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June 2015 Nightmare Magazine Now on Sale

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The June issue of the online magazine Nightmare is now available. Fiction this month includes original short stories from Maria Dahvana Headley and Dale Bailey, and reprints from Kaaron Warren and Stephen Graham Jones: Original Stories “The Cellar Dweller” by Maria Dahvana Headley “Snow” by Dale Bailey Reprints “The Changeling” by Sarah Langan (originally published in Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters, September 2011) The Music of the Dark Time” by Chet Williamson (Originally published in The Twilight Zone Magazine, June…

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The Future of Fantasy: The Best New Releases in June

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There are precisely 30 days in June, and we’ve compiled a list of the 30 most exciting and anticipated novels, collections and anthologies being released this month. You know what that means — if you want to keep up, you’ll need to read at least one book a day (and since we’re already a dozen days into June, you better get hopping… you’re behind already!) Our June catalog of the best new fiction includes new releases from Stephen King, Garth…

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April 2015 Lightspeed Magazine Now on Sale

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We kicked off our coverage of John Joseph Adams’ excellent online magazine Lightspeed last month with #58, the March 2015 issue. Lightspeed publishes fantasy and SF, both new fiction and reprints. Among other stories, the April issue contains a reprint from Ken Liu, author of the breakout fantasy novel The Grace of Kings, just released this month. Now’s your chance to get a taste of his short fiction, and see what all the fuss is about. Here’s the first two paragraphs…

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Future Treasures: The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Seven, edited by Ellen Datlow

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Last week I surveyed eleven upcoming Best of the Year anthologies, including books edited by Rich Horton, Jonathan Strahan, Paula Guran, Gardner Dozois, John Joseph Adams and Joe Hill, Stephen Jones, and others. All eleven will be published between May and October — a bumper crop for everyone who delights in excellent short fiction. Night Shade Books used to publish two: Strahan’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, but after…

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See the Table of Contents for The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition, edited by Paula Guran

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Paula Guran’s Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror is one of the better Years’ Best anthologies on the market. It’s been published since 2010, and each and every volume somehow manages to introduce me to terrific new voices in dark fantasy. This year looks no different. Paula Guran recently announced the table of contents for the 2015 volume on her website, including fiction from Laird Barron, Dale Bailey, Gemma Files, John Langan, Helen Marshall, Brandon Sanderson, Simon Strantzas, Jeff VanderMeer,…

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January/February Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction now on Sale

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Black Gate blogger Bud Webster gets the cover of the January/February issue of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction with his novelette “Farewell Blues,” a ghost story set in the swamps of Louisiana in 1937. In her review of the issue, Colleen Chen at Tangent Online had this to say: The narrator, trumpet player Juney Walker, talks about a cornet player named Jake, who was so good he could play to wake the dead. Turns out this is literally true….

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Discover the Best Short Fiction of the Year with Paula Guran’s The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014

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Over the last decade or so, I’ve watched the emergence of a new generation of leading anthology editors. Folks like Jonathan Strahan, John Joseph Adams, Rich Horton, Ian Whates, and Jonathan Oliver. These are the editors who are successfully defining the best in the genre, and whose books I order immediately. And now, I’m very pleased to add Paula Guran to that short list. I sampled the fourth volume of her Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror back in February, and was…

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September/October Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction now on Sale

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I like this era of Internet magazine reviews. When I was growing up, back when computers communicated only through punched cards (or with the voice of Majel Barrett), I would read fabulous short story reviews in fanzines and such, and breathlessly race down to my local news stand to buy the magazine in question, only to have the bookseller look at me funny and say, “That issue sold out six months ago, son.” Not today. Today, booksellers don’t even know…

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Goth Chick News: Coveting Bram Stoker – 2013 Award Nominees Announced

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Regarding the actual item you get to put on your mantel; as awards go, forget the Oscar statue and give me a Stoker any day. You have to admit – it’s pretty darn cool. The Horror Writers Association (HWA), who have been honoring the premiere writers in horror and dark fiction since 1987, announced their nominees for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards last week. So if you don’t have time to sit cross-legged in the horror section of your fast-dwindling…

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May/June Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine now on Sale

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Gordon van Gelder’s Fantasy & Science Fiction is perhaps the magazine I most look forward to. He’s built a fine stable of regular authors, including Robert Reed, Dale Bailey, Ken Liu, Naomi Kritzer, and especially the prolific Albert E. Cowdrey, who’s had a story in every issue since Sept/Oct 2011. But that doesn’t mean the magazine is predictable, and the May/June issue is even less predictable than usual. Here’s Michelle Ristuccia at Tangent Online: F&SF isn’t a themed magazine, but…

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