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This issue contains the following stories:
Corvid Summer by Tom Johnstone
Exit Wound by Phoebe Murphy
Rat Suit King by Patrick Barb
Take This Body by M.C. St. John
Dr. Blackwood's Midnight Ghost Show by Mathew L. Reyes
What Doesn't Kill Me by Patrick Samuel
Dear Mr. Sycamore by Maureen O'Leary
Reading Sloane by Jason A. Wyckoff
Tom Johnstone
Tom Johnstone is the author of three novellas: The Monsters are Due in Madison Square Garden, Star Spangled Knuckle Duster, and The Song of Salomé. His fiction has appeared in various publications, including Black Static, Nightscript, Body Shocks and Best Horror of the Year.
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Patrick Barb
Patrick Barb is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of weird, dark, and spooky tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His published works include the sci-fi/horror novel Abducted; dark fiction collections The Children's Horror and Pre-Approved for Haunting; and the novellas The Big One, The Nut House, Night of the Witch-Hunter and JK-LOL. He is the editor and publisher of the anthology And One Day We Will Die: Strange Stories Inspired by the Music of Neutral Milk Hotel. His interview column "Your Favorite Author's Favorite Author" appears regularly online in Shortwave Magazine. In addition, his 2023 short story "The Scare Groom" was selected for Best Horror of the Year Volume 16.
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