Midnight Echo magazine

Edited by Kirstyn McDermott and Ian Mond, Midnight Echo Issue 1 features stories by Stephen Dedman, Paul Haines, George Ivanoff, Deborah Biancotti, Matthew Chrulew, David Conyers and Robert Shearman, among many more!

Available format: PDF

Please note: print copies of Midnight Echo Issue 1 have sold out.

Featuring the Aurealis Awards 2008 best horror short story finalist ‘Pale Dark Soldier’ by Deborah Biancotti.

“Midnight Echo Issue 1 is a credit to the editors and the AHWA, collecting a group of very talented authors of dark fiction. It’s amazingly good value.” [Stephanie Gunn - HorrorScope]

Edited by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings, Midnight Echo Issue 2 features stories by David Conyers, Bob Franklin, Kurt Newton, Felicity Dowker, Andrew J McKiernan, among many more!

Available format: PDF

Please note: print copies of Midnight Echo Issue 2 have sold out.

Featuring the 2009 Aurealis Award and Australian Shadows Award best horror short story finalist ‘The Message’ by Andrew J McKiernan.

Also featuring the Australian Shadows 2009 best horror short story finalist ‘The Emancipated Dance’ by Felicity Dowker.

“The magazine has definitely maintained and reinforced what was created with the success of Issue 1…” [The Specusphere – Damien Smith]

“Midnight Echo continues to be a great showcase of dark fiction writers that is maintaining an extremely high standard.” [HorrorScope – Stephanie Gunn]

Edited by Stephen Studach, Midnight Echo Issue 3 features stories and poetry by an array of gifted wordsmiths, dark and macabre art, a featured artist’s gallery, an exclusive interview with Barbara Baynton (who died in 1929!), and the first Midnight Echo Illustrated story!

Available format: PDF

Please note: print copies of Midnight Echo Issue 3 have sold out.

Featuring the Australian Shadows Award 2009 best horror short story finalist ‘Busking’ by Jason Fischer.

“Once again Midnight Echo proves to be a fine advertisement for local dark genre writers.” [Jeff Ritchie - ScaryMinds]

Edited by Lee Battersby, Midnight Echo Issue 4 is a monster, well, has a story or two about a few monsters anyway. We’ve packed in twelve exciting stories, three poems, art by eight talented artists and four exciting interviews, including Charlaine Harris!

Available format: PDF

Please note: print copies of Midnight Echo Issue 4 have sold out.

Australian Shadows Award 2010 finalist for Best Edited Publication!

“Everywhere we have travelled, the human race has been shadowed by monsters. They lurked in the shadows just outside the circle of light cast by our fires. They swam in the darkness beneath our keels. When we discovered new lands, and stepped onto white-sand beaches for the first time, they watched us from the bushes. They live in the corners of our eyes; in the silver lining within the cloud; in the cold, scared part of our minds we have spent our entire evolution pretending to ignore.

“There are monsters in the pages of Midnight Echo: discovered; dissected, and chronicled by those who are unafraid to look beyond the circle of fire. Stories and poetry from writers like Geoffrey Maloney, Jenny Blackford, and Christopher Green, who have swum in the waters below the human psyche and returned to warn us of the truth they have discovered. That there is only one true monster in the human world, and it lives in your mirror.

“Open the pages of Midnight Echo, and see what happens when the mirror stares back.” [Lee Battersby, editor of Issue 4]

Read an interview with Lee.

The AHWA’s official fiction magazine Midnight Echo has reached issue 5, released Feb 2011. This 120-page feast of horror has been edited by AHWA President, Leigh Blackmore.

Available formats: PDF and Print.

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“Leigh Blackmore almost delivers the perfect horror mag…” [Jeff Ritchie - ScaryMinds]

Midnight Echo 5 is jam-packed with dark fiction, poetry and art. It also includes the winners of the AHWA’s 2010 Short Story competition and Flash Fiction Competition (stories by Christopher Green and Jason Fischer).

As an added bonus, this issue features an eight-page graphic story by Mark Farrugia and Greg Chapman.

Read an interview with Leigh.

The Australian Horror Writers Association is pleased to announce the line-up of the sixth issue of their official fiction magazine, Midnight Echo. This edition is a themed issue, with all stories being science fiction horror.

Available formats: Digital (epub, mobi, and PDF) and Print.

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Nine stories are set in the far future and taking place in the distant reaches of space. Inside you’ll discover a strange world with a planetary ring forged from organic matter, bizarre aliens cataloguing and collecting humans to populate their idea of paradise, Lovecraftian horrors come to life in the heart of a comet, cybernetic monsters hunting humans in the hull of an abandoned star ship, and paranoid space explorers pushed to their limits at the frontier of an uncharted universe. This issue also includes the 2011 Australian Horror Writers Association’s Flash Fiction and Short Story Award winning entries.

• “Earthworms” by Cody Goodfellow
• “Trawling the Void” by Alan Baxter
• “Out Hunting For Teeth” by Joanne Anderton
• “Graveyard Orbit” by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
• “Surgeon Scalpelfingers” by Helen Stubbs
• “Silver-Clean” by Jenny Blackford
• “The Wanderer in the Darkness” by Andrew J McKiernan
• “Winds of Nzambi” by David Conyers & David Kernot
• “Duncan Checks Out” by Nicholas Stella
• “Dead Low” by Cat Sparks
• “More Matter, Less Art” by Stephen Dedman
• “Seeds” by Mark Farrugia

The issue features an in depth interview with Charles Stross, one of the most imaginative and insightful science fiction authors writing today. Stross has been honoured with two Hugo awards and Locus Reader awards, and has published more than a dozen novels, including Saturn’s Children and The Fuller Memorandum. He talks to David Conyers for Midnight Echo about his Lovecrafitan science fiction horror series, The Laundry, and his latest novel, Rule 34.

A second interview is with Chris Moore, world renowned British science fiction artist best known for his striking covers for Orion Publishing’s SF Masterworks series. Insights are gained into Moore’s process for achieving his striking and imaginative art, and the many changes he has been facing in the publishing industry since he began illustrating in the 1970s.

The cover for Midnight Echo 6, ‘Strange Behaviour’, is a creation of talented UK artist, Paul Drummond, who will be well-known to readers of Interzone and Jupiter for his striking depictions of star ships, futuristic humans and robots. Featured interior illustrators include Steve Gilberts, David Lee Ingersoll, Olivia Kernot and Nathan Wyckoff.

Midnight Echo 6: The Science Fiction Horror Special, has been edited by South Australian trio, David Kernot (editor of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine), Jason Fischer (Writers of the Future winner and Aurealis nominee), and David Conyers (author of The Eye of Infinity, The Spiraling Worm and co-editor of Cthulhu Unbound 3).

Read an interview with the editors.