Esoteric Introduction by Mark Booth All new Fiction by: Laird Barron, Donald Tyson, John Shirley, Simon R. Green, Simon Strantzas, Glen Hirshberg Interviews with: Adam Chamberlain & Brian A. Dixon, Glen Hirshberg, Donald Tyson, Noelle Leon Articles on: "The Secret History of King Arthur" by Mark Booth, "Through the Darkest Lens: Conspiracy Theory in Fiction and Culture" by K. H. Vaughan, "An Unreading: Notes on a Narrative of Failure" by D. Harlan Wilson Jade Sky Comic by: Joe McKinney and Patrick Freivald with artwork from B. MacKay. Columns from Gary Braunbeck, Yvonne Navarro, Richard...

Brothers Macbeth and Drederick Tooms should have it made as fair-haired scions of an impossibly rich and powerful family of industrialists. Alas, life is complicated in mid-1950s USA when you're child heirs to the throne of Sword Enterprises, a corporation that has enshrined Machiavelli's The Prince as its operating manual and whose patriarch believes, Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds, would be a swell company logo. Consider also those long, cruel winters at the Mountain Leopard boarding school for assassins in the Himalayas, or that Dad may be a supervillain, while an uncle...

Nanashi was born into a life of violence. Delivered from the mean streets by the Heron Clan, he mastered the way of the gun and knife and swiftly ascended through yakuza ranks to become a dreaded enforcer. His latest task? He and an entourage of expert killers are commanded to kidnap Muzaki, a retired world-renowned wrestler under protection of the rival Dragon Syndicate. It should be business as bloody usual for Nanashi and his ruthless brothers in arms, except for the detail that Muzaki possesses a terrifying secret. A secret that will spawn a no-holds barred gang war and send Nanashi on a...