Weird Horror, Issue 10, Spring 2025

Weird Horror #10

by Michael Kelly (Editor), Meg Elison, John Patrick Higgins

Provocative and unsettling new weird fiction

Contents (fiction):
- Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece "St. Dymphna's School for Borderland Girls"
- Spencer Nitkey "In the Dream, He Is Skinless and Beautiful"
- Malcolm Devlin "Her Alberta"
- Alexander James "Silver Wires and Sweet Water"
- Martin Cahill "Nothing Good Without a Price"
- Françoise Harvey "Scratch Dinner"
- Meg Elison "The Waite People"
- Rebecca Kuder "Seven Cups"
- John Patrick Higgins "No Light in the Trees"

Includes also: opinion from Simon Strantzas ("Transcendence in Horror"); commentary from Orrin Grey ("Weird Little Guys: Gargoyles, Grotesques, and Monster Toys"); reviews by Lysette Stevenson.

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 3, 2025

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

[David Swisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

This issue was pretty decent. I really enjoyed Scratch Dinner by Françoise Harvey, The Waite People by Meg Ellison, and Seven Cups by Rebecca Kuder.

Also of note, this edition's Macabre Reader section has some very intriguing book recommendations I'll be checking out.

Also shout out to cover artist MK Cooper and interior artist Shikhar Dixit - really dug the artwork

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

I love this magazine so much. As always, every story was excellent and delightfully weird.
My favourites...

~Nothing Good Without A Price
by Martin Cahill
~Scratch Dinner by Françoise Harvey
~No Light In the Trees
by John Patrick Higgins

Treat yourselves to these beautiful books.
Or digital copies. You'll love them.

[Luke Dylan Ramsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

B+/A-

The finished date is an estimate… I read this issue more or less right when it came in the mail, but I couldn’t find it on GR at the time, and now that a month or two has passed, I don’t remember it well enough to review it with any depth.

That being said I do remember enjoying this issue a lot… there weren’t any subpar stories and one or two of the stories have really stuck with me.

[Lewis Housley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can hardly wait for each issue of this publication to be released. Every issue is filled with wonderful illustrations, essays, reviews, and stories. I really wish these came out quarterly if not monthly. Always a treat.

[Tony Ciak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful assortment of stories, reviews and articles , love it!!!

[Julio Gagne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed bag as with most anthologies.

Really loved St. Dymphna’s School for Borderland Girls by Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece