The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens

The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens

Cover of The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens
Author	Darrell Schweitzer
Cover artist	Jason Van Hollander
Language	English
Genre	Fantasy, horror
Publisher	Hippocampus Press
Publication date	2023
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (paperback), ebook
Pages	276
ISBN	9781614984009
OCLC	1381068333

The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens is a collection of dark fantasy and horror short stories by American writer Darrell Schweitzer. It was first published in trade paperback and ebook by Hippocampus Press in April 2023.

Summary

The collection consists of twenty-six stories by the author, originally published from 2000 to 2022 in various speculative fiction magazines and anthologies.

Contents

• "Uncle's in the Treetops" (from What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween, Sep. 2018)
• "The Red Witch of Chorazin" (from Black Wings V: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, May 2016)
• "The Girl in the Attic" (from Black Wings VI: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, Nov. 2017)
• "The Hutchison Boy" (from The Dragons of the Night, May 2016)
• "Not in the Card Catalog" (from Tales from the Miskatonic University Library, Feb. 2017)
• "Down to a Sunless Sea" (from Mountains of Madness Revealed, Sep. 2019)
• "A Prism of Darkness" (from Black Wings IV, Feb. 2015)
• "No Signal" (from The Grimscribe's Puppets, Jul. 1913)
• "Come, Follow Me" (from That Is Not Dead, Feb. 2015)
• "Odd Man Out" (from Cemetery Dance no. 71, May 2014)
• "Madness on the Black Planet" (from Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity, Jan. 2016)
• "Going to Ground" (from Searchers After Horror: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, 2014)
• "The Martian Bell" (from Nameless: A Journal of the Macabre Esoteric and Intellectual v. 2, iss. 4, Dec. 2019)
• "Were—?" (from Flesh Like Smoke, Jul. 2015)
• "Boxes of Dead Children" (from Weirdbook 31, Sep. 2015)
• "The Return of the Night-Gaunts" (from His Own Most Fantastic Creation: Stories About H. P. Lovecraft, 2020)
• "All Kings and Princes Bow Down unto Me" (from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, 2021, Sep. 2021)
• "The Festival of the Pallid Mask" (from Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign, Jun. 2021)
• "A Dark Miracle" (from Black Gate v. 1, no. 3, Win. 2002)
• "A Predicament" (from Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic, Mar. 2017)
• "The Thief of Dreams" (from Apostles of the Weird, Apr. 2020)
• "Killing the Pale Man" (from Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, 2022, Sep. 2022)
• "Appeasing the Darkness" (from Strange Attraction, Aug. 2000)
• "The Bear Went Over the Mountain"
• "The Interrogator" (from Short Things: Tales Inspired by "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, Jr., Oct. 2019)
• "The White Face"
• "Acknowledgments"