Oct 15, 2025
Congrats to fellow dark fantasy writer Matt John, whose story “A Simple Errand” appears in Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, edited by Stephen Kotowych and released today. It’s an action packed sword-and-planet tale that reads like it was written in the golden age of pulp fiction and Weird Tales. Matt shows remarkable restraint by waiting till the second sentence of the story to refer to limbs being snapped and skulls being split. Matt’s rippling triceps as he wields a bone tomahawk (photo lifted from Matt’s Facebook page) makes me wonder how many evil sorcerers Matt has slain in real life.
