Full Interview with Ramsey Campbell
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CHM #20 February 2022
In addition to an IN-DEPTH interview, we are quite pleased to offer the rarely reprinted Slow from Ramsey Campbell, one of my favorites from a prolific short fiction repertoire. We also offer an incredible selection of original fiction this month, including a mind-bending tale of a house between dimensions in Angler House. Then a terrifying trip aboard the train in The Last Train to Waldwick. Perceptions of reality come into question in The Zone of Avoidance before we explore the strange natu...
2022-01-25 13:13:08 +0000 UTC View PostMicro Madness December 1st place
What they Don’t Tell You About Santa’s Sack
By Matt Bliss
1. It’s not made from the same velvety red material as his suit and hat. In fact, it may not even be cloth at all. It would be best to think of it as a living, breathing thing. If, for instance, you were to sneak up on it unattended, while Santa placed gifts under the tree, and then place a hand on its bulging surface, you could feel its warm fur and a heartbeat thumping beneath.
2. It’s not fi...
2022-01-04 13:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostCHM #19 January 2022
(So sorry guys, we were delayed a bit by the holidays!)
We begin with a telling of the toll a haunting statuette can take on a struggling artist in “A Faithful Rendering.” Then, as promised, a dark fantasy that harkens back to the turn of the century pulp that inspired CHM in “Uncoiling,” followed by a Dunsanian tale about an ancient cult and an even more ancient manuscript in “Demodorum.”
We were lucky this month to sit down with Wendy N. Wagner, editor of the delight...
2021-12-27 03:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post#18 December CHM
Dark Wanderers They Were by John C. Adams
Chimeras & Grotesqueries by Matt Cardin
Micro Madness 3rd place: Non-Compliance Notice By Thea Meave
The Magi by Joe Haward
Maw Judy by John M McCormick
Micro Madness 2nd place: Chainsaw Diary by Emmie Christie
Interview: Nicole Cushing by Carson Winter
O Unholy Night by Buck Weiss
Pernkopf’s Fifth by Rob Francis
Micro Madness: Our First Embalming by R. Wayne Gray
Burn...
2021-11-26 20:09:03 +0000 UTC View Post#17 November CHM
This month’s lineup is a special one, featuring a Best Horror of the Year Vol. 10 (ed. Datlow) selection in “Fail-Safe” by Philip Fracassi and an exclusive interview with the unique and insightful Gemma Files. We head out to sea with a haunting tale called “Beyond the Blue Veil.” Then, we’ll dive into two works of Lovecraftian cosmic horror with “The Sixth Guardian” and “Creydamoc.” Things get weird when a fungus takes over in “The Green” before we learn the consequenc...
2021-10-25 13:15:18 +0000 UTC View Post#16 October 2021
We have an incredible lineup this month. To get things started, there is something in the fog out in the unique “The Sea Like Glass.” Following, is an intimate interview and top-notch tale from weird fiction savant and Grimscribe Press founder, Jon Padgett. Then, a couple of academics discover an ancient abomination underneath the campus in “Nematocyst.” A mental patient jumps universes and an artist unwittingly gets a glimpse of the unfathomable in “Meta-theory” and “Music of t...
2021-09-24 16:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post#15 September 2021
Greetings fellow shoggoths!
WE have an INCREDIBLE issue this month. Featuring
Release By Richard Zwicker
I Have Seen the Yellow King By Guy Riessen
The City Walls By Alex De-Gruchy
The Obsession of Edmund Cawley By David Barber
Free Beer By Kirk Vanderbeek
Sweet Illusions By Keily Blair
Sublime Architecture for the Proper Devotional Praise of Dagon By Shenoa Carroll-Bradd
The Secret of Kralitz By Henry Kuttner
Enjoy!
And stay t...
2021-08-25 00:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post#14 August 2021: The Lovecraft Issue
Featuring:
The Dust of Nyarlathotep by Scott Michael Hutchings
The Hogansburg Horror by Mike T Lyddon
The West Arkham Reservoir by J.M. Faulkner
A Deal Between Bats by Erica Ciko Campbell
The Child by Gregg Chamberlain
The Final Touchdown of Zebulon Warren by James A. Wolf
The Music of Erich Zann by H.P. Lovecraft
The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft
ENJOY
2021-07-24 20:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post#13 July 2021: The beginning of the next chapter for CHM
Featuring:
Linguistio by Nick Olivo
An Encounter by Harman Burgess
Terms of Transition by David McGillveray
Your Soldier by Donald McCarthy
Uncle Ashford by A.G. Hilton
Lyle and the Space Man by Lee Rozelle
The Chain of Aforgomon by Clark Ashton Smith
ENJOY
2021-06-23 01:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostSomething awesome...
And new, coming soon!
Stay tuned shoggoths
😈🐙🍷
Download CHM #12 June 2021
Here is the download for our twelfth issue: June 2021.
Featuring:
To a Place I Couldn't Reach by A. Katherine Black
In the Armpit by Bruce Arthurs
Through the Stomach by R.H. Berry
The Servants of Reality by Gary Clark
Marginalia by Jude Reid
The Magic Shop by H.G. Wells (1903)
2021-05-24 22:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #11 May 2021
Here is the download for our eleventh issue from May 2021.
Featuring:
Scovell's Final Painting by Richard Zwicker
The Last Case of Dr. Jonah Wexley Abbott by Erik McHatton
A Guide to Vanishing by Andrew Giffin
The Balance of the World by Kurt Newton
The Chemist by A.E. Jackson
The Squaw by Bram Stoker (1893)
2021-04-23 13:06:07 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #10 Apr 2021
Here is the download for our tenth issue from April 2021.
Featuring:
The Ticket Taker by Trisha McKee
The Apprentice's Nightmare by Mack Moyer
The Beastly Echoes of Necropedia by L.P. Melling
Hand of Fate by Colleen Anderson
Space Lizards by Matthew Penwell
His Unconquerable Enemy by W.C. Morrow (1889)
2021-03-31 05:03:48 +0000 UTC View PostCHM Readings: Hatchling
Hatchling by Scott J Couturier.
From the March 2021 edition of Cosmic Horror Monthly
2021-03-15 13:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #9 Mar 2021
Here is the download for our ninth issue from March 2021.
Featuring:
Hatchling by Scott J. Couturier
The Kerouac Defense by Chad Eagleton
Mother by R. Gene Turchin
The Mercurial Clouds of Misery by Kurt Newton
The Night Walks by Joshua Thomas
The Sea Raiders by H.G. Wells (1896)
2021-03-03 21:48:45 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #8 Feb 2021
Here is the download for our third issue from September 2020.
Featuring:
Sanitize by P.L. McMillan
Nomad’s Land by Brenda Kezar
Dead Sprint by Mike Weitz
I Saw by Scott J. Couturier
Visitor by Rickey Rivers Jr.
The Key to Grief by Robert W. Chambers (1897)
2021-03-03 21:33:17 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #7 Jan 2021
Here is the download for our seventh issue from January 2021.
Featuring:
Eyebright by T.M. Brown
Bonus Round by Edward Turner III
To Well and Truly Serve by Geoffrey W. Cole
The Song of the Underland by Kurt Newton
Theogonia by J.S. Rogers
The Phantom Coach by Amelia B. Edwards (1864)
2021-03-03 21:25:12 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #6 Dec 2020
Here is the download for our sixth issue from December 2020.
Featuring:
The Funeral by K.M. McKenzie
Fermi’s Prism by David F. Shultz
Don’t You Just Love Horror? by R W Goldsmith
The Song of Carcosa by Samuel Thomas Fraser
Dondo by Michael A. Clark
The Flowering of the Strange Orchid by H.G. Wells (1894)
2021-03-03 21:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #5 Nov 2020
Here is the download for our fifth issue from November 2020.
Featuring:
The Sinkhole by Jarred Martin
Avoid the Blue Protrusion by Madeleine Swann
Nature’s Perfume by Mark Towse
The Underland by Kurt Newton
The Empress and the Marauder by Gwen C. Katz
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)
2021-03-03 21:18:38 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #4 Oct 2020
Here is the download for our fourth issue from October 2020.
Featuring:
Among the Stalks by Alexandr Bond
The Light that Festers by Charles R. Bernard
Shifting Sands by A.G. Hilton
Void Nocturnal by Ashley Dioses
Raising Dogs and Other Truths by Megan Neumann
The Moth by H.G. Wells (1895)
2021-03-03 21:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #3 Sep 2020
Here is the download for our third issue from September 2020.
Featuring:
Old Leaves by DJ Tyrer
The White Pond by D.K. Latta
The Song of the Monster: The Nightmare by Alexis M Davis
Hippo Blood by N.M. Nichols
History of the Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft (1938)
The Cone by H.G. Wells (1895)
2021-03-03 19:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostDownload Issue #2 Aug 2020
Here is the download for our second issue from August 2020.
Featuring:
Mondays by Paul Scheerbaum
The Oak Tree by C.B. Jones
Berlin Bargain by Lee Emmons
The Song of the Monster: The Dream by Alexis M Davis
One Mind by Emil Pellim
The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (1887)
2021-03-03 17:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostDownload CHM #1 July 2020
Here is the download for our debut issue from July of 2020.
Featuring:
Sequence by Nick Olivo
The Secret Tell by Michael Reyes
Beyond the Green Garden by Tim Jeffreys
The Idiot God - poem by Scott Couturier
Bells by Megan M. Davies Ostrom
Tonight Nobody Sleeps by Marc Shapiro
The Voice in the Night by William Hope Hodgson (1907)
2021-02-24 22:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post