Feel the chill of the season with suspense and horror from Bob Thurber, Peter Norman, JM Landels, Bevan Thomas, and Eric Johnson. Touch folk and high fantasy with short fiction by Rhea Rose and Douglas Smith, have a chuckle with Mel Anastasiou and Susan Pieters, warm your heart with unlikely matchmaking and robot love from Stephen Koster and Alexis A Hunter, before turning your eye to the winners of the 2016 Magpie Awards. All this plus a bonus excerpt of the novel Paperboy by our feature author