A Chicago pub where the ghosts of Blues legends gather to swap tales and jam one final time…a post-apocalyptic cityscape where automated bombers still cruise overhead and the last rock band hears the sound of extinction…a wild west where a trio of demons test the wits of a lone bounty hunter…and the dungeons of Chateau Machecoul, where an aging knight comes face-to-face with a horror unlike anything he’s ever known.

These are just a few of the unique and exciting settings that await you in the big summer issue of Black Gate. This issue features the start of a major fantasy series from Hugo Award-winning author Bill Johnson and a new novelette from epic fantasy novelist David B. Coe, as well as fiction from Cory Doctorow, Tina Jens, Mark McLaughlin, and many others. And don’t miss the return of the hilarious Knights of the Dinner Table comic by Jolly R. Blackburn to the pages of Black Gate!