The Strange Edge Magazine Issue 0

What is The Strange Edge? It’s the thin line of intersection between stories that are weird in setting, weird in character, weird in plot, weird in form, and weird in aesthetic, but that still remain essentially readable to those of us who haven’t been sentenced to seven years in an MFA program. It’s a flavor of soft-serve Bizarro featuring chunks of absurdism and postmodernism in a base of the surreal. It’s an uncomfortable mix of the brows, high and low, that weaves in and out of transgressive zones and into the fantastic. It’s the lobster-faced baby Kafka hid in his vault for Kharms to find and eat after escaping the Gulag. It’s an Ionesco script acted out by Monty Python and filmed by Guy Maddin.This is the 0th issue of a new journal with an ancient purpose: to gather together fiction and stuff that is cool to read and look at and know about.In short, it’s a magazine of weird fiction. This issue is a Proof of Concept.Free download from Scribd.