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