CHM #53 November 2024
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We start this issue with a bit of uncanny metafiction, “Introduction to The Collection by Anonymous” by Charlie Hughes. D. Matthew Urban’s masterful “Lion Tamer” follows, a Ligottian tale of unreality and dislocation where a circus performer suspects his counterpart is not really a lion. Elou Carroll’s “An Ouroboros of a Sort” gives us a take on loneliness, as an isolated narrator works to make sense of the woman floating outside their 13th story window. “The Arca Musarthimica” by Dave Hangman is a supernatural crime story and a nostalgic treat written in the pulp style. After that we bring you Devan Barlow’s “The Rest of the Chicken,” a fabulously weird folktale that sees a detective contracted by a large chicken to retrieve his fallen comrade’s body from Baba Yaga’s hut. David Stephen Powell’s “Pale and Interesting” is a traditional cosmic tale with a tinge of folk horror. We close with Scott Edelman’s “God Only Knows,” which is the best and most heartbreaking golem story I’ve read in a long time. For this month’s crypt, we turn to Julian Kilman’s “The Mystery of Black Jean” originally published in Weird Tales in March 1923.
Let us know which story from this issue is your favorite!
