Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Issue #16 / Fall 2023

Novels

The Gold Exigency

(Part 3 of 4)

By MICHAEL TIERNEY

Conrock and Mackstar narrowly escaped the Five-Thousand Fingered Hand! Can they track down the missing Philean with help from Phaedra and her companions?!



Novelettes

Dead Men Do Tell Tales

By TEEL JAMES GLENN

A gangster with vampire thugs is on the warpath, and Dead Fred's still-talking head may hold the key as to why! Will Ghostmaker Jack Silence get answers or the bite?!

Fossils of Truth and Grace

By E.E. KING

A young grad student staying on the Cornish coast discovers a witch's pit! Is the mystery connected to her past? Her mother had been a guest at Trelawny Manor!

Metamorphoses at the Gate

By LYSANDER ARDEN

There is nothing quite like a Summer friendship! However, Kaz is a stranger friend than most, especially since the local cult seems to have a keen interest in him!

The Chilling Account of the Wolf-Bann of Krallenburg

By J.E. Tabor

Krallenburg is beset by a werewolf! Can witchhunter Friedrich Rosch stop the monstrous curse before the town succumbs to siege by Protestant mercenaries!?



Short Stories

The Dusk Next Door

By MARK PELLEGRINI

Every year, the children draw doodles for the Duskmen! And every year, one high-schooler must deliver them to the town of Dusk to keep them over there!

Children of Summer

By LOUISE SORENSEN

A scouting party has gone missing! Can Aedyn and Kerry find them in the bug-infested post-apocalyptic wastes, or will they too become food for giant insects?!

The Angel Hanna

By RODICA BRETIN

Alix has always been a bit odd... but her past is even stranger! An orphan tells her strange tale of friendship and loss-a story of a girl who thought she was an angel!

Trapped in the Loop

By JIM BREYFOGLE

Kat has a daring plan to trap Rhygir's forces, baiting them into a bend in the river where they themselves risk being cut off! Can Kat and Mangos hold their lines and catch Rhygir outside of Alness before his reinforcements are able to arrive?!

Texas Goth

By MICHAEL TIERNEY with ABRAHAM STRONGJOHN

Jesus Dunn Jr. plans to do away with his abusive father... And there are no witnesses, except for the strange Goth girl who has started following him around!

Black Sky, White Knight

By MARK MELLON

Stranded in the woods without a mount, a Christian knight must make for Heilsberg Castle! Can he survive the trek through pagan territory and reach safety?!

To a Dead Soul in Morbid Love

By MATTHEW PUNGITORE

In a ghoulish tale that drives to madness, the blasphemous corpse wizard Lord Tryphon, cheater of death, must make his grim way to the revelry of Dionysus!