Issue No18 features: A curated collection of short fiction including stories by Brendan DuBois, Dennis McFadden, Robert Pope, Charles Cline, Davin Ireland, Andrew Riconda, Kevin Egan, and Steve Loiaconi. Essays, Interviews and Reviews by Matthew Mercier, Erica Wright, Alex Segura, Christopher McGinley, and Scott Adlerberg, Art and Photography by Nicolas Bruno. This issue also features a preview of the new graphic novel Mamo by Sas Milledge. NY Times Bestselling author Reed Farrel Coleman has called Mystery Tribune “a cut above” and mystery grand masters Lawrence Block and Max Allan Collins have praised it for its “solid fiction” and “the most elegant design”. An elegantly crafted quarterly issue, printed on uncoated paper and with a beautiful layout designed for optimal reading experience, our Issue No18 issue will make a perfect companion or gift for avid mystery readers and fans of literary crime fiction.

dark horse /ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/ noun 1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds. "a dark-horse candidate" Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion--whatever it is, if it's weird, it's here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses. In this issue: GALADRA, THE SON A.Z. Burton LULLABY Steve Loiaconi PENUMBRA Danny Menter SPUDDY Corey Miller THE QUICK AND THE JURASSIC UNDEAD Wayne Kyle Spitzer THE BUG AND THE EGG Nenad Pavlovic THE TERROR AT WOODRUFF Michael Penncavage THE WATCHMAN James Crowell A POX ON THEM TS S. Fulk GHOST TOUCH Stephen Meisel