Fantasy Magazine
Fantasy Magazine, February 2009
February’s issue of Fantasy Magazine contains three original stories of short fantasy and a reprint of Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose.” These fiction highlights, along with their regular columns, reviews, and video postings—as well as the famous “Blog for A Beer” Friday feature—make Fantasy Magazine one of the premier sites on the web [...]
Fantasy Magazine, January 2009
In the January, 2009, offerings from Fantasy Magazine, we discover four oddly curious fiction selections—three originals and, in celebration of Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday, the reprint of “Ligeia,” one of Poe’s earliest short stories, first published in 1838. “Ligeia” is a Gothic-inspired love story, dramatizing the narrator’s anguished obsession for his lost love, Lady [...]
Fantasy Magazine, December 2008
In December, 2008, Fantasy Magazine offers four fine original stories plus a reprint of Stephen Leacock’s haunting “Merry Christmas,” all well worth reading.
“Geddarien” by Rose Lemberg is the poignant tale of Zelig and his grandfather, both violinists. Grandfather tells Zelig of Geddarien, a magical once-in-a-lifetime event when the living buildings of the city dance to [...]
Fantasy Magazine, November 2008
In addition to a reprint of a classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story, Fantasy Magazine published three new stories this November.
In Berrien C. Henderson’s “The Nest Building Habits of Children Inclined to Ornithomancy and Other Such Auguries,” the narrator recounts his boyhood of isolation brought about by his troubled home life and his, apparently hereditary, [...]
Fantasy Magazine, October 2008
A theme of obsession threads its way through Fantasy Magazine’s October stories: from a woman with an all-consuming passion for palindromes to another hoarding wishes, and from a king “greedy for flesh” to a man drawn far too deeply into a twisting plot.
In the surreal “Yell Alley” by Nicole Kornher-Stace, Anna is engaged in a [...]
Fantasy Magazine, August 2008
Fantasy Magazine opens its August issue with “Penguin and Wren” by Christie Skipper Ritchotte. As a boy, Dale shares his interest in magic tricks with his disabled sister, who becomes skilled at performing them herself. With adolescence comes change, however, and Dale finds himself drawn toward pursuits other than assisting Sonia with her magic shows. [...]
Fantasy Magazine, July 2008
Fantasy Magazine kicked off July with “Practicing Perfection,” an intriguing and original tale by Cathy Freeze. Amber allowed herself to be made into a giant long ago to be closer to the angels. She rescues them when they fall, wounded, from battles above. They never speak and don’t wish to eat. That is, until an [...]
Fantasy Magazine, June 2008
In honor of the wedding season (or perhaps despite it) Fantasy Magazine’s June offerings explore romantic love—love lost, love found, and “love” most deadly.
June’s first story is “On the Finding of Photographs of My Former Loves” by Peter M. Ball. “Everyone has a past and you do your best to pretend it doesn’t matter,” Deacon, [...]
Fantasy Magazine, May 2008
Fantasy Magazine Online delivers four strong stories in its May, 2008, offerings.
In “The Stolen Word” by Lisa Mantchev, a foul-tempered and incorrigible child is sold by her mother to a wandering peddler, with the promise that he’ll not bring her back “evermore.” But the peddler is in for more than he bargained for with this [...]
Fantasy Magazine, April 2008
This is the richest month I’ve seen from Fantasy Magazine so far. All four stories are strong, or at least interesting, and much more smoothly written than some of the pieces that appeared in the past.
What would you do if Tony the Tiger appeared at your door and asked you to marry him? Can you [...]
Fantasy Magazine, March 2008
Hans Christian Andersen, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Tim Burton seem to have been whispering in the ears of Fantasy Magazine’s March contributors. An assortment of folk and fantasy elements bubble through the mix; there’s humor, insight, and even romance here, with an undercurrent of darkness. The wobblier stories can be hard to follow, their [...]
Fantasy Magazine Online, February 2008
Three of Fantasy Magazine’s four February, 2008 stories are romances, and all of them involve a certain amount of wandering about in invented histories or surreal environments, some better researched or more convincing than others.
Tomi Two-Hearts and Cinnamon Bear definitely didn’t experience love at first sight in Trent Walters’s “The Fable of Cinnamon and Bitter.” [...]
Fantasy Magazine Online, January 2008
The January 2008 offerings from Fantasy Magazine are on the darker side: a mix of two parts magic and one part horror, with a dash of surrealism. This is one of the strongest (and the shortest) assortment they’ve served up since I started following the site.
Kelly Barnhill’s “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake” [...]
Fantasy Magazine Online, December 2007
This month’s Fantasy Magazine yields up horror, romance, a re-imagined fairy tale, a prose poem, and a bedtime story. It’s an uneven crop but an interesting one nonetheless. Overall, where December’s offerings are weakest is coherency. Two stories feel like sections of novels (a phenomenon I’ve encountered from this publication’s offerings before), and the plotline [...]
Fantasy Magazine Online, November 12-26, 2007
I hadn’t satisfied my fantasy cravings on the web much before I read “Keeping Lilly” by Michael Obilade in Prime Books’ free online periodical, Fantasy Magazine. Stella and Jack are orphans who live in a cabin next to a lake. Their parents, Jon and Huda, died in a car accident near an unnamed ocean; Stella’s [...]
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