Whispers: An anthology of Fantasy and Horror

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This anthology is both a best of my Whispers magazine and an original anthology (with original art as well). I welcome the opportunity to place between hardcovers the choicest tales that Whispers has produced and, additionally, create another new outlet for fantasy and horror material. This was my reason for concocting my journal in the first place, and I have succeeded far beyond the dreams any little magazine editor is entitled to have.

People refer to me as the editor of Whispers magazine, but I like to think of myself as an alchemist, selecting from my unwholesome stores the proper ingredients to conjure up an irresistible volume of fantasy, terror, and horror. Whispers is a true little magazine, dedicated to the task of stimulating new and quality additions to the art and literature of our genre. I would like to think that the World Fantasy Award I recently won told me the recipe for the publication has borne fruit. It seemed quite appropriate that the trophy signifying that achievement was a bust of Howard Phillips Lovecraft whose story “The Unnameable” created a fictitious horror magazine titled Whispers, an entity I magicked to unholy life. But even an alchemist must start from somewhere and early 1973 saw my witches’ brew begin to bubble . . .

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