On Spec #133, Autumn 2025 “The Bag of Holding” by Liz Westbrook-Trenholm “the love song of house and lake” by Gillian Secord “When the Stars Threw Down Their Spears” by John Park “The Superposition of Ramen” by Jed Looker “The Serene Hospice of the Sisterhood of Baba Yaga” by Lorina Stephens “An Unsparing Harvest” by …
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Read More...Swords of Steel IV Edited by D. M. Ritzlin (DMR Books, April 2025, pb, 232 pp.) “When the Stars Invert” by Matthew Knight “The Last Bastion . . .” by Howie K. Bentley “The Fall of Karynthos Keep” by Joe Minichino “The Shrine of the Six-eyed Avatar” by Byron A. Roberts “Shadows from Night Eternal” …
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Read More...Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (1949-1962) aired “The Poor Little Rich Girl Matter” on September 1, 1957. We’ve showcased but seven earlier episodes of this highly regarded show, the first back in 2019 and the last in January of 2025. Guest host Pete Wood wrote the introduction to the May 2020 episode, from which I have …
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Read More...Flash Fiction Online #145, October 2025 “To Breach a Citadel” by Jeannie Marschall “A Touch of the Wild” by Annie Wilkins “Mushroom Aesthetic” by Aggie Novak “Woodsong” by Arthur H. Manners “This Is What Mouths Are For” by Parker M. O’Neill
Read More...Apex Magazine #151, October 2025 “Liecraft” by Anita Moskat, translated by Austin Wagner “Ghosts of Summer” by Catherine Tavares “Code Green” by Rebecca Johnson “We Used to Wake to Song” by Leah Ning “The Horrible Conceit of Death and Night” by J.A. Prentice “The Fate You Choose” by Nadia Radovich “FAQ on My Vagina Dentata” …
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Read More...Dark Fantasy aired “Men Call Me Mad” on December 19, 1941. It is the 6th episode of the 31 aired in the 1941–42 series. This is but our 9th episode of this well regarded program and the first since July of 2021, over four years ago. While popular with the public and generally considered a …
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Read More...Sci Phi Journal, Autumn 2025/3 “An Inflationary Problem” by Geoffrey Hart “Half-Rapt” by Karen Heuler “Patriot Graves” by Liam Hogan “Unspoken” by Chris Edwards “I Know What I Desire” by James C. Clar “Leapers” by Umair Khan “The Religious Education of Rotisserie Opera” by Timothy Quinn “The Prayer” by Humphrey Price “Arbor Ad Infernum” by …
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Read More...Mysterion, September 2025 “The Last Sin-Eater of Harfolk County” by Grace F. Hopkins Reviewed by David Wesley Hill I always thought a sin-eater was the guy who, through connections and intimidation, made your problems go away—a fixer, like Liev Schreiber in Ray Donovan. I didn’t know literal sin-eaters existed until I read “The Last Sin-Eater …
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Read More...Beneath Ceaseless Skies #441, September 18, 2025 “The Nature of Spells, the Nature of Children” by Aimee Ogden “Holly on the Mantel, Blood on the Hearth” by Kate Francia
Read More...Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows! The Shadow (1937-1954) aired “The League of Terror” on January 9, 1938. Though only 278 episodes are known to still exist out of over 800 (depending on how one counts), the number is subject to change as new episodes are unearthed from …
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