Table of Contents: Masquerade 2024

We're hard at work getting the newest issue into your hands by Halloween. Right now, we're wrapping up all of our contracts, author proofs, and putting together a cover image. (Stay tuned for that!)

Our theme for this installment was "masks and costumes", and we received a large number of submissions on the topic of masks, so without further ado, here is the table of contents for the next installment, Weird Fiction Quarterly: Masquerade 2024:

1. The Masked Ones (John H. Howard)
2. The Skin Thieves (Natasha Liora)
3. The Night Swimmers (Sarah Walker)
4. Grim Guise (Adam Bolivar)
5. The Lord of the Hunt (Chelsea Arrington)
6. Your Presence is Required (Andrew S. Fuller)
7. Unmasked (Duane Pesice)
8. The Girl In The Pallid Mask (Glynn Owen Barrass)
9. True Face (Erin Banks)
10. Carne Vale (Andrew Moore)
11. The Being (Shayne K. Keen)
12. A Good Time, to Be Sure (Kurt Fawver)
13. I Wake After Seventy Years Instead Of Seven (Robert Jeschonek)
14. Spiral into Madness (Sumiko Saulson)
15. The Functioning Addict’s Soiree (Rob Tannahill)
16. The Mask of The Hunter (Tony Bradbury)
17. (Un)filtered (Ngo Binh Anh Khoa)
18. Janice (Jill Hand)
19. Shifting Perspectives (Colleen Anderson)
20. The Metamorphosis (Scott J. Couturier)
21. Holy Sheet (Peter Rawlik)
22. Pulses (John Paul Fitch)
23. The Right Mask (Lisa Morton)
24. Invested in Vestments (J.C. Maçek III)
25. Human Impersonation Day (Daniel Braum)
26. About Face (Michael Thomas Ford)
27. Lopardo (Mala Jay Suess)
28. The Mask of the Universe (Maxwell I. Gold)
29. The Face Blind King (David Barker)
30. Masque (Robert J. Sodaro)
31. Sheela-na-Gig (Sonya Taaffe)
32. Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits (Denise Dumars)
33. Masquerade (M Ennenbach)
34. Plumage at the Bottom of the Deep Blue (Richard Leis)
35. The Gimp Mask of Shiverville (Frank Floyd)
36. Silent (Roger Keel)
37. Hallowed Dream (Ashley Dioses)
38. Mask of the Leopard Priestess (Mark McLaughlin)
39. The Rasp of the Dead Breath (Rhys Hughes)
40. Five Sixes Are Thirty (Jayaprakash Satyamurthy)
41. A Summer Dig (Hayley Arrington)
42. And So I Don My Pallid Mask (Sal Ciano)
43. Urine Drop Halloween (Zoltán Komor)
44. Damask (Silvatiicus Riddle)
45. Behind the Pasteboard Mask (Neil Sanzari)
46. The Red Mask (Kasey Hill)
47. Be Sweet (Can Wiggins)
48. Revelations (J. Edward Zuleger)
49. The Pallid Mask (Frank Coffman)
50. The Death Mask (Manuel Arenas)
51. Meat Suit (Russ Parkhurst)
52. The Frankenstein Blues (Andy Joynes)
53. The Front Stage Mask (Chris J. Karr)
54. Volte Face (LC von Hessen)
55. The Empress’s New Clothes (Pixie Bruner)
56. The Collector (Simon Bleaken)
57. The Sleep Mask (Nathan Carson)
58. Masque of the Sepulcher (Don Webb)
59. A Heart’s Beat (Rebecca Buchanan)
60. Dance With Me (Brandon Barrows)
61. When Giant Stars Collapse (Melanie Crew)
62. Farewell to the Masquerade (Christopher Ropes)
63. Strings Attached (Erica Ruppert)
64. Last Day at the Lake (Gevera Bert Piedmont)
65. Moon Masks (Jay Sturner)
66. Have Mouths, Will Scream (John M. F. Colton)
67. Jack-o’-Lantern Mask (K. A. Opperman)
68. Lot Number 55784-1: Kishiss Mask (Joanna Roye)
69. About the Authors

We have a lot of new and returning visages in this issue and we can't wait to share their tales with you soon!