I've actually had this one done for a while; it just got put on the back burner for more time-sensitive stuff.

Noctem Aeternus is a horror magazine in PDF format who put out their first issue this month. I should mention that I don’t typically read horror, and will only do so in public places during the day because I scare too easily. These stories did their job; I got psyched out several times. There were many interesting stories, but the chicken story had too much gore for me. Although...the weekend after I read this story I was driving along a windy, rural road to my friend’s house one night when all of a sudden I had this visual from the chicken story and totally freaked out and almost crashed. That is why I don’t read horror very often.

The composition of this magazine is mostly fiction with a few nonfiction articles about the genre. For some odd reason, most of the stories seem to be set in Ohio. The variety was wide, in that we had stories about an alien invasion/zombies, schoolyard legends, revenge, mutations and more.They also had a few interviews and a review.

The cover art is amazing, which is why I just had to share it (you should see it full size). The magazine was 70 pages long, and most of it was composed of stories. There were tons of ads (mostly for books), but the quality of the ads were good, and matched the tone of the magazine, so they weren’t too distracting. Actually, most of my negative thoughts about this magazine have to do with the PDF thing, and not with the content quality.