We are thrilled to announce the latest creepy edition to the Ghastling family: In Warren Benedetto’s ‘Uncle Pumpkin’s Tongue’, a seemingly innocent fairground ride turns into something revoltingly sinister. In Paul Buchanan’s thoroughly disturbing tale, ‘The Bynum Girl’, a community anticipates the release of one of its most terrifying members. JP Relph’s mind bending story, ‘Delirus’, tells of a doll, kept out of sight in the basement of a house gathering dust. Reggie Chamberlain-King’s, ‘Living With It’, is a deeply troubling story of a mother unravelling in her domestic surroundings. Rory Say’s thought provoking story, ‘The Other Door’, tells of a boy who keeps finding a door in strange places, but one that he cannot ever open. In Mark Blayney’s, eerie story, ‘Coin, Mirror, Manoeuvre’, a man lives alone in the woods surrounded by his memories of an unrecognisable past – familiar, yet, unfamiliar. ‘The Catafalque’ by Victoria Dowd is a spine-chilling story of a couple who convert a disused chapel. In Eve Chancellor’s story inspired by true events, ‘The Resurrection Man’, a corpse-hauler delivering freshly dead bodies receives a visit from someone unexpected. It is 1916 in Neil A. Wilson’s, ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, and an invalid soldier is convalescing in Marsham Hall after a mustard gas attack…

Nine chilling tales for your eerie pleasure! Illustration by Andrew Robinson at Monografik. This issue will go on sale at the end of the month, so keep your eyes peeled!

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Thank you! Sending you all good chills…

Rebecca & the ghosts at Ghastling Towers