Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism

13/12/2023

Contributor LEIGH BLACKMORE writes:
"Today I received my contributor's copy of PENUMBRA: A JOURNAL OF WEIRD FICTION AND CRITICISM, in which my poem "Mantic Moon" appears. This journal is going from strength to strength - #4 is well over 312 pages! I am proud to appear alongside such writers as Michael Aronovitz and Scott J. Couturier, such critics as Darrell Schweitzer and Ellen J. Greenham and Duncan Norris (the latter two are fellow Australians), and such poets as Ann K. Schwader, Wade German and DJ Tyrer. Copies are available from Hippocampus Press (New York) - see the Hippocampus Press page on Facebook, or go directly to their website."

13/12/2023

Hippocampus Press Penumbra No. 4 (2023) - A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism Edited by S. T. Joshi ISBN 9781614984245 paperback ISBN TBD ebook (available soon!) October 2023 312 pp Cover art by George C. Cotronis. Cover design by Daniel V. Sauer.     The fourth issue of Penumbra, Hippocampus...

23/11/2023

After a slight delay, PENUMBRA #4 is in stock, and advance orders are shipping!

08/10/2023

Available in two weeks!
https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/penumbra/penumbra-no.-4-2023
Cover art by George C. Cotronis. Cover design by Dan Sauer Design.

24/01/2023

Katherine Kerestman's essay “Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Love Letter to the Human Race” from Penumbra No. 3 appears on the Preliminary Ballot for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards!

02/12/2022

Geoffrey Reiter's short story "A Green Shade" from 𝑃𝑒𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑟𝑎 2 in 2021 made horror critic Ellen Datlow's "Long List" for Best Horror of the Year!

  Machado, Carmen Maria “A Hundred Miles and a Mile,” When Things Get Dark. MacLeod, Bracken “Weightless Before She Falls,” Fright Train. MacVaugh, Morgan “Creature,” The Fabulist Magazine, Oc…

04/10/2022

PENUMBRA No. 3 is now available in print and ebook formats! Advance orders are shipping immediately.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BH842NG2

04/09/2022

Available in two weeks!

https://www.hippocampuspress.com/journals/penumbra/penumbra-no.-3-2022

Cover art by George C. Cotronis. Cover design by Dan Sauer Design.

07/02/2022

Thanks to Jay Rothermel for this review of Ramsey Campbell's "Lost for Words," first published in PENUMBRA No. 2!

https://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2022/02/reading-ramsey-campbell-lost-for-words.html

"Lost for Words" is a funny, gruesome take on the vampire theme. Its protagonist, narrator Roy Stafford, works at a local branch of Texts an...

02/11/2021

Congratulations to Michael Parker, whose “Las Llorasangres” (Penumbra No. #1) earned its place among the Honorable Mentions in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen, edited by Ellen Datlow!

https://ellendatlow.com/2021/10/30/honorable-mentions-in-the-actual-print-copy-from-the-best-horror-of-the-year-volume-thirteen/

      Honorable Mentions.   Addison, Linda D. “Mud,” Don’t Turn Out the Lights. Bailey, Dale “Das Gesicht,” Final Cuts. Barrett, E. C. “We Aren’t Violent People,” Bourbon Penn…