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CHM #64 October 2025
Sorry for the delay everyone, we had this staged and ready to post on October 1, and there was some technical issue! This month's fiction:Announcement by Emma BurnettLustre by Sebastian GrayThe Ones at the Top Didn’t Fall There by Joule K. ZelmanThe Soldier by Rory AbelUnmissable Love by Elena SichrovskyA Suggestion of Gills by Annika Barranti KleinPink Baby by Erin MacNairShambleau by C.L. MooreEssay: C.L. Moore by Jolie Toomajan
Patreon Exlusive Fiction: Float by Jim Horlock
FloatBy Jim Horlock“When was the first time you saw someone Float?” Nadia asked me.I resented her for pulling that memory out from under the pile where I kept it.We didn't have a universally agreed term for it back then, but everyone had seen the videos. More showed up every day, from grainy CCTV footage to crystal clear livestreams. It was getting harder and harder to call it a hoax. Christians were quick to call it "the Rapture" with all the fire and brimstone preaching that en...
Patreon Exlusive Fiction: All the Labyrinths by Danai Christopoulou
All the LabyrinthsBy Danai ChristopoulouOut of all the labyrinths in all the world she steps into yours.You eat her.You’re the monster.By the time her softest bits—an earlobe, a pinky toe, a mouth that could be stretched into a smile or a scream—have melted on your tongue, you believe this is the way things will always go. Cyclical. Fleshy. Only a little crunchy in the end.You will sleep after your feast, self-assured and at ease, and won’t wake up to gleaming white, accusing bones, poin...
CHM #63 September 2025
Welcome to this month's tome of terrifying tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. This month:Growing Daffodils by Anne WilkinsThornback Hall by LC von HessenTommy “The Leg” Ain’t No Witch by Jonathan GenslerPairing by Mathilda ZellerAs Much As I Please by Xochilt AvilaAnti-Cosmic by Annie RussoSpore and Yeast by D.A. StraithFrom the Crypt: Shambleau, Part 3 by C.L. Moore
CHM #62 August 2025
Welcome to the August 2025 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly. Our lineup this month:Footprints in the Sand by Melissa LeighJust Visiting by Camden RoseAct of Devourment by Davina TijaniWrong Bulls by R.L. MezaTongue-Tied by Shelley LavigneI Never Saw The Knife by Cheyenne ShafferHeavy As Gold and Lace by Alexis DubonFrom the Crypt: Shambleau (part II) by C.L. Moore
CHM #61 July 2025
Welcome to the July issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly! This month:Beyond Those Shadowed Hills By M. Shedric SimpsonL’école de Création By Íde HennessyOther Duties As Required By Theodore HillArticulation By Margo PechaGrilled By Scott J. CouturierLeave No Rock Unclimbed By Pauline ChowThe Hole By K.K. MonroeFrom the Crypt: Shambleau By C.L. MooreArticle: C.L. Moore By Jolie Toomajan
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Escape Pod C2A by Claire Berry
Escape Pod C2Aby Claire BerryThough escape pods were designed to accommodate up to twenty personnel each, only three people made it into C2A before it left the station. Charlie, the Mechanic, and me.The Mechanic has been silent since the pod went dark. Charlie did, very flippantly, share his theory with us as to why the entire electronic system–up to the emergency lights—is down. Before the crash, the pod suffered a series of shocks that damaged the hull, and one or several key components st...
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Devil's Tooth by Jonathan Gensler
Hey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right...Devil’s ToothBy Jonathan GenslerHey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right…sshhhhh. The other vendors don’t know I’m here; not exactly.I know you’ve been watching the news threads about the Lakebed, the ruptures in the salt flats, and yeah, that’s been happening everywhere. And what I’m gonna show you is rel...
CHM #60 June 2025
Whoa, 5 years in the books... we apologize for the delay in posting, and present you a very strong issue of cosmic horror and weird fiction. Buckle up! This month:The Spare, the Bait, the Sea by Malda MarlysGreasy Luck by Samir Sirk MoratóThe HellBender by Teege BrauneInterrogatus by Erik McHattonUnder Water by K.B. OlszewskiMan of the Tunnels by Lyra MeurerThe Book of Odexsys: Extant Fragments by Kurt FawverFrom the Crypt: The Siren by Tarleton Coller
Sorry for the delay!
I found the issue that prevented some of the magazines to not ship out yet. If you haven't received the May issue it will be on its way shortly!🐙Charles
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: The Becoming by Sasha Ravitch
No one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds...By Sasha RavitchNo one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds. A Stygian circumference carved from liquid obsidian, a mouth made of pure night. The Hole is a perfect pockmark in the heavens: cerulean sky erased and leaving something blacker than black, deeper than deep. It seems to go on forever i...
CHM #59 May 2025
This month we are featuring some of my favorite cover art of the past 5 years plus the following fiction: (Reader beware, you may need to sleep with the lights on tonight)Love in the Time of Meebs by Vivian ChouThe Roots Run Deep, It Blooms Like a Flower by Colin HinckleySandcombe’s Lightly Herbed Sunday Jellyfish by A. R. FrederiksenCoffee Grinder Love by Siobhan GallagherThe Mysterious and Most Occult Murder of Sir Algernon Sablewood: A Crime Dossier Mystery by Steve ToaseThe Womb of Kingsp...
CHM #58 April 2025
Another terrifying issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly is here!Featuring:Mr. Axolotlby Max ZoskeJackrabbit Crunchby EC DorganOnward and Downwardby Clint SmithTenebrismby Carly RacklinNaked They Clingby Marisca PichetteThe Last Spiderboxby NM WhitleyThe Bergby Ally WilkesFrom the Crypt: Take the Z-Trainby Allison V. Harding
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Pavonine by Leigh Loveday
The eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold under his shirt...PavonineBy Leigh LovedayThe eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold under his shirt collar and the ice-blue eyes that huddle against his neck heavy as wet rats, show him the souls of people who pass through his life.Through the eyes he audits friends’ and neighbours’ habits, inspects their insecurities, sol...
An update to our shipping
The US Postal service has informed me that we can no longer send magazines as first class mail, more than doubling our costs for shipping, which unfortunately means we have to bump all print subscriptions to the higher tier rate of $15 that we recently rolled out ($149.00 for yearly I think is the discounted rate).I really hate having to increase our prices, we want to be able to offer our fiction to readers everywhere for the lowest price possible, so if this the makes the magazine difficult to...
CHM #57 March 2025
Featuring:Brain Nine and the Masseuse by Matthew C. BrownGo Ask Ophelia by Tim LiederZippy Times at the Hotel Sempiternum by Amanda Cecelia LangThe Breakers by Holden ArquilevichDark Rapture by Rob GillhamFind Me Dumped in the Reeds by Isla LaderWig by Mary KurylaFrom the Crypt: Collected Poetry by Dorothy Quick
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Dunwich Revisited by Julia August
Nothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens. It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with skies...Dunwich RevisitedBy Julia AugustNothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens.It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with skies of startling blue, a bumper year for apples and white-rumped rabbits. I walked round the valley with the wind in my hair, trying to catch the blackberries in that precious moment between unripe and rotten. Along the top road,...
CHM #56 February 2025
This month:The Spider Killer by D. Matthew UrbanThe Last Astronaut by Sam W. PisciottaWhat Ails You by Maxwell MaraisVenus Looks Coldly Over Her Shoulder by Jennifer Lesh FleckEvery Brain Makes it Stronger by Ryan ColeAccession by Peter Ong CookL’Appel Du Vide by Heidi VossFrom the Crypt: The Devil’s Lottery by Mary Elizabeth CounselmanSidebar: Mary Elizabeth Counselman by Jolie Toomajan
Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Coming Down by Thomas Mavroudis
By Thomas C Mavroudis Pete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete lovedto tease Lizzy. You could say it bordered on addiction. Always in good fun...Coming Down FastBy Thomas C MavroudisPete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete lovedto tease Lizzy. You could say it bordered on addiction. Always in good fun, Lizzy didn’t mind most of the time. What she didn’t like, not really, probably indeed loathed, was being scared.She liked scary things: books, movies, haunted houses and so on. But the things Pete did,...
Patreon Exclusive Tee #1
It's finally here and getting ready to ship! The first shirt design for our Ultimate Collector Tier Patrons. These shirts will not be in the CHM merch store, so there is only one way to get them.psst psst... It's not too late to upgrade your patronage tier and get your shirt.p.s. If you are a member of the Ultimate Collector tier please send me your shirt size, if I don't have it already I'll me sliding into your DMs soon.Best wishes and a happy new year!
CHM #55 January 2025
We kick this issue off with Alex Ebenstein’s “The Wind Beneath” an elevated (pun unintended) apocalypse tale. We then bring you Addison Smith’s “Those Perfect Materials,” which gives us body horror on a cosmic scale and turns the fetishization of youth on its head. Daniel Bart Hutchins “Evil in My Sight” is the smartly crafted story of a city beset upon by a turkey processing plant that seems to infest everything it touches, followed by an anxiety-inducing tale of emotions made p...
CHM #54 December 2024
We’re closing the year with a quieter issue, one about the precise contours of pain and loss. We open with Rex Burrows’ “The Head in the Pantry,” a strange and touching tale that proves that humans will pack bond with anything. We then have Shelley Lavigne’s furious lesbian horror about adoration and exploitation, “Bilious Green Envy, Burning White Fury,” where a woman minimizes her own art career and uses her strange talent to make her wife famous instead. We follow that with Dori...
CHM #53 November 2024
We start this issue with a bit of uncanny metafiction, “Introduction to The Collection by Anonymous” by Charlie Hughes. D. Matthew Urban’s masterful “Lion Tamer” follows, a Ligottian tale of unreality and dislocation where a circus performer suspects his counterpart is not really a lion. Elou Carroll’s “An Ouroboros of a Sort” gives us a take on loneliness, as an isolated narrator works to make sense of the woman floating outside their 13th story window. “The Arca Musarthimica...
CHM #52 October 2024
This month we begin in a post-apocalyptic underwater complex with HoldenArquilevich’s “Blood and Snodgrass.” We then bring you Caitlin Duffy’s “Peepers,”a very weird tale that is best experienced completely spoiler-free (you deserveto read this weird masterpiece in the same way the editors did). After that, KatherineMarzinsky gives us a story about what we give up to survive, the disturbing“The Taste of Hunger.” We then bring you slightly lighter fare, with M. TylerTuttle’s coz...
Announcement!
We have made a change to our tiers. Order tracking is here!So, postage is expensive. The cost of shipping a magazine out (just within the states) has increased by 70% since we started print subscriptions in Fall 2020. This is probably why it has taken this long to roll this benefit out, shipping with tracking is generally twice as expensive as shipping without it.This is something that has been asked for a lot, and that is print order tracking! Too many magazines get lost by the post office, mos...
CHM #51 September 2024
First up, we have shades of Shirley Jackson with Ryan Marie Ketterer’s “The Netting on My Feet.” Then Steve Rasnic Tem gives us his stunning take on bodily betrayal in “Carcinogenesis.” In Thomas C Mavroudis’ “Moons of Mission Bay,” a young boy learns that reckless curiosity has a steep price. “Down the Hatch” by C.H. Pearce is a tale of weird science that asks who gets to decide which parts of us are valuable. We follow that with Timaeus Bloom’s darkly funny “Showtime,...
CHM #50 August 2024
First up, we have a grotesque tale of replacement and domination brought tous by E. M. Stormo, “Devil’s Weather.” SJ Powell’s “Brood Baby” takes us intoan infested childhood home that isn’t against using memories to further the goalsof the hive. We follow that with “Zoe” by Anne Wilkins, where a lonely youngwoman and an eerie plant find a way to grow in even the harshest conditions. In“Slipskin,” by CHM favorite K. Wallace King, a lonely young girl attempts totranscend into...
CHM #49 July 2024
This issue is a special one, a tribute to one of (if not) the best living writers of cosmic horror and weird fiction, Thomas Ligotti.Our Ligotti tribute issue fittingly begins with Jon Padgett’s lyrical and haunting “The Indoor Swamp, Revisited.” We then bring you into the world of a devilish prankster with Matthew M. Bartlett’s “Good Evening, Mr. Darkgarden.” We then have a pair of stories that revel in the impersonal disconnection of work, Susan R. Morritt’s slaughterhouse horror...
CHM #48 June 2024
Featuring:Where Are You Hiding Your Dreams by MobMachine Learning by Mike AllenThe Kingdom of God is Within the Swimming Pool by Tania ChenDoppelgangers and Sentient Prosthesis: Visualizing the Horrors of Brian Evenson by R. WilsonCosmic Enormity by Jolie ToomajanPerpetual Persistence in a Personal Plane by ego_botBlood for Sap by Bennette HardingDead Leaves on the Tongue by A. Katherine BlackFrom the Crypt: The Thing in the Hall by E. F. BensonLet us know which story is your favorite in the com...
CHM #47 May 2024
May showers bring cosmic horror flowers, this month:Crazy Murder Forkers by William SterlingBetween the Mind and the Dark by Hailey PiperMusic Videos in the City of Life and Death by Steve ToaseLick Me Clean by Evelyn FreelingYour Stories as Molten Metal by Carson WinterYour Posh Revelries will be Claimed by My Currents by Michael BoulericeA Little Piece of Heaven by Rik HoskinLove is the Color of a Bruise by Scott Paul HallamThe Glitter of Bile by Amanda M. BlakeFrom the Crypt: The Last Cigaret...
