<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">A beautifully designed modern day penny dreadful. This issue is guaranteed to slip you a bit of the weird, the uncomfortable, the creepy, topped up with a garnish of terror. Nine short stories designed to raise the hair on the back of your neck, twist your perspective and leave you with a funny feeling in your gut.<span> </span>In </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Warren Benedetto'</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">s 'Uncle Pumpkin's Tongue', a seemingly innocent fairground ride turns into something revoltingly sinister. In </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Paul Buchanan</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'s thoroughly disturbing tale, 'The Bynum Girl', a community anticipates the release of one of its most terrifying members: a girl who once tormented them all.&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> JP Relph</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'s mind bending story, 'Delirus', tells of a doll, kept out of sight in the basement of a house gathering dust. She is discovered by a little girl who becomes quite taken with her. But what the little dolly harbours inside will make your skin crawl... </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Reggie Chamberlain-King'</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">s, 'Living With It', is a deeply troubling story of a mother unravelling in her domestic surroundings. Has she really just committed the most unmotherly act? Where is her son, really? </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Rory Say'</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">s thought provoking story, 'The Other Door', tells of a boy who keeps finding a door in strange places, but one that he cannot ever open. In </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Mark Blayney</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'s, eerie story, 'Coin, Mirror, Manoeuvre'</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">,</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> a man lives alone in the woods surrounded by his memories of an unrecognisable past - familiar, yet, unfamiliar. Something utterly life-changing has happened, but what? And which version of events is correct... ? 'The Catafalque' by </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Victoria Dowd </strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">is a spine-chilling story of a couple who convert a disused chapel, novel indeed, but is it ever a good idea to use a catafalque as a dining table? In </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Eve Chancellor</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">'s story inspired by true events, 'The Resurrection Man', a corpse-hauler delivering freshly dead bodies receives a visit from someone unexpected prompting a series of disturbing events. It is 1916 in </span><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Neil A. Wilson's</strong><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, 'In the Bleak Midwinter', and an invalid soldier is convalescing in Marsham Hall after a mustard gas attack. He should be improving but the nightmares keep leaking in, getting worse, almost as though something is tormenting him on purpose... </span></p>