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Summary: H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, 2005
This is a new magazine edited by Marvin Kaye, and published by John Betancourt's Wildside Press. I saw only one issue this year, number 2 though it's the third overall. (There was a brief issue numbered 1.5 in 2004.) This issue had 11 stories, one a reprint novelette (a good Tanith Lee story, "Where Does the Town Go at Night?", from Interzone in 1999), two of the short stories short-shorts. About 40,000 words total, of which about 30,000 were new.
This issue was labeled a "Special Richard Matheson" issue, and it included a decent Matheson story, "He Wanted to Live". Of the other stories, I preferred Joel McRennary's "Sweet as This", and the Lee reprint. I hope this magazine can, along with its new stablemate Weird Tales, which it resembles in many ways, achieve a more regular schedule in 2006.
