CHM #50 August 2024
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First up, we have a grotesque tale of replacement and domination brought to
us by E. M. Stormo, “Devil’s Weather.” SJ Powell’s “Brood Baby” takes us into
an infested childhood home that isn’t against using memories to further the goals
of the hive. We follow that with “Zoe” by Anne Wilkins, where a lonely young
woman and an eerie plant find a way to grow in even the harshest conditions. In
“Slipskin,” by CHM favorite K. Wallace King, a lonely young girl attempts to
transcend into her town’s beloved saint, and Colleen Anderson’s “Undesirables”
brings us an unnerving nasty, the helpful (to a point) Alecto Petrescue. We cap this
issue with two stories about destroying what we love most, Cass Clarke’s “The Kiss
of Flowers” and Mariya Kika’s “Bury That Past, Grow This Future.” For my first
From the Crypt, I’ve selected Greye La Spina’s phenomenal and feminist “Death
Has Red Hair,” originally published in the September 1942 issue of Weird Tales.
