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STUPEFYING STORIES 26DOUBLE ISSUE! TWICE THE STORIES! TWICE THE CHILLS!Jamie Lackey - “Blood Apples”Gordon Grice - “Stone”Allan Dyen-Shapiro - “Midnight Meal at a Kobe Noodle Joint”Karin Terebessy - “Bandages”Jorge Salgado-Reyes - “Neon Blood”Julie Frost - “Beverly Hellbunnies”Kevin Berg - “Faceless”Anya Ow - “Hungry Ghosts”Jesse Dyer - “Losing Things”Richard Zwicker - “Possession...

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The Never-ending FAQ • 30 October 2024

 What a strange day. Yesterday we had record-breaking heat. My geraniums are starting to bloom again. Tomorrow’s forecast calls for rain, or possibly even snow. Snow might actually be preferable, as taking little kids trick-or-treating in the rain is a miserable experience for everyone involved.Quite a few new questions have come in in the past week, but I have a lot...

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“Looking Backward: Part 2” • by Bruce Bethke

Stupefying Stories is a by-product of chemotherapy.It seems morbid to put it this way, but it’s true. I never planned to become a magazine editor. After 30 years in the publishing industry, as both a writer and an editor, I was really quite fed up with the whole SF/F scene and happy to walk away from it. When Karen and I incorporated Rampant Loon Media LLC, it was with the...

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“Looking Backward: Part 1” • by Bruce Bethke

In response to yesterday’s Week in Review post, in which I wrote about taking a deep dive through our historical data and readership stats, Guy Stewart asks, “…now what do you do with THAT?”We’re still digesting all we learned, and still in talks with our financial backers to determine how best to take Stupefying Stories and Rampant Loon Press forward into 2025. Like ordering...

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The Month in Review • 27 October 2024

It’s been a batguano busy month here at La Casa del Calamari, so it’s been some time since we’ve done a Week in Review post. Looking back at the last one…The first and foremost thing that jumps out at me is what’s happened to the cow pasture and that little maple tree just across the fence. This morning, it looks like this:I suppose it won’t be too much longer before it looks...

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