Astonishing Adventures Magazine #8 – FREE Online Reading

As 2009 winds down (by the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR!), we received a release for Astonishing Adventure Magazine’s 8th and it looks like ‘final’ issue. I’ve had a look and it’s a HUGE gathering of exciting stories and excellent illustrations arriving just in time to ring in the New Year. So take the link to your holiday weekend read online or as downloadable PDF. We talked about their last Issue ‘7’ here in an interview with editor Katherine Tomlinson.

The Press Release for the new issue follows. Enjoy!

Issue #8 of Astonishing Adventures Magazine is now available for FREE download at two online locations: Issuu and [as a PDF] MediaFire. A print edition will be available at Amazon.com early in January at a price still to be determined.

At 172 pages, the magazine is jam-packed with pulptastic content from contributors living in five different countries. “I am particularly pleased by the international flavor of this issue,” said editor Katherine Tomlinson. “We have writers from the US, UK, Canada and Tenerife and artists from the US, the UK and Greece. There’s literally something for everyone in issue #8—from the wackiness of Tony Thorne’s “Teething Pain” to the poignant sea story “A Coral Pillow” offered by G. Wells Taylor.”

The mix of content includes new stories in Michael Patrick Sullivan’s long-running Auslander series and a new entry in Roger Alford’s adventures of the Black Spectre. Novelist Brian Trent is back with his two-fisted adventurer Rylan Mathis. Frequent contributor Christian Dabnor provided the cover story, a cat-and-mouse tale about a fox and a bear. AAM’s mainstay Cormac Brown offers up a noir homage to Dashiell Hammett in “The Tsar’s Treasure” and also interviews writer Kelli Stanley. The multi-talented Sarah Vaughn and Joanne Renaud both contributed stories and illustrations for this issue with Joanne Renaud doing double duty as the cover artist.

In addition to the usual suspects (Christine Pope, Kat Parrish, Blue Jackson, Peter Mark May, Ron Capshaw, Mark Caldwell), several promising new writers made their debut in Issue #8—J. Jasper’s politically charged “Fair and Balanced” led the way, with brothers V.J. and Justin Boyd contributing a dark fairy tale, Berkeley Hunt offering up a story of sibling hostility and R.C. Barnes providing a tale based on the legend of La Llorona, the weeping woman. All that plus editor Tomlinson’s usual “I Want to Sleep With” feature, starring Yul Brynner.

Issue #8 is a special double-issue to mark the magazine’s second anniversary. Publisher John Donald Carlucci has also announced that it will be the quarterly periodical’s last issue. The founder of Darke Media, Carlucci is currently producing a web series called “Fierce Cravings” now available on YouTube.

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