Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Cover and Table of Contents!

Coming January 6, the 68th issue of the Hugo, Locus, and World Fantasy Award-winning Uncanny Magazine!!

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The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on day of release and half on February 3.

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The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 68, "Faery Frights" by Katy Shuttleworth: A figure in ratty brown-gray robes has a mask (or face?) of a stag skull with antlers. The antlers have cloth or velvet in ragged strips. The mask or face eye's glow green and the figure has long white hair. In the figure's left hand is a square-glass lantern and in the right hand a staff ending in an antler. Behind them, gnarled tree branches stretch into a green sky. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "January/February 2026," Issue Sixty-Eight," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 68 Table of Contents

Cover:
Faery Frights by Katy Shuttleworth

Editorial:
“The Uncanny Valley” by Michael Damian Thomas

Fiction:
“The Doorkeepers” by A. T. Greenblatt (1/6)
“Be My Horse, Ride the Cowboy” by Christopher Caldwell (1/6)
“I Met You on the Train” by J. R. Dawson (1/6)

“This Story Does Not Exist” by Kylie Lee Baker (2/3)
“The Memory Hounds of Bak-Ankham” by A. W. Prihandita (2/3)
“Words That Wither, Words That Bloom” by Jules Arbeaux (2/3)

“Girl Stuff” by Claire Humphrey (1/6)

Essays:
“These Stories Teach Us How to Fight” by Dawn Xiana Moon (1/6)
Uncanny Interview with Marie Brennan” by Betsy Aoki and Marie Brennan (1/6)

“I Write in English Because I Can” by Jana Bianchi (2/3)
“Frognative Dissonance” by Riley Silverman (2/3)

Poetry:
“No Kings / No Soldiers” by A. M. Tuomala (1/6)
“An underground butterfly” by Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga (1/6)

“The Parsley Girl” by Theodora Goss (2/3)
“A Field Guide for Broken Sons in Transit” by Joemario Umana (2/3)

Interviews:
Interview: Christopher Caldwell by Caroline M. Yoachim (1/6)

Interview: A. W. Prihandita by Caroline M. Yoachim (2/3)

Podcasts:
Episode 68A (January 6): Editor’s Introduction; “The Doorkeepers by A. T. Greenblatt, as read by Matt Peters; “No Kings / No Soldiers” by A. M. Tuomala, as read by Matt Peters; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing A. T. Greenblatt.

Episode 68B (February 3): Editor’s Introduction; “This Story Does Not Exist by Kylie Lee Baker, as read by Erika Ensign; “The Parsley Girl” by Theodora Goss, as read by Erika Ensign; and Michael Damian Thomas interviewing Kylie Lee Baker.

 

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