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Once again, there is a lot of good stuff to be had in Weirdbook -- fantasy, horror, poetry, even a bit of science fiction -- and all of it weird, of course! My favorite in this issue are Donald McCarthy's "Schism in the Sky" (a priest, convinced that God hates us, starts a church on a lifeless planet which then becomes occupied by the government as a test site for a bizarre new weapon), Janet Harriet's "To Roam the Universe, Forgotten and Free" (a woman who is killed in a car accident tried to e...
Full of crisp and readable stuff, this anthology didn't take much time to be devoured by me. Amidst several dark and bleak tales, the following identified themselves as especially noticeable:1. 'The Pullulations of the Tribe' by Adrian Cole: A Nick Nightmare story full of horror and twin-fisted hardboiled goodness.2. 'The Man Who Murders Happiness' by John R. Fultz: Stunner.3. 'A Handful of Dust' by Tom English: Creepy!4. "The Spot" by C.R. Langille: Again, very-very creepy.5. 'Schism in the Sky...
I have read every issue since the magazine's reboot with issue #31 and in my opinion, this one is the best issue yet, filled with quality, well-written macabre tales and odd poems. My top three favorites were "The Dead of Night," by Christian Riley; "Fiends of the Southern Plains," by Patrick Tumblety; and "The Migration of Memories," by Charles Wilkinson. This is no way means the other fifteen stories were any less "terrible" or entertaining--only that for me, these three stood out the brightes...
Weirdbook is highly recommended; a menu of high quality horror tales that span most genres. Weirdbook is one of a few Weird Fiction magazines that persist. Weirdtales is likely the most famous, which emerged in the Pulp Era of the early Twentieth Century and comprised horror, dark fantasy, and Sword & Sorcery; Weirdtales exchanged hands over the decades and was carried/edited in the late 1980’s by John Betancourt and Darrell Schweitzer who both play a role in Weirdbook (Betancourt as P...
