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The mammoth 85th Anniversary Issue of The Unique Magazine features:

FICTION: ‘Heart of Ice’ by Tanith Lee; ‘Creature’ by Ramsey Shehadeh; ‘The Yellow Dressing Gown’ by Sarah Monette; ‘The Talion Moth’ by John Kirk; ‘Detours on the Way to Nothing’ by Rachel Swirsky; ‘Black Petals’ (new Elric novella) by Michael Moorock.

SPECIAL FEATURE: The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.

POETRY: ‘A Compleynte on the Deth of Sir William Thatcher, Sumtyme Ycleped Ulrich of Lichtenstein’ by Geoffrey Chaucer.

NONFICTION: Interview: Jeff VanderMeer chats with weird fantasy novelist China Míeville; Weirdism: Stephen Geigen-Miller on his pulp-fiction heritage; Lost Pages: Ira Marcks presents a snapshot of modern Innsmouth…; Lost in Lovecraft: …and Kenneth Hite explores why H.P.L.’s characters sought asylum in Arkham; Excerpt: Csilla Csori discusses the science of Dune’s gholas and how to raise the dead; The Bazaar: Cherie Priest meets a steampunk Cthulhoid amulet crafter; The Cryptic: Darrell Schweitzer on the enduring power of the Blob; The Library: Book reviews.