The Ghastling

<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. </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>