Late September Issue

Welcome to the Late September Issue
of the FREEZINE of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

The nanohorde relayed a transmission recently
indicating their need for a trilogy of terror stories.

Three of our longest standing Freezine veterans
have stood up to put forth their offerings here.  

I want to thank Gil Bavel and Adam Bolivar
for their excellent contributions. In addition,
thanks to Jesse Stevens for your wonderful
artwork utilized once again for Gil Bavel's story. 

+Click the respective images below
to read the corresponding stories+

Gil James Bavel's

IDOL CURIOSITY

Artwork used in Idol Curiosity by Jesse Stevens  

Who doesn't appreciate a good old fashioned 

Curio Shoppe yarn every now and again?  

We begin our Late September Issue 

with the return of our veteran author Gil 

"Cardinal Sin" Bavel, whose short tale 

you'll find here manages to encapsulate an old 

idea into a modern setting with surefooted grace 

and directness.  The nano-editors at the Freezine 

sure hope you'll enjoy reading this short story 

as much as we certainly did.

If you like the artwork, Jesse Stevens is the original 

Freezine artist. His name above links directly to 

a gallery of images he created especially for our 

world wide electronic publication. Those images, 

in turn, hyperlink directly to their stories archived 

for posterity here on Blogger.com.  We at the Freezine

pray an EMP doesn't render all our hard work obsolete.

Without all the original artwork to complement our zine,

this literary cybervessel might sink like a stone

into the Bermuda Triangle of the Internet. 

Shaun Lawton's

SHUGGOLETH

Artwork used in Shuggoleth by Shaun Lawton

SHUGGOLETH originally appeared in issue #1 of
Grave Demand: The Journal Of Transgressive 
Thought In Literature And Culture
 released in January of 2012.

The title of this excursion into quasi-Lovecraftian fiction 

is a neologism I crafted of the words Shuggoth & shibboleth:

Lovecraft fans know all too well what a Shoggoth is,

and a shibboleth is an old Hebrew word indicating

 an idea or saying that is commonly believed and carried 

down through the ages and more often than not considered 

superstitious, old-fashioned, or even untrue. 

(Incidentally, Shoggoth has been known to be 

spelled both as"Shaggoth" and "Shuggoth".) 

I have taken the care to improve the text

of this story since it's initial publication 

last year in Grave Demand magazine.  

The version you read now on the FREEZINE

is what I consider to be the definitive edition. 

Adam Bolivar's

SERVITORS OF THE 

OUTER DARKNESS

Artwork used in Servitors Of The Outer Darkness 
A depiction of an aureus of Octavian circa 30 BC
courtesy of the Public Domain 

When I received Adam Bolivar's short story submission Servitors Of The Outer Darkness, I knew I had in my possession the perfect example of what a FREEZINE story should be.  It has all the elements of fantasy, science fiction, and horror, not to mention the coveted weird tale itself, and even a subtle nod to our webzine's own original contribution to literature, the Weird Jack Tale, once again courtesy of Mr. Bolivar, whose fascination and expertise with the ancient realm of arcane knowledge our readers should remain ever grateful for, if their appreciation for stories runs congruent to that of our own dedicated staff here at this zine.

We at the Freezine remain grateful that the nanohorde or nanofleet as it's been referred to found their way into my bloodstream.  It is they who have decreed that I put out this thing after all.  Most of the older subscribers here know this already, but I wanted our newer readers to also know that I often wonder who's controlling this subatomic microfleet of nanobots in my bloodstream, anyway?  Where or whence they come from is anybody's guess.  The point is they're having us gather up a whole lot of unique quality stories written by both aspiring and surviving writers of all trades and craftiworks.

The Freezine of Fantasy and Science Fiction was originally conceived back in the day when Minds In Collision (otherwise known as the internet message board with a nail in it) over at DarkEcho.com (hosting John Shirley's site) was in full swing before its eventual surrender to the various other networking social utility sites that were digitally sprouting up all over the cybernetic webscape at the time, predominantly among them that collective wellspring of happy personas we all have come to mutually know and love on facebook.  

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