Mount Zion is a fictional town in rural East Tennessee. It was founded in 1887 by families escaping the wicked doom that befell the Carter community (also fictional). Mount Zion would never sponsor a literary journal. (Heck, folks from Mount Zion barely tolerate fiction.) Mount Zion is a warped and dark version of the tight-knit rural communities found throughout the hills and hollers of Southern Appalachia.
More to the point, Mount Zion appears in several stories the editors have written and we thought it sounded like a good name for our journal.
Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review (MZSFR) was conceived during a phone conversation as another in a line of hair-brained schemes. The difference was that this scheme was possible. We were frustrated by the lack of a market or even an outlet for the fiction we like to write. To that end we decided to start a new fiction magazine for horror/fantasy stories. Mount Zion Speculative Fiction Review, we decided, was possible.
MZSFR is guided by these principals:
Mike and Ryan just finished an expedition to the South Pacific in search of Great Cthulhu's sunken island. They have each been awarded the Royal Order of the Polyhedron First Class, in recognition for their bravery and leadership in the face of imaginary bodily harm and great odds. Each is married to a lovely wife. Mike has three children, while Ryan has two.