Sumer Is Icumen In!
Welcome to the fifth anniversary edition of Schlock! Webzine, celebrating half a decade as purveyors of the finest online schlock fantasy, science fiction and horror. This week we have six new stories, all from established Schlock contributors, plus the latest instalments of the current serials, The Rocking Dead by Joseph Rubas, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, and John Buchan’s creepy classic Witchwood.
A Russian raised in the Raj is Scattering Ashes in MS Swift’s story of spiritualism and snobbery. Meanwhile ghostly gunslingers and Roman soldiers meet in early 20th century Cumbria with horrific consequences—it can only be a return from Gary Murphy. In The Rocking Dead, MiShawn encounters The Governator.
Hillbillies and hunters are On the Track of an Answer in the hills of Appalachia in Paul Lubaczewski’s tale. Meanwhile, a pickup line leads to a new man in Mark Slade’s Shape I’m In. Zahid Zaman has a story of Lynchean surrealism in Waking From A Dream, while a voice speaks from beyond the grave in Joseph Patchen’s Be Mine.
20, 000 Leagues under the Sea, Professor Aronnax and friends explore the wonders of the Indian Ocean, while in the Witchwood, David Semphill awakes after a night in the woods….
