If your favorite authors are those who initiated and maintained this unique movement, The Willows is the place to read talesyou will enjoy, and to submit your own work! We warmly welcome new writers, but we also print pieces from established authors. We are currently looking for short stories which would be told in a gentlemen's lounge in turn-of-the-century London, or Dublin, or New York City, or Prague.
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Below is a letter from the editor, which sums up our position in the marketplace:
"The Willows will occasionally skirt the borderlands of Horror, though its provinces of Gore and Violence are largely unmapped within these pages. We may dabble in Fantasy and Science Fiction, but the realms of elves and unicorns, of space-beings and faraway planets, are explored far more fully in numerous other esteemed publications.
When I settle down beside the fire in my library, my hand always strays first to those tales that evoke awe, wonder, and a childlike yearning for the unknown; it is these stories which shall feature most prominently here. To eerie fields and abandoned manors, across the aether and deep beneath the sea, we will travel together.
Our guides will be the authors whose work we have selected from a tremendous pool of submissions. To those whose style is considered archaic by modern tastes, we welcome you home. And to those fine gentlemen and ladies who have thanked me for providing an outlet for their misunderstood work, I offer a most hearty welcome.
My end is not profit or fame, but passion: I long to provide a gathering-place for other writers with tastes akin to mine; outcasts of modern fiction. I hope we may all enjoy the pleasure of one another's society.
This is a magazine for the true modern traditionalists, the disciples of writers long-dead, those who yearn for a time and culture that passed away decades before their birth. This is The Willows, and so far as I have anything to say about it, its style shall remain proudly, uncompromisingly unique among all publications!
~ Ben Thomas, Editor"
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March 2008
features stories from,
G. D. Falksen,G. W. Thomas, Lawrence Dagstine, Paul Marlowe, and many others!
This is a magazine for the true modern traditionalists, the disciples of writers long-dead, those who yearn for a time and culture that passed away decades before their birth. This is The Willows
features stories from, G. D. Falksen, Peter Welmerink, Lawrence Dagstine,Steven Shrewsbury, and many others!
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The Willows is an atmospheric horror and dark fantasy magazine with an emphasis on the traditional weird tale, in the classic style of Blackwood, Dunsany, Hodgson, Machen, and other macabre fantasistes of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Through the work of rising authors like G. D. Falksen, Lawrence Dagstine, and Paul Marlowe, we are also pioneering the genre of "steampunk horror," in which elements of the golden age weird tale or Gothic romance are combined with an elegant 19th-Century proto-science-fiction aesthetic, such as that embodied by Wells, Verne, and the earliest pulp writers.
We love work set in Victorian times, in the European countryside, in a twisted fairyland, in the underbelly of an enchanted city, aboard a triphibian ambulator, or in the ruins of an undiscovered civilization.
If your favorite authors are those who initiated and maintained the unique movements of weird fiction and proto-SF, and those who continue these traditions today, The Willows is the place to read tales you will enjoy, and to submit your own work!
We warmly welcome new writers, but we also print pieces from established authors. Please see our Guidelines page for more information.
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According to myspace it's your birthday, (or perhaps the magazine's anniversary?) on the tenth. I haven't made any pictures of characters in Victorian dress, but I like to think this Pre-Raphaelite-esque picture of mine wouldn't seem overly out of place on the walls of a period drawing room or study. Imagine it by a student of Rossetti and Burne-Jones, because, in a way, that's what I am, albeit over a hundred years too late and on another continent. I hope you like and and wish you well.
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