Something stirs in the boundless dark of the Canadian north. Listen. Can you hear it?

Northern Nights is an anthology of strange stories, featuring the dark dreams and feverish imaginations of Canada's finest speculative authors. Steel yourself for a journey through these northern nights.

Featuring all new original stories from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Camilla Grudova, Premee Mohamed, David Demchuk, Senaa Ahmad, A.C. Wise, Naben Ruthnum, Simon Strantzas, Richard Gavin, Rich Larson, Hiron Ennes, Siobhan Carroll, Lynn Hutchinson Lee, Rory Say, David Nickle, Marc A. Godin, EC Dorgan, K.L. Schroeder, Nayani Jensen, and David Neil Lee.

Welcome to the new pulp Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, illustration, and commentary. This is the magazine of weird tales that you've been craving. A modern, inclusive, diverse array of pulp fiction and commentary.

Long live the new pulp

Our inaugural issue features contributions from David Bowman, Shikhar Dixit, Steve Duffy, Inna Effress, Tom Goldstein, Orrin Grey, Vince Haig, Nathaniel Winter-Hebert, Sam Heimer, John Langan, Suzan Palumbo, Ian Rogers, Naben Ruthnum, Lysette Stevenson, Simon Strantzas, and Steve Toase.

FICTION: Shikhar Dixit; Steve Duffy; Inna Effress; John Langan; Suzan Palumbo; Ian Rogers; Naben Ruthnum; and Steve Toase.

NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.

ART: David Bowman; and Sam Heimer; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert.

DESIGN: Vince Haig; and Nathaniel Winter-Hebert

Provocative and unsettling new fiction from Martin Cahill, Malcolm Devlin, Meg Elison, Françoise Harvey, John Patrick Higgins, Alexander James, Rebecca Kuder, Spencer Nitkey, and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece.

Excellent!

- Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year

With its seventh issue, Weird Horror (Fall 2023) has finally hit its stride. All 11 stories are effective, and several are laudable.

-Paula Guran, Locus

Yet that image scarcely captures the fullness and vitality of Dickinson's life, most notably her many connections--to family, to friends, to correspondents, to the literary tastemakers of her day, even to the unnamed, and perhaps unknowable, Master to whom she addressed three of her most breathtaking works of prose. Through an exploration of a relatively small group of items from Dickinson's vast literary remains, this volume--an accompaniment to an exhibition on Dickinson mounted at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York--demonstrates the complex ways in which these often humble objects came into conversation with other people, places, and events in the poet's life. Seeing the network of connections and influences that shaped Dickinson's life presents us with a different understanding of this most enigmatic yet elegiac poet in American letters, and allows us more fully to appreciate both her uniqueness and her humanity.

The materials collected here make clear that the story of Dickinson's manuscripts, her life, and her work is still unfolding. While the image of Dickinson as the reclusive poet dressed only in white remains a popular myth, details of Dickinson's life continue to emerge. Several items included both in the exhibit and in this volume were not known to exist until the present century. The scrap of biographical intelligence recorded by Sarah Tuthill in a Mount Holyoke catalogue, or the concern about Dickinson's salvation expressed by Abby Wood in a private letter to Abiah Root, were acquired by Amherst College in the last fifteen years. What additional pieces of evidence remain to be uncovered and identified in the attics and basements of New England?

Published to accompany The Morgan Library & Museum's pathbreaking exhibit I'm Nobody Who are You? The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson--part of a series of exhibits at the Morgan celebrating and exploring the creative lives of significant women authors--The Networked Recluse offers the reader an account of the exhibit itself, together with a series of contributions by curators, scholars of Dickinson, and poets whose own work her words have influenced.

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, Simone White, and Mabel O. Wilson.

The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music, Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance.

Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality, uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social justice.

Black Art and Aesthetics comprises essays, poems, interviews, and over 50 images from artists and writers: GerShun Avilez, Angela Y. Davis, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Theaster Gates, Aracelis Girmay, Jeremy Matthew Glick, Deborah Goffe, James B. Haile III, Vijay Iyer, Isaac Julien, Benjamin Krusling, Daphne Lamothe, George E. Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Fumi Okiji, Nell Painter, Mickaella Perina, Kevin Quashie, Claudia Rankine, Claudia Schmuckli, Evie Shockley, Paul C. Taylor, Kara Walker, Simone White, and Mabel O. Wilson.

The stellar contributors practice Black aesthetics by engaging intersectionally with class, queer sexuality, female embodiment, dance vocabularies, coloniality, Afrodiasporic music, Black post-soul art, Afropessimism, and more. Black aesthetics thus restores aesthetics to its full potential by encompassing all forms of sensation and imagination in art, culture, design, everyday life, and nature and by creating new ways of reckoning with experience, identity, and resistance.

Highlighting wide-ranging forms of Black aesthetics across the arts, culture, and theory, Black Art and Aesthetics: Relationalities, Interiorities, Reckonings provides an unprecedented view of a field enjoying a global resurgence. Black aesthetics materializes in communities of artists, activists, theorists, and others who critique racial inequities, create new forms of interiority and relationality, uncover affective histories, and develop strategies for social justice.

This book recounts the harrowing tale of Michael Kelly's journey to Africa, a desperate mission born from despair. Facing overwhelming brokenness, Michael traveled there, intending to end his life, believing that his children's future would be secured through a life insurance policy. Instead, he encountered unimaginable darkness, confronting evil and seemingly insurmountable odds that tested his will and faith. Through these trials, unexpected friendships blossomed-connections forged in the crucible of suffering, becoming lifelong bonds. These relationships became lifelines, pulling Michael through the depths of despair and offering glimpses of hope. By the grace of God, he survived, discovering a purpose greater than himself. Now, Michael uses the hard-earned lessons of his journey to inspire others, sharing a story of redemption, resilience, and unity. This book is a testament to the power of grace, the strength found in adversity, and the unyielding hope that emerges from even the darkest moments.

This book recounts the harrowing tale of Michael Kelly's journey to Africa, a desperate mission born from despair. Facing overwhelming brokenness, Michael traveled there, intending to end his life, believing that his children's future would be secured through a life insurance policy. Instead, he encountered unimaginable darkness, confronting evil and seemingly insurmountable odds that tested his will and faith. Through these trials, unexpected friendships blossomed-connections forged in the crucible of suffering, becoming lifelong bonds. These relationships became lifelines, pulling Michael through the depths of despair and offering glimpses of hope. By the grace of God, he survived, discovering a purpose greater than himself. Now, Michael uses the hard-earned lessons of his journey to inspire others, sharing a story of redemption, resilience, and unity. This book is a testament to the power of grace, the strength found in adversity, and the unyielding hope that emerges from even the darkest moments.

Shocking and original new fiction from Seán Padraic Birnie, Corey Farrenkopf, Jason Fernandes, Derrick Boden, Avra Margariti, Mike O'Driscoll, Gordon Brown, Jorja Osha, Hiron Ennes, Nelson Stanley, and Sasha Brown.

Plus commentary, opinion, reviews, and illustrations.

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Startling and provocative new horror fiction from:

Rory Say

E.M. Linden

Alexander Glass

Barbara A. Barnett

Steve Rasnic Tem

Neil Williamson

Tim Cooke

Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas

Alexander James

Esmée de Heer

Stephanie Feldman

Eliane Boey

Spencer Harrington.

Plus opinion, reviews, illustrations, and commentary.

Excellent!

-Ellen Datlow, The Best Horror of the Year

SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD-WINNER (Vol. 7)

WORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST (Vol. 6)

Michael Kelly's Shadows and Tall Trees is a smart, soulful, illuminating investigation of the many forms and tactics available to those writers involved in one of our moment's most interesting and necessary projects, that of opening up horror literature to every sort of formal interrogation. It is a beautiful and courageous series. -- Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story

Shadows and Tall Trees epitomizes the idea of, and is the most consistent venue for weird, usually dark fiction. Well worth your time. -- Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of The Year

Alison Littlewood - Hungry Ghosts

Brian Evenson - The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell

Carly Holmes - Tattletale

Charles Wilkinson - A Coastal Quest

C.M. Muller - Camera Obscura

James Everington - The Sound of the Sea, Too Close

Kay Chronister - Too Lonely, Too Wild

KL Pereira - You, Girls Without Hands

Kristi DeMeester - The Quiet Forms of Belonging

Kurt Fawver - Workday

M. Rickert - The Fascist Has a Party

Neil Williamson - Down to the Roots

Rebecca Campbell - Child of Shower and Gleam

Se n Padraic Birnie - Dollface

Simon Strantzas - The Somnambulists

Steve Rasnic Tem - Sleepwalking With Angels

Steve Toase - Green Grows the Grief

V.H. Leslie - Lacunae

Weird Horror edited by Michael Kelly is a new, very promising twice-yearly horror magazine featuring fiction, articles, and reviews. The fiction in the first issue is excellent and I look forward to more.

Ellen Datlow, editor of The Best Horror of the Year.

Welcome to the new pulp! Weird Horror magazine is a new venue for fiction, articles, reviews, and commentary. We expect to publish twice-yearly. Long live the new pulp!

FICTION: Rex Burrows; Donyae Coles; J.R. McConvey; Saswati Chatterjee; Theresa DeLucci; S. E. Clark; Josh Rountree; Jack Lothian; GordonB. White.

NON-FICTION: Tom Goldstein; Orrin Grey; Lysette Stevenson; and Simon Strantzas.

COVER ART: Fernando JFL

INTERIOR ART: Dan Rempel

DESIGN: Vince Haig