This nineteenth issue of Spectral Realms contains the customary array of diverse and riveting poetry by today's leading weird poets, including Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Scott J. Couturier, Ian Futter, and Ngo Binh Anh Khoa. David Barker contributes two more poems to his ongoing series of reimaginings of Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth. Oliver Smith looks at Frankenstein in an innovative way. Frank Coffman tells a miniature weird tale in a four-sonnet cycle, "A Cabin in the Wood." Carl E. Reed, Andrew White, and Christian Dickinson draw upon ancient folklore for their brooding poems. Maxwell I. Gold contributes three of his cosmic prose poems, while Jay Sturner and Liam Garriock add their own distinctive prose poems. Two classic reprints (by Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Hardy), along with S. T. Joshi's review of a new edition of the obscure American Decadent poet Lee Roy J. Tappan, conclude the issue.

Spectral Realms No. 19: Summer 2023

Literature & Fiction

Schwader, Ann K.

Gold, Maxwell I

History & Criticism

Hippocampus Press

Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums

Poetry

Hex Publishers

Enter a world of desolate imagination, rhizomatic beauty, and ruined cities.Oblivion in Flux, the debut prose poetry collection of Maxwell I. Gold, takes the reader on a trip along demented railways and past rhizomatic tubular dreamscapes, to find themselves transported to plastic cities where the Cyber Gods sit on thrones of ivory and bone. With over 50 poems in this volume, you'll discover artifacts and forgotten places, ruins and dark secrets. Oblivion in Flux intertwines prosaic story-telling and poetic visions, to tell the narrative of the Cyber Gods and those who have met them.The book will feature original poems and reprints as well as a brand-new collaborative prose poem written by the author and Bram Stoker Award winner and SFPA Grandmaster, Linda D. Addison.

Oblivion in Flux

Crystal Lake Publishing

Unspeakable Horror 3: Dark Rainbow Rising

The third terrifying volume in the award-winning anthology series of original queer horror. Like the final girl in a slasher film, the LGBTQIA community knows first-hand what it's like to fight for its survival. Beaten and bloodied after an extended chase scene through modern-day politics and the courts, we think we've triumphed and conquered our oppressors. We breathe a little easier knowing our rainbow is ascending in the distance. But-like the indestructible slasher villain-our enemies rise up again and again, as if on a looping third-act jump scare. It's a seemingly never-ending return to battle as the pendulum of progress swings back. In this third volume of the award-winning anthology series, the darkest minds from both the LGBT+ and horror literary communities join forces to bring readers an all-new collection of terrifying tales from that line on the horizon where the dark rainbow rises. Stories by Chad Helder, Hailey Piper, Mathew L. Reyes, A.P. Thayer, J. Daniel Stone, Yah Yah Scholfield, Oliver Nash, Holly Lyn Walrath, Paul Tremblay, Carmilla Voiez, James Cato, Lucy A. Snyder, Maxwell I. Gold, Zachary Rosenberg, Matthew Blain-Hartung, Maryse Meijer, Vincent Kovar, CG Inglis, Craig Laurance Gidney, Dan Coxon, Kaitlin Tremblay, Michael Thomas Ford, Craig Brownlie, Amanda M. Blake, Sara Tantlinger, and Eric LaRocca. Edited by Vince A. Liaguno.Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths.

TREMBLAY, Paul

LaRocca, Eric

Snyder, Lucy A.

Piper, Hailey

Voiez, Carmilla

Publishing, Crystal Lake

Stone, J. Daniel

Blake, Amanda M.

Genre Fiction

The third terrifying volume in the award-winning anthology series of original queer horror.\nLike the final girl in a slasher film, the LGBTQIA community knows first-hand what it’s like to fight for its survival. Beaten and bloodied after an extended chase scene through modern-day politics and the courts, we think we’ve triumphed and conquered our oppressors. We breathe a little easier knowing our rainbow is ascending in the distance. But—like the indestructible slasher villain—our enemies rise up again and again, as if on a looping third-act jump scare. It’s a seemingly never-ending return to battle as the pendulum of progress swings back.\nIn this third volume of the award-winning anthology series, the darkest minds from both the LGBT+ and horror literary communities join forces to bring readers an all-new collection of terrifying tales from that line on the horizon where the dark rainbow rises.\nStories by Chad Helder, Hailey Piper, Mathew L. Reyes, A.P. Thayer, J. Daniel Stone, Yah Yah Scholfield, Oliver Nash, Holly Lyn Walrath, Paul Tremblay, Carmilla Voiez, James Cato, Lucy A. Snyder, Maxwell I. Gold, Zachary Rosenberg, Matthew Blain-Hartung, Maryse Meijer, Vincent Kovar, CG Inglis, Craig Laurance Gidney, Dan Coxon, Kaitlin Tremblay, Michael Thomas Ford, Craig Brownlie, Amanda M. Blake, Sara Tantlinger, and Eric LaRocca. Edited by Vince A. Liaguno.\nPraise for Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet: “There is much to praise in Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet, a sharp, new gay-themed anthology. The 24 entries comprise a sophisticated collection of topnotch tales of terror, most of which could appear in any fright anthology without qualification and suggest the maturing of ‘gay horror’ into a viable and solid genre indeed.”—Fangoria Magazine\nPraise for Unspeakable Horror 2: Abominations of Desire: “If Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadowsof the Closet helped to establish speculative fiction as a mature and important genre for queer fiction when it was published about a decade ago, then Unspeakable Horror 2: Abominations of Desire takes it to new heights and creates an expectation of excellence. Tightly written and edited, free of tropes and mundane writing, these stories propel the queer horror genre to scare us while making a statement about our world and accomplish it with the best of writing possible.”—Lambda Literary Review\nProudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing—Tales from the Darkest Depths.

Whispers from BeyondA Showcase of Dark Poetry Featuring K. D. BowersPixie BrunerKathryn BurkettChris P. ClayTom DeadyFaith DincoloAJ FranksTom GuldinKareem HayesJem KrasKB NelsonAmabilis O'HaraMichael H. PayneBrian RichardsRhea RoseMelissa StaufferRoger TerryKT WagnerDianthe WestRae Young WITH Angela Yuriko SmithColleen AndersonMaxwell I. GoldJamal HodgeNaching T. Kassa

Whispers from Beyond: A Showcase of Dark Poetry

Smith, Angela Yuriko

ANDERSON, COLLEEN

Kassa, Naching T.

Burkett, Kathryn

Hodge, Jamal

Bowers, K. D.

Bruner, Pixie

Clay, Chris P.

Space and Time #142 marks a triumph for current editor-in-chief Austin Gragg who navigated the literary wilderness to bring these finds to the page. Includes art, poetry and prose by Linda D. Addison, Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito, Gordon Linzner, John Grey, Debasish Mishra, Andrea Mungiello, Dennis Maulsby, Sean Joseph Pino, Michael Wyatt, Marge Simon, Benjamin Henry, Sean Eads, Joshua Viola, Purbasha Roy, Colleen Anderson, Daniel M. Kimmel, Lena Ng, Marcus Whalbring, E. E. King, Maria Zoccola, Terrie Leigh Relf, Aaron Sandberg, Angel Leal, Rina Inae, Kelly Talbot, Francis W. Alexander, Maxwell I. Gold, Mary Soon Lee, Jay Sturner, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Geneve Flynn, Briant Laslo, Randall Andrews, Chong May Yin, Carina Bissett, Archie Abaire, Seth Jani, Angela Acosta, John Urbancik, Ara Hone, Lynn I. Hsu, Carol Edwards, Allen Beck, Kyra Starr, Shikhar Dixit, Arthur Haywood, Brad W. Foster, Al Sirois, Mark Levine, and Doug Draper.

Space and Time Fall/Winter #142

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Relf, Terrie Leigh

Time, Space &

Hsu, Lynn I.

Henry, Benjamin

Sandberg, Aaron

Science Fiction

Yuriko Publishing

"There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world." -Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of SkyWith the publication of #145, Space and Time magazine closes our 57th year with some of our best stories, poetry and art yet. It's not easy to balance elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy, but in the pages of this issue you can find it done exceptionally well. Here are stories we hope can change the world.With fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art from Peter J Carter, Sonny Zae, Laura Kester Duerrwaechter, Alicia Hilton, Maxwell I. Gold, Darren Lipman, Christine H. Chen, Maria Heloisa Silva, Guilherme Ademir Marian, Madeline Clark, Hillary Dodge, Timothy P. Flynn, Brian Hugenbruch, Akis Linardos, Ngo Binh Anh Khoa, Fiona Perry, Jonathan Pessant, Kathryn Ptacek, John Reinhart, Greg Schwartz, Ingrid L. Taylor, Michael H. Payne, Pixie Bruner, Amy Drees, Linda D. Addison, Rami Ungar, R. Leigh Hennig, Briant Laslo, Daniel M. Kimmel, Michael Wyatt, Anthony R. Rhodes, Alan F. Beck, Arthur Haywood, Tom Nackid, Alfred Klosterman, Doug Draper, Brad W. Foster. Special thanks to our editors Gerard Houarner, Linda D. Addison and Ken Hueler. Cover art by Karl Kofoed. Interior Layout by Anthony R. Rhodes.

Space and Time Fall/Winter #145

Duerrwaechter, Laura Kester

Addison, Linda D.

Zae, Sonny

Hilton, Alicia

Time, Space and

Carter, Peter J.

Lipman, Darren

Chen, Christine H.

Contemporary

Space and Time Spring/Summer #146

Fitzpatrick, Claire

Payne, Michael H.

Munro, Donna J.W.

Bergmann, F.J.

Sekulin, Spencer

Ogochukwu, Jeffrey

Authortunities Press

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