “Greggie’s Cup” September 5, James McKimmey, Jr.: “Planet of Dreams” September 6, China Miéville: “Entry Taken from a Medical Encyclopedia”

Exploring the Dark Side of Life: Remains, edited by Andrew Cox

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Remains, issues 4 and 4. Cover art by Richard Wagner There are readers who, like me, prefer dark fiction in short form, because their suspension of disbelief is too brief to sustain — with a few exceptions — a full novel. For people like us here’s a real treat: the new magazine/anthology Remains, edited by Andy Cox and illustrated by Richard Wagner, both well known for their previous work with the mythical Black Static magazine. The first two issues are…

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Mechanical Trees and Mini-Woolly Mammoths: May-June Print Science Fiction Magazines

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May-June 2025 issues of Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Cover art by Tithi Luadthong/Shutterstock, and IG Digital Arts & Annie Spratt Back in February I was surprised to learn that the last surviving print science fiction magazines, Analog, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, had all been sold to Must Read Books, a new publisher backed by a small group of genre fiction fans. I was very sad to see Analog…

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Alternate Londons, the Future of Lotteries, and Colony Ships: January-February Print Magazines

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January-February 2025 issues of Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction. Cover art by Tomislav Tikulin (for “Our Lady of the Gyre”) and Shutterstock Still no sign of the next issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, which is disheartening. That leaves us with only two issues published last year (Winter 2024 and Summer 2024), and no hint when the next one might arrive. I’m hearing rumors that the magazine has been sold, but I’ve been…

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Learn the ABC’s of Horror with Mark Morris

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The first four volumes of the ABCs of Horror anthology series, edited by Mark Morris and published by Flame Tree Press. Covers by Nik Keevil and Flame Tree Studio I miss the days of the paperback horror anthology. The great horror anthologists of the late 20th Century — Peter Haining, Sam Moskowitz, Charles L. Grant, Karl Edward Wagner, David Hartwell, and others — curated dozens of volumes of top-notch fiction that kept me thrilled and entertained many a late night,…

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