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Fantastic Horror Special Joint Issue #8 October 2008 In cooperation with The Southern Literary Messenger we proudly present a seasonal cornucopia of fine reading material. Enjoy an unprecedented range of content from text fiction to video documentary, from immovable classics to irresistible novelties.
Fantastic Horror Issue #7 August 2008 The most packed issue to date comes bursting with deadly aquatic mystery, dueling lunatic scoundrels, a ghoulish toast to the classic "Cask," irresistible imperatives, inescapable mortality, torment of the innocent, awakening of mindless souls, suburban mayhem, unholy piety, and things that are generally not as they should be. Also enjoy a selection of new and time-tested artwork, and be sure to listen to our first-ever audio story production!
Fantastic Horror Issue #6 June 2008 Enjoy Lovecraftian horror in “The Horror in the Traquair Maze”—inhuman humanity in “Gray”—and other terrifying delights in stories and poems of pumpkin-carving, home-buying, ancient woods, Latin Kings, bartenders, predators, journeys and sleep—not to mention 4 new artistic renderings of the otherworldly.
Fantastic Horror Issue #5 April 2008 Death governs a small town; ancient evil presides in the jungle; horror resides in the sounds of ringing and a stranger’s voice; long-forgotten stones conceal a gateway; infinite gateways of doors are finally shut; a son remembers the dark lesson of his father; verses speak of what is gratefully fallen and what thing that fell must gloat upon the depth; and images speak of timeless ruins, cosmic deserts and a phantasmal race.
Fantastic Horror Issue #4 February 2008 In this issue, witness a strange visitation on the Allegheny in “A Terrible Binding”—riches concealed among rubbish in “Clutter”—a terrible return in “Stained”—the secret interrogations of “Rough Justice”—the sinister commune of “The Discovery”—plus poetry, the fourth installment of “House of a Thousand Doors,” classic art by Dürer, Doré and Goya, and new art by Jon Ethridge and Alex Ledante.
Fantastic Horror Issue #3 December 2007 The cryptic and shocking conclusions of “Hypnagogia,” “Coyman Manuscript” and “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”—the penultimate installment of the darkening “Willows”—a new poem from John Di Rosa—new artistic visions of earth, sea and distant worlds—and four new stories of obscurity, terror and the unnatural, including Ron Wright’s harrowing “Inheritance”—await the intrepid reader in Fantastic Horror’s third full-length issue.
Fantastic Horror Issue #2 August 2007 Brace yourself for five new startling stories of ghosts and floods, as well as of the dead, dreaming and horribly alive—for continuations of the mysterious “Coyman Manuscript,” the phantasmal “House of a Thousand Doors,” the twilit “Hypnagogia” and Richard Eline’s cultic and occult adventures—for ancient and modern poetry of soundlessness and shadow—an annotated classic by Poe—and three new works of art, including Pino*’s “Flesh” which graces the cover.
Fantastic Horror Issue #1 June 2007 This first full-length issue includes the first nine installments of “Hypnagogia”—eight illustrative chimeras (including the cover by Moraine)—poems about death and demoniac imps—the continuation of Blackwood’s “Willows” and a history of the Necronomicon—a “lost” tale by Fitz-James O’Brien—plus seven original fictions of inconceivable variety, including a story from Mark Samuels’s Black Altars.
Fantastic Horror Issue #0 April 2007 Fantastic Horror’s debut features tales of the sea and urban decay—classics from Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood—dueling essays on the writing of supernatural horror—pictures by Bruegel and Thomas Cole—a poem about an extremely unfortunate road trip—and Edgar Poe’s introduction to the FH series “Hypnagogia.”