Old Moon Quarterly
@oldmoonquarterly.bsky.social
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Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner.
Old Moon Quarterly is an indie magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery in the vein of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner.
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Submissions | Old Moon Quarterly - Dark Fantasy Magazine
www.oldmoonpublishing.com
We are officially open to submissions until August 7th! We want short stories 1k-10k words, poems of 50 lines or less. Dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, Arthuriana. We pay 9c a word, $50 for poems. More guidelines on our website!
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
www.oldmoonpublishing.com/submissions
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The marriage of sword and sorcery with the atmosphere and trappings of Samhain and Halloween is a strong one, and makes this book a compelling read.
REVIEW: Samhain Sorceries edited by D.M. Ritzlin
Samhain Sorceries proves to be a more than satisfying read... The marriage of sword and sorcery with the atmosphere and trappings of Samhain and Halloween is a strong one
www.grimdarkmagazine.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The marriage of sword and sorcery with the atmosphere and trappings of Samhain and Halloween is a strong one, and makes this book a compelling read.
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Ancient Sword
2021
2021
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Ancient Sword
2021
2021
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all mortal greatness is but disease
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
all mortal greatness is but disease
One of four, probably
i'm legitimately one out of three UFC fans on this app lol
October 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
One of four, probably
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Contract returned, I am very pleased to announce that my story "The Great King's Lost Bride," will appear in a future issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social It's a tale of classical adventure following a young man in the Sacred Band of Thebes, a sequel to my prior BCS story, "Nemesis and the Sorcerer."
October 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Contract returned, I am very pleased to announce that my story "The Great King's Lost Bride," will appear in a future issue of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social It's a tale of classical adventure following a young man in the Sacred Band of Thebes, a sequel to my prior BCS story, "Nemesis and the Sorcerer."
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Be damned if I refer to posts as skeets
October 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Be damned if I refer to posts as skeets
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A poem of mine is out today in Eye to the Telescope's cyberpunk issue. The poem's an ode to the municipal maintenance work I grew up with. It's called Morning; 37°
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
Eye to the Telescope
Eye to the Telescope, the quarterly online journal of SFPA, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
eyetothetelescope.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A poem of mine is out today in Eye to the Telescope's cyberpunk issue. The poem's an ode to the municipal maintenance work I grew up with. It's called Morning; 37°
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
eyetothetelescope.com/archives/058...
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Art by • Mark Riddick
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Art by • Mark Riddick
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Art by • Yoshitaka Amano
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Art by • Yoshitaka Amano
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Art by • Ivan Miladonovic
October 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Art by • Ivan Miladonovic
Thank you Matt Holder at Strange Horizons for the lovely review of Contra Amatores Mundi! We hope the novella's strange words and weird prose can excite many of us during this Halloween season :)
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
Contra Amatores Mundi: A Gothic Fantasy by Graham Thomas Wilcox
Contra Amatores Mundi is a love story soaked in martial theology and stylistic decadence.
strangehorizons.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thank you Matt Holder at Strange Horizons for the lovely review of Contra Amatores Mundi! We hope the novella's strange words and weird prose can excite many of us during this Halloween season :)
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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Autumnal Night 🎃
October 27, 2023 at 7:33 PM
Autumnal Night 🎃
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Art by • Guillaume Sorel
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Art by • Guillaume Sorel
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Six days left to back The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1. Thank you to everyone who stepped in yesterday to get us over 80% funded. Pledge today to get 14 great stories, with illustrations. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1
A collection of stories from the first 60 issues of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, presented on physical media for the first time with a full page illustration for each story and a color cover.
www.backerkit.com
September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Six days left to back The Best of Swords & Sorcery Magazine, Vol. 1. Thank you to everyone who stepped in yesterday to get us over 80% funded. Pledge today to get 14 great stories, with illustrations. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
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The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher.
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Art by • Joan Llopis Doménech
January 15, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Art by • Joan Llopis Doménech
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I'm currently still open for pieces like this :)
September 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I'm currently still open for pieces like this :)
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Absolute masterclass from Fehervari here on why it can be better to avoid relying on tabletop names in the books. My head tells me this is probably a Vespid Stingwing, but the sense of vagueness and uncertainty adds so much to this scene.
-from Fire Caste
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
-from Fire Caste
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Absolute masterclass from Fehervari here on why it can be better to avoid relying on tabletop names in the books. My head tells me this is probably a Vespid Stingwing, but the sense of vagueness and uncertainty adds so much to this scene.
-from Fire Caste
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
-from Fire Caste
#Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary
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I'm in my normal horse era.
September 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm in my normal horse era.
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Eighatet's Will
2019
2019
September 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Eighatet's Will
2019
2019
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Art by • Quentin Gomzé
September 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Art by • Quentin Gomzé
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RIP Ricky Hatton.
Memory eternal, champ.
Memory eternal, champ.
September 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
RIP Ricky Hatton.
Memory eternal, champ.
Memory eternal, champ.
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I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part
September 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I, too, want a harpoon made; one that a thousand yoke of fiends could not part
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In BCS #440: "The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash" @jonolfert.bsky.social. "She'd just tucked three of the slips into the hem of her robe when two tall, smiling, sunburned men ducked inside. They wore cuirasses engraved with five-petaled rosettes." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash by Jonathan Olfert
She'd just tucked three of the little slips into the hem of her robe, and one into each cheek high behind the teeth, and the last into a crack in the stool as a cache, and the blacksmith was offering ...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In BCS #440: "The Good Life and the Gaze of Staivash" @jonolfert.bsky.social. "She'd just tucked three of the slips into the hem of her robe when two tall, smiling, sunburned men ducked inside. They wore cuirasses engraved with five-petaled rosettes." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-...