"The visionary tongue speaks. Now listen to its voice." Storm Constantine
Founder and original editor Storm Constantine has revisited every issue of the ground-breaking magazine Visionary Tongue to select the very best stories and poems to appear in its pages across a twelve year period, more than thirty in all, including early stories from some of the UK genre scene's biggest names.
Introduction: Giving Voice to the Visionary Tongue Storm Constantine A Photocopier and a Giant Stapler Louise Coquio The Sin Taker Katherine Roberts Pumpkin Man David Rain Tides Tanya Brown The Gift of Flight Eden Crain In That Unquiet Earth Chris Amies Mad Love Ray Girvan A Traveller Meets One of the Minotaurs Younger Brothers Justina Robson The Bull Leapers Justina Robson A Tale from the End of the World Fiona McGavin See You Later Suzanne Gyseman Ptolemys Recording Jamie Spracklen Finding Mary Tim Lebbon The Arena Lachesis January The King of Hearts & the Jack of Frowns Jason Gould Succubus Chris Green Dancing Day Liz Williams Storm Sian Kingstone Deities Austin McCarron The House by the Lake Lisa Pallin Awakening Isabel Taylor The Satanic Sex Machines of Dr Zhinn William Eve An Angels Effigy Dylan Kinnett Sympathy for the Devil Paul Whyte Forgotten Sounds Simon Williams Luncheon with the Last of a Kind Colin James Fιa Janine Jones The Magus of Inner London Austin McCarron Collector of Broken Things Lauren Halkon Toe in Water, Hand in Flame Brian Maycock What You Came For Jaine Fenn The Heroic Acts of Strangers Ian Whates Chess David Graham Casamundi Douglas Thompson The Lady of the Fog J. H. Fleming Mother Mary A. N. Calaway Magpie Fiona McGavin * Morning Assembly Simon Williams * Rubies Katherine Roberts * Dieudamour Liz Williams * Appendix 1: Lex Visionaria Jamie Spracklen Appendix 2: The Female Fool Donna Scott About the Contributors
(* Bonus stories available in the hardback edition only)
The book is available as an A5 paperback and a numbered limited edition hardback signed by the editor [SOLD OUT]. The limited edition hardback includes four bonus stories not available elsewhere. |