Another issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly has arrived!
Featuring:
A New World by e rathke
The Dying Chorus: An Oral History of the Carcosa Art Collective by Max D. Stanton
Automatic Doors by Lillah Lawson
Ritual Sacrifice to the Great God of Skates by Eric J. Guignard
Don’t Tell by Jonathan Gensler
Beauty Below by Lynn Forba
Big Top by Katarina Bet...
2024-03-25 00:41:38 +0000 UTC View Post
We hope you enjoy the style changes we have made to the epub version! Feel free to let me know your thoughts!
This issue features:
Black-Holed by Paul Wilson
My Sister’s Nest by Tim Waggoner
Memorabilia by Timaeus Bloom
The Question by Stetson Ray
Swall...
2024-02-22 23:23:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ll start things off with a nice relaxing dinner party, only one of the guests is an evil celestial being in “You Are Cordially Invited to the Last Dinner Party.” Then in a brilliant showing by CHM alum Erik McHatton, the cosmic and the weird go hand in hand in “We Must Be Rabbits.” A bond...
2024-01-24 21:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
New Year, New CHM! Featuring:
163.3 By Christopher Reed
The Secret Society of Schrödinger’s Children by Patrick Barb
Reality is the Antagonist: a Theory of the Weird by Nicole Cushing
Dragging Bones from the Ocean By Pauline Chow
Ambiguation By Alex Wolfgang
Docto...
2023-12-26 22:54:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This month:
Alates by Rex Burrows
The Scapegrace - Part II by Matthew M. Bartlett
The Night Before by RSL
The Space Between the Lakes by Jason Kahler
A Very Regular Box by Jennifer Derkitt
All the Eyes That See by Alan Baxter
Her Tomb, Her Throne by Katie Carmi...
2023-11-24 14:58:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Another issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly is hot off the presses!
Featuring:
Free Party, Late By Mob
The Scapegrace - Part I By Matthew M. Bartlett
Lucienne by Nicholas Kaufmann
Your 13-Month Bridal Planner for the Feast of One Flesh By Sarah Day
Ouroboros by Tuck...
2023-10-24 13:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, as we continue to get our proverbial shit together here on Patreon, I am recompiling the list of readers that should be getting the magazine synced to their kindle device. It is certainly optional and if you don't use kindle, you can disregard this notice. But if you are planning to use it, make sure that you add publications@cosmichorrormonthly.com to your kindle trusted email source...
2023-10-04 14:09:30 +0000 UTC View PostHey, Patreon fam.
You guys are fantastic, really awesome. I have felt for some time that I need to offer you guys more. So we have a ton of new rewards coming in the next few weeks. Including:
Private Discord server access,
Behind-the-scenes content,
Advanced TOC sneak peeks,
Merch discount code (including for already discounted back issues),
A swag box exclu...
2023-09-26 17:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah, spooky season at last! We hope you have a wonderful Halloween this year, and if nowhere else, there are chills to be found in this issue of CHM.
Featuring:
Divine Violence by Valo Wing
Mayo Monday by Richard Shifman
capital Gains by Matthew Chabin
The Scarec...
2023-09-23 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Another edition of CHM is here! Featuring some of the best short stories we've assembled yet!
Including:
Like Shakespeare by Hannah Brown
Roots in the Ground by M. Shaw
How to Paint a Haunted House by Thomas C. Mavroudis
Phil by Tiffany Sanerd
Elder Care b...
2023-08-25 21:18:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This month:
Ipomoea Sanguineus by Steve Neal
Party-Line by Rik Hoskin
The Leaking World by Sarah Zell
Empty Shells On A Cold Shore by Jacob Steven Mohr
A Clone’s Tale by Alan Simmons
Echo Lake by Rachel Searcey
Rumination by Katrina Carruth
V...
2023-07-25 12:54:36 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings,
We at CHM do not support the AI art movement. We believe true art is a form of human expression and therefore must be created by human hands and human imagination. Unfortunately, on the print cover for issue #37, I paid to feature an art piece that utilized AI in its creation. I thought I had measures in place to avoid approaching artists that used such techniques, b...
2023-06-27 15:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
The Working Conditions of Shift Three by P.L. McMillan
The Feed by Jo Kaplan
The Tree that Casts A Shadow Like A Man by Robert Guffey
Glass Clue by Ivy Grimes
Want Like Raw Silk by Erin Keating
Down in Minus Three by DermotT Fairfield
Hero...
2023-06-24 20:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
Aleph Mem Tav by Phillip E. Dixon
Organ of the Tide by Christina Ladd
New Fox Smell by Livia Llewellyn
The Hollow House by Scott J. Couturier
Leaden Within the Lines by Jennifer L. Collins
Keepers of the Garden by James Pate
The Indomitable AMS by J....
2023-05-24 12:55:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Another issue of CHM is here! Featuring:
Inbox by Alex Wolfgang
Melting Point by Gwendolyn Kiste
Welcome to Brine Cay by Rae Knowles
This Morning I Was Still A Paperboy
by Jonathan Gensler
In Dark Tabittree by Christi Nogle
The Yellow Carousel by Timothy G. Hu...
2023-04-24 19:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
On the Night Bus by Erik McHatton
The Horror Host By Matthew M. Bartlett
The Better Angels of our Nature by Nina Shepardson
JÖTUNN by Sarah Pauling
The Swallowed by Ivy Grimes
Vele Di Mar Non Vid’io by Steve Toase
The Ghost of You by Toshiya Kamei...
2023-03-25 12:36:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
At the Bottom of the Burlap by ChristopHer O’Halloran
Slow Burn by Mike Allen
Stag In Winter by Rajiv Moté
Strange Blooms in the Sky by Paul D Coombs
The Other Names by Ramsey Campbell
Squid Nose by J.B. Kish
A Star Eating Darkness by Evelyn Freel...
2023-02-21 14:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
O.A.G.F. by Megan M. Davies-Ostrom
The Other David By Patrick Barb
No One Warns You By S.P. Miskowski
Ex Oblivione: Nothing Out of the End By Maxwell I. Gold
The Weeds and the Black Spot By Shannon Ives
Phase Ball By Rik Hoskin
Marianne by Scott J. M...
2023-01-24 12:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostA monthly Tome of Terrifying tales, Lovecraftian, Cosmic, and Weird. This Month:
A Current of Darkness by Mike Voss
Not Everything Buried is Dead by Guy Riessen
Digital Maintenance by Ryan Marie Ketterer
Our Bodies Keep Rupturing Each Time We love by Eric La Roca
In the Wind, Their Voices by Michelle Tang
The Midwife by Jonathan Gensler
Shadows beneath ...
2022-12-24 17:07:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
His Hands May be Dirty, but His Brain is Freshly Washed by Matt Handle
Millions by Christi Nogle
Birth of the Living Night by Elyse Russell
Interview: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead
The Language of Waves by Scotty Milder
White Casket b...
2022-11-25 14:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Featuring:
Void by J.L. Flannery
Winedark by Christina Ladd
Sideshow by Alpheus Williams
The Bridge by Jack Lothian
Nurtures and Protects by Jessica Levai
The Invincible by Rik Hoskin
The Nut House: Chapter 5 by Patrick Barb
Helen by Glenn MacI...
2022-10-24 15:59:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We open strong with a story that stretches the very fabric of reality in Patrick Barb’s Dream, Girl. Something terrible lurks in the words in the beautifully crafted and unforgettable Becoming by David Peak. A terrifying truth found in the coldest reaches of outer space makes its way home ...
2022-09-23 13:22:41 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ll start things off with a surreal exploration of dreams and their connection to reality in “The Starfarer’s Dream Journal.” Then an unbelievable tale of chance and fate in “One More” followed by a surreal journey sure to warp your own taste buds in “Witness the Refrigerator...
2022-08-24 17:46:40 +0000 UTC View Post
We’ve assembled a strong lineup for you this month beginning with a cautionary tale of youthful debauchery titled “Entrance Rites.” Then, from CHM alum Erik McHatton, a child learns to understand an alien invader in “Knocks.” In “Testimony,” a father’s warnings about what lurks in the d...
2022-07-25 12:33:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The next era of CHM begins now. In “Dried Citrus,” we’ll witness the meeting of two families under romantic circumstances, one human, one… well, I suppose you’ll have to see for yourself. Then, horrifying memories come full circle when a father is pushed to protect his child in “...
2022-06-25 03:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I give you the twenty-fourth edition of Cosmic Horror Monthly. To start, we’ll find out what it’s like to see your home planet disappear before your eyes in “You and I and the Envious Nothing.” Then a deeply disturbing tale of a mother and son by Michael Wehunt you won’t want to mi...
2022-05-25 12:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis month, we have a terrifying, gorgeously written tale by Nadia Bulkin, author of She Said Destroy (Word Horde, 2017), in “A Dream, and a Monster at the End of It.” We’ll witness the hideous give and take of an idol that hungers for flesh in “In the City of the Idol.” Then a mysterious evil lurks in the deep of the woods in “At the Mountains of Spirits.” We’ll learn just how ...
2022-04-24 13:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostWe start with a story of pure cosmic horror in “Oculus.” Then we witness a truly frightening tale of a world hidden within our own in “Matres Lachrymarum” by Mike Allen, acclaimed author of Unseaming. We experience a speculative vision of the afterlife depicted on this month’s cover in “Strands,” before a descent into madness portends an even greater calamity in “The Horrors Uns...
2022-03-25 02:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostAn unspeakable evil lurks deep in the woods in a terrifying piece from CHM alum Scott J. Couturier (“From Weir”). Then we move on to “Parasites of Silver and Gold,” a gripping and beautifully written post-apocalyptic tale by Hailey Piper, author of The Worm and His Kings that will have you thinking twice about going out at night alone. In “A Few Missing Pieces,” a new invention chan...
2022-02-22 14:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostDear Loyal Readers,
We are all aware of the supply chain issues causing shortages in everything from cars to pasta to toilet paper. For quite a while, it seemed like Cosmic Horror Monthly was mystically immune to the woes of the pandemic. Sadly, trouble has caught up with us.
I have been notified that our print supplier is completely out of paper for the t...