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?!
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