Welcome to a special series from The Arcanist Team. Over the next twelve days, we'll be featuring flash fiction from Christopher Stanley's collection The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales. Welcome to The Twelve Days of Horror.
On the fourth day of horror, we're worried about what the full moon might bring, and we find our wildest wish has come true.
Christopher Stanley is the author of numerous prize-winning flash fictions, the darkest of which can be found spreading misery and mayhem in his debut collection, The Lamppost Huggers and Other Wretched Tales (The Arcanist, June 2020). He’s also the author of the horror novelette, The Forest is Hungry (Demain Publishing, April 2019). Follow him on Twitter @allthosestrings or visit his website: christopherstanleyauthor.com
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14. "Tick Bit" and "The Truth Is in the Retelling"
13. "Salt" and "Cheap Copies"
12. "Monster Sightings in the Home" and "Late Night at Roy's Diner"
11. "The Book of Ordinary Names" and "Lucky Albert"
10. "Hourglass" and "Numen"
9. "Fut-R-Sight" and "Leave No Trace"
8. "We Wait for a Better Future" and "Consent"
7. "Not Quite the Last of the Martian Redhounds" and "Nannybot"
6. "Night, Night" and "Plunk at the Foot of the Mountain"
5. "The Influencer" and "Energy, Inertia, Entropy"
4. "A Cask of Special Vintage" and "The Mature Starlet's Guide to Making Comeback"
3. "Red Velvet in Black Charcoal" and "Message in a Bottle"
2. "A Familiar Smell" and "The Invention of Time Travel"
1. "Summoning Circles" and "Dr. Strang's Last Day"
Holiday Special: "Sack of Souls" and "Baubles and Beer Cans"
19. "Bargaining" and "Jeremy's Wish"
18. "Fooled by the Rocks" and "In Fairness to the Fair Folk"
17. "I'm Looking Through You" and "Conjure By Numbers"
16. "The Reborn Series" and "Sallya On Fire"
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