SMFS list member Mary Jo Robertiello’s mystery short
story, Hit and Run, was published today at Kings River Life Magazine. You can
read the piece for free online here.
From the group keeping mystery & crime stories in the public eye since 1996
SMFS list member Mary Jo Robertiello’s mystery short
story, Hit and Run, was published today at Kings River Life Magazine. You can
read the piece for free online here.
SMFS list member Merrilee Robson’s essay, Death by
Natural Causes: Creating an African Cozy Short Story, appears in the recently
released, Mystery Readers Journal: Mysteries Set in Africa, Volume 39, No. 1, Spring 2023. Published
by Mystery Readers International, the read is available in print and pdf
formats on the website.
Website Issue Description:
Mysteries Set in Africa
Volume 39, No. 1, Spring 2023
Buy this
back issue! Available in hardcopy or as a
downloadable PDF.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
AUTHOR! AUTHOR!
COLUMNS
SMFS list member Brandon Barrows’ short story, A
Reasonable Motive, appears in the recently released anthology, JOURN-E:
The Journal of Imaginative Literature, Vol. 2, No. 1. The read is available
in pringt format at Lulu.Com.
Website Description:
This is the Vernal Equinox (20 March) 2023 issue of
the semi-annual JOURN-E: THE JOURNAL OF IMAGINATIVE LITERATUE. Each issue
offers a compendium of Speculative Literature and Illustration across the
several genres of the High Imagination: Adventure, Detection & Mystery,
Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural, and Science Fiction.
Works by contemporary authors, poets, essayists,
reviewers, and illustrators, with some works by "classic" artists in
the same modes of expression are included.
This is Whole #3 of this journal.
Several SMFS list members have short stories in the
recently released anthology, Tales of Fear, Superstition, and Doom.
Published by Redwood
Press, the book is available in digital format at Amazon.
The SMFS list members in the read are:
Brandon Barrows with "Please Come Out."
Eddie Generous with "Canis Daemonium."
Veronica Leigh with "Wabash Valley Devil."
Amazon Description:
Twenty-seven tales of horror and darkness by a diverse group of writers who conjure up demons, cults, denizens of the deep, sorcery and magic, insanity, lost technology, ghosts, ancient gods, monsters both supernatural and all too human as well as other terrors against which the only weapons are often poorly laid plans, vain hopes, and even the power of love or hate.
A river of superstition flows through this book. Many stories run deep through its waters while others only lightly skim the surface or branch away toward other themes. If you like variety in your dark fiction then you'll enjoy this book.
So What's Inside?
Thursday’s Child by Sipora Coffelt
A Daronite Fence by Ron Fein
The Art of Shui Feng by Chris Hewitt
Solitaire in a Haunted Tent by Pedro Iniguez
Of the Darkness on the Rails by John Wolf
Moonspeech by Marisca Pichette (poem)
Don’t Look Back by Sarah Sigfried
Before the EMP by Jeanne Lyet Gassman
Please Come Out by Brandon Barrows
An Auspicious Birthday by Jennifer Jeanne McArdle
The Cult of El Tio by Kurt Newton (poem)
The Forger’s Masterpiece by Mark Mellon
Blood Witch on the Khartoum Train by George S. Walker
Dryad Harvest by M. Legree
Exorcism and Other Requests by John Walters
Kiss the Child by Zach Ellenberger
The Call of Dark Water by Emmie Christie
The Knocked-Up Nun and her Peculiar Hen by Angelique
Fawns
Mephistopheles by Thomas Fischer (poem)
Canis Daemonium by Eddie Generous
Needle by Lauren Jane Barnett
We Shadow Forth by Amanda Cecelia Lang
When I Start Leaving These By The Tree … by Juleigh
Howard-Hobson (poem)
Shain and Cinnastasia by David Rose
Mirror Mirror by Pauline Yates
Justice Turns the Balance Scales by Elizabeth Cobbe
Wabash Valley Devil by Veronica Leigh
The Wild Hunt by Juleigh Howard-Hobson (poem)
Guardians of the Grünwald by Henry Herz
Superstition by Ann van de Bergh
Miracle Water by David Verdugo
The Skipper by Laura J. Campbell
SMFS list member Chuck Brownman’s short story, Independence
Day, has been published at Shotgun Honey. The story is online and free to read
at the website.
SMFS list member Wendy Harrison’s short story, A Dish
Served Cold, has been published at Shotgun Honey. The story is online and free
to read at the website.
Today is publication day for the first issue of Thrill
Ride-The Magazine. The first issue, Honor, includes short stories by five of
our members. Published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc., you can pick up the issue at
the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS
members in the issue are:
Jesse Bethea with "Your Lantern Is Warm."
Publisher and Editor M. L. Buchman with "Fallen Sky."
C. Dan Castro with "T is for Titus."
Ed Teja with "Major Rat."
Laura Ware with "The Jerusalem Plot."
Amazon Description:
12 Tales of Honor
It comes in many forms: military, political, among
thieves, between friends, and so much more.
Come read an amazing collection of thriller and
action-adventure stories by the best and a few of the newest voices. Travel
from Ancient Israel to the near future, from the American Revolution to the
world of hackers, and face death and danger at every turn.
Hang onto your seat and take the plunge!