Only the Troll Wife Remains
By Leonora Lewis From #CHM 71 May 2026 “Your mother’s breathing has changed. You need to get here.” I’d expected that call from hospice. I knew it was going to happen. It still took me by surprise. “I’m at the…
Category Fiction
Original cosmic horror themed short fiction. Reader beware
How to Deal with Fallen Gods
By Matthew MacDonald From #CHM 71 May 2026 First, understand that they may be confused. They may be scared. They are a long way from home, and life in our world is not what it was in theirs. DO NOT…
There’s Something on Her Face
By Mary Magagna From #CHM 71 May 2026 My perfect wife has a friend I’m about to meet. This friend predates me, has known my pristine, porcelain doll from grade school, maybe kindergarten. Will the friend recognize from our expressions…
Albion
By Charlie Hughes From #CHM 70 April 2026 Sometimes, I’m a quiet old man shuffling along the street on my way to collect the morning paper. I wear a dirty overcoat, too heavy for the clement spring weather, and nod…
My Sweet Calamity, Woman Between Worlds
By Antoinette Van Sluytman From #CHM 70 April 2026 The primeval land of the First Women is not for this corporeal flesh of ours, and we are intruders here. This unfathomable tier they once called home is to be claimed…
Ensnared
By Colleen Anderson From #CHM 70 April 2026 Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; ~William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” After the breakdown, the howling void of New…
