The Skull & Laurel 002

The Skull & Laurel #2

by Alex Woodroe (Editor), Cameron Howard (Editor)

The Skull & Laurel returns with its second issue, packed with an abundance of New Weird Literature for you! Featuring stories from Dmitri Akers, Atalanti Evripidou, Cedrick May, Neal Auch, Le Werner, Anne Liberton, Ria Hill, Beau Farrow, and Jonathan Olfert, and non-fiction from Xochilt Avila. Plus your quarterly Horror-scopes!

Genres: Horror

44 pages, Paperback

Published January 15, 2025

About the author

Romanian writer and editor of dark speculative fiction. Editor-in-chief of Tenebrous Press and writer of WHISPERWOOD, THE NIGHT SHIP, and TATRATEA, as well as short stories and articles.

Reviews

[Bogi Takács]

Even better than the first issue, I enjoyed it a lot.

I've already recommended "There is a Coffeeshop" by Le Werner in my daily recommendations series on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/bogiperson.b...

There's at least one more rec coming, too.

Find me elsewhere: My Patreon | My Bluesky account

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Source of the book: Bought with my own money (print subscription)

[David Swisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tenebrous does such an excellent job of sourcing just first rate stories from authors who will likely be new to you, many of them being in an underrepresented minority. This issue was phenomenal from the stories to the non-fiction to the little extras like the horrorscope. The cover and interior art were excellent as well.

[Matthew · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent output of dark fantasy and horror from Tenebrous Press. My particular favorite was Atalanti Evripidou's 'The Macabre Dance of the Fiddler and Kore' - a delight of a hard-boiled pastiche in a city where the dead visit regularly and folk wear their bones on the outside. Skull & Laurel have given us some amazing work in their first year, and I look forward to seeing where they go from here.