""And, as always, the wake of the sun caused temporal havoc. A Razalian hour passed normally enough, then shrank to ten minutes, then sneezed out a good half-day, then stabilised at an hour and a bit. Bobbing on the top of planetary time like corks in a bucket, the three moons spread out and were still - this time like kids glued to a screen. For, as the sunlight disappeared and the minutes passed more confidently, Razalia shook off its desolation. Across its face, a million torches shone under the amethyst skies: Razalian faces, each its own sun." Small, unfinished, more like a blueprint for a world than the real thing, Razalia props up one end of the Arc of the Fifteen Planets. In some places, its landscape looks like the efforts of a water-colourist suddenly called away from his easel. The Razalians live with the gaps - those spaces of unfathomable white - in many of their ridges, valleys, forests. And then the white begins to move..."

The Mercury Annual

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Thomas, Michael Wyndham

Science Fiction

Theaker's Paperback Library

Astute readers will recall that in the winter of 1934-1935, Robert Harrison Blake - whose last days are recorded in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark" - wrote five weird tales. There has been some controversy over these stories, notably the question as to whether they were published under different titles or lost when Blake met his untimely demise. Some ten years ago, now, I acquired an old exercise book which belonged to a certain "Robert Blake" of Providence. The document has been reliably dated to the 1930s and appears to have taken sixty-odd years to make the journey from his hands in Rhode Island, New England to mine in Yorkshire, old England. Although it is impossible to verify the identity of the author...

Five Forgotten Stories

Literature & Fiction

Hall, John

Genre Fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle's supernatural literature varied from Jamesian ghost stories to Lovecraftian cosmic horror and disturbing psychological thrillers, and included the introduction of a new type of monster, the reanimated Egyptian mummy. These five novelettes comprise his essential horror fiction. With introduction and notes by Rafe McGregor. Contains: "The Captain of the Pole-Star", "Lot No. 249", "A Pastoral Horror", "The Terror of Blue John Gap" and "The Parasite".

The Conan Doyle Weirdbook

DOYLE, ARTHUR CONAN

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #44

Edwards, Jacob

Wilkinson, Charles

Theaker, Stephen

Ogurek, Douglas J.

Phillips, Howard

ASHLEY, ALLEN

Thompson, Douglas

Gresham, Ross

Fantasy

Six stories appear in issue 51 of Theaker's Quarterly Fiction: "Too Much Light Makes the Day Go Blind" by Marshall Moore, “One Slough and Crust of Sin” by Walt Brunston, "Water Imperial" by Charles Wilkinson, "The Assassin’s Lair" by Howard Phillips, "Whale on a Tilt" by Andrea M. Pawley and "Cybertronica" by Antonella Coriander. There are also fifteen reviews, by Stephen Theaker, Douglas J. Ogurek and Jacob Edwards, looking at the work of Lavie Tidhar, Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, Henry Kuttner, David Ramirez, Joe Abercrombie, and Paul Magrs, as well as Space Battleship Yamato, Jupiter Ascending, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (twice), the Kindle Voyage, the Amazon Fire TV, season 9 of Supernatural, season 1 of The Leftovers, and season 1 of Constantine.

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #51

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #52

Stephen Theaker

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #57

Greenwood, John

The Adventures of Roderick Langham

McGregor, Rafe

Short Stories & Anthologies

Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #62

Coriander, Antonella

Brunston, Walt

Unsplatterpunk! 2: Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #63

Tapley, Drew

Saxelbax, Triffooper

Alsin, Hugh

Swift, M. S.

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