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The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens

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The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens is a collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Hippocampus Press in April 2023.[https://www.hippocampuspress.com/other-authors/fiction/the-children-of-chorazin-and-other-strange-denizens-by-darrell-schweitzer The Children of Chorazin on Hippocampus Press website][https://www.amazon.com/Children-Chorazin-Other-Strange-Denizens/dp/161498400X The Children of Chorazin on Amazon.com]

Summary

The collection consists of twenty-six stories by the author, originally published from 2000 to 2022 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents

  • "Uncle's in the Treetops" (from What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween, Sep. 2018)
  • "The Red Witch of Chorazin" (from Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, May 2016)
  • "The Girl in the Attic" (from Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, Nov. 2017)
  • "The Hutchison Boy" (from The Dragons of the Night, May 2016)
  • "Not in the Card Catalog" (from Tales from the Miskatonic University Library, Feb. 2017)
  • "Down to a Sunless Sea" (from Mountains of Madness Revealed, Sep. 2019)
  • "A Prism of Darkness" (from Black Wings IV, Feb. 2015)
  • "No Signal" (from The Grimscribe's Puppets, Jul. 1913)
  • "Come, Follow Me" (from That Is Not Dead, Feb. 2015)
  • "Odd Man Out" (from Cemetery Dance no. 71, May 2014)
  • "Madness on the Black Planet" (from Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity, Jan. 2016)
  • "Going to Ground" (from Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, 2014)
  • "The Martian Bell" (from Nameless: A Journal of the Macabre Esoteric and Intellectual v. 2, iss. 4, Dec. 2019)
  • "Were—?" (from Flesh Like Smoke, Jul. 2015)
  • "Boxes of Dead Children" (from Weirdbook 31, Sep. 2015)
  • "The Return of the Night-Gaunts" (from His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories About H. P. Lovecraft, 2020)
  • "All Kings and Princes Bow Down unto Me" (from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, 2021, Sep. 2021)
  • "The Festival of the Pallid Mask" (from Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, Jun. 2021)
  • "A Dark Miracle" (from Black Gate v. 1, no. 3, Win. 2002)
  • "A Predicament" (from Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Mar. 2017)
  • "The Thief of Dreams" (from Apostles of the Weird, Apr. 2020)
  • "Killing the Pale Man" (from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, 2022, Sep. 2022)
  • "Appeasing the Darkness" (from Strange Attraction, Aug. 2000)
  • "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"
  • "The Interrogator" (from Short Things: Tales Inspired by "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., Oct. 2019)
  • "The White Face"
  • "Acknowledgments"

Notes

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Category:2023 short story collections

Category:Short story collections by Darrell Schweitzer

Category:Fantasy short story collections

Category:Horror short story collections

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