Issue #5: The King in Yellow

 
MANDEM

MANDEM

The King in Yellow (cover)
MANDEM is the art name for Maize Arendsee, an art instructor and Studio Art MFA student at Florida State University, and her life-partner, Moco Steinman-Arendsee. MANDEM’s artwork is described as an exercise in categorical violations, simulation, and narrative. With an academic background in classical mythology, gender studies, and critical theory, MANDEM works across media and materials (painting, assemblage/collage, film, sculpture, and book-making), intentionally destabilizing genre in terms of content and media. MANDEM’s artwork has been widely exhibited in art galleries and museums, and it has been featured in over 100 publications.


Glynn Barrass

Glynn Barrass

Claws That Pierce the Amber Veil
Glynn has written over a hundred short stories and edited for Chaosium’s Call of Cthulhu fiction line and Dark Regions Press—Eldritch ChromeSteampunk CthulhuAtomic Age Cthulhu, and World War Cthulhu.


Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Eleanor Leonne Bennett

Floats With Grace, Hidden in Green, Enforced, Paper Masks
Eleanor was the CIWEM Young Environmental Photographer of The Year. Her photography has been published in British Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.


Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko

Rosemary (Tantra) Bensko

Performance of The King in Yellow 
Tantra’s fiction appears in Women Writing the Weird I and IIStrange Little GirlsTriangulation: ParchZymbolHoldfastSurreal South. She inhabits Berkeley.


Carina Bissett

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The Yellowed Press of an Ancient Power
Carina wrote travel articles and books about the Southwest. These days, she spends her time crafting twisted fairy tales and cross-pollinated mythic fiction. She is currently at work on the first novel in her five-book Elements series.


Dmitri Borshch

Dmitri Borshch

Sign Bearer
Dmitry’s drawings and sculptures have been exhibited at the National Arts Club (New York), BrechtForum (New York), ISE Cultural Foundation (New York), and the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg).


Richard Lee Byers

Richard Lee Byers

Hate, Courage and Blood
Richard is the author of forty fantasy and horror books including Blind God’s BluffThe Reaver, and Dissolution. His short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies.


Kelda Critch

Kelda Critch

Fungal Night, Uninteresting
Kelda is a new born entity. Her work has appeared in the Lovecraft E-zineJournal of Unlikely AcceptancesDreams from the Witch House and in the Bram Stoker Award winning After Death anthology.


Randall Doering

Randall Doering

Strength of My Fathers
Randall has published in Stupefying Stories and the anthology Songs of the Great Cycle, by Long Count Press. He has won honorable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest.


Amelia Gorman

Amelia Gorman

Sacrifice in Hali
Amelia is a computer science student in Minnesota. She has a story in Innsmouth Free Press’s anthology She Walks in Shadows.


Robert Gross

Robert Gross

The Yellow Script
Robert is a writer, theatrical director, and performer. He’s published in DuendeCarcinogenic Poetry, and Dead Snakes.


Deborah Guzzi

Deborah Guzzi

Bloodied Nail Beds
Deborah writes for Massage and Aromatherapy.


David Hoenig

David Hoenig

Of Kings, Queens, and Knaves
David finished his first novel (querying), and is working on a second. He published “Madness is in the Eye of the Beholder” with Morning Rain Publishing, winning 3rd place in a “Freaky Fiction” contest.


Marilyn Horn-Fahey

Marilyn Horn-Fahey

Return of the Son
Marilyn is a technical editor in Silicon Valley. Her short stories have appeared in publications such as Blotterature and Marathon Review.


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Caroline Johnson

This Yellow Balloon
Caroline has two poetry chapbooks, Where the Street Ends and My Mother’s Artwork, and has published poetry in DuPage Valley ReviewChicago TribuneThe Quotable, and others.


Linda Kennedy

Linda Kennedy

Preacher Man 
Linda is a musician and choir director working in Richmond, Va. She has taken poetry classes at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School and has a poem posted on the VMFA Blog.


Dominique Lamssies

Dominique Lamssies

Shards: A Drama in Four Acts
Dominique’s non-fiction has been featured in Eye-Ai Magazine, a magazine about Japanese culture for expatriates living abroad. Her fiction has been featured in The Horror Zine.


David Landrum

David Landrum

Cassilda
David’s novellas, The ProphetessShadowCityStrange Brew, and The Last Minstrel, and his novel, The Sorceress of the Northern Seas, are all available through Amazon.


Christine Makepeace

Christine Makepeace

The Queen in Yellow
Christine is a New Englander by birth, a New Yorker by choice, and an Austinite by happenstance. Her debut novel, Wake Up, Maggie, can be found on Amazon.


M.W. Mani

M.W. Mani

The King (A Masquerade)
M.W. studied Theatre at Washington State University. He currently lives in Portland, OR.


Kaela McNeil

Kaela McNeil

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A Romantic Evening With a Cthulhu Figurine
Kaela has been published in Anthropoid and The Miscellany. She works as the prose editor for Sling Magazine while interning at VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.


Frankie Metro

Frankie Metro

An Excerpt From The Professional Donor 
Frankie is the author of A.P.C.The Anarchist’s Blac Book of Poetry and The Professional Donor. He is published in Kerouac’s Dog MagazineUnlikely StoriesCarcinogenic Poetry/Virgogray Press.


Geoff Mosse

Geoff Mosse

A Waking Fever Dream in Yellow
Geoff is a quiet and humble freelance writer and artist that resides in a heavily fortified compound in Savannah, GA. His current graphic novel, The Mick, can be found on Amazon.com and other outlets.


Rose Neilsen

Rose Neilsen

The development of multiple cognitive deficits manifested by both:
Rose has a Creative Writing MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her work can be found in As It Ought to Be and RiverLit, in print in Contemporary Verse 2 and forthcoming in the Mississippi River Anthology, Down a Dark River.


Konstantine Paradias

Konstantine Paradias

Down Cancer Orchard Way
Konstantine short stories have been published in the AE Canadian Science Fiction ReviewCycatrix Magazine and the Battle Royale Slambook by Haikasoru.


L.E. Peret

L.E. Peret

The Next Emperor
L. E. works as a press assistant while trying to get a PhD in Sociology. He writes primarily Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror. His favorite authors are Anne Rice, Lovecraft, King, Gaiman, Clarke, Asimov and Tolkien.


Steph Post

Steph Post

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The Pallid Mask
Steph is the author of A Tree Born Crooked. Her short fiction is in Haunted Waters: From the DepthsThe Round-Up, and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics. She lives, writes and teaches in St. Petersburg, Florida.


James Pratt

James Pratt

He Is Coming 
James’s stories have appeared in Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification, Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror AnthologyAlter Egos Vol. 2, and Barbarians of the Red Planet from Rogue Planet Press.


Erica Ruppert

Erica Ruppert

The Traveller
Erica lives in northern New Jersey with her husband and an assortment of pets. She writes, teaches, bakes, runs, and reads many odd things. She has previously been published in Rose Red ReviewCæsura, and Bookends Review.


Julio Toro San Martin

Julio Toro San Martin

Interview Excerpted From a Blog Site Dedicated to Supernatural Investigations
Julio hails from Toronto, Canada. His work has been published by Innsmouth Free Press, Acidic Fiction, Tigershark Publishing, The Lovecraft Ezine and Static movement.


Jon Carroll Thomas

Jon Carroll Thomas

The Outcasts of Carcosa
Jon is a Pittsburgh writer that likes to dabble in yellow.


Steve Toase

Steve Toase

Smoke Signs 
Steve is an author and archaeologist living in North Yorkshire and occasionally Munich, Germany. His story “Call Out” has recently been published in the Best Horror Of The Year Anthology 6.


Nathan Tompkins

Nathan Tompkins

A Song of Chaos and Eternal Night
Nathan’s work has appeared in Calliope MagazineThe Tishman ReviewNonBinary ReviewNorth West Words, and others. He is also the author of Junk Mail of the Heart, and The Dog Stops Here.


DJ Tyrer

DJ Tyrer

In the Company of Mr. King
DJ is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, has been published in Dialect PoetryMemento MoriBonesCyaeghaCarillonThe PenScifaikuestTigershark and Anthology 29.


Dawn Vogel

Dawn Vogel

Miasma
Dawn is a short fiction author and editor. She runs a craft business, helps edit Mad Scientist Journal, and tries to find time for writing. She lives in Seattle with her awesome husband (and fellow author), Jeremy Zimmerman.


Hope Wabuke

Hope Wabuke

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Hope’s poetry has appeared in The North American ReviewKalyani MagazineFjords Literary JournalPotluck MagazineRuminate MagazineSalamander JournalLiterary Mama, Weave Magazine, Cease Cows, and Split This Rock