Edition 32 turns its gaze outward and inward at once—toward fractured histories, haunted landscapes, and the quiet horrors that take root in ordinary lives. These stories explore what happens when memory curdles, when myth refuses to stay buried, and when the past reaches forward with intent.

The issue opens with Lee Clark Zumpe’s The Man from Turkey Creek, a slow-burn confrontation with legacy and violence that sets the tone for what follows. Serial threads continue to tighten in Jacqueline Chou’s McNulty’s – Part Two and Gene Gallistel’s Home Is Where the Heart Is – Part Two, both deepening their examinations of loss, identity, and the dangers of returning home.

Cosmic unease and speculative warfare collide in Bob Johnston’s Makija, while C. M. Gilbert’s I, Nightmare blurs the boundary between dream logic and lived terror. Small-town dread takes on a folkloric edge in J. Edward Gregal’s Fitzy’s Coming and Jacob Ransom’s ominous Mile Marker 13, where superstition proves disturbingly well-informed.

Fairytale echoes darken in Julie Shiel’s Briar Rose, while bodily and spiritual violation take centre stage in Maggie D. Brace’s Soul Usurper. Grief and memory entwine with the natural world in N. Kostecka’s I Buried My Heart in the Garden, and domestic horror sharpens its teeth in Paul Lonardo’s The Monster Next Door.

Myth and lament intertwine in Philip Madden’s Marzanna’s Lament, followed by the unsettling intimacy of Rebecca J. Sloop’s The Diet, which examines control, consumption, and consequence. The issue closes with Tamara Kaye Sellman’s The Third Way, a quietly devastating piece that asks what survival costs when escape is an illusion.

Edition 32 is an accumulation of dread rather than a single scream—stories that linger, unsettle, and refuse to resolve neatly. These are tales that understand horror not as spectacle, but as pressure: slow, persistent, and inescapably human.

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