Weirdbook #45

Chapter 4

How time flies! This is the relaunched Weirbook’s eighth year of publication. We have had fifteen regular numbered issue, plus three annuals.

Weirbook’sWe have a wonderful line-up, as usual, and I’m sure that all of you will enjoy this cavalcade of fantastical wonders.

This time we have stories by such fine authors as Adrian Cole, L.F. Falconer, John R. Fultz, Sharon Cullars, Marlane Quade Cook, Franklyn Searight, Laura Blackwell and John C. Hocking (among many others). These folks represent the best in modern weird fiction, fantasy, neo-pulp, and horror.

Looking to the future, this year’s themed annual will be “vampires.” I just now started ready the submissions, and I can tell you that we have a winner on our hands.

I do have one serious question. Does anyone know what happened to esteemed poet Frederick J. Mayer? He dropped out of sight back in late 2019 (before the pandemic). No one has heard from him since then. Fredrick has been a regular part of this magazine for years, and his friends miss him and are deeply concerned. Please contact me at weirdaether@t-online.de if you have any information.

And, on a sad note, Weirdbook contributor Molly Noel Moss passed away in December. This issue is dedicated in her memory.

WeirdbookI hope that all of you reading this find yourselves, and your loved ones, in a healthy, happy and sane state of mind and body. Let’s all hope and pray that 2022 is a better year than the past two. At the time of writing this, I don’t think that a few prayers for peace would do any harm, either.

Take care, and God bless.

—Doug Draa, Editor