Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 19 | August 2023: Dark Horses Magazine, #19

By Wayne Kyle Spitzer

dark horse
/ˈdärk ˈˌhôrs/
noun
1. a candidate or competitor about whom little is known but who unexpectedly wins or succeeds.
"a dark-horse candidate"

Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion--whatever it is, if it's weird, it's here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses.

In this issue:

HOLINGER'S GALLERY
John Garland Wells

DEAD CITY
Stephanie Athena Valente

THE GIRL IN THE LAKE
Sarah Das Gupta

MATT THE RAT
David Fox

SADIE
Wayne Kyle Spitzer

SHRODINGER'S TRAIN
Robert Runté

THE CANDYMAN'S CURE FOR AMNESIA
Sabina Malik

THE MAN WHO REPAIRED COBWEBS
Arthur Allen Midwinter

THE SEARCH
L.N. Hunter

WHAT LIES INSIDE
Ryan Klopp

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hobb's End Press
• Release date: Aug 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223286899

Wayne Kyle Spitzer

Wayne Kyle Spitzer (born July 15, 1966) is an American author and low-budget horror filmmaker from Spokane, Washington. He is the writer/director of the short horror film, Shadows in the Garden, as well as the author of Flashback, an SF/horror novel published in 1993. Spitzer's non-genre writing has appeared in subTerrain Magazine: Strong Words for a Polite Nation and Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History. His recent fiction includes The Ferryman Pentalogy, consisting of Comes a Ferryman, The Tempter and the Taker, The Pierced Veil, Black Hole, White Fountain, and To the End of Ursathrax, as well as The X-Ray Rider Trilogy and a screen adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s The Willows.

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