One of the places I would love to be this weekend is Ã…con. Sadly I can’t afford to do Finncon, Barcelona and a second trip to Finland. So profuse apologies to Zen Cho, whom I would have loved to hang out with, and best wishes to everyone currently in Mariehamn.

Fortunately, even though I can’t visit the Finns, they have visited me, in the form of a new issue of The Finnish Weird. This excellent little magazine features all that is good in Finnish weird fiction. Issue #3 includes the fabulous Johanna Sinisalo and Anne Leinonen. It also features three authors that I am less familiar with. They are all women, naturally. Magdalena Hai has blue hair for extra bonus weirdness.

The new issue, and the two previous issues, are available for free download as ebooks here. They do normally make paper editions too. Hopefully I can pick one up at Finncon.