New fiction online by Beemsville ally and former co-couch-congflagratuer, Gillian. You can read it over at Carve Magazine, which has lots of good stuff.
‘The Dead Kid’ is creepy, clever, and concise. It features a refrigerator, a dump, and an excellent recollection of childhood. The story will also appear in Carve’s Best of… anthology next year and was nominated for a Pushcart prize. Excellent reading, all in all.
Check it out…
Last winter I picked up a subscription to the venerable magazine, Weird Tales. So now, having read three issues, I figured it was time to provide some commentary.
The masthead provides some of the mag’s rich history before stating:
“Today, O wondrous reader of the 21st Century, we continue to seek out that which is most weird and unsettling, for your own edification and alarm.”
Sounds about right. This is Wildside Press relaunching/rebranding the title, which had frankly begun to flounder in recent years. They have a new look an attitude. They have a strong web presence. They have new editors who’ve allied with the New Weird. All very promising, but what it comes down to is what’s between the covers.
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