Werewolf Radar: Cryptosaurus, USA By Nate Balding Published Issue 089, May 2021 April, year of our Birdy eighteen hundred and ninety. Two prospectors minding their own business chewing cactus bits into boot nails are beset by a bat-winged, gator-faced skin boomerang skidding over the Arizona desert, and kicking up the kind of dust storm rarely recalled […]
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Monument to the conquerors of space 1964 By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 089, May 2021 Mark Mothersbaugh is a Conceptualist. As an undergraduate art student at Kent State University, Mark began creating work in the late 60’s and has created tens of thousands of works to the current day in various mediums including, rubber stamp designs, mail art,
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Base Camp By Ali Hoff Published Issue 089, May 2021 Ali Hoff is UK-based freelance concept artist and 3D Modeller who creates strange otherly worlds, scapes, characters and more.
Naoki By Dan Moran Published Issue 089, May 2021 Best of Birdy, Originally published Issue 052, April 2018 “Naoki,” ball-point pen on paper, 8.5″ x 11″, 2014. Artist Bio I am a self-taught artist and have been drawing as long as I can remember, since before I could read or write. I’ve never formally studied
Shattered Sky By Lio Bumba Published Issue 089, May 2021 Lio Bumba (BUMBAKiNi) is a self-taught artist who brings a global view to the Denver art scene. Of Congolese descent, he boldly envisions the modern American experience from a black man’s perspective in swaths of folkloric imagery inspired by his African descent, European upbringing, and
MY LA: Shirley Manson Talks life in the City of Angels and her experience of LA Lockdown By Beatie Wolfe Published Issue 089, May 2021 AS PART OF HER COLUMN FOR LONDON’S EVENING STANDARD NEWSPAPER, BIRDY FRIEND, ARTIST BEATIE WOLFE, SITS DOWN WITH AN INSPIRING LOS ANGELES RESIDENT. THIS MONTH? GARBAGE ICON, ACTIVIST AND FORCE SHIRLEY MANSON Garbage frontwoman,
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A Bonfire In the Belly of the Beast By Joel Tagert Art by Peter Kornowski Published Issue 089, May 2021 Being consumed by a dark god was just the beginning. When Th’yaleh’s great tentacles rose around my little dinghy, I looked frantically for escape, but of course there was none. Perhaps there had never been
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Dirty Spatula Fiction By Brian Polk Art By Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 088, April 2021 Look for the phrase “Dirty Spatula” strategically placed in each story. The Sticky Spot on the Floor Grew Last Night “The sticky spot on the kitchen floor sure seems like it grew exponentially last night,” I told my roommate when
StokerCon 2021: Colorado’s Annual Horror Lit Fest An Interview with John Palisano and Joshua Viola By Krysti Joméi Art by Aaron Lovett Read an exclusive sneak peek of the The Denver Phantom Edition — “Collateral Damage” by Angie Hodapp — below the interview. Horror Writers Association president John Palisano and StokerCon 2021 souvenir anthology editor & producer
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 088, April 2021 Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (2020) The setup of Rumaan Alam’s novel, Leave the World Behind, lures us into a scene that could be sucked right out of a Jordan Peele movie. A white family of four, Amanda, Clay, and their two children,