Publisher's Synopsis
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
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