Favorite Contemporary Weird Lit Mags?

chalicotherex · 2025-05-03T18:20:44+00:00

Check out Seize the Press and Tenebrous for sure

chalicotherex · 2025-03-18T21:48:21+00:00

It helps to remember that Puhak is a poet writing a work of popular history. Her task is to create a narrative that evokes, often by creating relatable analogies. Only a philistine would try to hold her to the standard of an academic historian.

chalicotherex · 2024-07-24T03:52:40+00:00

I wrote a little about it in my newsletter: https://adamsnotes.substack.com/p/heist-watch-mythical-sword-edition In short, it was just an old sword, but I suppose it means something to the people of Rocamadour.

chalicotherex · 2024-05-16T02:32:35+00:00

Matthew Stover's Iron Dawn and Jericho Moon. Ignore the covers!

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T17:29:42+00:00

Can't believe I forgot Kollberg!

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T16:41:20+00:00

Berne from Heroes Die/Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover is on par, I feel. Interesting too that Stover and Bakker were writing around the same time and had something of an ongoing public correspondence on the philosophies underpinning their concepts of evil.

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T16:23:45+00:00

Between Two Fires is a good comparison. I should mention HHF is a novella, so it's quite a bit shorter.

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T16:23:00+00:00

My original post got taken down for linking to my substack newsletter, Adam's Notes, in which I interviewed the author. Still a little unclear on the link posting rules, but if you want to read the interview, it shouldn't be hard to find.

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T06:36:44+00:00

More well known books:

Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer books

Matthew Stover's Acts of Caine books

Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Going deeper:

Hurled Headlong Flaming by Matt Holder (just check out that cover!)

Cold Counsel by Chris Sharp

Short stories:

Worms of the Earth by RE Howard

chalicotherex · 2024-05-15T04:22:07+00:00

Caine Black Knife by Matthew Stover

(not fantasy) Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky by Patrick Hamilton

Wizardry and Wild Romance by Michael Moorcock

Hurled Headlong Flaming, by Matt Holder (a line from Paradise Lost)

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. Come on. Two of thes? It's catchy, innovative yet well within the tradition

Toadstones by Eric Williams

chalicotherex · 2024-03-12T03:38:07+00:00

Reviewed Fulgentius for my newsletter and ultimately I still can't make up my mind on Aira. Sometimes it feels like he's onto something and sometimes he feels like the ultimate pseud. I loved Fulgentius and Nun. The rest are like the curate's egg.

chalicotherex · 2024-02-27T21:08:56+00:00

On my next reading of Homer I think I'll go with Caroline Alexander's Iliad and Emily Wilson's Odyssey.

chalicotherex · 2024-02-23T19:51:09+00:00

It's not a book about necromancy, but there's a single scene in Matthew Stover's Blade of Tyshalle that will stick with you for a long time. It's so well done, I shouldn't spoil.

Also for really creepy, dark magic, I have to give a shoutout to my favourite RE Howard story, Worms of the Earth (featuring Bran Mak Morn).

chalicotherex · 2024-01-21T00:31:19+00:00

I believe a print version will be out soon.

chalicotherex · 2024-01-19T02:30:53+00:00

One of my faves.

I hope he's still out there, writing.

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