Weirdbook No. 34 page 179From Weirdbook No. 34:

In “Trick” by Rish Outfield, a self-absorbed dad gets a handful on Halloween when he takes his daughter trick or treating.

I imagine poetry is even more challenging to write and sell than fiction. Weirdbook provides six poems in this issue, the short ones used to fill out the last page of a story, and the longer ones to provide a break between the fiction. This issue includes verses by Steve Dilks (2), Darrell Schweitzer, Ashley Dioses (2), and Lucy A. Snyder.

Editor Doug Draa has done excellent work curating a diverse mix of weird fiction and poetry
for Weirdbook No. 34. Highly recommended for fans of fantasy, horror, supernatural, and science fiction. Every story was entertaining and worth reading. My favorites were those by Adrian Cole and Sean Patrick Hazlett. And I’d rate James D. Mabe’s “Touched” as the best of the book by a shake—a tremble actually.

The fifth and final episode of Brian Aldiss’ Hothouse saga appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction (Dec. 1961). Contents Claude Veillot “The First Days of May” Translated from the French by Damon Knight (“Les Premiers Jours…

From International Science Fiction No. 2 (June 1968): From Chile, “Meccano” by Hugo Correa is about a robot, a gargantuan guardian, tall as an eighty-story skyscraper, that protects the precious ore on a mysterious planet from…

Excerpt from Tom Brinkmann’s article, “Sharon Tate’s Fate,” from The Digest Enthusiast book six: Fate’s May 1970 issue ran one of the earlier post-murder “weirdness” articles titled, “Sharon Tate’s Tragic Preview of Murder!” by Dick Kleiner.…

In mid-October Charles Ardai sent out an interesting promotional request to his Hard Case Crime email list: Post a review of one of his books on Amazon.com and he’d send you one of his latest releases.…

Contents Adele Gardner “Bonnie Parker Sings the Blues” Dennis E. Hensley “70 X 7” E.F. Schraeder “Tree Dweller” Steve Toase “Split Chain Stitch” M.B. Manteufel “In Case of Emergency” Nicole Fratrich “The Key” Elizabeth Zelvin “A…

William R. Soldan “The Bastard Girl of Tampa Ray” (verse) Contents Scotch Rutherford: Editor’s Corner Sharp & Deadly Fiction Bryce Wilson “Dogfight” R. Daniel Lester “Nowhere to Go but Dead” Jon Zelazny “Jackass Junction” Jack Bates…