CHM #52 October 2024
Added 2024-09-25 12:59:20 +0000 UTC
This month we begin in a post-apocalyptic underwater complex with Holden
Arquilevich’s “Blood and Snodgrass.” We then bring you Caitlin Duffy’s “Peepers,”
a very weird tale that is best experienced completely spoiler-free (you deserve
to read this weird masterpiece in the same way the editors did). After that, Katherine
Marzinsky gives us a story about what we give up to survive, the disturbing
“The Taste of Hunger.” We then bring you slightly lighter fare, with M. Tyler
Tuttle’s cozy and horrific “The Pit and the Pensioner,” where a dear named Ethel
finds herself enlisting…help…to take care of some problems in her town (like nosy
policemen and a rotten old biddy named Maureen). Chad Gayle’s “How Should I
Feel” is a dizzying, fast-paced romp through a world where an Oprah-worshipping
android becomes unmoored when the world around them becomes less and less
perfect. “Henry,” our penultimate story by Alexander Hilgenfeld, is an eerie tale
of childhood curiosity, grand larceny, and genetically modified eggs. We close out
with Joelle Killian’s “This Place Will Be the Death of Us,” where social workers
and interventionists find out exactly how much the systems intended to help us
hate us instead. We finish the issue with a Crypt entry, Dorothy Quick’s horror
story “The Artist and the Door,” originally published in Weird Tales in November
1952.
