2023 collection of short stories by Darrell Schweitzer
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.[ 1] [ 2]
Summary
The collection consists of twenty-six stories by the author,[ 1] 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
Novels Short story collections As editor