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The Calling Card, by Eric J. Guignard
The calling card was black as midnight, and the message written across its face shimmered fire-gold. Letters and runes bowed together presenting a line of script which, when read, caused Old Man Popp...
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Issue #16: Shinigami Stories: Reaping the Harvest of Souls—CONTEST ISSUE
The stories are read. The judges have voted. And the scores have—FINALLY—been tallied. We received a lot of stories for the Death Reaper contest, but only ten made it past the first round of judging....
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The Spirits Know All, by Michael A. Kechula (flash fiction)
This story was previously published in Sonar 4 Magazine in 2008 Facing foreclosure on their house, Jim and Lisa consulted a Spirits Know All Fortune Telling Board to see if their luck would change....
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The Fortune Teller, by Ed Ahern (short story)
The Crusader’s Latin was crudely scribed, with many misspellings, but Brother Willman read along quickly, absorbing the narrator’s pride in the pillage and destruction of Constantinople. Christians off...
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Flea Market Special, by Micheal A. Kechula (micro-fiction)
“Hey, Sue, look what I got at the flea market for a dollar,” Harry said, putting a black metal box with a rusted padlock on the kitchen table. “How exciting!” Sue said. “I can’t wait to see what’s...
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The Ultimate Quest, by Earl Stoll (short story)
Doctor Malcom, a man whose professional experience in his field exceeded forty years, slowly put his pencil down, rubbed his temple with an arthritic finger, and tried his hardest to keep from rolling...
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Voices and Tarot, by Kally Jo Surbeck (drabble)
Before me lays the spread. My traitorous blood quickens and sweat betrays my dread. How do I give this reading? For she’s in danger still. The man who sought to silence her is not among the dead....
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Four Haiku, by Denny Marshall (poetry)
the future will bring changed continents and ranges oh, what a good time * the planets align during the end of the world sign of the future * alien implant for many years a servant old life is distant...
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Toys, by Michael A. Kechula (flash fiction)
This story was previously published in Weird Year Magazine in July, 2010. * When my wife left town to visit her sick mother, I hired a sitter and went to see a priest. “What can I do for you?” asked...
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The Prophet’s Mistress, by Rachel Ingraham (drabble)
At the edge of the feral continent, she finds a door. It is bare as a stagecraft prop, just frame and painted planks in coastal wind. Here, then: what she plunged and journeyed for. In the other world,...
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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...
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Bell 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...
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Mirrors, 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....
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Meganuera 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...
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The 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...
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The 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...
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Hollow 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...
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The 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...
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Pseudopod, 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...
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Issue #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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