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Horror Magazines Posted at 1:28 PM by Dave Post

Dave Post

I’ve been hearing for years that genre magazines are going the way of the Dodo. From where I’m standing, it looks like a pretty healthy market. On our Magazines page we have listed over 70 genre magazines for you to choose from and we keep finding more new ones to add all the time.

For our Month of Horrors I wanted to point out some of the Horror magazines from out list. If you’re looking for something creepy and scary these magazines will get the job done. Check ’em out and if you find something you like show your support by subscribing!

 

Apex Magazine

Apex Magazine

Apex Publications started as a tingle in the mind of Jason Sizemore during the month of November in the year 2004. Having been a fan of the small press scene for several years, he noticed a lack of a certain type of fiction: Science-Horror.

Black Static

Black Static

Black Static is a horror magazine that has earned much praise for its style, bravery, editorial and fiction content. Its stories are innovative and daring, never afraid to shock or disturb yet never forget to entertain.

Murky Depths

Murky Depths

Murky Depths is a quarterly anthology with a difference. It features top quality speculative fiction with sprinklings of horror and fantasy that push the boundaries of science fiction. Each story is complimented with its own unique artwork.

Mythic Delirium

Mythic Delirium

Mythic Delirium is a biannual journal that publishes science fiction, fantasy, horror, surreal and cross-genre poetry.

Nightmare Magazine

Nightmare Magazine

Nightmare is an online horror and dark fantasy magazine. In Nightmare’s pages, you will find all kinds of horror fiction, from zombie stories and haunted house tales, to visceral psychological horror. No subject is off-limits, and we will be encouraging our writers to take chances with their fiction and push the envelope.

Nightmare is brand new on the market – their first issue was released October 1st.

Shock Totem

Shock Totem

Shock Totem is a bi-annual dark fantasy and horror publication. Our first issue was published in July of 2009. We focus on the one thing that matters most: the story. Back to basics. Each issue features fiction that we, as readers, enjoy. Within our pages, new and established authors are equals.

Something Wicked

Something Wicked

Something Wicked is a monthly online and electronic-download science fiction and horror magazine. Published monthly, we feature some of the best new voices in horror and science fiction from around the world.

Tales of the Unanticipated

Tales of the Unanticipated

Tales of the Unanticipated is a journal of speculative fiction, fantasy, horror, and stories that you just wouldn’t anticipate. Tales of the Unanticipated is currently published annually.

Weird Tales

Weird Tales

Weird Tales was launched to showcase writers trying to publish stories so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them — stories of unearthly dimensions and dark possibilities, gothic seductresses and cosmic monstrosities.

8 Comments

Emil   |   09 Oct 2012 @ 04:11

Good of you to add “Something Wicked.” Of course, based near me in Cape Town. It always featured some astonishing and amazing artwork, and had contributions from S.L. Grey and Lauren Beukes. Joe Vaz did a great job with it.

Sadly, though, the monthlies have ended. Hopefully the planned anthologies will still go ahead.

Scott Laz   |   09 Oct 2012 @ 12:16

Several of these are available digitally at the Weightless Books site. It might just be the traditional print magazines that are going the way of the dodo, as more and more move to web/electronic or print/digital hybrid formats.

Emil   |   10 Oct 2012 @ 01:45

@Scott personally I think magazines specifically only have longevity going the electronic route. Eventually there won’t be any other way.

Dave Post   |   10 Oct 2012 @ 07:54

I didn’t know that Something Wicked was from SA – that’s cool! The magazines have to adapt to the market so it’s not surprising that many, if not most, have an electronic version or have changed to fewer editions per year or even have gone all electronic. I hope there will always be hard copies though even if they’re a little more expensive. I like the feel of real.

By the way, if anyone knows of any magazines that we’ve missed please let us know so we can update our list.

Rico Simpkins   |   11 Oct 2012 @ 10:58

I still get mags in dead tree format, but that will change when color e-ink is perfected. At the moment, color screens are too harsh, and black and white e-ink screens, though great for books, don’t make sense for the magazine format.

Also, for me to transition my mags to e-book format, I’d need a full-size screen (at least 8½ x 11). Right now that means iPad or the big B&W Kindle.

Give me full sized color e-ink reader, and I’ll shift my dead trees subscriptions to digital. I hope that day comes soon, because I am running out of shelf space.

Scott Laz   |   11 Oct 2012 @ 13:04

Agreed that paper still rules where color and layout are important, but I’ve change my subs for Asimov’s and F&SF to Kindle, as that’s really not an issue for the fiction mags like the ones listed in the post… I do read a few things like Locus and The Economist on a tablet (just got one last summer), but tend to read them in fairly short time chunks, and screen fatigue has been less of an issue that I would have expected…

Jeremy F   |   11 Oct 2012 @ 17:51

I think I’ve noticed these a couple times and always told myself to “get back to it”, but thanks for pointing them out again. Also, I just want to point out that those are some great magazine names!

Dave Post   |   12 Oct 2012 @ 07:53

@Jeremy: They really are great names and the covers are all very nice too!

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