Probably the best haunted house story about the alienating effect of mirrors that you will ever read.
Author: matthewrettino
I'm a speculative fiction writer who lives in the West Island of Montreal. My first story, “The Pilgrim’s Yoke,” appeared in Bards and Sages Quarterly in 2018, while his forthcoming story, “The Goddess In Him" appeared in September 2020 with NewMyths.com. He works as a freelance editor and leads courses at the Thomas More Institute. My Master’s thesis on modern fantasy, “Fantasy as a Peripheral Modernism: Uneven Development in Charles de Lint’s Urban Fantasy” is free to read online. I'm is presently working on an archaeological thriller with a weird fiction twist inspired by Jorge Luis Borges. Follow me on Twitter @matthewrettino.
Weird #35: “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles” by Margaret St. Clair (1951)
Moral of story: know your client.
Weird #34: “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson (1950)
Things go wrong when an older couple decides to stay at the cottage past Labor Day.
Weird #33: “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts” by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (1949)
A journey from death to life in the forests of Benin.
Weird #32: “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges (1945)
Is there a link between weird fiction and mysticism?
Weird #31: “The Long Sheet” by William Sansom (1944)
The true meaning of freedom
Weird #30: “The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury (1943)
Ray Bradbury presents a surreal conspiracy based on a modern (too modern) anxiety: crowds!
Weird #29: “Mimic” by Donald A. Wollheim (1942)
What if an insect camouflaged itself to deceive the apex predator of Planet Earth: human beings?
Weird #28: “White Rabbit” by Leonora Carrington (1941)
A creepy story about acquiring a chunk of rotting meat for a new neighbour.
Weird #27: “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber (1941)
Fritz Leiber's story about the ghosts of the modern city.
Matthew Rettino 