This issue, we seem to have a wee bit of a sea theme. But there’s more than enough variety to go around, with original crime and mystery tales from Hal Charles, Neil S. Plakcy, Pam Barnsley—plus original science fiction and fantasy from Steven Mathes, Tim Fahlstedt, and Maureen Bowden. As to classics, we have a Sherlock Holmes parody from Maurice Baring and a rare Irish fantasy from Ruth Sawyer (who is a writer I’ve recently become interested in—she published a significant body of supernat...

Invaders threaten us from above, below, within, and beyond. Not scared enough yet? This anthology will help! From the Horrific Scribes web archive of original short fiction (and some poetry) come 24 selections that involve horrific invasions. Only 23 are short stories--one is a group of poems--and that's not the only way the book cover deceives you. None of the stories involves UFOs attacking Earth. Horrific Scribes seeks "the provocative, scary, and strange," and these w...