SMFS list member Alan Orloff’s short story, The Power of Evil, is now published in Black Cat Weekly #108. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format.
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It seems the Halloween season starts earlier and
earlier each year. I first began noticing Halloween candy in stores in July
(!), and every time I turned around since then, there were more decorations,
party favors, and treats at hand. Is it any wonder I’ve been wandering around
the house humming “The Monster Mash” for the last few weeks?
Our 108th issue kicks off a truly epic celebration of
the season, with a pair of nightmarish treats. You will never look at seagulls
the same way after experiencing Adrian Cole’s “The Birds Are Back in Town.” And
Lin Carter’s “Keru” is a tale that would have been right at home in Weird Tales
in its heyday.
“The Power of
Evil,” by Alan Orloff, is not a supernatural tale, but futuristic suspense
(thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), so it’s doing double duty this
time. And the grisly-sounding “A Burn That Reaches Bone,” by Karen Odden is not
a mad slasher tale, but a tale of a horrible crime that reaches through the
generations. (Thanks to Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman for this one.) And, of
course, there are traditional mysteries, too—I found a rare Victorian-era
mystery by Australian writer Ernest Favenc while I was browsing issues of
Australian Town and Country Journal looking for mysteries by Mary Fortune (my
favorite classic Australian mystery writer) and couldn’t resist adding it to
this issue. Plus we have a detective novel featuring Nick Carter and a
solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.
On the science fiction and fantasy side, we have
another great Norman Spinrad story, a classic by Robert F. Young, and the first
entry in the Pillsworth & Toffee series by Charles F. Myers (we have more
coming up). Fun stuff
Here’s the complete lineup:
Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:
“Swimming into Troubled Waters,” by Hal Charles
[Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]
“A Burn That Reaches Bone,” by Karen Odden [Barb
Goffman Presents short story]
“The Mystery of the Death Stroke,” by Ernest Favenc
The Forced Crime, by Nicholas Carter [novel]
Science Fiction & Fantasy:
“The Power of Evil,” by Alan Orloff [Michael Bracken
Presents short story]
“Entities,” by Norman Spinrad [short story]
“The Birds Are Back in Town” is copyright © 2019 by
Adrian Cole [short story]
“The Courts of Jamshyd,” by Robert F. Young [short
story]
“Keru,” by Lin Carter
“I’ll Dream of You” by Charles F. Myers [short story]
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