original fiction by Lisa Mantchev  •  “Men find it hard to fall in love with a dead girl. They tell her it’s a turn-off that they take her hand at the movies and a finger lands in the popcorn.”

original fiction by Scott William Carter  •  “With your mind firmly on the person you lost, circle the block five times, then turn and go five times the other way. If it is a one-way street, do it anyway, and ignore the blaring horns.”

Book critic Scott Connors looks at Charles Stross’s return to Lovecraftian mathematics, Victor Rousseau’s classic WEIRD TALES stories of a psychic detective, and Ellen Datlow & Co.’s latest installment of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror.

Our fellow magazine publishers over at the pagan-culture journals PanGaia and NewWitch, in conjunction with the mind-and-spirit publishing house Llewellyn Worldwide, have announced their inaugural Pagan Fiction Award contest. We note in passing that regular NewWitch contributor Phil Brucato has a rockin’ story coming up in WEIRD TALES later this summer…