Updates this week at :

~ Our column is back, and this time we travel deep into the minds of three notable editors - Ellen Datlow, Mort Castle, and Nick Mamatas - to get their views on the state of the short fiction marketplace, genre boundaries, and how they choose who makes it into their anthologies and magazines. A must-read for all dark scribes!

~ New book of Matthew Warner's Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word.

~ New book of Simon Janus' The Scrubs.

~ New book of Rick R. Reed's Orientation.

~ New book of Children of the New Disorder by Tim Lebbon and Lindy Moore.

~ in the Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet anthology is announced. For the (almost) complete lineup, see the anthology's

Some recent features and reviews you may have missed:

~ In the latest installment of our , dark scribe Alexandra Sokoloff pulls guest muse duty and ponders the question: Stop by and leave some comments for Alex ~ this one's certain to generate some conversation!

~ Some recent dark scribes who've stopped by for chats recently include , , , and .

~ Short fiction of Stephen King's "A Very Tight Place".

~ Book of Brian Keene's Ghost Walk.

~ Book of Thirteen Specimens by Jeffrey Thomas.

~ Book of Piecemeal June by Jordan Krall.

~ And congrats to frequent contributor and reviewer Martel Sardina who gets bumped to effective with this update!

Happy Reading!

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The round table was very informative Vince. Thank you for putting that together.