Wednesday, March 19, 2025

SSW: Spring 1992: US fantasy fiction magazines: CONJUNCTIONS (Spring), THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SF (March), WEIRD TALES (Spring), CEMETERY DANCE (Spring) (and the 1993 annuals which drew from them)

33 years ago. It seems odd that I gathered all these a third of a century ago. More specific comments to follow...indexing the Conjunctions issue was more time-consuming than I expected, to say the least.

7 *  Editor's Note * Bradford Morrow * ed (issue dedicated to the memory of Angela Carter, 1940-1992)
9 * Three Tales from Puerto Rico * translated and retold from Spanish by Rosario Ferré * gp
  9 * The Three Hunchbacks * ss 
  12 * The Monkey Whose Tail was Stepped On * ss
  15 * The Little Half Chicken * ss
18 * Tale of the Enchanted Pig * Norman Manea; translated from Romanian by Marguerite Dorian and Elliott Urdang * ss
24 * Kitty Blue * James Purdy * ss
42 * Five Dark Tales * Lydia Davis* gp
  42 * The Cedar Trees * vi
  43 * A Natural Disaster * vi
  44 * The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall * vi
  45 * Love * vi
  46 * The Rape of the Tanuk Women * vi
47 * The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes · Can Xue; translated by Ronald R. Janssen & Jian Zhang · ss * translated from the Chinese (Harvest Jun ’91) 
59 * Zho-Jan * John Ash * vi in translation from Tarim, translated by Ash 
  59 * A Note on the Text * John Ash * in
  62 * Zho-Jan * vi  (translated by John Ash from an uncredited Tarim document)
67 * The Bewitched Burr  and Other Tales * Grozdana Olujic * translated from Serbo-Croatian by Jascha Kessler and the author * gp
  67 * The Man Who Went Looking for His Face * Grozdana Olujic * ss
  71 * Parrots and Sheep * Grozdana Olujic * ss
  75 * The Bewitched Burr * Grozdana Olujic * ss
79 * Fish Story * Diana Hartog * ex P0lite to Bees (a prose bestiary, published as poetry by Coach House Books)
81 * Three Tales from the Tale Known as Princess Hoppy or the Labrador Tale * Jacques Roubaud; translated from the French by Bernard Hoepffner * nt
115 * The Black Angel * Gary Indiana * ss
121 * Complaint on Her Cat * Diane Ackerman * pm
122 * How I Became One of the Invisible * David Rattray * ss (illustrated by Rattray)
131 * Three Folktales from India * collected and translated from Tamil and Malayalam by * A. K. Ramanujan * gp
  131 * Crossing A River, Losing a Self * vi
  133 * A Friend in Need * vi
  133 * Shall I Show You My Real Face? * ss
138 * Four Bear Poems * Kurt Schwitters * gp (translated from the German by Jerome Rothenberg)
140 * Kuzma and the Worm * Forrest Gander * vi
142 * Convicta et Combusta * Joanna Scott * ss
153 * The Parakeet and the Cat * Scott Bradfield * ss
166 *  The Reduction of the Nativity * Fanny Howe * pm
168 * The Rose and Other Fairy Tales * Ludmilla Petrushevskaya * gp * translated from the Russian by Jamie Gambrell
   168 * The Rose * vi
   170 * Once Upon a Time There Was an Alarm Clock * vi
   170 * Uncle Well and Aunt Ah * vi
173 * James Laughlin * Eight Parables and Poems * gp * adapted from the Tawney/Penzler translation from the Sanskrit of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara) 
   173 * Story of a Snake Who Told His Secret to a Woman * pm
   174 * Story of the Fool and the Cakes * pm
   174* The Transformation * pm (based on Richard Burton's translation                              of the Koran)
   175 * An Attestation * pm
   175 * The Old Indian * pm
   176 * The Sultan's Justice * pm
   176 * The Inscription * pm
   177 * The Enchanted BirchTree * pm
178 * Lynne Tillman * Madame Realism: A Fairy Tale * illustrated by                                     Silvia Kolbowski
187 * Sally Pont * Ich Liebe Dich and Other Lies Too Hideous to Utter * ss
198 * Jerome Rothenberg * The Lorca Variations: "Lunar Grapefruits" * ss
203 * Dennis Tedlock * Three Maidens at the Bath * ss/pm
217 * Two Lithuanian Fairy Tales: * gp
223 * Alvyta *  O. V. de L. Milosz; translated by Edouard Roditi * vi
223 * Green Beard * O. V. de L. Milosz; translated by Edouard Roditi * ss
228 * The Children of Montjoie * Wendy Walker * ss
236 * Two Tales * Mary Egan * gp
236 * Valter the Wall-Builder * vi 
238 * Jonah *  vi 
239 * The Woman of Stone * Paola Capriolo * ss; translated by Lawrence Venuti
257 * O'Malley and Schwartz * Patrick McGrath * ss
261 * The Butterfly Girl * William T. Vollmann  * ss
267 * Rupert Killamarsh's Other Life * Paul West * ss; illustrated by Joe Servello
275 * The Pig Story * Russell Edson * vi 
277 * Snowbird and Other Tales * Yannick Murphy * gp
  277 * The Forest That Had No Trees * vi
  278 * Saddy Wampus * vi
  280 * Snowbird * vi
281 * My Grandmother's Story of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus Fly-Traps * Robert Antoni * nt
301 * Mété * Theodore Enslin * ss
316 * The [a Pictogram Resembling a Short Flight of Stairs] * Armand Schwerner * ss * illustrated by Schwerner
323 * Four Folktales from Nigeria * collected and translated from the Igbo by Romanus Egudu * gp [Egudu's first name given as "Romanos" on the back cover of the issue, and nowhere else...online sources confirm Romanus is correct]
   323 * Debtor and Creditors *vi
   325 * Monkey, Man and God * vi
   326 * Trusted Wife * vi
   328 * Three Brothers and a Half * vi
332 * Daughter * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge  * pm
333 * Papa Will * Charles Wartts, Jr. * ss
339 * R'ha-l'a R'a-H'oum * Patricia Eakins * ss
345 * The Channah Tales * Bradford Morrow * gp
   345 * Claro * ss
   351 * Tale of a Tub * vi
   352 * The Man Who Didn't Know Any Better * vi
   353 * The Seven Sheiks * vi
   356 * Cowboy * vi
   356 * Obadiah and Them Ilk * vi
   359 * The Faithless * vi
   360 * Chili Pepper Man * vi
   362 * The Tale of Ahmed, and His Ear * vi
   365 * The Bridge Song * vi
367 * Notes on Contributors


The following indices taken from the FictionMags Index:








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    4 comments:

    TracyK said...

    A good collection of magazines, with nice covers. I had not heard of Conjunctions. Nor Cemetery Dance.

    I did not remember that Kristine Kathryn Rusch edited The Magazine of Fantasy and Fiction, although I think I have read about that recently. I just reviewed her first book in the Diving Universe series and I liked it a lot. Now I want to look for some of her short stories.

    March 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
    Todd Mason said...

    Thanks, Tracy! I certainly didn't expect that indexing the CONJUNCTIONS issue would take most of a day...it's a pretty noodling task, between checking and rechecking the links. CONJUNCTIONS has been one of the major and most interesting of the academic little magazines, and CEMETERY DANCE has been a magazine that leaned into horror, but has had a strong crime-fiction component to it as well. Though the last issue so far was published in '24, they haven't folded the magazine, at least not officially. https://www.cemeterydance.com/available-issues-of-cemetery-dance-magazine.html
    https://conjunctions.com/

    March 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
    Todd Mason said...

    K. K. Rusch was the first editor to follow Edward L. Ferman, easily the longest-term editor, who grew up with the magazine after his father became publisher in the early '60s..I think Ferman definitely looked over her shoulder during her term at the magazine, but she did some interesting things, there and since.

    March 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
    Todd Mason said...

    A memory slip on my part, as Joseph Ferman became publisher of Mercury Press magazines, still including ELLERY QUEEN'S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, in 1954, as Lawrence Spivak wanted to focus more of his time on MEET THE PRESS, which had several years before jumped from AMERICAN MERCURY PRESENTS: MEET THE PRESS on radio, with a few years' overlap, to the television series it has remained since. Edward Ferman remained publisher during Rusch's editorship.

    March 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM

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