Magazine: Realms of Fantasy
Bibliographic comments: US high-quality magazine publishing fantasy.
• Only issues with contents of interest to this library are listed here, highlighted in white.
Realms of Fantasy, #7
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
October 1995
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 88 pages
$3.50
Notes:
• Editorial 'A first birthday is a proud one that holds out promise for the future' by Shawna McCarthy.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: William F. Wu, Tuli, Prince of the Mongols // Chris Bunch, A Matter of Honor // Leslie What, Magic Carpets
// L. Timmel Duchamp, Promises to Keep // Geoffrey A. Landis, The Tale of the Fish Who Loved a Bird
Realms of Fantasy, #13
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
October 1996
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 80 pages
$3.50
Notes:
• Editorial 'Critical Success: Just Another Fantasy?' by Shawna McCarthy.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Susan J. Kroupa, Scapegoat // Charles de Lint, Shining Nowhere But in the Dark // William F. Wu, Nairich
// Don Webb, The Beautiful Wassilissa // Geoffrey A. Landis, Hot Death on Wheels
Realms of Fantasy, #24
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
August 1998
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 104 pages
$3.99
Notes:
• Editorial 'And the Survey Says: Part II' by Shawna McCarthy.
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Constance Ash, Flower Kiss // Sherwood Smith, And Now Abideth These Three // S. P. Somtow, Dr.
Rumpole // James Van Pelt, Happy Ending // J. Michael Matuszewicz, Greed
Realms of Fantasy, #43
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
October 2001
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 100 pages
$3.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Charles de Lint, Big City Littles // Terry McGarry, Limnery in Cursive // Liz Williams, The Sea of Time and
Space // Jacob Slay, Jr., Once // Mary Soon Lee, Patterns // Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, A Hole in Her Head
Realms of Fantasy, #56
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
December 2003
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 100 pages
$3.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'Yamabushi' is set in Japan.
Fiction: Liz Williams, Dancing Day // Gene Wolfe, Of Soil & Climate // William Shunn, Divided by Time // Tim
Pratt, Romanticore // Richard Parks, Yamabushi
Realms of Fantasy, #63
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
February 2005
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Eugie Foster, Returning My Sister's Face // Liz Williams, All Fish and Dracula // Sandra McDonald, Fir Na
Tine // Patrick Samphire, Crab Apple // Melissa Lee Shaw, The Good Doctor // Michael Canfield, Peas and
Carrots
Realms of Fantasy, #65
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
June 2005
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'Foxtails' is set in Japan.
Fiction: Eugie Foster, The Storyteller's Wife // Jim C. Hines, Deliverance // Richard Parks, Foxtails // Susan Yi,
Midnight Hunt // Aaron Schutz, Moments of Grace // Karen D. Fishler, Stones in Winter
Realms of Fantasy, #67
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
October 2005
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Greg van Eekhout, Tim Pratt, Robots and Falling Hearts // Kate Reidel, At the Queen's Hotel // Darrell
Schweitzer, At the Top of the Black Stairs // Graham Edwards, Dead Wolf in a Hat // David Levine, The Ecology of
Fairie // Way Jeng, The Rain God
Realms of Fantasy, #70
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
April 2006
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 88 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge' is set in Japan.
Fiction: Karen L. Abrahamson, Lady of Ashuelot // Richard Parks, Moon Viewing at Shijo Bridge // Greg van
Eekhout, Anywhere There's a Game // Devon Monk, Ducks in a Row // Sarah Prineas, Jane: A Story of Manners,
Magic, and Romance // Jena Snyder, Heart of Ice
Realms of Fantasy, #75
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
February 2007
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 104 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Bruce Holland Rogers, Three Wishes // Carrie Vaughn, Looking After Family // Chuck Rothman, Spare
Change // Graham Edwards, Syren // Eugie Foster, The Devil and Mrs. Comstock’s Snickerdoodles // Jay Lake,
Number of the Bus // Eric M. Witchey, Circus Circus // Josh Rountree, In the Thicket, with Wolves
Realms of Fantasy, #76
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
February 2007
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'A Touch of Hell' is set in Japan.
Fiction: Richard Parks, A Touch of Hell // Noreen Doyle, The Rope: A New Tale of the Antique Lands // Josh
Rountree, Stephanie Shrugs // Trent Hergenrader, Black Jack Davy // Jackie Kessler, Red // Samantha
Henderson, Bottles // Euan Harvey, The Tao of Crocodiles
Realms of Fantasy, #78
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
August 2007
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 100 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Cherith Baldry, Waiting at the Door // Christopher Barzak, Little Miss Apocalypse // Alan Smale, A Trade in
Serpents // Elizabeth M. Glover, MetaPhysics // Tim Pratt, Restless in My Hand // Way Jeng, Time Tells All
Realms of Fantasy, #80
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
December 2007
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 108 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'Hot Water' is set in Japan.
Fiction: Graham Edwards, Still Point // Richard Parks, Hot Water // Sandra McDonald, The Fireman's Fairy //
David Barr Kirtley, Transformations // Joe Murphy, On Tuesday It Rained Horned Toads // Von Carr, The White Isle
Realms of Fantasy, #83
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
June 2008
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 96 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Tanith Lee, The Snake: A Story of the Flat Earth // Bradley P. Beaulieu, Lest Our Passage Be Forgotten //
Way Jeng, The Self-Fulfilling Prophet // Betsy James, The Good Neighbor // Kate Riedel, The Summer of Lucy //
Dennis Danvers, Here's What I Know
Realms of Fantasy, #84
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
August 2008
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Carrie Vaughn, A Letter to Nancy // Liz Williams, Spiderhorse // Peni R. Griffin, The Restroom Murders //
Eugie Foster, Daughter of Bótù // James Van Pelt, The Light of a Thousand Suns // Way Jeng, Somebody
Desperately Needed to Be Neil Gaiman // Jim C. Hines, Ours to Fight For
Realms of Fantasy, #87
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
February 2009
Sovereign Media Co.
Quarto, 92 pages
$3.99 / C$5.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'The River of Three Crossings' is set in Japan.
Fiction: James Van Pelt, The Radio Magician // Carrie Vaughn, The Happiest Place // David D. Levine, Joy Is the
Serious Business of Heaven // Richard Parks, The River of Three Crossings // Alan Smale, Fossil Fuels
Realms of Fantasy, #92
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
February 2010
Tir Na Nog Press
Quarto, 76 pages
$6.99 / C$7.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Harlan Ellison, How Interesting: A Tiny Man // Leah Bobet, Mister Oak // Euan Harvey, The Demon of
Hochgarten // Aliette de Bodard, Mélanie // Ann Leckie, The Unknown God
Realms of Fantasy, #94
Shawna McCarthy, ed.
June 2010
Tir Na Nog Press
Quarto, 76 pages
$6.99 / C$7.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Aliette de Bodard, Desaparecidos // Shweta Narayan, Sultana Lena's Gift // Meredith Simmons, The Well
of Forgetting // T. L. Morganfield, The Hearts of Men // Bruce Holland Rogers, Fallen
Realms of Fantasy, #98
Shawna McCarthy, Douglas Cohen, eds.
February 2011
Damnation Books
Quarto, 76 pages
$6.99 / C$7.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
* 'The Swan Troika' is set in Russia.
Fiction: Richard Parks, The Swan Troika // Desirina Boskovich, Thirteen Incantations // Mark Rigney, Magpie //
Pauline J. Alama, No Tale for Troubadours // Scott William Carter, The Time of His Life
Realms of Fantasy, #102
Douglas Cohen, ed.
October 2011
Damnation Books
Quarto, 76 pages
$6.99 / C$7.99
Notes:
• Only fiction is listed.
Fiction: Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Return to Paraiso // Scott William Carter, The Man Who Made No Mistakes // Jerry
Oltion, Second Childhood // Betsy James, Sweeping the Hearthstone // Nick DiChario, Barbie Marries the Jolly Fat
Baker