Grimdark Magazine Issue 48

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:

The Last Fire Bearer By Alex Fox

A Beautiful Accident by Peter Orullian

Father, Son, Holy Rabbit by Stephen Graham Jones

Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files

Shadow Prisons of the Mind by Caroline M. Yoachim

Underbelly by SenLinYu

Futerphage by Laurel Hightower

The Rule of the Isotope by Ken Liu

NON-FICTION:

Is Beowulf Grimdark? by Philip Chase

The Art of Making: Peter Orullian on Music, Darkness, and Story (Interview by Beth Tabler)

REVIEW: Monstera by Delilah S. Dawson (Review by Sally Berrow)

The Truth, Told Slantwise: An Interview with Alix E. Harrow (Interview by Krystle Matar and Beth Tabler)

REVIEW: The Slantwise Histories: Collected Stories by Alix E. Harrow (Review by Krystle Matar)

Project Starship: How Ceramics Could Build the Starships of Tomorrow by Dr. Brittney Hauke

The Limits of Knowing: A Conversation with qntm (Interview by Beth Tabler)

REVIEW: The Thrice-Bound Fool by Christopher Buehlman (Review by Rai Furniss-Greasley)

Rise of the New Wave of Directors: From the Internet to the Big Screen by Aaron S. Jones

The Stories We Choose to Live By: A Conversation with Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim (Interview by Beth Tabler)