KillerKILLER holds a lot of memories for me, most of them bad. Sometimes things work out that way.

August Derleth died in 1971. His small press, Arkham House, was the only market to which I’d sold fiction. F&SF published some fantasy but not (as I learned by trying) heroic fantasy; so when I wrote Hunter’s Moon, a heroic fantasy set in Italy under the Emperor Domitian, I sent it to the other possible market: Fantastic. Ten years earlier under Cele Goldsmith/Lalli, Fantastic had been a very good magazine. That was no longer the case, but beggars can’t be choosers. continue reading…