Fantasy Scroll Magazine Issue #3

Fantasy Scroll Magazine is an online, quarterly 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 #3 includes 13 short stories:

"Descant" — Piers Anthony

"The Peacemaker" — Rachel A. Brune

"My Favorite Photos of Anne" — Aaron Polson

"Verisimilitude" — Alan Murdock

"Orc Legal" — James Beamon

"Kindle My Heart" — Rebecca Birch

"Burn in Me" — Carrie Martin

"The Memory-Setter's Apprentice" — Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

"Hither and Yon" — Anatoly Belilovsky

"The Contents of the Box with the Ribbon" — David Neilsen

"The First First Fire" — Alexander Monteagudo

"Missing Tessa" — Anna Yeatts

"The Perfect Book" — Alex Shvartsman


In the non-fiction section, this issue features:

-Interview With Author Piers Anthony

-Interview With Author and Publisher Anna Yeatts

-Interview With Editor Scott H. Andrews

-Artist Spotlight: Suebsin Pulsiri

-Book Review: Upgraded (edited by Neil Clarke)

-Movie Review: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) (Peter Duffell)


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.