Featuring Stephen Graham Jones's Lover's Lane, reprinted in the The Best Horror of the Year. Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some time, our seventy-first issue is one for the ages. Guest edited by
Brian Evenson,
McSweeney's 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible is a hair-raising collection of fiction that will challenge the notion of what horror has been, and suggest what twenty-first-century horror is and can be. And it's all packaged in a mind-bending, nesting-doll-like series of interlocking slipcases that must be seen to be believed.
There's
Stephen Graham Jones's eerie take on the alien abduction story,
Mariana Enr?quez's haunting tale of childhood hijinks gone awry, and Jeffrey Ford on a writer who loses control of his characters.
Nick Antosca (cocreator of the award-winning TV series
The Act) spins out a novelette about the hidden horrors of wine country. There's
Kristine Ong Muslim exploring environmental horror in the Philippines; a sharp-edged folk tale by
Gabino Iglesias, and Din? writer
Natanya Ann Pulley reimagining sci-fi horror from an indigenous perspective. Hungarian writer
Attila Veres proffers a dark take on the not-so-hidden sociopathy of multi-level marketing. And
Erika T. Wurth explores the dark gaps leading to other worlds. If that weren't enough: an excerpt from a new novel by
Brandon Hobson; a chilling allegorical horror story by
Senaa Ahmad; a Lovecraftian bildungsroman by
Lincoln Michel; unsettling dream cities from
Nick Mamatas;
M. T. Anderson's exceptionally weird take on babysitting; and, improbably, much more.
Author: Claire Boyle
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: McSweeney's
Published: 10/17/2023
Series: McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
Weight: 2.85lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9781952119644
About the AuthorMcSweeney's Quarterly Concern began in 1998 as a literary journal that published only works rejected by other magazines. That rule was soon abandoned, and since then McSweeney's has attracted some of the finest writers in the world, from
George Saunders and
Lydia Davis, to
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and
David Foster Wallace. Recent issues have featured work by
Tommy Orange,
Hanif Abdurraqib,
Lisa Taddeo,
Mimi Lok, and
Lesley Nneka Arimah. At the same time, the journal continues to be a major home for new and unpublished writers; we're committed to publishing exciting fiction regardless of pedigree.