Weird Fiction Quarterly continues the tradition of bringing you the finest in 500 word flash-fiction! (We dare you to find better!) In this, our fifth anthology, we bring you 41 wintry tales of weird wonder guaranteed to make you want to pull up a chair before a warm fire and wrap yourself in blanket and cat, because these stories are cold and will chill you to the bone. You won’t have time to do that, though. This is, after all, Weird Fiction Quarterly. You can never be prepared for what might happen. In here the eternal night is dark and frigid and filled with monsters. Let’s get cold.

Now in FULL COLOR! Weird Fiction Quarterly returns for its fourth installment, rounding out the seasonal cycle with a special double-sized volume featuring two themes: Fall and Halloween! Within these pages, you will harvest twice as many 500-word stories from your favorite authors while gazing terrified upon morbid illustrations by Sarah Walker, Nora Peevy, and Andy Joynes. The bewitching cover painting by Robert H. Knox makes this issue a cherishable autumnal keepsake. And if that weren’t enough, this issue features a bagful of spectral poetry by K.A. (The Pumpkin King) Opperman, Adam Bolivar, and Maxwell I. Gold.

Weird Fiction Quarterly does Folk Horror! Once again we bring you the finest in our now-signature 500 word flash fiction and exquisite poetry contributions, featuring over 60 writers from all around the globe and a dubious burlap sackful of color illustrations by our own Sarah Walker! Visit a strange, quaint village where the yearly festival is Everything. Call on the cunning woman or the witch doctor for a cure that might cost your very soul. Go deep into the woods in search of what may be a monster—or some forgotten god that Must be Appeased. Find a famous cryptid or two in (very) unexpected places! However you think of Folk Horror, hold onto your garland of flowers, because, as with every issue of Weird Fiction Quarterly, there is no possible way to prepare yourself for what could pop up in these pages. Portals open and close; trees are not what they seem. Tales from different countries and cultures intermingle. From the wilds you hear the reel of bewitching pipes. Whether or not you follow them, folks, things around these parts are about to get really weird!

From Thanatos to Hades, Maxwell I. Gold's book of horror prose poetry reimagines myths from a queer perspective. Gold's poetry merges camp sensibility and cosmic horror in poems that are beautiful, bloody, and barbed. A poetic soap opera of gods and monsters.

Enter a world of desolate imagination, rhizomatic beauty, and ruined cities.Oblivion in Flux, the debut prose poetry collection of Maxwell I. Gold, takes the reader on a trip along demented railways and past rhizomatic tubular dreamscapes, to find themselves transported to plastic cities where the Cyber Gods sit on thrones of ivory and bone. With over 50 poems in this volume, you'll discover artifacts and forgotten places, ruins and dark secrets. Oblivion in Flux intertwines prosaic story-telling and poetic visions, to tell the narrative of the Cyber Gods and those who have met them.The book will feature original poems and reprints as well as a brand-new collaborative prose poem written by the author and Bram Stoker Award winner and SFPA Grandmaster, Linda D. Addison.

Bleeding Rainbows and Other Broken Spectrums is a lurid NSFW poetic journey through the vivid landscape of the gay sexual experience. From flesh gods and cyberlust to cosmic orgasms, Pushcart and Rhysling Award nominee Maxwell I. Gold takes readers on a surreal expedition across a vast, prismatic spectrum of homoeroticism. These 60 original poems transcend the tantalizing-and sometimes frightening-realities of queer sex that will leave readers thirsting for more. Interior includes 7 original NSFW color illustrations!

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity and talent, EHS would not exist; it would have disappeared long ago. This thirteenth anniversary edition is a celebration of their work. I love every piece that appears in Eternal Haunted Summer, and I just wish that I could have included them all here. These poems, essays, and short stories range from tragic to triumphant, from exciting to despairing, from comic to horrific, from grotesque to sensual, from erotic to subtle; here you will find odes to terrible Gods, exciting tales of adventure, melancholy meditations on creation, and wonderings at the nature of human and divine hearts. These are the best of Eternal Haunted Summer. I hope that you find them as inspiring as I do.

This nineteenth issue of Spectral Realms contains the customary array of diverse and riveting poetry by today's leading weird poets, including Ann K. Schwader, Wade German, Scott J. Couturier, Ian Futter, and Ngo Binh Anh Khoa. David Barker contributes two more poems to his ongoing series of reimaginings of Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth. Oliver Smith looks at Frankenstein in an innovative way. Frank Coffman tells a miniature weird tale in a four-sonnet cycle, "A Cabin in the Wood." Carl E. Reed, Andrew White, and Christian Dickinson draw upon ancient folklore for their brooding poems. Maxwell I. Gold contributes three of his cosmic prose poems, while Jay Sturner and Liam Garriock add their own distinctive prose poems. Two classic reprints (by Erasmus Darwin and Thomas Hardy), along with S. T. Joshi's review of a new edition of the obscure American Decadent poet Lee Roy J. Tappan, conclude the issue.

This issue marks a new era for Space and Time. We survived 2020. Like many people, we had a lot of plans for the "unprecedented" year that never came to fruition. Fear and loathing dominated the global mindset and everything inverted. But here we are still-both you reading these words and us writing them. This is something worth celebrating. Table of Contents: The Ghost, the Goat and the Robot by Mariah Montoya (fiction), haiku by Scheila Scheffler (poetry), Ode To An Ancient Priestess With A Golden Prosthetic Eye by Scott J. Couturier (poetry), Word Ninja by Linda D. Addison (nonfiction), The Algorithm by Louis B. Rosenberg (fiction), From The Tales of Finale: The Genesis of the Animae by Roy L. Post (poetry), The Black Hole by Ronald J. Murray (poetry), Take Two at the Movies: Mighty Like a Rose by Daniel M. Kimmel (nonfiction), When Gods Die by Maxwell I. Gold (fiction), Leonard Speiser: Professional Beginner Angela Yuriko Smith (nonfiction interview), His Garden by Flavio Troisi (fiction-translated), January Exquisite Corpse: Edges of Hope (poetry), February Exquisite Corpse: Love You to Death (poetry), Graggon Speak: Spring 2021 by Austin Gragg (nonfiction), Degradable Mermaid by Karen Bovenmyer (poetry), Substance by Blaise Langlois (poetry), The Bone House by Manny Blacksher (poetry), Director's Cut by Nick Marone (fiction), Cosmic Commerce by Ken Poyner (poetry), Pterippus - A Riddle by Carol Edwards (poetry), Feverish Fiction with John Shirley by Angela Yuriko Smith (nonfiction-interview), The Hum of the Wheel, the Clack of the Loom by K.G. Anderson (fiction), Gravity by Geoffrey A. Landis (poetry), Vision in a Block of Ice by Marge Simon (flash fiction), The Paradox of Desire by Alicia Hilton (poetry), Once Wicked by C. H. Lindsay (poetry), The Dunes of Ranza by Grace Chan (fiction), Science or Fiction in 50: Mind Reading by Leonard Speiser (nonfiction), Contemplations on Flora by Megan Branning (poetry), A Walk in the Woods by Pete (poetry), Loneliness Amidst My Wrath by Irving Gamboa (poetry), And I Have Served by Alina Maciuca (fiction), and The Horror at Red Hook (pt 1) by Alessandro Manzetti and Stefano Cardoselli (Graphic Novel)

Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions weaves the anxious pall of cosmic dread with the bones of the bizarre and the strange into a new collection of weird poetry. From indescribable dimensions to the bleakest parts of our worst nightmares taking the reader back to the thrones of the Cyber Gods; the reader is transported. This follow up to Gold's two-time Elgin-Award nominated prose poetry collection, Oblivion in Flux: A Collection of Cyber Prose, is composed of 50 prose poems that throw us into the mouth of dead stars, through old nameless cities, and down to the inward terrors we might dare to reveal to ourselves... "Good writing takes us out of ourselves for a few precious minutes; great horror writing makes us wonder if we can find a way back. Maxwell I. Gold is a great horror writer, and Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions may have taken a part of me forever. Beautiful, horrifying, haunting, and utterly unique." - Six-time Bram Stoker Award winner Lisa Morton "Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions is a brilliant collection of poems. Deeply insightful, beautiful, horrifying, and unflinching. Bravo!" -Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of NecroTek and editor of Weird Tales Magazine "I always look forward to entering the otherworldly dimensions of Gold's imagination. In this book his songs of lost reality echo in twisted images, like shadowy dreams half remembered. The prose/poems morph on the page as they tell the story of humans and their deteriorating existence. I do not know this mutating universe, but the author's striking use of language effortlessly transported me there. My shadow enjoyed this haunting journey."-Linda D. Addison, award-winning author, HWA Lifetime Achievement Award recipient and SFPA Grand Master. "Maxwell Ian Gold does it again! A raw but exquisite collection of poems, Tiny Oblivions and Mutual Self Destructions, is Gold's best work yet. And considering his excellent body of work, that is saying a great deal. A true talent for writing, which leaps from the pages and grabs your attention to the end." -Cindy O'Quinn, Bram Stoker Award Winner "Tiny Oblivions is a devastatingly heartfelt poetry collection of the regret of the tortures of time, the anguish that arises with brutal memories, and the regret that lingers for pain inflicted we could not stop. Maxwell Ian Gold's gripping and poignant lyricism shimmers."-Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Crime Scene