Sorry for the delay everyone, we had this staged and ready to post on October 1, and there was some technical issue!
This month's fiction:
Announcement by Emma Burnett
Lustre by Sebastian Gray
The Ones at the Top Didn’t Fall There by Joule K. Zelman
The Soldier by Rory Abel
Unmissable Love by Elena Sichrovsky
A Suggestion of Gills by Annika Barr...
2025-10-19 17:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostFloat
By Jim Horlock
“When was the first time you saw someone Float?” Nadia asked me.
I resented her for pulling that memory out from under the pile where I kept it.
We didn't have a universally agreed term for it back then, but everyone had seen the videos. More showed up every day, from grainy CCTV footage to crystal clear livestreams. It was getting harder and harder to call it a hoax. Christians were quick to call it "the Rapture" with all the fire and brimston...
2025-09-19 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAll the Labyrinths
By Danai Christopoulou
Out of all the labyrinths in all the world she steps into yours.
You eat her.
You’re the monster.
By the time her softest bits—an earlobe, a pinky toe, a mouth that could be stretched into a smile or a scream—have melted on your tongue, you believe this is the way things will always go. Cyclical. Fleshy. Only a little crunchy in the end.
You will sleep after your fea...
2025-09-08 21:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to this month's tome of terrifying tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. This month:
Growing Daffodils by Anne Wilkins
Thornback Hall by LC von Hessen
Tommy “The Leg” Ain’t No Witch by Jonathan Gensler
Pairing by Mathilda Zeller
As Much As I Please by Xochilt Avila
Anti-Cosmic by Annie Russo
Spore and Yeast by D.A. Straith
From the C...
2025-09-03 12:33:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the August 2025 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly. Our lineup this month:
Footprints in the Sand by Melissa Leigh
Just Visiting by Camden Rose
Act of Devourment by Davina Tijani
Wrong Bulls by R.L. Meza
Tongue-Tied by Shelley Lavigne
I Never Saw The Knife by Cheyenne Shaffer
Heavy As Gold and Lace by Alexis Dubon
From the Crypt: Shambleau (part ...
2025-08-01 20:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the July issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly! This month:
Beyond Those Shadowed Hills By M. Shedric Simpson
L’école de Création By Íde Hennessy
Other Duties As Required By Theodore Hill
Articulation By Margo Pecha
Grilled By Scott J. Couturier
Leave No Rock Unclimbed By Pauline Chow
The Hole By K.K. Monroe
From the Crypt: Shambleau By ...
2025-06-26 13:21:49 +0000 UTC View PostEscape Pod C2A
by Claire Berry
Though escape pods were designed to accommodate up to twenty personnel each, only three people made it into C2A before it left the station. Charlie, the Mechanic, and me.
The Mechanic has been silent since the pod went dark. Charlie did, very flippantly, share his theory with us as to why the entire electronic system–up to the emergency lights—is down. Before the crash, the pod suffered a series of shocks that damaged the hull, and o...
2025-06-24 21:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostHey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right...
Devil’s Tooth
By Jonathan Gensler
Hey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right…sshhhhh. The other vendors don’t know I’m here; not exactly.
I know you’ve been watching the news threads about the Lakebed, the ruptures in the salt flats, and yeah, that’s been happening everywhere. And w...
2025-05-29 13:53:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhoa, 5 years in the books... we apologize for the delay in posting, and present you a very strong issue of cosmic horror and weird fiction. Buckle up!
This month:
The Spare, the Bait, the Sea by Malda Marlys
Greasy Luck by Samir Sirk Morató
The HellBender by Teege Braune
Interrogatus by Erik McHatton
Under Water by K.B. Olszewski
Man of the Tunnels by Lyra Meurer...
2025-05-27 00:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostI found the issue that prevented some of the magazines to not ship out yet. If you haven't received the May issue it will be on its way shortly!
🐙
Charles
2025-05-11 19:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostNo one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds...
By Sasha Ravitch
No one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds. A Stygian circumference carved from liquid obsidian, a mouth made of pure night. The Hole is a perfect pockmark in the heavens: cerulean sky erased and leaving something blacker than black, deeper than deep. It seems t...
2025-04-30 13:04:52 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we are featuring some of my favorite cover art of the past 5 years plus the following fiction: (Reader beware, you may need to sleep with the lights on tonight)
Love in the Time of Meebs by Vivian Chou
The Roots Run Deep, It Blooms Like a Flower by Colin Hinckley
Sandcombe’s Lightly Herbed Sunday Jellyfish by A. R. Frederiksen
Coffee Grinder Love by Siobhan Galla...
2025-04-26 14:13:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Another terrifying issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly is here!
Featuring:
Mr. Axolotl by Max Zoske
Jackrabbit Crunch by EC Dorgan
Onward and Downward by Clint Smith
Tenebrism by Carly Racklin
Naked They Cling by Marisca Pichette
The Last Spiderbox by NM Whitley
The Berg by Ally Wilkes
From the Crypt: Take the Z-Train b...
2025-03-25 12:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold under his shirt...
By Leigh Loveday
The eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold under his shirt collar and the ice-blue eyes that huddle against his neck heavy as wet rats, show him the souls of people who pass through his life.
Through the eyes he audits friends’ and neig...
2025-03-21 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The US Postal service has informed me that we can no longer send magazines as first class mail, more than doubling our costs for shipping, which unfortunately means we have to bump all print subscriptions to the higher tier rate of $15 that we recently rolled out ($149.00 for yearly I think is the discounted rate).
I really hate having to increase our prices, we want to be able to offer our fictio...
Featuring:
Brain Nine and the Masseuse by Matthew C. Brown
Go Ask Ophelia by Tim Lieder
Zippy Times at the Hotel Sempiternum by Amanda Cecelia Lang
The Breakers by Holden Arquilevich
Dark Rapture by Rob Gillham
Find Me Dumped in the Reeds by Isla Lader
Wig by Mary Kuryla
From the Crypt: Collected Poetry by Dorothy Quick
2025-02-23 22:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostNothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens. It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with skies...
Dunwich Revisited
By Julia August
Nothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens.
It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with skies of startling blue, a bumper year for apples and white-rumped rabbits. I walked round the valley with the wind in my hair, trying to catch the blackberries in that precious moment between unripe ...
2025-02-18 14:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This month:
The Spider Killer by D. Matthew Urban
The Last Astronaut by Sam W. Pisciotta
What Ails You by Maxwell Marais
Venus Looks Coldly Over Her Shoulder by Jennifer Lesh Fleck
Every Brain Makes it Stronger by Ryan Cole
Accession by Peter Ong Cook
L’Appel Du Vide by Heidi Voss
From the Crypt: The Devil’s Lottery by Mary Elizabeth Counselman
<... 2025-01-26 03:45:11 +0000 UTC View PostBy Thomas C Mavroudis Pete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete loved to tease Lizzy. You could say it bordered on addiction. Always in good fun...
By Thomas C Mavroudis
Pete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete loved to tease Lizzy. You could say it bordered on addiction. Always in good fun, Lizzy didn’t mind most of the time. What she didn’t like, not really, probably indeed loathed, was being scared.
She liked sc...
2025-01-21 15:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally here and getting ready to ship! The first shirt design for our Ultimate Collector Tier Patrons. These shirts will not be in the CHM merch store, so there is only one way to get them.
psst psst... It's not too late to upgrade your patronage tier and get your shirt.
p.s. If you are a member of the Ultimate Collector tier please send me your shirt size, if I don't have it already I'll me sliding into your DMs soon.
Best wishes and a happy new year!
2025-01-07 22:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
We kick this issue off with Alex Ebenstein’s “The Wind Beneath” an elevated (pun unintended) apocalypse tale. We then bring you Addison Smith’s “Those Perfect Materials,” which gives us body horror on a cosmic scale and turns the fetishization of youth on its head. Daniel Bart Hutchins “Evil in My Sight” is the smartly crafted story of a city beset upon by a turkey processing plant that seem...
We’re closing the year with a quieter issue, one about the precise contours of pain and loss. We open with Rex Burrows’ “The Head in the Pantry,” a strange and touching tale that proves that humans will pack bond with anything. We then have Shelley Lavigne’s furious lesbian horror about adoration and exploitation, “Bilious Green Envy, Burning White Fury,” where a woman minimizes h...
We start this issue with a bit of uncanny metafiction, “Introduction to The Collection by Anonymous” by Charlie Hughes. D. Matthew Urban’s masterful “Lion Tamer” follows, a Ligottian tale of unreality and dislocation where a circus performer suspects his counterpart is not really a lion. Elou Carroll’s “An Ouroboros of a Sort” gives us a take on loneliness, as an isolated narrator wor...
2024-10-28 18:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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 ...
2024-09-25 12:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostWe have made a change to our tiers. Order tracking is here!
So, postage is expensive. The cost of shipping a magazine out (just within the states) has increased by 70% since we started print subscriptions in Fall 2020. This is probably why it has taken this long to roll this benefit out, shipping with tracking is generally twice as expensive as shipping without it.
This is something that has been asked for a lot, and that is print order tracking! Too many magazines get lost by the...
2024-09-12 21:24:37 +0000 UTC View Post
First up, we have shades of Shirley Jackson with Ryan Marie Ketterer’s “The Netting on My Feet.” Then Steve Rasnic Tem gives us his stunning take on bodily betrayal in “Carcinogenesis.” In Thomas C Mavroudis’ “Moons of Mission Bay,” a young boy learns that reckless curiosity has a steep price. “Down the Hatch” by C.H. Pearce is a tale of weird science that asks who gets to decide ...
2024-08-26 20:49:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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 gr...
2024-07-25 22:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Our Ligotti tribute issue fittingly begins with Jon Padgett’s lyrical and haunting “The Indoor Swamp, Revisited.” We then bring you into the world of a devilish prankster with Matthew M. Bartlett’s “Good Evening, Mr. Darkgarden.” We then have...
2024-06-28 21:57:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
Where Are You Hiding Your Dreams by Mob
Machine Learning by Mike Allen
The Kingdom of God is Within the Swimming Pool by Tania Chen
Doppelgangers and Sentient Prosthesis: Visualizing the Horrors of Brian Evenson by R. Wilson
Cosmic Enormity by Jolie Toomajan
Perpetual Persistence in a Personal Plane by ego_bot
Blood for Sap by Bennette Harding
May showers bring cosmic horror flowers, this month:
Crazy Murder Forkers by William Sterling
Between the Mind and the Dark by Hailey Piper
Music Videos in the City of Life and Death by Steve Toase
Lick Me Clean by Evelyn Freeling
Your Stories as Molten Metal by Carson Winter
Your Posh Revelries will be Claimed by My Currents by Michael Boulerice
A Little Pi...
2024-04-24 13:14:35 +0000 UTC View Post