Skelos 3: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy

Skelos: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy #3

by Mark Finn (Editor), Ed Erdelac, Scott Cupp

Skelos is back with its third issue featuring the best in weird fiction and dark fantasy. This issue includes short fiction by Ed Erdelac, Lynne Jamneck, Keith Taylor, Scott Cupp, Michelle Muenzler, Cynthia Vespia, Christopher Fulbright, John Fultz, Rhonda Eudaly, Josh Rountree, and S. Boyd Taylor; novelettes by John C. Hocking and Chris Gruber; poetry by Peter Rawlik, Ashley Dioses, K. A. Opperman, Wade German, Chad Hensley, Aurelia Wilder, and Pat Calhoun; essays by Bobby Derie and Jack Staines; a gallery of Southern Gothic imagery by photographer Aimee Reist; and incredible original artwork by Tim Truman, Esteban Maroto, Allen Kozowski, Mr. Zarono and many more!

194 pages, Paperback

First published October 26, 2017

About the author

Mark Finn is an author, an editor, and a pop culture critic. He is a nationally-recognized authority on Robert E. Howard and has written extensively about the Texas author. His work has appeared in publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation Press, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, Centipede Press, The University of Texas press, Greenwood Press, Scarecrow Press, The Dark Man: The Journal of Robert E. Howard Studies and elsewhere. Finn has presented several papers about Howard to the PCA/ACA National conference, the AWC, and he continues to lecture and perform readings regularly.

Finn also writes comics and novels, as well as articles, essays, reviews, short stories and role playing games for Playboy.com, RevolutionSF.com, Dark Horse Comics, DC/Vertigo Comics, Monkeybrain Books, Sky Warrior Books, F.A.C.T. Publications, Tachyon Press, Modiphius Press, and others. Finn’s fiction can be found in Ray Guns Over Texas, Road Trip, Tails From the Pack, Empty Hearts, Heroika: Dragon Eaters, Barbarian Crowns, Asian Pulp, and Fight Card: The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey, and elsewhere.

He is a managing editor for Skelos Press, and he podcasts for The Gentlemen Nerds. When he is not waxing eloquent about popular culture, he writes comics and fiction, dabbles in magic, and produces and performs community theater. He lives in North Texas atop an old movie theater with far too many books and an affable pit bull named Sonya.

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another solid issue from Skelos gpt devoured by me last night. It was full of readable material— grim, funny, outlandish, breathtaking. I derived maximum pleasure from the following:
1. Essay~ 'The Boys from Atlantis' by Bobby Derie
2. Essay~ 'It Seemed To Be a Sort of Monster': Misrepresentations of the Cephalopod in the Fiction of Jules Verne and H.P. Lovecraft, by Jack Staines
3. All the 'Special Features'
4. All the 'Poetry'
But the crown goes to John R. Fultz for his 'Ten Thousand Drops of Holy Blood'.
Overall, this is another issue that deserves to be cherished by lovers of weird fiction and poetry.
Recommended.