HP Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror - Weird Tales

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H.P. LOVECRAFT’S
MAGAZINE OF HORROR
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Marvin Kaye
Contributing Editors
Peter Cannon
Craig Shaw Gardner
Darrell Schweitzer
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02 THE OUTSIDER
editorial by Marvin Kaye
04 A BIT OF LIFE
by Alexandra Honigsberg & David Honigsberg
12 CHERRYSTONES & SHARDS OF ICE
by Ekaterina Sedia
18 BAGS by Mike Allen
20 DESCANT by Terry Bramlett
24 THE THING’S THE PLAY by Andrew J. Wilson
32 GOING AFTER TIMMY by Parke Godwin
42 ICHTHYS by Arrin Dembo
51 BOXING DAY by Leah Bobet
52 OSTRACA by Jane Alice Kelly
58 CRYPTIC LIFE by Jill Baumann
60 THE PIPER’S CHAIR by Terry McGarry
66 FORMIDABLE TERRAIN by Elizabeth Bear
68 WITHIN YOUR SOUL I SIGHTLESS SEE
by Eugie Foster
74 THE MONSTER IN THE LIVING ROOM
by Marc Bilgrey
80 BETWEEN OURSELVES
by Tanith Lee & Rosemary Hawley Jarman
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