Chris Gruber

Skelos 4 Chris Gruber

SKELOS: The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy returns with its long-awaited fourth issue. And what a return it is! In a special tribute to legendary late Texas author Bill Crider we present one of his pulpiest and wildest adventure tales. Bill Willingham, award-winning creator of FABLES, makes his SKELOS debut with an illustrated fantasy yarn. Adrian Cole delves back into antediluvian times with a full-length novelette featuring Henry Kuttner's Elak of Atlantis. Peter Rawlik takes us through the Gates of the Silver Key with a Lovecraftian sword-and-planet story. Charles R Rutledge's occult detective Carter Decamp investigates the pages of SKELOS for the first time. Milton Davis returns with the first installment of a multipart sword-and-soul novelette. Cynthia Ward invites us to dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever in the depths of the Pacific. Chris Gruber concludes his bloody, gripping weird western novelette. Issue 4 will feature many more dark tales and macabre verse that will test the limits of your sanity, with short fiction by Amanda DeWees, Darrell Grizzle, Mary Marshall Highet, and Cliff Biggers; poetry by Chad Hensley, Shannon Connor Winward, William Patrick Murray, Frank Coffman, and Darrell Schweitzer. Special features including an interview with Dracula expert and Bram Stoker descendent, Dacre Stoker; an illustrated classic gothic ballad by Michael H. Price and George Turner; non-fiction essays by Scott Connors, Karen Joan Kohoutek, and Weird Tales legend Donald Wandrei; reviews by Bobby Dee, Dave Brzeski, and Mike Hunter. And to top it off, amazing illustrations by Timothy Truman, Bill Willingham, Jim Pitts, Andrea Rushing, Mark Maddox, Allen Koszowski, Mike Dubisch, and others.