The 59th issue of the long-running magazine offers a wide range of stories by British and American authors. From an anecdote told in a Yorkshire hair salon to a worried academic wandering an East Anglian beach... from an art class in a US school to a place of the dead that may be nowhere... these stories take you to strange places where you will encounter weird phenomena. Ghosts? Yes, but things other than ghosts can be even more terrifying. People, for instance.
Contents:
'The Ingress' by James Machin
'The Eternal Woman' by Stephen Cashmore
'Pastepot' by Rex Burrows
'…and the traces of his memory fade' by Victoria Day
'Fire and Stick' by Charles Wilkinson
'Heron' by Sarah LeFanu
'On Dunwich Beach' by Roger Luckhurst
Author Notes
Rex Burrows writes dark speculative fiction. His stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Weird Horror Magazine, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and Tenebrous Antiquities: An Anthology of Historical Horror. He can be found online at www.rexburrows.com.
Stephen Cashmore is a professional proofreader, editor and writer based in Ayr on the west coast of Scotland. He has two novels published by Sparsile Books, and a third book As They Grow Older: Spooky Storiesto Read Aloud is coming out in October 2025. Go to
stephencashmore.com to find out more; go to cashmoreeditorial.com and click on 'errata' if you'd like to be amused by some typos Stephen has noticed in publications over the years. None, of course, emanate from Supernatural Tales.
Sam Dawson is a journalist. His collection, Pariah & Other Stories, is published by Supernatural Tales.
Victoria Day lives in North Yorkshire with her family, two border terriers and many books. Her short stories have appeared in Nebula Press, The Ghastling, Sarob Press, Vault of Evil, Supernatural Tales, Side Real Press, Ghosts and Scholars, Hypnogoria, The Silent Companion, and the They’re Out to Get You anthology edited by Johnny Mains. Her one act play ‘Take What You Want’ was performed at the 2022 Nidderdale Festival. She has written reviews of supernatural short story collections for the Grey Dog Tales blog. Her comedic poem ‘The Ballad of Brave Sir Louis’ about one of her dogs was published in ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’. Another, about her other dog, ‘A Dog’s Guide to Criminal Cats’ is to be found in ‘Flapping Doodles’. Both are published by Gibbon Moon Books and are edited by Rhys Hughes. Her novella Greven Hall: A Yorkshire Ghost Story published by Barnthorne Books is available on their website at https://www.barnthornpublishing.co.uk/product-page/greven-hall-by-victoria-day or via Amazon.
Sarah LeFanu is a biographer whose subjects include Rose Macaulay, novelist and occasional ghost story writer, and Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, both masters of the uncanny. ‘Heron’ marks her first appearance in Supernatural Tales. Another story set on the watery moors of North Somerset was published in Swan River’s Uncertainties Vol 1, edited by Brian J Showers, and is reprinted in the British Library anthology Fear in the Blood: Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird, edited by Mike Ashley.
Roger Luckhurst is a writer and critic who lives in London. His most recent book is Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead from Thames and Hudson.
James Machin is an editor, researcher, and writer who lives in Tring. Recent books include The Strange Stories of John Buchan (British Library Gilded Nightmares, 2025) and a new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Stark Munro Letters (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). His short fiction has been published in The Shadow Booth and Weirdbook, as well as previously in Supernatural Tales.
Charles Wilkinson’s stories have appeared in Best Short Stories 1990 (Heinemann), Best English Short Stories 2 (W.W. Norton, USA), Best British Short Stories 2015 (Salt), in genre magazines/ anthologies such as Black Static, Interzone, Supernatural Tales, Bourbon Penn (USA), Shadows & Tall Trees (Canada), Chthonic Matter (USA) and Best Weird Fiction 2015 (Undertow Books, Canada). His collections of strange tales and weird fiction A Twist in the Eye (2016), Splendid in Ash (2018), Mills of Silence (2021) and The Harmony of the Stares (2022), appeared from Egaeus Press. One of his stories was recently chosen for an Ellen Datlow Best Horror anthology, and his short novel, Every Place Unlike Home is forthcoming from Zagava (Germany). He lives in Wales.
