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Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun This is my favourite book series. Not only does it have a strange plot, but the pacing swings from slow and thoughtful to a breakneck pace…

Kane - The Undertow - Karl Edward Wagner Karl Edward Wagner’s undertow begins in a morgue, as Kane seeks out a body. What follows is a cycle of fear, loss, and lust. Dessylyn is trying to flee Kane,…

The Gunslinger - Stephen King The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed. This may be the greatest opening of a story ever penned, and the questions is raises work as the…

Hunter – Oliver Brackenbury – Whetstone Issue 6 We join Litlöstá as she goes above and beyond to find that perfect shade of lip gloss. Aesthetic-forward, she puts on as much of a show as a hunt as…

Appendix I In the tradition of the Appendix N, we at ICHOR would like to define our own Appendix I to better illustrate what kind of stories we are looking at. We will use the HEWN scoring system, whi...

[Today we sit down for a quick interview with Carl Ellis. An author and editor, Ellis is launching a new fantasy/horror zine entitled Ichor Magazine. Here, Ellis discusses his plans for Ichor, the …

[Today we sit down for a quick interview with Carl Ellis. An author and editor, Ellis is launching a new fantasy/horror zine entitled Ichor Magazine. Here, Ellis discusses his plans for Ichor, the …