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

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