Fantasy Magazine

A magazine of all forms of fantasy fiction, edited by Sean Wallace & Cat Rambo, published by Wildside Press.

Fantasy Magazine, June 2008

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ July 2, 2008

In honor of the wedding season (or perhaps despite it) Fantasy Magazine’s June offerings explore romantic love—love lost, love found, and “love” most deadly.
June’s first story is “On the Finding of Photographs of My Former Loves” by Peter M. Ball. “Everyone has a past and you do your best to pretend it doesn’t matter,” Deacon, […]

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Fantasy Magazine, May 2008

By Kimberly Lundstrom ⋅ June 1, 2008

Fantasy Magazine Online delivers four strong stories in its May, 2008, offerings.
In “The Stolen Word” by Lisa Mantchev, a foul-tempered and incorrigible child is sold by her mother to a wandering peddler, with the promise that he’ll not bring her back “evermore.” But the peddler is in for more than he bargained for with this […]

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Fantasy Magazine, April 2008

By Val Grimm ⋅ May 5, 2008

This is the richest month I’ve seen from Fantasy Magazine so far. All four stories are strong, or at least interesting, and much more smoothly written than some of the pieces that appeared in the past.
What would you do if Tony the Tiger appeared at your door and asked you to marry him? Can you […]

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Fantasy Magazine, March 2008

By Val Grimm ⋅ April 7, 2008

Hans Christian Andersen, A.S. Byatt, Angela Carter, and Tim Burton seem to have been whispering in the ears of Fantasy Magazine’s March contributors. An assortment of folk and fantasy elements bubble through the mix; there’s humor, insight, and even romance here, with an undercurrent of darkness. The wobblier stories can be hard to follow, their […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, February 2008

By Val Grimm ⋅ March 1, 2008

Three of Fantasy Magazine’s four February, 2008 stories are romances, and all of them involve a certain amount of wandering about in invented histories or surreal environments, some better researched or more convincing than others.
Tomi Two-Hearts and Cinnamon Bear definitely didn’t experience love at first sight in Trent Walters’s “The Fable of Cinnamon and Bitter.” […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, January 2008

By Val Grimm ⋅ January 28, 2008

The January 2008 offerings from Fantasy Magazine are on the darker side: a mix of two parts magic and one part horror, with a dash of surrealism. This is one of the strongest (and the shortest) assortment they’ve served up since I started following the site.
Kelly Barnhill’s “Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake” […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, December 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 31, 2007

This month’s Fantasy Magazine yields up horror, romance, a re-imagined fairy tale, a prose poem, and a bedtime story. It’s an uneven crop but an interesting one nonetheless. Overall, where December’s offerings are weakest is coherency. Two stories feel like sections of novels (a phenomenon I’ve encountered from this publication’s offerings before), and the plotline […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, November 12-26, 2007

By Val Grimm ⋅ December 7, 2007

I hadn’t satisfied my fantasy cravings on the web much before I read “Keeping Lilly” by Michael Obilade in Prime Books’ free online periodical, Fantasy Magazine. Stella and Jack are orphans who live in a cabin next to a lake. Their parents, Jon and Huda, died in a car accident near an unnamed ocean; Stella’s […]

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Fantasy Magazine Online, Oct. 29-Nov. 5, 2007

By Mike O'Driscoll ⋅ November 14, 2007

Fantasy Magazine, formerly a print journal from Prime Books, has debuted online with a number of reprints and two new stories.
In “Swan” by Eilis O’Neal, a teenage girl’s attempts to come to terms with the transformation and imminent departure of her older brother serves as the basis for a finely balanced dialogue between reality […]

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