Weird Horror, Issue 9, Fall 2024

Weird Horror #9

by Michael Kelly (Editor), Avra Margariti, Corey Farrenkopf

Shocking and original new weird fiction

Contents (fiction):
- Seán Padraic Birnie "Black Water"
- Corey Farrenkopf "New in Town"
- Jason Fernandes "It Knows What’s Under Your Skin"
- Derrick Boden "Homunculus"
- Avra Margariti "Fragments (From a Film)"
- Mike O'Driscoll "All the Devils Are Here"
- Gordon Brown "Fliers"
- Jorja Osha "Rippling Salt, Like Rolling Waves"
- Hiron Ennes "Our Best Selves"
- Nelson Stanley "Stopping Places"
- Sasha Brown "To the Wolves"

Includes also: opinion from Simon Strantzas ("The Fantastique and the Weird"); commentary from Orrin Grey ("Sucker for Mystery: The Legacy of Richard Sala"); reviews by Lysette Stevenson.

138 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2024

About the author

Michael Kelly is the Series Editor for the Year's Best Weird Fiction, and author of Undertow and Other Laments, and Scratching the Surface; as well as co-author of the novel Ouroboros.

His short fiction has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including All Hallows, Best New Horror, Black Static, Dark Arts, the Hint Fiction Anthology, PostScripts, Space & Time, Supernatural Tales, Tesseracts 13, and Weird Fiction Review.

Michael is a World Fantasy Award, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award Nominee.

Reviews

[Danielle (Danni) Vinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Weird Horror, Issue 9, is another excellent foray into the strange. As always, it was a cover to cover read. This issue was especially weird and I love that. The three standout stories are...

~Homunculus by Derrick Boden
(ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!)
~New in Town by Corey Farrenkopf
~Our Best Selves by Hiron Ennes
(nominated for a World Fantasy Award)

[Runalong · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good selection of weird horror tales shitting reality and identity at will. Lots to enjoy!

Full review - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/bl...

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great stories, great authors, and great articles. Loved Them.!!!

[William Emmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was my first issue of Weird Horror and the first horror or weird fiction magazine I’ve read cover to cover. I left feeling totally converted. The stories are murky and strange in a good way. I didn’t know this was the kind of fiction I needed in my life but it is.

The sleeper hit at the back of the book is the book review section titled The Macabre Reader which covers both contemporary and classic books. I love that.

I almost wrote Weird Horror a fan letter but figured they would get more mileage out of a Goodreads review. I will be checking out more Undertow Publications titles and back issues of Weird Horror from my public library and subscribing to new issues of Weird Horror direct from Undertow Publications moving forward.

[Kevin Buck · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really solid collection of weird horror stories by a group of diverse authors. All of them were new to me.

I had my favorites, but I won't point them out here, as the whole magazine or novella is definitely worth reading.

I liked that a list of suggested books was included at the end. Some of which were published back in the 1930s and out of print.

[David Swisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple of really good stories in this one, particularly It Knows What's Under Your Skin by Jason Fernandes & Fragments (From A Film) by Avra Margariti. Worth picking up just for these 2 stories.

A couple stories were not so great and I wasn't particularly impressed with the non-fiction articles in this one.

[Brian Mcclain · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has a wide range of weird horror that actually increased the breadth of horror I'd consider as weird. It didn't all land for me, but I appreciated the trips I was taken on.