October 13, 2007
Strange Horizons
is a weekly webzine of speculative fiction, including short stories, articles, art galleries, reviews, and poetry. The 'zine is published every Monday. It was founded in 2000, and has extensive archives to peruse.
Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest, a quarterly magazine, maintains an online archive of articles, short fiction, interviews, and reviews from past issues. Their area of interest is primarily dark sci-fi and horror.
For a more scholarly approach to the fantastic, there's Monsters and Marters, an essay on these themes in Baroque art. Or this essay on demons in ancient Iranian literature. Myths and Legends of the Bantu covers a wide range of these tribal legends, including some Bantu ghost stories and tales of werecreatures and other monsters. Project Gutenberg offers an eBook about Some Chinese Ghosts that seem appropriate for the season. You could also try some Tales of Ghostly Japan and Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
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THIS IS GOOD
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Very, very cool.
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Ah! I've been looking for some sources of good online speculative fiction since my main internet device now says 'Nokia', rather than 'Apple.' My thanks, Christophine!
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I just found the Strange Horizons short story archive and am now GLUED TO MY CHAIR and cannot get up. Good thing it's Saturday. In Lieu Of A Thank You, by Gwynne Garfinkel: girl meets mad scientist Looking For Friendship, Maybe More, by Corie Ralston: alien sexploits in online message-board form Bears, by Leah Bobet: Ninety-eight percent of all fictional deaths are directly attributable to being eaten by bears. The Grammarian's Five Daughters, by Eleanor Arnason: a fairy tale for language lovers The Great Old Pumpkin, by John Aegard: I'll hold the pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and you come running up and plunge into a vortex of howling insanity As Above, So Below, by John M. Ford: When prophecy meets causality, and dragons collide with Schrödinger's Cat.
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Oh, man! I loved the Grammarian's Five Daughters! Thanks for helping me find it again. Hmmmm, that's one I haven't read. heck, the house isn't THAT dirty that it can't wait *puts on another pot of coffee*