Pattern Recognition publishes fiction, articles, poetry and comics spawned from the bohemian creative juices of Generation X and beyond. Issue 5 features short fiction by D. D. Thomas, Matthew Licht, K. C. McKee, Carolyn Soyars, Lee Rozelle and R. W. Watkins; the fourth excerpt from Randall Hugh Crawford’s serial novel, Whitecross Road; poetry by Scott Laudati, Gary Duehr, Michele McDannold, R. W. Watkins, Mitchell Grabois, Robin Tilley, James Tyler, James Croal Jackson and Gregory T. Farnum; an interview with Live Skull vocalist-guitarist Mark C; comics by Dennis Hyer, Gordon Lindholm, Steven Lewis and Bill Harvey; and more.
Lee Rozelle is the author of Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales, the novel Ballad of Jasmine Wills, and nonfiction books Zombiescapes & Phantom Zones and Ecosublime. He's published short stories in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Southern Humanities Review, HellBound Books' Anthology of Bizarro, Shadowy Natures by Dark Ink Books, If I Die Before I Wake Volume 3, and the Scare You to Sleep podcast. Learn more at https://leerozelle.com/.
Recommendations on must-read horror, weird, and bizarro short stories from the past and today can be found on my blog, THE STORY.