Midnight Echo Issue 10

by Craig Bezant (Editor), Greg Chapman, Martin Livings

Edited by Craig Bezant, the ghostly Issue 10 is dedicated to all those things that go bump in the night. With more than 100 pages of fiction, art, interviews, book releases, comics, and more, we guarantee you'll be left feeling haunted long after you've read the final page.

Literature:

Lunch by Joseph A. Pinto
Crybaby Bridge #25 by Gary A. Braunbeck
Stillegeist by Martin Livings
I Want to Go Home by A.J. Brown
Tourist Trap by Richard Farren Barber
Blood and Bone by Robert Mammone
Exposure Compensation by Alan Baxter
Stinson Way: A Southern Gothic by Jacob Lambert
A Little Peace by Rebecca Fung
Mother's House by Greg Chapman

Comic:

Allure of the Ancients; The Key to His Kingdom - story by Mark Farrugia, illustrations by Greg Chapman
From the Vault: Benson’s Flutter For a Fortune - written by Arthur Bayldon, adapted by Pete Kempshall, illustrated by Colin Wells and edited by Mark Farrugia

Special Features:

An interview with Victor Miller
AHWA Short Story and Flash Fiction Competition winners -
It’s Always the Children Who Suffer by Alan Baxter
Darker by Zena Shapter
Moonlight Sonata by Tim Hawken

Regular Features:

A Word from the AHWA President - Geoff Brown
Tartarus - Danny Lovecraft (poetry column)
Pix and Panels – Mark Farrugia (comic column)
Black Roads, Dark Highways #5 – Andrew McKiernan (column)
Celluloid Nightmares – Mark Smith-Briggs
Historica Horroris - Nathaniel Buchanan (new column on real-life hauntings!)
Sinister Reads (all the latest releases from AHWA members)

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 27, 2013

About the author

Crime writer Craig Bezant hails from Perth, Western Australia. He is the author of the Henry Herbert crime series, and the children’s adventure novel, The Flats. His short fiction has also appeared in numerous magazines and online publications.

Craig created and edited the award-nominated Eclecticism E-zine before co-founding Dark Prints Press (2010-14). Since then, he has edited and published the work of over 100 of the world's best crime and horror authors, including Lawrence Block, Chris Simms, Jonathan Maberry, Joseph D'Lacey, Angela Slatter, Gary A. Braunbeck, Alan Baxter, and Stephen M Irwin.

Craig won the 2012 Australian Shadows Award for Best Edited Publication (Surviving the End), was guest editor for Midnight Echo #10 (AHWA), was an Associate Editor for HorrorScope and a judge for the 2009, 2010 and 2023 Australian Shadows Awards.

Craig loves reading (when he's not writing), Lego, basketball, video games, typewriters and tattoos. Of course, his family is everything (they didn't make him say that, honest).

Reviews

[Zena Shapter · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many good stories in this issue – but my absolute favourite was Martin Living's "Stillegeist". It gripped me from beginning to end, and finished off with a bang. A perfect story.

Naturally the last story in the issue is pretty good too ;)

[Martin Livings · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Disclaimer - I have a story in this publication!)

Another excellent issue of Midnight Echo. Not every story worked for me personally, but the writing was impossible to fault. My favourite story in the issue was "Crybaby Bridge #25" by Gary Braunbeck. Proud to have been amongst these stories, in probably the last print edition of the magazine. Good stuff!