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Micro-fiction 027 – Undertow

The dark waters of the storm-racked lake toss the small craft and its terrified occupants. So much for a weekend break! Another tale of dark fantasy from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds.

Virgil Finlay's epic illustration for Poe's Tell Tale Heart

Virgil Finlay: Master of Dark Fantasy Illustration

Virgil Finlay was a contemporary of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch and Robert E. Howard. He started his career as an illustrator on ‘Weird Tales’ and went on to create fantastic art for the best sf, fantasy and horror fiction of his day, (Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury).

Bruce Pennington art

Clark Ashton Smith: Master of Gothic, Pulp and SF classics

Golden Age writer of over 100 stories Clark Ashton Smith enjoyed a reputation for fast-paced, evocative narratives in the thrilling forms of the golden age genre fiction: horror, science fiction, heroic fantasy and the macabre.

Algernon Blackwood, Master of supernatural horror

Algernon Blackwood: Master of Supernatural Fiction

Regarded as a pioneer of the modern ghost story, alongside M. R. James, Blackwood wrote fiction with a heavy undertow of horror and the supernatural.