Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #5

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, bi-monthly publication featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and paranormal short-fiction. The magazine’s mission is to publish high-quality, entertaining, and thought-provoking speculative fiction. With a mixture of short stories, flash fiction, and micro-fiction, Fantasy Scroll Magazine aims to appeal to a wide audience.


Issue #5 includes 10 short stories:

"The City Dreams of Bird-Men" - Emily Cataneo

"Moksha" - Andrew Kaye

"The White Snake" - Laurie Tom

"Tempest Fugit" - Christine Borne

"Sticks and Stones" - Jarod K. Anderson

"The Thousand Year Tart" - Charles Payseur

"How the Grail Came to the Fisher King" - Sarah Avery

"Human Bones" - John Giezentanner

"Bandit" - John H. Stevens

Graphic Story: "Shamrock" - Josh Brown & Josh Fortune


In the non-fiction section, this issue features:

Interview with Author Jim Hines

Interview with Author Sarah Avery

Interview with Author Christine Borne

Interview with Award Winning Editor John Joseph Adams

Artist Spotlight: Todor Hristov

Book Review: Echopraxia (Peter Watts)

Movie Review: Rigor Mortis (Juno Mak)


The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.