Phantasmagorium #1 now out in print and digital editions

Feeling dull, bloated and sleepy from all the sugar and spice and Manifest Merriness? Then what you need, and all your sick friends, is a dose of

Phantasmagorium edited by Laird Barron

Yes, folks, Issue #1 has today been released in a limited print edition.


But you can also get your fix from a number of digital editions.


Now, to the contents. Laird Barron, though he could scale any chimney, has never been accused of being a man who hands out candy canes. His taste, though, is both surprising and selectively broadminded. In his tantalising, slightly revealing introduction, he calls himself an "omnivore … with a special relish for all matters macabre."

It takes a Natural Disaster
I feel especially lucky that his taste stretched to "Cardoons!" in this collection of stories that fit perfectly together, as oddly as many 'natural couples' who would never have noticed each other if something didn't throw them together—not a dinner party. Such felicitous mixing is what all great editors do, so may this be only #1 of Phantasmagorium.

Phantasmagorium #1 - Table of Contents

Intro - Laird Barron

alligators - Scott Nicolay

Strong as a Rock - Simon Strantzas

Cardoons! - Anna Tambour

And this is where I go down into the darkness - Joseph Pulver

Bufonidae - Genevieve Valentine

No Takebacks - Stephen Graham Jones

Artwork - JD Busch

30 January Postscript: Which version to buy? Now that I've purchased and received all editions, this is the version I consider easiest (and most economical) to buy as well as to read: the Amazon Kindle edition (And you don't have to have a Kindle. I don't.)