McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible

**Featuring Stephen Graham Jones's *Lover's Lane*, reprinted in the *The Best Horror of the Year*.** Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some time, our seventy-first issue is one for the ages. Guest edited by **Brian Evenson**, *McSweeney's 71:The Monstrous and the Terribl*e is a hair-raising collection of fiction that will challenge the notion of what horror has been, and suggest what twenty-first-century horror is and can be. And it's all packaged in a mind-bending, nesting-doll-like series of interlocking slipcases that must be seen to be believed.

There's **Stephen Graham Jones**'s eerie take on the alien abduction story, **Mariana Enrìquez**'s haunting tale of childhood hijinks gone awry, and Jeffrey Ford on a writer who loses control of his characters. **Nick Antosca** (cocreator of the award-winning TV series *The Act*) spins out a novelette about the hidden horrors of wine country. There's **Kristine OngMuslim** exploring environmental horror in the Philippines; a sharp-edged folk tale by **Gabino Iglesias**, and Diné writer **Natanya Ann Pulley** reimagining sci-fi horror from an indigenous perspective. Hungarian writer **Attila Veres** proffers a dark take on the not-so-hidden sociopathy of multi-level marketing. And **Erika T. Wurth** explores the dark gaps leading to other worlds. If that weren't enough: an excerpt from a new novel by **Brandon Hobson**; a chilling allegorical horror story by **Senaa Ahmad**; a Lovecraftian bildungsroman by **Lincoln Michel**; unsettling dream cities from **Nick Mamatas**; **M. T. Anderson**'s exceptionally weird take on babysitting; and, improbably, much more.