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Jeffrey Lynn Buford Jr
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:48 am: | |
Perhaps I am not paying close attention to the publishing world, I have yet to stumble upon a mainstream magazine that publishes good horror or stories with a spark of supernaturalism. I have always been a lover of fantasy and science fiction. Does the magazine of Fantasy&Science Fiction accept work with a slight supernatural/horror element?? |
Andrew Mullin
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:55 am: | |
I haven't read any F&SF, but I know of a new-ish magazine that is targeted at science fiction and horror. I have read a few issues of it and it is good so far. It is called Apex Digest. It comes out every couple of months (4 times per year at the moment). Worth a look.
You could also try Dark Discoveries. |
Charles Coleman Finlay
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 12:22 pm: | |
If you read F&SF you'll see excellent horror stories by writers like M. Rickert, Laird Barron, and others. Go out and grab the December issue for a couple of creepy stories. It's on newstands. You can buy it from the website. |
Ellen Datlow
| | Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 11:31 pm: | |
I concur with Charlie--F&SF publishes lots of great horror stories and novellas.
Fantasy magazine has been publishing a lot of dark fantasy. |
Bruce Moomaw
| | Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 12:23 am: | |
Lordy, yes -- F&SF has published many of the best 20th-century horror stories ever written! I could name at least 30 off the top of my head. (And they keep firmly in mind that horror must frequently be subtle, to the point that it and "non-horror fantasy" blur into each other.) |
Bruce Moomaw
| | Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2006 - 12:27 am: | |
Let me add that "Asimov's Science Fiction", despite its name, is just as willing as "F&SF" to publish both fantasy and horror, and has published huge amounts of both, of top-flight quality. |
Larry Ketchersid
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 - 12:39 pm: | |
I echo the comment on APEX digest, just got my first copy and the stories are quite unique. |
Jaosn Sizemore
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 07:20 am: | |
Hi Larry and Andrew, I publish APEX. Thank you for mentioning the magazine.
Certainly F&SF does occasionally print science-horror but they're not a dedicated "horror" magazine. 90% of the stories we publish are science fiction *and* horror.
Check out our website and if you're interested, why not buy a sample copy! 
http://www.apexdigest.com |
Gordon Van Gelder
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 08:02 am: | |
The F&SF balance over this century has been roughly 50% fantasy, 35% science fiction, 15% horror. At least, that's what I'd guestimate. These ratios get blurry when you try to define some stories. Also, memory plays tricks, and I'm sure that when I look at F&SF I don't see the same exact magazine that anyone else sees.
All that said, I think it's fair to say that anyone who wonders if we publish horror isn't paying much attention. We've published horror stories by Laird Barron, Dale Bailey, M. Rickert, Claudia O'Keefe, Daniel Abraham, Joyce Carol Oates, and Albert Cowdrey, just to name a few off the top of my head. And we've got stories in inventory that I'd label "horror" from Frederic Durbin, Donald Mead, and Don Webb.
To answer the first post here, if you have a story you think we might like, send it. If it's not right for us, we'll try to say so quickly. |
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