In hopes of providing a fleeting but fun distraction in these tense days of justified protest, I’m pleased to be able to share with you more excerpts from A Sinister Quartet, which gets released in a mere six days, and a bit of silly business that goes even beyond that. First, World Fantasy Award winner C. S. E. Cooney shares another excerpt “The Twice-Drowned Saint,” her new novel that forms the first part of A Sinister Quartet. She reads from

The final features from our Winter issue are live on the site! With “The Papyrotomist,” Unnaturalist Series author Tiffany Trent takes us to a dark carnival where a performing artist practices a novel form of amputation. Bram Stoker Award winner Christina Sng spins verses on the growth of horrors in “Born of Blood and Tears.” Novelist Cassandra Rose Clarke evokes ghostly desire in the beautiful and chilling “Porphyria’s Other Lover.” Our double-sized twentieth anniversary issue is just around the corner,

Our November features from the newest issue of Mythic Delirium have gone live. Here’s what our fall harvest holds: In “The Desert Cure” by Daniel Ausema, an ailing woman must overcome a charlatan doctor and a possessive river god in an adventure that plunges into the dark and surreal. Alix Bosley’s “Backswamp Atlantis” meditates in a way both melancholy and defiant on a reverse evolution brought about by changes in landscape and climate. “Submerged” by Maura McHugh pays a visit

It’s been almost a year since Anita and I sat in the back row at the 2016 World Fantasy Award ceremony and heard C.S.E. Cooney’s name called as the short story collection winner, then got to watch her head to the podium for an unrehearsed speech as our entire row cheered her on. I suspect I don’t need to detail the history here, at least for those tuned into current events in genre publishing, but the World Fantasy Award committee

The last of the featured fiction and poetry from the July-September issue of Mythic Delirium is live on our site, and free for all to read. This means the full issue is available now on the web, so I hope you’ll take the opportunity to check it all out if you haven’t yet. Here’s what’s new in September: In “Sunrise with Sea Monsters,” David Sandner envisions the beauty, magic and madness that inspired a moving work of art. Jennifer Crow

I dig the Outer Dark podcast and the fact it focuses on “the Weird” in a way that doesn’t limit the term to a mere synonym for horror with literary ambition, so when organizers Anya Martin and Scott Nicolay announced the first Outer Dark Symposium in Decatur, Georgia, I couldn’t resist the pull of temptation. The event takes place March 25, and I plan to be there, joining in with a very cool roster of guest speakers. You can read

I’m proud as punch, or pleased as all get-out, to announce that the second year of Mythic Delirium magazine has assumed its ultimate form, a lovely paperback, available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. (Though for those futureshockers who prefer e-readers now, there’s an e-book version, too.) Anita and I have taken the stories and poems published in what I call “Mythic Delirium Year One” — because the first year of the rebooted zine was “Year Zero” — and we’ve

As our last warm-up exercise before the official release of C.S.E. Cooney’s debut collection Bone Swans, we’re giving away advance reading copies on Goodreads. Five lucky winners will each get to take one home. For a chance to be among them, sign up below!   Goodreads Book Giveaway Bone Swans by C.S.E. Cooney Giveaway ends June 26, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter Giveaway   Bone Swans will official debut at Readercon (July 9-12 in Boston).If you won’t

This is just a quick note to let folks know how things stand in the house of Mythic Delirium.   First, submissions: as always, I have a ton of other projects going on; as a result, I’ve only this past week begun responding to submissions received for issues 1.4 and 2.1. Though I would have preferred to start reading a little bit quicker, this isn’t too far off my planned schedule. The reading window still has a month to go,

I’ve been meaning to share this one for a while.   The Banjo Apocalypse Crinoline Troubadours consist of C.S.E. Cooney, Amal El-Mohtar, Caitlyn Paxson (and sometimes Patty Templeton and/or Nicole Kornher-Stace) — all of whom have been contributors to Mythic Delirium and some to Clockwork Phoenix as well.   The Troubadours put on a performance in January and posted many videos from said performance to YouTube. With permission, I’m sharing renditions of two poems by Amal that first appeared in