Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 27: Dark Horses Magazine, #27

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:

TIME ONLY TRAVELS IN ONE DIRECTION
H.K. Slade

THE SUPPLICANT
Nicholas Zielinski

THE GARGOYLE CARVER
Holden Arquilevich

THE FASTER THEY EAT HER
Tom Preston

A REIGN OF THUNDER (PART THREE)
Wayne Kyle Spitzer

MEMOIR
James C. Bassett

LAI
Recardo Poole Jr.

BURN
Nathan Perrin

A CATASTROPHE OF SANITY
Louis Philip DelGiacco

WHO WE ARE
Damir Salkovic

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hobb's End Press
• Release date: Mar 28, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224593484

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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