Join us for The 13 Days of Weird Flash
Highlighting 13 stories and contributors from the first year of Weird Fiction Quarterly.
Happy holidays! We hope our readers in the United States enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving, and our other readers elsewhere had an otherwise excellent Thursday yesterday.
As a publication that focuses on the weird and macabre, we couldn't let a day called Black Friday go by unremarked and uncelebrated, and we figured that this would be a great opportunity to introduce you to something we have cooking in our oven.
The writers, editors, and illustrators at Weird Fiction Quarterly typically spend most of the year working on our quarterly paperback releases. (Nora, Shayne, and Scott are currently assembling the Winter '24 issue with contributions from our writers.) However, to celebrate each year's contributions, we're also putting together our annual omnibus edition the first week of December, as a large hardcover collection of all of the stories we published over the past year. This is intended to be a jumping-on point for new readers (we're shamelessly stealing the idea from the comics publishers) as well as a nice edition that existing readers can collect or gift to others to pull them into the tentacular world of weird fiction.
To promote the upcoming Weird Fiction Quarterly, Volume 1, editors and contributors from the past year have selected 13 stories from 13 of our authors, and we will be publishing one story from the upcoming hardcover each day. We're calling this event The 13 Days of Weird Flash, and we invite you subscribe to this site, so that each day over the next two weeks, you'll have one new 500-word weird tale delivered to your inbox.
So, to join us, please enter your e-mail in the sign up form below, and check your mail for a confirmation message to set up your subscription. We will be dropping our first story this afternoon, so sign up now so that you don't miss it!
Published thus far:
Day One (Nov. 24, 2023): "Nocturnal Shift" by Melanie Crew
Day Two (Nov. 25, 2023): "Whiteout" by Robert J. Sodaro
Day Three (Nov. 26, 2023): "Far Behind" by Can Wiggins
Day Four (Nov. 27, 2023): "The Rave" by Andy Joynes
Day Five (Nov. 28, 2023): "A Garden of Grief" by Simon Bleaken
Day Six (Nov. 29, 2023): "Jump" by Jill Hand
Day Seven (Nov. 30, 2023): "Human, All Too Human" by Frank Floyd
Day Eight (Dec. 1, 2023): "To Everything There is a Season" by Erica Ruppert
Day Nine (Dec. 2, 2023): "Too Damned Hot" by John Paul Fitch
Day Ten (Dec. 3, 2023): "Devil Inside" by John H. Howard
Day Eleven (Dec. 4, 2023): "ZOT!" by Duane Pesice
Day Twelve (Dec. 5, 2023): "In the Fontainhas" by Jayaprakash Satyamurthy
Day Thirteen (Dec. 6, 2023): "Ynè-Kee’s Journey" by Jay Sturner
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Lovecraft holiday image used with permission from Neil Evans.