Issue #1 is now available!
Posted by nshumate | Filed under Uncategorized
Presenting Issue #1 of Arkham Tales! 100 pages of the best weird fiction on the market right now, and all free for your reading pleasure!
This issue bears cover artwork by Ivan Green, and contains fiction by Mike W. Barr, Scott Bastedo, Steve Calvert, Robert Masterson, Benjamin W. Olson, Derek Rutherford, Jenny Schwartz, and Jeffery Scott Sims.
Arkham Tales #1 (2.9 MiB, 3,016 hits)
Nathan Shumate
Editor & Publisher
November 16th, 2008 at 6:46 am
shared with a few sites. hope everythign works out for you.
thanks for the support over the years.
November 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
I’m speechless. I still haven’t finished reading it, but what I’ve seen so far is excellent, and the presentation is amazing. Professional. Well done to all of you.
November 16th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Just finished – pretty good stuff, I especially enjoyed “The House on the Hill of Stars” and “Until Death, I Eat” (yummy!). Very much looking forward to the next issue!
November 17th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
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I haven’t even read anything yet, but I’m already impressed. It’s beautiful, which is something I don’t expect from webonly pubs. Nice work, Nathan.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
I’ve enjoyed what I’ve read so far. Glad to see a publication like this, and hope it’s a hit.
November 17th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’m saving it for when I’ve finished NaNoWriMo. 418 downloads – WOW!
November 17th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Wow, great job, Nate! The cover is spectacular and the stories look very appetizing — will save them for my nighttime reading. HPL would be proud.
November 19th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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November 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
This looks stunning. I’m letting as many people as would be interested know about the publication. Here’s to many more issues.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Fantastic. I really loved “Pickman’s Progeny” and the parting shot “Until Death, I Eat”. The editorial hit the mark, echoing my own inspiration to write. Well done.
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
A very fine first issue. Very impressive.
December 6th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Excellent first issue — creepy Lovecraftian content and a vry polished, professional format. I’m happy to share this with my fiends…er, friends.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:10 am
Love the site. Can’t wait to sit down and read the entire first issue.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:27 am
One thing though, I see the PDF is published as two-up. That’s very annoying for the reader because we have to either 1.) reduce the view ratio or 2.) navigate from the left page to the right page with the horizontal scroll bar. We don’t all have wide monitors you know.
December 11th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Coronakwl,
I designed it that way because the usual alternative — portrait-oriented 8.5×11 pages — necessitates even more scrolling to see the full page (with annoying jumps at the end of each page, depending on your settings). If you set your Adobe Reader to show the whole page at once, you get a view not unlike what you’d get from a digest-sized magazine.
December 12th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Unfortunatly, my eyesight isn’t good enough to read in on a monitor at the text size
December 12th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I’ve just read this first issue and am very impressed; it looks great and the stories are a very nice mix of the traditional and the weird. I was very nice to see science fiction and secondary world fantasy represented as well.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
December 16th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
We, at Murky Depths, were considered odd when, in September 2007, we launched Issue #1 as a print magazine (although we do have a couple of free PDF tasters). I think Arkam Tales looks excellent and I like the double-page format (we use the same method on our taster issues). It’s good to have another magazine mixing the genres (although we rarely run Lovecraftian tales, relying more on the dark side of science fiction and the fantastic – which makes people who haven’t read Murky Depths think it’s a horror mag. Good luck Nathan!
December 21st, 2008 at 4:41 am
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