The latest edition of The New Ray Bradbury Review, No. 6, 2019 is on Bradbury’s horror.

Do make sure to look at the publisher’s blurb, as it’s a small masterpiece… of cringing defensiveness, something that is surely no longer needed for a master of genre literature in 2019. Nor does the blurb’s lurch into clueless comparisons reassure the potential buyer: Stephen King, the Oxford Lovecraft edition (very questionable), and an apparent Oxford edition of Clark Ashton Smith… but where is that last item? Perhaps the blurb writer was thinking of the Penguin Classics edition.

Yet if one can get past the blurb and the flippant cover-art, then clicks the ‘Look Inside’… the actual table-of-contents reassures.

Time for the journal’s editors to have a few words with their publisher, I’d suggest, about how the journal should be marketed and presented for sale.

There’s also another new journal on one of the greats, whose ‘poetry with a pen’ was of a different sort. The latest issue (#77) of the high-quality Jack Kirby Collector journal is a “Monsters and Bugs” special issue…

100 pages in colour, for just $10.95.