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Grimdark Magazine Issue #32
Grimdark Magazine presents the darker, grittier side of fantasy and science fiction. Each quarterly issue features established and new authors to take you through their hard-bitten worlds alongside articles, reviews and interviews. Our stories are grim, our worlds are dark and our morally grey protagonists and anti-heroes light the way with bloody stories of war, betrayal and action.
FICTION
Snow White, Green Mantle by Jude Reid
Baby Teeth by Lina Rather
Pop Squad by Paolo Bacigalupi
A Place Where Stars Should Not Be by David Dalglish
Sticks and Stones by Daniel Polansky
NON-FICTION
An Interview with James J. Butcher
Men and Monsters by Aaron S. Jones
Review: The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman
An Interview with Gourav Mohanty
Review: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
A Future Without Fiction: Dragons and Books Bans by Jason (David Wong) Pargin
An Interview with Dyrk Ashton
Review: A Gamble of Gods by Mitriel Faywood
FICTION
Snow White, Green Mantle by Jude Reid
Baby Teeth by Lina Rather
Pop Squad by Paolo Bacigalupi
A Place Where Stars Should Not Be by David Dalglish
Sticks and Stones by Daniel Polansky
NON-FICTION
An Interview with James J. Butcher
Men and Monsters by Aaron S. Jones
Review: The Two Doctors Górski by Isaac Fellman
An Interview with Gourav Mohanty
Review: The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
A Future Without Fiction: Dragons and Books Bans by Jason (David Wong) Pargin
An Interview with Dyrk Ashton
Review: A Gamble of Gods by Mitriel Faywood
First published October 8, 2022
About the author
Beth Tabler
11 books186 followersBeth Tabler, editor of the quarterly issues of Grimdark Magazine and resident cat-herder/jello-nailer for the Before We Go Blog, lives in Las Vegas, Nevada where she takes long-bubble baths while planning her next move to conquer the fantasy and sci-fi review world.
She enjoys whiskey and sticking up for the marginalized with deadly precision. She is on her third SPFBO, and can't wait for more. You will find her with a coffee in one hand and her iPad in the other
She enjoys whiskey and sticking up for the marginalized with deadly precision. She is on her third SPFBO, and can't wait for more. You will find her with a coffee in one hand and her iPad in the other
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January 12, 2023
GdM falls somewhere between Nightmare Magazine and Darkness Wakes or Terrible Cherubs on the "Horror/SF/SFF as a Serious Thing" scale.
This issue offers five fiction pieces, of which Daniel Polansky’s Sticks and Stones was my clear favorite for its sophisticated and subtle approach to a bloody and pointless gang war. Pop Squad is a horrifying view of a future which is kept child-free with gratuitous violence. A Place Where Stars Should Not Be and Baby Teeth imaginatively deal with different aspects of faith and magic, while Snow White, Green Mantle is an update on classic fantasy themes with a dark and violent twist.
I confess I only skimmed the nonfiction: a series of articles, reviews and interviews, which were well-done but were about being grim and dark but not the actual thing. Still, I like the magazine enough to put my money where my mouth is. The stories alone are well worth a few bucks every quarter to support the magazine on Patreon.
August 4, 2023
Good writing.
Nicely done, dark, well-told stories that are entertaining more often than not. I always look forward to reading them. Recommended.
Nicely done, dark, well-told stories that are entertaining more often than not. I always look forward to reading them. Recommended.
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