This issue we’re entering into the unknown and the otherworldly, exploring strange worlds and stranger beings--not to mention the twisted, terrifying depths of some of the weirdest authors’ minds.

Subversive and thought provoking? Yes.

Crazy as a box of Buck Roger’s Intergalactic Fruit Loops? Most definitely.

Dark, dreamy, and disgustingly depraved? Would it really be Polluto if it wasn’t?

Aliens, monsters, gods, dreams and nightmares; sex and transformation; strange worlds and the search for truth; death, blood and violence; the future of humanity; astrophobia, metatronians, sphere serpents and zombie amazons.

Prepare for the, erm, unexpected . . . and remember, in space no-one can hear you dream.

Polluto is the award-winning literary magazine from Dog Horn Publishing. Since 2008 we have been scouring the dark, twisted and just plain weird corners of the world for the kind of writing that we love.

Polluto has investigated aliens from Mars, enjoyed the apocalypse from its patio furniture, got a case of the clap from an old cassette tape, dressed entirely in red sparkles and acted like a tramp, fought cutlass wielding youths and a robot Abe Lincoln, had its passport stolen by an octopus and then fell asleep on the space journey home.

And what have we learnt? Well, when your magazine is compiled entirely by loose mental patients anything is possible. Except getting the editor to pick up the cheque.

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