Magazine of Horror #16

Magazine of Horror, Volume 3, Number 4 (Summer) This issue features five fiction pieces across horror and supernatural genres. "The Monster of the Prophecy" by Carl Milan Smith (author of *The Door to Saturn*) follows Theophilus Alvor, a despairing young writer on Brooklyn Bridge in 1930, contemplating suicide after three months of rejection. "Night and Silence" by S. Baring-Gould depicts three disabled siblings—a crutch-bound woman, a blind man, and a deaf-mute—described as personifications of Age, Night, and Silence, moving mysteriously through dim streets. The issue includes works by J. P. Brennan and R. A. Lafferty. "The Dog That Laughed" is attributed to Lafferty. An excerpt shows cosmic horror: an emperor confronting the void and infinite darkness, cities crumbling into nothingness, before redemption through remembrance of his people's mortality and suffering. Robert E. Howard contributes a poem, "Satan is My Brother," rejecting piety for damnation. The issue advertises forthcoming content including Victor Rousseau's "The Curse of Amen-Ra."