Features ALL NEW poetry, artwork, fiction, scripts, and nonfiction. Contents: “The Beginnings of Imagination” by Ray Bradbury (Foreword) “An Abiding Darkness, A Phantastique Light” by Jason V Brock (Introduction) SECTION ONE: Magical Realities “Michael the Monster” by Paul Kane “A Darke Phantastique” by Jason V Brock “Charles Out of La-La Land” by Bruce Taylor “The Wisest Stone and the Zoo” by Nathaniel Lee “Out of the Blue, and Into the Black” by Sunni K Brock “Lizard Man Dispatches” by Ray Garton “Real Live Lobsters” by D. T. Kastn “Bittersweet Bedlam” by Samuel Marzioli “The Last Witch” by William F. Nolan SECTION TWO: Lost Innocence “The Claim” by Erinn L. Kemper “Lovecraft’s Pillow” by Don Webb “Forgetting” by Misty Dahl (flash) “Birth of an Apocalypse” by Lawrence Van Hoof “Descartar” by S. J. Chambers “Apples and Peaches” by Gio Clairval “La Joie de Vivre, or Picasso and the Satyr” by Ralph Sevush “Immigrant” by Andrew S. Fuller “Timbrel and Pipe” by Melanie Tem SECTION THREE: Forbidden Knowledge “Old Enough to Drink” by Lois H. Gresh “Homo Suicidus” by JG Faherty “‘In Your Dark’: Differing Strategies in Subhuman Integration Through ‘Monster Academies’ [S. Armand & J. Miller, Unpublished Manuscript]” by Jason Maurer “Transformations at the Inn of the Golden Pheasant” by Gene O’Neill “Lords of Chaos” by Wade German (poem) “The Squatters” by Nicole Cushing “Tardigrade” by Mike Allen “The Bat” by Jan Vander Laenen Covert artwork by Samuel Araya