Illustrated Worlds Magazine, Print Copy, Issue 15, Autumn 2026
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The Autumn 2026 issue of Illustrated Worlds Magazine has arrived with an amazing variety of art and short stories to help you ease into those shorter days, longer nights and cooler temperatures with the best in dark writing and twilight visuals. It starts with Peter Hoffman's painting "Mr. October" on the cover and doesn't let up, dragging you into the realm of poet Josh Pearce and the imaginative dimensions of authors like Megan Baffoe who will introduce you to a half human, half whale hybrid lifeform in "The Sea Girl" and through the dusty centuries of Egypt in "The Super-Cursed Crypt" by Simon Berry.
Learn what lurks in the depths of an aging professor's estate in "Ballard's Gate" by Larry Gaffney, spend some time in a fairy tale emergency room with Maria Wolfe and her story "Every Conceivable Antidote", calculate the cost of immortality in "Ghost in the Microwave" by Prashant Vaze, alter your mind and more with Gregory Lawrence in his story "Scent of Lightning", visit the Rennaissance Faire with Allison Stalberg and "The Candle Wench" and pay the price for love in "The Lady of the House on Legs" by Ariel Marken Jack. Last of all, celebrate Halloween by trying to find your way through "The Corn Maze" by author Janna Layton.
And it's not only the fiction that's topnotch. We publish some of the finest illustrators working today. Enjoy the beauty, discomfort and depth in images by artists Tania Piroddi, V. Holecek, Colleen Bennett, Nick Stevens, Alice Lockhart, D.S. Morley, Bingyu Zhou, Diane Forde, Sara Nagy and Christopher Blosser.