DARK MOON DIGEST ISSUE #38 (Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, January 2020) Paperback, 108 pages. ISBN: 978-1-943720-44-6. Also available in digital Kindle edition.
Summary on the Goodreads website . . . . .
In the 38th issue of Dark Moon Digest, a slumber party gets out of control; a coven of satanic gamers corrupt the youth; a man with tooth problems seeks unorthodox treatment to save a buck; a strange substance infects a small desert town; a daughter and her mother are harassed by intruders; a little boy disrupts reality; and a local cable show about hunting takes an unexpected turn.
With fiction by Chelsea Asher, Joshua Chaplinsky, Andrew Hilbert, Red Lagoe, Elizabeth Strong, Matthew B. Hare, Jonathan Raab, and columns by Jacob Knight and Jay Wilburn.
My Four-Star Review on the Goodreads website . . . . .
This the first issue of Dark Moon Digest for me (I purchased the print edition) and it won't be the last. I like the mix of short horror stories with diverse themes and writing styles.
These were the highlights for me:
"The Slumber Party" by Chelsea Asher lets us into the thoughts of a teenage girl during a sleep over and what she'd really like to do to the others.
"Swollen Dry Sockets" by Andrew Hilbert is a morality tale of sorts: don't go cheap for dental services.
"The Other Side" by Elizabeth Strong is the best story in this issue, all the more notable because Strong's story is the winner of a horror writing contest sponsored by Dark Moon Digest. It's a ghost story from an entirely different perspective.
In non-fiction content, the “Unsung Maniacs” column debuts with an interesting profile of lesser-known horror director William Girdler (1947-1978). Columnist Jay Wilburn debates with himself over what is Stephen King's best short story collection in "Bits Of The Dead."
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