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Midnight Echo Issue 20
The AHWA is proud to present the 20th issue of Midnight Echo magazine!Everything has a beginning. Every serial killer has their first kill, every cult its first member, every cryptid its first sighting, every doorway opens for the first time.
ME20 explore such origins. Tales where the first step into darkness is taken, perhaps hesitantly, or perhaps with delight – and whatever that darkness may be. Dark and mean tales, uncomfortable ones...
With stories, poems, non-fiction, and art ranging from cosmic horror to the apocalyptic, with everything in-between (including ghosts, ant people, weird blob things, necromancy, and more).
After all, everything begins… even the end.
ME20 explore such origins. Tales where the first step into darkness is taken, perhaps hesitantly, or perhaps with delight – and whatever that darkness may be. Dark and mean tales, uncomfortable ones...
With stories, poems, non-fiction, and art ranging from cosmic horror to the apocalyptic, with everything in-between (including ghosts, ant people, weird blob things, necromancy, and more).
After all, everything begins… even the end.
153 pages, Paperback
Published October 10, 2025
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About the author
Marty Young
30 books44 followersMarty Young (www.martyyoung.com) is a Bram Stoker-nominated and Australian Shadows Award-winning writer and editor, and sometimes ghost hunter. He was the founding President of the Australian Horror Writers Association from 2005-2010, and one of the creative minds behind the internationally acclaimed Midnight Echo magazine, for which he also served as Executive Editor until mid-2013.
Marty’s first novel, 809 Jacob Street, was published in 2013 by Black Beacon Books, and won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Horror Novel. His novel was also given an Honorable Mention in Shelf Unbound's Page Turner competition.
His short horror fiction has been nominated for both the Australian Shadows and Ditmar awards, reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror (‘the best of 2008’), and repeatedly included in year’s best recommended reading lists. Marty’s essays on horror literature have been published in journals and university textbooks in Australia and India, and he was also co-editor of the award winning Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, a landmark anthology showcasing the best Australian horror stories from 1836 to the present.
When not writing, he spends his time in the deep dark jungles of Papua New Guinea as a palynologist, whatever the heck that is.
Marty’s first novel, 809 Jacob Street, was published in 2013 by Black Beacon Books, and won the Australian Shadows Award for Best Horror Novel. His novel was also given an Honorable Mention in Shelf Unbound's Page Turner competition.
His short horror fiction has been nominated for both the Australian Shadows and Ditmar awards, reprinted in Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror (‘the best of 2008’), and repeatedly included in year’s best recommended reading lists. Marty’s essays on horror literature have been published in journals and university textbooks in Australia and India, and he was also co-editor of the award winning Macabre; A Journey through Australia’s Darkest Fears, a landmark anthology showcasing the best Australian horror stories from 1836 to the present.
When not writing, he spends his time in the deep dark jungles of Papua New Guinea as a palynologist, whatever the heck that is.
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