In this winter edition of Schlock Quarterly we have a collection of the best stories to feature online in Schlock! Webzine. Beginning on Mars, where Gregory KH Bryant's long-running sword and planet saga reaches dramatic new heights with battle on the ochre plains.

In this final instalment of the print magazine we offer you a selection of the best stories to appear in Schlock! Webzine (www.schlock.co.uk). We have rural fantasy, comic fantasy, sword and sorcery and urban fantasy. We have tales of lunacy and torture, fantasy and horror, all culled from the gory pages of the weekly webzine.

This latest edition of Schlock Quarterly is a tribute to the late Gregory KH Bryant, who passed away in May of this year.

This spring, Schlock! Webzine (schlock.co.uk) celebrates eight years of online horror. Schlock Quarterly is a youngster comparatively, and will turn six this autumn. But it's still providing a compilation of the best stories to feature recently in the webzine!

Film/Genre revises our notions of film genre and connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played and recognises that the term 'genre' has different meanings for different groups, basing his new genre theory on the uneasy competitive yet complimentary relationship among genre users and discussing a huge range of films from The Great Train Robbery to Star Wars and from The Jazz Singer to The Player.