SMFS Members Published in Black Cat Weekly #121

SMFS list members are published in Black Cat Weekly #121. Published by Wildside Press today, the issue is available here in digital format. The members and their stories are:

 

John M. Floyd with “A Christmas Movie.”

 

Robert Jeschonek with “The Luckiest Man in the World.”

 

Anne Swardson with “The Spice of Death.” 

 

Website Description:

This is our final issue of 2023.

   We have original stories from Robert Jeschonek, John M. Floyd, Anne Swardson, and Phyllis Ann Karr, plus a recent tale by Anna Tambour. Classic reprints from Keith Laumer, Piers Anthony, Raymond F. Jones, and Hal Meredith. Plus, of course, a solve-it-yourself puzzler.

   On a personal note, I have a short story (a collaboration with Leigh Grossman, a great friend from college; we met in an English class and I soon joined his fantasy role-playing group) in the current issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and my first novel in more than a decade will be out in early 2024. (It’s called The Things from Another World, and quite obviously is a sequel to John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There”—which was filmed by Howard Hawks as The Thing from Another World, and then John Carpenter as his masterpiece, The Thing.) So I guess you can say I’m writing more regularly now.

   Here’s to an even better 2024!

   As for this issue: here’s the complete lineup—

Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:

“The Luckiest Man in the World” by Robert Jeschonek [Michael Bracken Presents short story]

“The Garage Sale Mystery” Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]

“A Christmas Movie” by John M. Floyd [Barb Goffman Presents short story]

“The Spice of Death,” by Anne Swardson [short story]

“The Ancient Monk,” by Hal Meredith [short story, Sexton Blake series]

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

“The Witch of La Jícara” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story]

“The Tin and the Damask Rose,” by Anna Tambour [short story]

“The Walls,” by Keith Laumer [short story]

“Quinquepedalian,” by Piers Anthony [short story]

“Stay Off The Moon!” by Raymond F. Jones [short story]