Midnight Echo Issue 7

by Daniel I. Russell (Editor), Geoff Brown, Shaun Hamilton

Midnight Echo is the official magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association.

Midnight Echo magazine is released in a limited print edition and in digital format (epub, mobi, and PDF), and contains more than 100 pages of horror (or dark) fiction, poetry, art, comics, book releases, and more! Visit us at www.midnightechomagazine.com

ISSUE 7
Edited by Daniel I Russell, Midnight Echo Issue 7, the taboo issue, features all new fiction by Graham Masterton, Lee Battersby, Andrew J McKiernan, and more, disturbing art by Joshua Hoffine, Jason Paulos, and Greg Hughes, interviews with Joe R Lansdale, Graham Masterton, and Joshua Hoffine, the comic series Allure of the Ancients by Mark Farrugia and Greg Chapman, and a special tribute to Paul Haines.

130 pages of fiction, art, interviews, book releases, and more!

So if you like your addictions, your fetishes and all the other things you’ve been told not to like, slip on your latex gloves and take a peek inside. We’d love to indulge in your secret pleasures…and terrors.

Table of Contents:

Commode by Shaun Hamilton
Driven by Anthony Ferguson
Saturday Night at the Milk Bar by Gary Kemble
Symmetry Fades by Rick McQuiston
The Hunting Room by Kia Groom
Brand New Day by G. N. Braun
Dead Inertia by Eric Blair
Just Some Good Old Boys Sitting Around the Fire Talking Shit by A.J Brown
Parlour Party by Michael Penkas
The Case of the Kissing Corpse by Jack Skelter
My First Horror Show by Ed Higgins
I Like to Share by Ron Jon
Ghosts of You by Lee Battersby
See Jane Mesmerised! by Tom McLaughlin
The Final Degustation of Doctor Ernest Blenheim by Andrew J. McKiernan
What the Dark Does by Graham Masterton
A Slice of Life - A Spot of Liver by Paul Haines
(comic) Allure of the Ancients – The Key to His Kingdom by Mark Farrugia and Greg Chapman (not available in MOBI or EPUB formats)
(poetry) Cat by Michelle Scalise
(poetry) Pain and Pin Me Sweetly, My Love by Kurt Newton
(poetry) Pleasure Me by Bec Mirr
(art) Greg Hughes
(art) Jason Paulos
(art) Joshua Hoffine
(interview) Graham Masterton
(interview) Joe R Lansdale
(Interview) Joshua Hoffine

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

Australian Shadows Award finalist D.l I. Russell has been featured publications such as The Zombie Feed from Apex, Pseudopod and Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #43. Author of Samhane, Come Into Darkness, Critique, Mother's Boys, The Collector and Tricks, Mischief and Mayhem, D. I. Russell is also the former vice-president of the Australian Horror Writers' Association and was a special guest editor of Midnight Echo.

Reviews

[Martin Livings · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent (as always!) issue of Midnight Echo, Daniel I. Russell did an excellent job collating a bunch of diverse stories. My favourites would have to be Andrew J. McKiernan's "The Final Degustation of Dr. Ernest Blenheim" and Kia Groom's "The Hunting Room", both of which really captured the spirit of the "taboo" issue. And I loved the tribute to my fallen comrade Paul Haines, as well as his classic story to boot.

Midnight Echo goes from strength to strength!

[Cameron Trost · Rating 3 out of 5]

Midnight Echo is Australia's leading horror magazine and, with a theme of 'taboo', issue seven certainly delivers some unspeakably dark tales, poems and artwork. The reader is offered a collection of fiction that includes blunt and gruesome accounts of cannibalism, explorations of the devastating effects of addiction, and the psychology of troubled individuals. There are also a few supernatural horror tales that fit the theme.

The standard of writing is quite high, although I don't especially like the conclusion to one or two of the tales or the plot of a number of them. The stories that stand out most for me are "I Like to Share", "Symmetry Fades", "Parlour Party", "The Hunting Room", "Dead Inertia", "What the Dark Does" and, in particular, the superb psychological suspense "Driven". An instalment of Mark Farrugia and Greg Chapman's "Allure of the Ancients" provides the reader with a fine work of darkly imaginative graphic fiction.