Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Issue #8 / Fall 2021

The Artomique Paradigm (Part 3 of 3)

By MICHAEL TIERNEY

Achilles "Whip" Hister is dead! The Galactic summit has turned into a massacre, and the Artomiques are ready to unleash their ultimate weapon: dreadnoughts based on the Space Shark Erlik created! Can anyone, or anything, stop them?!

Too Many Mangos

By JIM BREYFOGLE

Foes pursue the Mongoose and Meerkat in the frigid north, seeking to prevent retrieval of a magic trinket for a client! One of the bandits...appears to be Mangos!?

The Black Skull

By REV. JOE KELLY

A strange and forbidding artifact has wended its way to an abbey! What is the black skull, and what strange powers might this grotesque and evil object possess?!

We Have Always Been Beasts

By S.H. Mansouri

An evil rain falls on the cursed children of Grewal... Brothers hope that they can end the rains that have corrupted and deformed them by ending their father's life!

Dead Neighbor

By DAVID SKINNER

Armed with his only wits and his experimental Existential Motion Detection Device, a man is determined to discover exactly what has become of his neighbor!

The Light of Reason

By TEEL JAMES GLENN

Jack Stone and his mentor, Doctor Argent, have finally tracked down the vampire lord, Count Mendoza! But will they be able to vanquish the cornered monster?!

Locker No. 249

By JAMES LAM

A new student has just been assigned a locker next to that of a boy whose mysterious disappearance is connected to rumors of a Chinese mummy's curse!

Remorsels

By LOUISE SORENSEN

Ghosts of animals appear as if by magic in paintings! The phenomenon is a strange blessing... Until a butcher begins supplying choice cuts of mystery meat to the artist!

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By

PAUL O'CONNOR - WRITER

KENT BURLES - PENCILLER

JAMES BALDWIN - INKS

BARB KAALBERG - TONES

PAT BROSSEAU - LETTERS

MITCH FOUST - COVER PAINTING

MICHAEL TIERNEY - DIGITAL RESTORATION