20 Things to Do, by Dina Leacock (short story)
This story was previously published in Siren’s Call in 2013 * Sheila put down the cards and looked out the window. She’d done three readings already and all predicted sadness, regret, terror and the...
View ArticleBell Canyon, by Colin Rowe (micro-fiction)
Through the fog of Bell Canyon, up the twisting forest roads, the smugglers’ oxen pulled their wagons. They came with barrels of powder under barrels of fish; pikes stacked in lumber; swords wrapped...
View ArticleMirrors, by Mathias Jansson
Down the stairs, I went in a spiral. Down to the dark cave furnished only with a mirror and a lectern. In the ancient open book I could read words in a language not spoken since the beginning of time....
View ArticleMeganuera monyi, by Richard Stevenson
Well, I ain’t no chopper, baby. Didn’t come to mist your crops. I just got the drop on this lamb. Gonna drop ‘im on those rocks. Yeah, I’m gonna drop in for dinner, get right at his innards. Gonna...
View ArticleThe Visit, by Brandy Stark
Image by BenduKiwi. “Hail, Old Ones! Hail, Great Ones!” He called. Only the echo of His roar answered Him. He narrowed His eyes to better view His surroundings. Jutting up from the ground were mounds...
View ArticleThe Cubicle from Beyond Space and Time, by D.A. Madigan
It was Tuesday, and Kenneth Cooke, newly promoted from training status to the actual troubleshooting floor, was looking for an empty cubicle. His shift started at 10 am, and while that was cool for...
View ArticleHollow Deep, by Edward Taylor
<<Beginning of starlog – James Orne, Mate Second Class, Investigator, ILWC>> Seventy One Terran Standard days ago I left New St. John’s in the United Canadian Emirates aboard the...
View ArticleThe Mythos Planet, by Kevin Morley
Image by Nottsuo – nottsuo.deviantart and at Wikipedia (Shoggoth) We fought the Xanee for more than a generation. It seems our peoples don’t mix well, though we do each die with some degree of...
View ArticlePseudopod, by Karen Bovemyer
First published in Abyss & Apex magazine, in June 2015. After Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror The skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey...
View ArticleIssue #20: The Mythos Planet
Lovecraft inspired. Newly imagined and terrifying vistas populated with horrific monstrosities. No one is safe anywhere. We can go to the Old Ones or the New Ones. Or they come to us. Invading our...
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