Devolution Z March 2016: The Horror Magazine

Devolution Z #8

by Colleen Anderson, Cyn Bermudez

13 original short stories and poems from talented authors of horror from around the world. Published monthly.

The March 2016 issue of Devolution Z features a chilling array of haunting and ghost stories and poetry. Also included is the final installment of the Z Journal of Ivy Gage serial. Watch for the novel under the same name by Alarick Vaughan, coming soon, to discover Ivy's ultimate fate. You will also find poetry and stories detailing gruesome experiments, terrifying creatures, and unexplained mysteries.

In this issue:

HAUNTED HORRORS - SHORT STORIES
"Splicer" by Brendan Wilhelm
"The Price of Admission" by Michael Kellar
"Eaters of the Dead" by Brian H. Seitzman
"Bad Kitty" by Guy Cheston

POETRY
"So How Do Shadows Find Their Final Forms?" by Todd French
"Book of Shadows" by Colleen Anderson
"Snow Stars" by Cyn Bermudez
"Jeffrey's Conversations with the Egyptian Mystic" by Lee Clark Zumpe
"Rainforest Clearing: A Summoning" by James Finan
"The Kiss Denied" by Kane Gordon

SHORT STORIES
"Laundry Room Troll" by Benjamin Finateri
"The Sipitak Experience" by S.L. Dixon

SERIAL
"Z Journal of Ivy Gage" (Part 6) by Alarick Vaughan

COVER ART
Luke Spooner

CARTOONS
Bob Eckstein

110 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2016

About the author

Colleen Anderson writes fiction, dark fiction, erotica, poetry, SF, fantasy, and anything of interest. She has a BFA in Creative Writing and freelances as a copyeditor and proofreader. Her works have been nominated for multiple awards: Elgin, Rhysling, Dwarf Stars, Pushcart, Aurora. As well, her works have been shortlisted for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, the Friends of Merril short fiction contest, the SFPA poetry contest, and placed in the Rannu competition, Balticon poetry contest and Crucible. Colleen also won the Jerry Jazz Musician short story contest and has received several honorable mentions in the Year's Best SF, Year's Best Horror and Fantasy, and the Writers of the Future.

She is a member of the HWA and SFPA and is the current president of the SFPA helping to promote speculative poetry for all readers and writers. She co-edited Tesseracts 17 with East Coast, dark fiction writer Steve Vernon, Playground of Lost Toys with Ontario, award-winning author Ursula Pflug, and edited Alice Unbound: Beyond Wonderland.

A recipient of the Ladies of Horror Fiction, Canada Council and BC Arts Council grants in writing, she has published over 300 pieces of fiction and poetry. You can find some of her works online at Polu Texni, Polar Borealis, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Radon Journal and many others, as well as her short fiction collections Embers Amongst the Fallen, and A Body of Work (Black Shuck) through Amazon. She is the author of two poetry collections as well; I Dreamed a World (LVP), 2022, and The Lore of Inscrutable Dreams (Yuriko Publishing), 2023, also available through Amazon

Colleen has served on several juries for the Bram Stoker awards and the British Fantasy Awards as well as on the HWA Scholarship Committee. www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com

Reviews

[Guy Cheston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of course I liked it I'm in this one!