SPECULATIVE MYSTERY ICONOCLAST

ABOUT US

Where Speculative Fiction and Mystery crossover

Speculative Mystery Iconoclast was born from the realisation that there were no short fiction magazines that were dedicated to Speculative Mystery crossover fiction. There was no venue for writers to experiment by combining elements of the Speculative and Mystery fiction genres or where readers could get their fix of crossover stories.

That was the dream’s tentative beginnings and what you’re reading on your screen right now is its realisation.

We wanted Speculative Mystery Iconoclast to be read everywhere and knew that nobody likes to wait around on a website for fiction to be posted. That is why our fine publication is published as a PDF magazine. If you like your mysteries served up with generous flavours of Science Fiction, Horror, Fantasy, or Dark Fantasy, then you should buy the current issue of our magazine.

In the spirit of our publication, we would like share the following quotes (some writerly and others philosophical) that have inspired us or made us think:

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

- Anais Nin

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

            - Charles Dickens

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

            - Oscar Wilde

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

            - Harry Emerson Fosdick

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

            - Julia Cameron

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

- Elizabeth Bowen

When you try to unravel something you've written you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

- Don DeLillo

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

- Neil Armstrong

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

- A.C. Benson

If there were no mysteries left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

- Sidney Buchman

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

- J.B. Priestly

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

            - Albert Einstein

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

            - Richard P. Feynman

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

            - Luis Barragan

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

- Raymond Chandler

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

- Jean Cocteau