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Dark Horizons is currently published twice a year by the British Fantasy Society. Stephen Theaker is the current editor, taking over with the upcoming 53rd issue. These pages are purely promotional – the issues won't ever be available to read on this website. If you want to read the new issues, join the British Fantasy Society, membership of which includes two issues of this publication a year.

Dark Horizons #52, the first issue of 2008, and the last in the run of issues edited by Peter Coleborn and Jan Edwards, contained the following stories, articles and poems:

  • “Editorial” by Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards
  • “The Twa Corbies”
  • “The Gentleman Assassin” by Richard Hudson
  • “A Dinner Party” by Marion Pitman
  • “Star-Changer” by Rebecca Lusher
  • “Roots of the Writer: Charles De Lint” by Jan Edwards
  • “Road to My Soul” by Laura Willis
  • “Behind the Curtain” by Joel Lane
  • “Withered” by Meaghan Hope
  • “More Tea?” by Chris Bell
  • “Flies” by Jim Steel
  • “Pain in Every Measure” by Jo Fletcher
  • “The Bequest” by David A Riley
  • “Walt Whitman Did It For Me, and Continues to Do It” by Robert Holdstock
  • “Keep Off the Grass” by Sally Quilford
  • Cover illustration: “The Twa Corbies Updated” by Dan Skinner

Dark Horizons #51 featured the following articles, stories and poetry:

  • Editorial by Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards
  • "What the Moon Brings" by H P Lovecraft, with an introduction by Stephen Jones
  • "By Right of the Stars" by Anne Gay
  • "Roots of an Editor: Ellen Datlow" by Jan Edwards
  • "In His Charge" by Nicki Robson
  • "Decayed Gentility" by Marion Pitman
  • "The Invisible Prince" by David Sutton
  • "The Perils of Pentavir" by Allen Ashley
  • "The Dullitch Assassins" by David Lee Stone
  • "Father’s Day" by David Turnball
  • "That Was My Veil" by Ian Hunter
  • "The Children of Monte Rosa" by Reggie Oliver
  • Cover Illustration by Don Barker

Dark Horizons #50 featured the following reminiscences, articles, stories and poetry:

  • Editorial: "DH is 50" by Peter Coleborn & Jan Edwards
  • "When Dark Horizons Turned Magenta" by David A Sutton
  • "The Bookshop" by Murray Ewing
  • "The Roots of the Artist: Anne Sudworth" by Jan Edwards
  • "Death Angel’s Shadow" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "In Lonely Places: The Essential Horror Fiction of Karl Edward Wagner" by John Howard
  • "Midnight Sun" by Karl Edward Wagner
  • "All Beauty Must Die" by Mike Chinn
  • "My Heart Laid Bare: The Work and Art of Joyce Carol Oates" by Robert Parkinson
  • "Apoca ca lypse" by Joy ce Car ol O a te s
  • "21st Century Horizons" by Debbie Bennett
  • "FantasyCon GoH Speech" by Juliet E McKenna
  • "The Ice Game" by Sue Anderson
  • "Where the Dead Go" by Ian Hunter
  • "Black Angel: John Connolly Interviewed" by Marie O’Regan
  • "From Dinosaurs to Disks: Fifty Issues of DH" by Mike Chinn
  • "The Woman with the Hair" by Ian Hunter
  • "The Phoenix of Fantasy" by David Lee Stone
  • "Murdoch Celeste" by Allen Ashley