Will Ludwigsen’s fiction has appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Weird Tales, Strange Horizons, and many other magazines. His first collection of short fiction, Cthulhu Fhtagn, Baby! and Other Cosmic Insolence, appeared in 2007. A 2011 MFA graduate from the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast program in popular fiction, he teaches creative writing at […]
Aurora-winning poet Helen Marshall is an author, editor, and bibliophile. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Chiaroscuro, Paper Crow, Abyss & Apex, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet and Tor.com. She recently released a collection of poems entitled Skeleton Leaves from Kelp Queen Press and her collection of short stories Hair Side, Flesh Side was released […]
There is a scene at the end of the first story in Yoko Ogawa’s upcoming collection Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales that feels indicative of all the other stories within, in atmosphere and structure: in “Afternoon at the Bakery,” people have gathered in a quaint, clean town square on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, taking in the sunlight and the […]
We’re mere weeks away from the end of the calendar year for 2012, and it’s only natural to take stock of things from the whole year before now: things we did, saw, ate, and in this particular case, read. So, for this year’s round of reading recommendations, I solicited some favorites from contributors and friends of […]
Justin Isis is the author of I Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like (Chômu, 2011) and co-editor of Dadaoism (An Anthology) (Chômu, 2012). He has had stories published in Postscripts and The Master in Cafe Morphine: A Homage to Mikhail Bulgakov (Ex Occidente, 2011). He co-founded the Chômu blogzine in 2007 and now occupies the role of strategist and occasional […]
Livia Llewellyn is a writer of horror, dark fantasy and erotica. A graduate of Clarion 2006, her fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Sybil’s Garage, PseudoPod, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, and numerous anthologies. Her first collection of short fiction, Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors, was published in 2011 by Lethe […]
Berit Ellingsen is a Korean-Norwegian writer who lives in Norway and writes in English. Her stories combine the realistic and the imaginary, prose and poetry, and are inspired by, among others, science, history, philosophy, music and film. Berit’s fiction has appeared or will appear in literary journals such as Unstuck, SmokeLong Quarterly, elimae, Metazen and decomP […]
I hope everyone has enjoyed the material we’ve published here at Weirdfictionreview.com over the past two weeks while Jeff, Ann, and I were away at this year’s World Fantasy Convention in Toronto. We wanted to give you something special in time for WFC 2012, since The Weird was up for Best Anthology, and also since the […]
This week on Weirdfictionreview.com, we’re featuring a newly published novella, Town of Shadows, and an interview with the author, Lindsay Stern. A native of New York City, Stern is in the process of wrapping up her B.A. in English and Philosophy at Amherst College. Town of Shadows is her first published book. Town of Shadows is a treat […]
Lindsay Stern is an up-and-coming writer whose novella, Town of Shadows, was recently published by Scrambler Books. A native of New York City, Stern is currently finishing her B.A. in English and Philosophy at Amherst College. Town of Shadows has already received strong praise from authors such as Patricia Morrisroe, who lauds the book as being […]