Fantastique Unfettered #4 (Ralewing)

Fantastique Unfettered #4 Ralewing marks the one year anniversary ofthis new, genre-bending magazine, an issue filled to the brim withunique prose, poetry, and non-fiction.

Herein, there are fears toface, and things unknown, things unthought.

Herein, there is Deathunmasked. We dare you to turn these pages and read... Featuring new fiction and poetry by Hal Duncan, Mike Allen, Jacqueline West, Alma Alexander and more. Table of contents:Fiction:Azif by Lynne JamneckThe Bachorum Principle by Brenda Stokes BarronThe Butterfly Collection of Miss Letitia Willoughby Forbes by Alma AlexanderMr. White Umbrella by Georgina BruceSons of the Law by Hal DuncanStolen Souls by Mike Allen (Reprint)Three Tales of the Devil's Wife by Carmen LauVérité by D.

Harlan WilsonPoetry:Mike Allen (special feature)Seed the Earth, Burn the SkyBinarySisyphus CrawlsSelf-portrait by Shweta Narayan'cubus by Dan CampbellAt the Crossroads of the West by J.

C. RunolfsonLife Decisions by Kaolin FireBlack Sheep by Jacqueline WestClones evaporate faster by Kristine Ong MuslimNonfiction: Alexa Chats with...

Hal Duncan & Brent WeeksThe Night Circus Reviewed by Alexandra SeidelLife is Suffering: The Writer's Point of View, Being a Discussion with Hal Duncan & Mike Allen, Conducted by Alexandra SeidelThis Inscrutable Light: A Response to Thomas Ligotti's The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Editorial by Brandon H.

Bell"The stories are fantastical in the best sense of the word: strange and marvelous, full of the inexplicable...

This magazine is worth seeking out."--Terry Weyna, Fantasy Literature"By and large the sensibility is 'literary,' and the quality is high (the two, of course, not always the same thing), virtually all the stories assembled here working, though to different degrees and in different ways....

That combination of quality and variety means that Fantastique Unfettered #1 offers something for many different tastes... "--Nader Elhefnawy, The Future Fire"There is a poignance in these poems: an ache and a loss, a love and a surrender, a luscious melange of sorrow and love."--Dan Campbell, Poetry Editor of Bull Spec (in his review of the poetry and interview)