Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
If Teddy Bear gumshoes, wooden donkeys, trial-by-spider, and Scooby-Doo refracted through the pornographer’s lens sound like your idea of a good time — look no further that the debut issue of The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction. Editor-in-Chief Jeff Burk’s (author of Shatnerquake) opening rant decries the formulaic approach of so much genre fiction, and he’s [...]
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Seems I’m still playing catch up, having just now gotten around to reading my contributor’s copy of issue 4 of UK horrorzine Morpheus Tales, published way back in April. I’ve talked about previous issues of MT on here, and they continue to deliver a wide variety of horror and dark fiction — including science fiction [...]
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For the curious and hungry among you, my review of Interzone #221 has just gone live over at Tangent Online. Tangent, as I’ve mentioned before, has recently come back after a lengthy hiatus, and it already has a lot of material that continues to grow. So don’t just go over for my review (and you [...]
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Even though the UK’s Murky Depths #8 is out already, I’m just now getting caught up with #7. Everything I said about this magazine in my review of Murky Depths #5 applies in spades to this issue — edgy content, handy format, and super-slick presentation and design. If there were more magazines that looked like [...]
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Nice to have a good newsie sort of follow up to my sky-is-falling recent post on Vanishing Print Zines. Seems Jason Sizemore over at Apex just doesn’t want to let his monster die, so he’s pumping it full of electricity and letting it loose on the world once more. Apex Magazine, a pro-rate market, will [...]
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A few years ago the great short fiction review site Tangent Online ran into some trouble, and had to close. I doubt many of us that read it at the time really expected it to come back after so long, but Dave Trusedale, the organizing force behind Tangent, never gave up. One look at the [...]
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