Bourbon Penn 18

by Erik Secker, Nicholas Siegel (Contributor)

Bourbon Penn has published award-winning authors and stories and presents here another issue of creeping terror, everyday horrors, and beautiful nightmares. For fans of slipstream, cross-genre, magic realism, absurdist, and the surreal, Bourbon Penn offers an escape into seven liminal worlds: people living in the walls; a turtle in therapy; lumberjacks versus dryads; an impossible list of things to save from a fire; portal-hopping bounty hunters; quantum language; the ability to erase any mistake. These pages are filled with a mix of fantasy, science fiction, and the unclassifiable, featuring writers both established and new. Stories from Bourbon Penn have been reprinted in anthologies including The Year's Best Weird Fiction and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, won the 2018 Aurealis award for Best Fantasy Short Story, and been recommended by Locus magazine.

150 pages, Paperback

Published January 29, 2026

Reviews

[Mark Catalfano · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked “My Name is Ellie” by Sam Rebelein