What's on your bookshelf?: slightly useful useless edition

No cool industry person this week, I’m afraid, but I do have a consolation prize for you. A comment from valued RPS community member #1694 a few weeks back reminded me that I once spent a long time tracking down good SF/Fantasy/Horror short story magazines. Partly for pitching purposes, and partly because I was just really excited such things still existed.

Short stories are my favourite form of fiction, and finding such a trove was a treat. Anyway, I figured a few of you might find my list useful. Not all of these are still active, and a few have sadly shut down quite recently, but digital back issues are usually still available online. Enjoy!

• Lightspeed
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• Cosmic Horror Monthly
• Clarkesworld
• Black Static
• Interzone
• Galaxy’s Edge
• Apex
• Vastarien
• Weird Tales (yep, the original Weird Tales has been back for a few years)
• Apex
• Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens (‘Bizzaro fiction’ is a rabbit hole I highly recommend)

As a bonus, my favourite collections of short stories from individual authors I’ve read recently are: The Dangers of Smoking In Bed by Mariana Enriquez, Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, and A Collapse Of Horses by Brian Evenson. Please share your finds below! Short story magazine for now!

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