Skelos - The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue Two by Skelos Press

My contributor copies of Skelos - The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy Issue Two by Skelos Press has arrived and it looks freakin amazing.  My poem, Xyre, is featured in this.  Xyre is a sorcerer created by K. A. Opperman (Kyle).  Xyre and Ashiel were characters created together for an epic poem we collaborated on years ago.  I wrote a few poems on Xyre and Ashiel but most have been omitted from my collection because I feel like they weren't my best pieces.  Xyre is one of them.  I let you all be the judge of it's quality.

Short Fiction

The Keeping of Eleanor May – Angeline Hawkes

Slayers at the Gate – Adrian Cole                                                                       

Of Mist, and an Heirloom Sword – Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Medicine For the Dead (excerpt) – Arianna “Tex” Thompson

Bigger Than God – Cynthia Ward

A Binding of Souls – W. H. Pugmire

The Skin Man – Milton Davis (illustrated by Stanley Weaver, Jr.)

The Black Lion – Howard Andrew Jones

Amarante: A Tale of Old Tharduin – Scott Oden

Novelettes

The Eleventh Scarlet Hell – Robert M. Price (A Thongor tale illustrated by Val Mayerik)

Reverse the Charges – Jess Nevins

Poetry

Carmilla – K. A.  Opperman (illustrated by Esteban Maroto)

The Line of Late Retreat – Michael Walton

Xyre – Ashley Dioses

The Night Realm – Chad Hensley

Ride of the Witchfinder – Wade German

The Mockingbird – Pat Calhoun

A Revelation Dream – Kenneth Bykerk

The Wood – Frank Coffman

Shade of a Murdered Child – James McNew

Essays

Clark Ashton Smith in Carmel – Scott Connors

“The Shadow Kingdom” and the Origins of Gothic Horror in Robert E. Howard’s Heroic Fantasy – Charles Hoffman

The Alexander Romance as Weird Fiction – Benjamin Garstad

Special Features

Skull Session – Editorial by Mark Finn

Warrior Women of History – An illustrated gallery by Samuel Dillon (text by Jeffrey Shanks)

Cracking Skulls with Arianna “Tex” Thompson – An interview by Mark Finn

By Crom! – Rachel Kahn

The Bone Yard – Reviews

Dave Brzeski, Bobby Derie, Mike Hunter, Deuce Richardson, Jake Vander Weide, Keith West

Artists

Front cover:  Ernst Fuchs; Back cover; Allen Koszowski; Interior: Hieronymus Bosch, Samuel Dillon, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Mike Hunter, Rachel Kahn, Allen Koszowski, Esteban Maroto, Val Mayerik, Hugh Rankin, Stanley Weaver, Jr.