Whetstone is a free magazine of sword and sorcery that published eight issues between 2020 and 2023
It is not on amazon so here is a link to the site
Whetstone amateur magazine of pulp sword and sorcery
Type: Short story magazine
Anvil magazine
MainCategories: FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION
Type: Short story magazine
Anvil is a new magazine who contain both short stories and comic. It’s first issue published in 2023 featured a preview of razorfist Ghost of the Badlands
It publish fantasy , science fiction, alternate history, westerns and is associated with the iron age movement, a loose association of writers and comic artists seeking to promote work of the kind that don’t get published anymore with some authors writing sword and sorcery style stories in the vein of the classics like Robert E. Howard
Usually i add only things that can be found on amazon in the library but i make a small exception as it is high quality and i try to promote this kind of stuff as it’s a great way to find indie authors.
You can find them on their site here.
L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
MainCategories: FANTASY, SCIENCE FICTION
a science fiction and fantasy story and art contest that was established by L. Ron Hubbard in 1983
Issue 25 seem to be the first available to kindle so i linked this one (the cover you see is the one of issue by frank frazetta :-P )
New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
A brand new sword & sorcery short fiction magazine featuring brand new fiction, articles, interviews, reviews, and original illustrations! Learn more at www.newedgeswordandsorcery.com
Stories include:
The Curse of the Horsetail Banner by Dariel R.A. Quiogue
The Ember Inside by Remco van Straten & Angeline B. Adams
Old Moon Over Irukad by David C. Smith
The Beast of the Shadow Gum Trees by T,K. Rex
Vapors of Zinai by J.M. Clarke
The Grief-Note of Vultures by Bryn Hammond
Articles include:
The Origin of the New Edge by Howard Andrew Jones
C.L. Moore and Jirel of Joiry: The First Lady of Sword & Sorcery by Cora Buhlert
Sword & Soul – An Interview with Milton Davis
The Outsider in Sword & Sorcery by Brian Murphy
Gender Performativity in Howard’s “Sword Woman” by Nicole Emmelhainz
The Obanaax and Other Tales of Heroes and Horrors, a review by Robin Marx
What is New Edge Sword & Sorcery? by Oliver Brackenbury
Weird Tales Magazine No. 368: Occult Detective Issue
Date: 2020 Onward
Genre: Urban Fantasy
trope: Occult detective
Lenght: medium
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Weird Tales magazine is known for launching a number of sub-genres of fiction—cosmic horror, swords & sorcery, dark fantasy, and others. It has also greatly added to existing genres like science fiction, horror, and—a personal favorite of editor Jonathan Maberry—weird mystery stories. Or, as they became known—occult detective tales. Here are all-original tales about people who peer into the shadows in order to solve a mystery. Sometimes successfully … and sometimes the darkness wins. The stories range from nail-biting horror to very dark comedy, and there’s a generous mix of short stories, flash fiction (shorter works of about 1500 words), and poems. The lineup is killer, as you’ll discover, and the interpretations of what constitutes “occult fiction” is unique to each writer.
“The Eyrie” by Jonathan Maberry
“Dead Jack and the Mystery of Room 216” by James Aquilone
“Beneath the Scarred Pulpit” by Kenneth W. Cain
“Denizen of Deep Holler” by Jennifer Brody
“The Ephemera of Dreams” by Carina Bissett
“Forming Threads” by Jody Lynn Nye
“The Painted Unseen” by Taylor Grant
“Bull Runs” by Kevin J. Anderson
“Shimmer” by Keith Strunk
“Hold my Beer” by Jeff Strand
“La Silla Del Diablo” by Sofía Lapuente & Jarrod Shusterman
“The Three-Headed Problem” by Rachel Aukes
“Inception” by Brian Lumley
“Laurel Canyons” by Lisa Diane Kastner
“The Taxidermist” by Lyndsey Croal
“Within You, In Time” by Brian Keene and Steven L. Shrewsbury
“Your Sins Will Find You Out” by Cavan Scott
“Night’s Disease” by Colleen Anderson
Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction
dark horse
/ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/
noun
1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
“a dark-horse candidate”
Join us for a bi-monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion–whatever it is, if it’s weird, it’s here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses.
In this issue:
“The Burning Cathedral of Summer” by Wayne Kyle Spitzer
“The Hornet Priest” by Kurt Newton
“The Silhouette Shop” by M. Kari Barr
“Growing Season” by Davin Ireland
“A Whisperer Among the Graves” by Bill Link
StoryHack Action & Adventure, Issue 1
StoryHack Action adventure is a fiction magazine in the style of the great pulps of years past. It includes stories from a wide variety of genres.
In this issue, you’ll find:
New Rules for Rocket Nauts by Michael DeCarolis. A recently dismissed recruit watches in horror as an alien race betrays and massacres his former classmates. Now he may be the only person capable of stopping the first wave of an interstellar war.
The Price of Hunger by Kevyn Winkless. A desperate chase through the woods leads to an occupied cabin. Has Fred Moose doomed everyone to be slaughtered by the wending outside?
Retrieving Abe by Jay Barnson. Lydia Madison is the daughter of a dragon hunter, and the second of three wives in a plural marriage in a tiny village in the Utah Territory. When her husband is abducted by a dragon, only Lydia can rescue him… even if it means trading her own life for his.
Protector of Newington by John M Olsen. A wealthy inventor has been secretly sponsoring do-gooders in steam-powered suits for years. When another of his heroes faces death, can he just stand by and watch a good man die?
Brave Day Sunk in Hideous Night by Julie Frost. Ben is a PI with PTSD who also just happens to be a werewolf. He is handed a repo job that seems too easy to be true. Of course things go awry and an accident flings him into a grim future. Will he be able to make it back to his wife and friends, or will he be doomed to die amongst total strangers?
Taking Control by Jon Del Arroz. What is a seasoned outlaw to do when she’s too worn out to heist?
Some things Missing from Her Profile by David Skinner. His blind date was kidnapped by Martians. He had no idea why. But he wasn’t about to let them keep her.
Dream Master by Gene Moyers. What strange power could cause wealthy men to suddenly give away their fortunes and commit suicide?
Under the Gun by David J. West. A young man with a possessed gun that can’t miss collides with an aging gunslinger that can’t be hit. Trouble and death can’t be far behind.
Circus to Boulogne by Mike Adamson. A WWII pilot is shot down over enemy-held territory. Will he make it to safety, or will he spend the rest of the war in a POW camp?
Old Moon Quarterly
Date: 2020 Onward
MainCategory: FANTASY
Type: Short story magazine
Genres: Dark Fantasy, Sword and sorcery
Old Moon Quarterly is a magazine of weird sword-and-sorcery fantasy. In the tradition of Clark Ashton Smith, Tanith Lee and Karl Edward Wagner, it contains stories of strange vistas, eldritch beings, and the bloody dispute thereof by swordsmen and swordswomen both.
Issue 1 contains the following stories:
“A Town Called Trepidation” by Paula Hammond.
“Stella Splendens” by Graham Thomas Wilcox.
“The Questing Beast” by Carys Crossen.
“Brightstar” by Mob.
MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY
The Men’s Adventure Quarterly is your source for all of the action, adventure and fun of yesteryear’s men’s adventure magazines. An offshoot of the pulp magazines of the 30s and 40s, the men’s adventure magazines were geared toward the returning soldier after World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam. They were jam-packed with the best commercial illustration by artists such as Norm Eastman, Al Rossi, Bruce Minney, Mort Künstler, Samson Pollen, James Bama and many others…
The lurid tales within were filled with adventure, excitement, thrills, chills, and sex. You could read tales of spies, guerillas, commandos, crime, cons, daring air aces, and menacing murder by noted authors like Don Honig, Walter Kaylin Don Pendleton, and even best-selling author Mario Puzo.
Each quarter, Men’s Adventure Quarterly collects some of the best stories and artwork for you to enjoy along with pinups and original articles on the men’s adventure magazine mayhem behind the scenes. Co-edited by Robert Deis, a noted expert and collector of men’s adventure magazines, and graphic designer Bill Cunningham whose Pulp 2.0 label has made its mark in the indie publishing space, The MAQ is their tribute to the men, women and stories that drove hundreds of thousands of readers to the newsstand every month.
The MAQ comes to readers in three formats: FULL-COLOR, NOIR, and DIGITAL REPLICA. The FULL COLOR edition is our stunning full-color tribute to the men’s adventure magazines of yesteryear. It is our prestige edition. The NOIR edition recreates the look and feel of the original Black & White magazines. The DIGITAL REPLICA edition is a full-color digital edition that mimics the page format of the magazines. Our goal is to bring you the thrills and chills of the men’s adventure magazines in whatever format you prefer. Be sure to check out the various editions when you search for THE MEN’S ADVENTURE QUARTERLY!
“This is a winner for anyone interested in vintage top notch men’s adventure fiction and the illustrations that accompanied them.” – Michael Stradford, author of Steve Holland: The World’s Greatest Illustration Art Model.
InterGalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes
Welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel: the award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (IGMS) has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now the magazine’s editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine’s eight-year history and reprinted them together in one Big Book of reading pleasure: IGMS: Big Book of SF Novelettes.
Anything that is remotely possible: Futures near and far, artificial intelligence and alien encounters, alternate time-lines and alternate theories about creating universes, planet-eating black holes and lunar race-tracks. It’s all here, under the big tent of Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show…
Featuring stories by award-winning authors including Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert, Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-new original essay by Orson Scott Card called “Making Ender Smart.”
