Visionary Tongue

Founder and original editor Storm Constantine has revisited every issue of the ground-breaking magazine Visionary Tongue to select the very best stories and poems to appear in its pages across a twelve year period, more than thirty in all, including early stories from some of the UK genre scene's biggest names. Introduction: Giving Voice to the Visionary Tongue – Storm Constantine A Photocopier and a Giant Stapler – Louise Coquio The Sin Taker – Katherine Roberts Pumpkin Man – David Rain Tides – Tanya Brown The Gift of Flight – Eden Crain In That Unquiet Earth – Chris Amies Mad Love – Ray Girvan A Traveller Meets One of the Minotaur’s Younger Brothers – Justina Robson The Bull Leapers – Justina Robson A Tale from the End of the World – Fiona McGavin See You Later – Suzanne Gyseman Ptolemy’s Recording – Jamie Spracklen Finding Mary – Tim Lebbon The Arena – Lachesis January The King of Hearts & the Jack of Frowns – Jason Gould Succubus – Chris Green Dancing Day – Liz Williams Storm – Sian Kingstone Deities – Austin McCarron The House by the Lake – Lisa Pallin Awakening – Isabel Taylor The Satanic Sex Machines of Dr Zhinn – William Eve An Angel’s Effigy – Dylan Kinnett Sympathy for the Devil – Paul Whyte Forgotten Sounds – Simon Williams Luncheon with the Last of a Kind – Colin James Féa – Janine Jones The Magus of Inner London – Austin McCarron Collector of Broken Things – Lauren Halkon Toe in Water, Hand in Flame – Brian Maycock What You Came For – Jaine Fenn The Heroic Acts of Strangers – Ian Whates Chess – David Graham Casamundi – Douglas Thompson The Lady of the Fog – J. H. Fleming Mother Mary – A. N. Calaway Appendix 1: Lex Visionaria – Jamie Spracklen Appendix 2: The Female Fool – Donna Scott About the Contributors