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Sorry for making you all wait so long for this issue, especially the contributors, who have been so patient while I've been kept busy by freelance work. Rather than keep anyone waiting longer, we're going to put out the pdf now and return later to add extra formats.
This issue contains four stories: “September Gathering” by Charles Wilkinson, “Disappearer” by Matthew Amundsen, “The Haunted Brick” by Walt Brunston, and “Chemicalia” by me, plus twelve reviews, by Rafe McGregor, Douglas J. Ogurek, Jacob Edwards and me. One hundred and thirty-eight pages of fabulous fiction and rollicking reviews!
In this issue our team reviews
Artificial Condition by Martha Wells,
Autumn Snow: The Wildlands Hunt by Martin Charbonneau and Gary Chalk,
BFS Journal #18 edited by Allen Stroud,
Hounds of the Underworld by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray,
Pegging the President by Michael Moorcock and
Kaijumax, Season Two by Zander Cannon, plus the films
Spectre,
Venom,
The Meg and
The Predator, and the television shows
Agents of Shield, Season 5 and
Westworld, Season 2.
Here are the splendid contributors to this issue:
Charles Wilkinson’s publications include
The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions, 2000), while his stories have appeared in
Best Short Stories 1990 (Heinemann),
Best English Short Stories 2 (W.W. Norton, USA),
Best British Short Stories 2015 (Salt) and in genre magazines/anthologies such as
Black Static,
The Dark Lane Anthology,
Supernatural Tales,
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction,
Phantom Drift (USA),
Bourbon Penn (USA),
Shadows & Tall Trees (Canada),
Nightscript (USA) and
Best Weird Fiction 2015 (Undertow Books, Canada). His anthology of strange tales and weird fiction,
A Twist in the Eye, is now out from Egaeus Press and his second collection from the same publisher
Splendid in Ash is
available to order. A full-length collection of his poetry is forthcoming from Eyewear. He lives in Wales.
Douglas J. Ogurek is the pseudonym for a writer living somewhere on Earth. Though banned on Mars, his fiction appears in over forty Earth publications. Ogurek founded the controversial literary subgenre known as unsplatterpunk, which uses splatterpunk conventions (e.g. extreme violence, gore, taboo subject matter) to deliver a positive message. He guest-edited
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #58: UNSPLATTERPUNK!, the first ever unsplatterpunk anthology, and then its follow-up,
UNSPLATTERPPUNK! 2. He also reviews films for us. Recent longer works include the young adult novel
Branch Turner vs the Currants (World Castle Publishing) and the horror/suspense novella
Encounter at an Abandoned Church (Scarlet Leaf Publishing). More at
www.douglasjogurek.weebly.com. Twitter:
www.twitter.com/unsplatter.
Jacob Edwards also writes 42-word reviews for Derelict Space Sheep. His website is at
www.jacobedwards.id.au, his Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/JacobEdwardsWriter, and his Twitter account is at
www.twitter.com/ToastyVogon.
Matthew Amundsen has published novellas previously in
Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #35 (“House of Nowhere”) and #50 (“A Murder in Heaven”) and short stories in such magazines as
Cemetery Moon,
Jersey Devil Press,
Millennium SF & F and
Starsong. In addition, he has written literary and music criticism for alternative weeklies in Athens, Georgia, and brainwashed.com. When not writing, he is a sound engineer and musician in Minneapolis.
Rafe McGregor lectures at Leeds Trinity University and the University of York. He is the author of
The Value of Literature, two novels, six collections of short fiction, and two hundred articles, essays, and reviews. His most recent book is
The Adventures of Roderick Langham, a collection of occult detective stories.
Stephen Theaker is the co-editor of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction. His reviews, interviews and articles have appeared in
Interzone,
Black Static,
Prism and the
BFS Journal.
Walt Brunston’s adaptation of the classic television story,
Space University Trent: Hyperparasite, is now available on Kindle.
As ever, all back issues of Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction are available for free download.
