Cosmic Horror Monthly

CHM #64 October 2025

Sorry for the delay everyone, we had this staged and ready to post on October 1, and there was some technical issue!

This month's fiction:

Announcement by Emma Burnett

Lustr...

Patreon Exlusive Fiction: Float by Jim Horlock

Float

By Jim Horlock

“When was the first time you saw someone Float?” Nadia asked me.

I resented her for pulling that memory out from under the pile where I kept it.

We didn't have a universally agreed term for it back then, but everyone had seen the videos. More showe...

Patreon Exlusive Fiction: All the Labyrinths by Danai Christopoulou

All the Labyrinths

By Danai Christopoulou

Out of all the labyrinths in all the world she steps into yours.

 You eat her.

 You’re the monster.

 By the time her softest bits—an earlobe, a pinky toe, a mouth that could be str...

CHM #63 September 2025

Welcome to this month's tome of terrifying tales, Lovecraftian, cosmic, and weird. This month:

Growing Daffodils by Anne Wilkins

Thornback Hall by LC von Hessen

Tommy “The Leg” ...

CHM #62 August 2025

Welcome to the August 2025 issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly. Our lineup this month:

Footprints in the Sand by Melissa Leigh

Just Visiting by Camden Rose

Act of Devourment by Davina Tijani...

CHM #61 July 2025

Welcome to the July issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly! This month:

Beyond Those Shadowed Hills By M. Shedric Simpson

L’école de Création By Íde Hennessy

Other Duties As Require...

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Escape Pod C2A by Claire Berry

Escape Pod C2A

by Claire Berry

Though escape pods were designed to accommodate up to twenty personnel each, only three people made it into C2A before it left the station. Charlie, the Mechanic, and me.

The Mechanic has been silent since the pod went dark. Charlie did, ver...

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Devil's Tooth by Jonathan Gensler

Hey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right...

Devil’s Tooth

By Jonathan Gensler

Hey, you. Come over here and have a look at something. Here in the shadows, behind the tents. That’s right…sshhhhh. The other v...

CHM #60 June 2025

Whoa, 5 years in the books... we apologize for the delay in posting, and present you a very strong issue of cosmic horror and weird fiction. Buckle up!

This month:

The Spare, the Bait, the Sea by M...

Sorry for the delay!

I found the issue that prevented some of the magazines to not ship out yet. If you haven't received the May issue it will be on its way shortly!

🐙

Charles

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: The Becoming by Sasha Ravitch

No one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds...

By Sasha Ravitch

No one remembers when the Hole in the sky appeared. Round and conical, its tip tapering skyward and perforating the clouds. A Stygian circumfe...

CHM #59 May 2025

This month we are featuring some of my favorite cover art of the past 5 years plus the following fiction: (Reader beware, you may need to sleep with the lights on tonight)

Love in the Time of Meeb...

CHM #58 April 2025

Another terrifying issue of Cosmic Horror Monthly is here!

Featuring:

Mr. Axolotl by Max Zoske

Jackrabbit Crunch by EC Dorgan

Onward and Downward by Clint Smith

Tene...

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Pavonine by Leigh Loveday

The eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold under his shirt...

Pavonine

By Leigh Loveday

The eyeballs that nobody else can see, the hazel eyes that cling to his hair and the solemn grey eyes cold u...

An update to our shipping

The US Postal service has informed me that we can no longer send magazines as first class mail, more than doubling our costs for shipping, which unfortunately means we have to bump all print subscription...

CHM #57 March 2025

Featuring:

Brain Nine and the Masseuse by Matthew C. Brown

Go Ask Ophelia by Tim Lieder

Zippy Times at the Hotel Sempiternum by Amanda Cecelia Lang

The Breakers by Holden Arquilev...

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Dunwich Revisited by Julia August

Nothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens. It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with skies...

Dunwich Revisited

By Julia August

Nothing happened that autumn, except we got kittens.

It was a crisp, clear season, the grey days interspersed with ...

CHM #56 February 2025

This month:

The Spider Killer by D. Matthew Urban

The Last Astronaut by Sam W. Pisciotta

What Ails You by Maxwell Marais

Venus Looks Coldly Over Her Shoulder by Jennifer Lesh Flec...

Patreon Exclusive Fiction: Coming Down by Thomas Mavroudis

By Thomas C Mavroudis   Pete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete loved to tease Lizzy. You could say it bordered on addiction. Always in good fun...

Coming Down Fast

By Thomas C Mavroudis

Pete liked to tease Lizzy. No, Pete loved to tease Li...

Patreon Exclusive Tee #1

It's finally here and getting ready to ship! The first shirt design for our Ultimate Collector Tier Patrons. These shirts will not be in the CHM merch store, so there is only one way to get them.

psst psst... It's not too late to upgrade your patronage tier and get your shirt.

p.s. If...

CHM #55 January 2025

We kick this issue off with Alex Ebenstein’s “The Wind Beneath” an elevated (pun unintended) apocalypse tale. We then bring you Addison Smith’s “Those Perfect Materials,” which gives us body horror ...

CHM #54 December 2024

 We’re closing the year with a quieter issue, one about the precise contours of pain and loss. We open with Rex Burrows’ “The Head in the Pantry,” a strange and touching tale that proves tha...

CHM #53 November 2024

We start this issue with a bit of uncanny metafiction, “Introduction to The Collection by Anonymous” by Charlie Hughes. D. Matthew Urban’s masterful “Lion Tamer” follows, a Ligottian tale of un...

CHM #52 October 2024

This month we begin in a post-apocalyptic underwater complex with Holden

Arquilevich’s “Blood and Snodgrass.” We then bring you Caitlin Duffy’s “Peepers,”

a very weird tale...

Announcement!

We have made a change to our tiers. Order tracking is here!

So, postage is expensive. The cost of shipping a magazine out (just within the states) has increased by 70% since we started print subscriptions in Fall 2020. This is probably why it has taken this long to roll this benefit out, sh...

CHM #51 September 2024

First up, we have shades of Shirley Jackson with Ryan Marie Ketterer’s “The Netting on My Feet.” Then Steve Rasnic Tem gives us his stunning take on bodily betrayal in “Carcinogenesis.” In Thom...

CHM #50 August 2024

 First up, we have a grotesque tale of replacement and domination brought to

us by E. M. Stormo, “Devil’s Weather.” SJ Powell’s “Brood Baby” takes us into

an infested childh...

CHM #49 July 2024

This issue is a special one, a tribute to one of (if not) the best living writers of cosmic horror and weird fiction, Thomas Ligotti.

Our Ligotti tribute issue fittingly begins with Jon Pa...

CHM #48 June 2024

 Featuring:

Where Are You Hiding Your Dreams by Mob

Machine Learning by Mike Allen

The Kingdom of God is Within the Swimming Pool by Tania Chen

Doppelgangers and Sentient Prosthesis...

CHM #47 May 2024

May showers bring cosmic horror flowers, this month:

Crazy Murder Forkers by William Sterling

Between the Mind and the Dark by Hailey Piper

Music Videos in the City of Life and Death b...