The Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “The Last Crossroads on a Calendar of...
This week’s excerpt from The Children of Old Leech comes from a story about monsters–human and otherwise–and books of magic, and blood and ashes: Joseph S. Pulver’s “The Last Crossroads on a Calendar...
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The Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “The Woman in the Wood,” by Daniel Mills
Today’s The Children of Old Leech excerpt comes from Daniel Mills’s epistolary story about a young man who has traveled north, after troubles at home, “The Woman in the Wood.”—From the diary of James...
View ArticleThe Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “Brushdogs,” by Stephen Graham Jones
In today’s The Children of Old Leech excerpt, we’re going hunting (for bear?), with a taste of Stephen Graham Jones‘ “Brushdogs.”—Junior wasn’t even forty-five minutes into the trees when his son Denny...
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The Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “Ymir,” by John Langan
In Norse mythology, Ymir was a being born from primordial frost and poison, who became ancestor to all jötnar, or giants. In the realm of weird fiction, John Langan is also a titan with a penchant for...
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The Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “Of a Thousand Cuts,” by Cody Goodfellow
Our penultimate excerpt from The Children of Old Leech has arrived, and it’s a doozie. Cody Goodfellow takes us inside The Pageant, the secret, and bloody, gladiatorial matches held in occult locations...
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The Children of Old Leech: Excerpt: “Tenebrionidae,” by Scott Nicolay and...
Today brings our final excerpt from The Children of Old Leech, and features a collaboration between father and son, a tale of riding the rails, and secret societies, and gangs, and girls and dogs and...
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The Children of Old Leech: Introduction: Of Whisky and Doppelgängers
We told you there would be more this week. What follows is Justin Steele‘s introduction to The Children of Old Leech, “Of Whisky and Doppelgängers.” And stay tuned for more!—If you value your health,...
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The Children of Old Leech: Afterword
Today brings the final installment in our series of excerpts from The Children of Old Leech. We hope you’ve enjoyed these excerpts as much as we’ve enjoyed bringing them to you, and we sincerely hope...
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Strike a blow for the small press by nominating Word Horde authors for a Hugo...
The nomination period in this year’s Hugo Awards will be closing on March 10, 2015, and while I’m under no illusions that my scrappy, horror-and-fantasy small-press, Word Horde, will be bringing home a...
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The Children of Old Leech Nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award
It is with pleasure and gratitude that we announce the following: The Children of Old Leech: A Tribute to the Carnivorous Cosmos of Laird Barron has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award....
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