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This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers. The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone. The following stories are in the anthology: "For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell"The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden"Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo"The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison"If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark"Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller"Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo"Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert"Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman"Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia"Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt"Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard"The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed"The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk"Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee"Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal"The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear"Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu"Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni"(emet)" by Lauren Ring"Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar

NOTE: This is the black and white version of the magazine. A full color version is also available.Red Room is a magazine of extreme horror and hardcore dark crime.FICTION BY: Jack Ketchum, Meg Elison, Tim Waggoner, David James Keaton, Larry Hinkle, Tom Barlow, Nick Manzolillo, Josh Scott Wilson, and Gil Valle."The Phantom Video Stream" by Nick Manzolillo sets the tone with red-room atmospherics in the story of a man who discovers a hidden channel streaming from what may be another reality.Tim Waggoner's "Are You Crazy?" answers its own question in shocking Waggoner style.Larry Hinkle's "Meat Cute" opens with "Stop staring at her tits!" and ends with a coldblooded revelation. Short and not so sweet.Tom Barlow's "Selfie" demonstrates that two heads aren't always better than one, not when they're spitting images.Meg Elison's "The Middle Child" takes an unflinching look at fame and greed and the mania underlying video virality.In "Sick Jokes" Josh Scott Wilson takes political incorrectness to new heights--and depths.David James Keaton, aka DJK, takes us for a ride into brutal biker mayhem that hits like a jackhammer in "The Flowery." Some tattoos ain't cool.Jack Ketchum reprises "Megan's Law," a disturbing look at what can happen when a child molester moves into a concerned dad's neighborhood. Plus, an exclusive excerpt from the NYPD's "Cannibal Cop" Gil Valle's upcoming Comet Press release of his first novel A Gathering of Evil, which parallels the message-board fantasies that landed him in jail.FEATURES: Duane Bradley takes an irresistible look at the Video Nasties and the uproar those "obscene" video cassettes caused in the UK back in the 1980s. Ben Arzate reviews a formerly out-of-print classic horror novel, which is making a howling comeback. Patrick King reviews one of the best of the recent horror movie releases.Red Room interviews the phenomenal Meg Elison, and David L. Tamarin interviews Gil Valle, getting him to open up about his incarceration by the "thought police."Red Room regular Barfly Bob taste-tests the World's Most F**ked Up adult beverages.A surreal, behind the scenes glimpse at the Red Room headquarters with rogue reporter Brian J. McCarthy.