Status Updates From Fearful Symmetries

“And when I do, will you come to my wedding?”
“Of course I will!”
“Good. I want you there. I want you to see my bride. I want you to know that I shan’t love her. That I’m marrying her out of spite. That I’ll be cruel to her, and punish her, because she’ll never be you. I want you to know it’ll be your fault.”

Is Heathcliff your rolemodel, kiddo?

“You’re right,” I said with a relieved sigh. “If I were him, I wouldn’t go if my date were the Virgin Mary and we were doubling with Jesus.”

Lol 🤣

Ive not been having much luck with anthologies lately but this one seems to be at least a bit better than the last handful I have read.

* “The Worms Crawl In,” by Laird Barron

**** “The Attic” by Catherine MacLeod

*** “Wendigo Nights” by Siobhan Carroll

** “Suffer Little Children” by Robert Shearman

** “Power” by Michael Marshall Smith

** “Bridge of Sighs” by Kaaron Warren

* “Suffer Little Children” by Robert Shearman

*** “Mount Chary Galore” by Jeffrey Ford
** “Ballad of an Echo Whisperer” by Caitlín R. Kiernan

*** “The Four Darks” by Terry Dowling

**** “The Spindly Man” by Stephen Graham Jones

* “The Window” by Brian Evenson

** “The Four Darks” by Terry Dowling

* "A Wish From a Bone" by Gemma Files

** "The Atlas of Hell" by Nathan Ballingrud

*** "The Witch Moth" by Bruce McAllister

**** "Kaiju" by Gary McMahon

** "Will The Real Psycho In This Story Please Stand Up?" by Pat Cadigan

* "In the Year of Omens" by Helena Marshall

some of these stories suck