The Ghastling

In this fully illustrated issue we've got haunted dolls, incantations, doppelgngers, unsettling children, murderous mermaids and plenty of ghost stories. In Vincent Endwell's 'The Doll-Eater' a little girl is given a Raggedy Ann doll by her grandmother - a toy her mother dislikes. Soon it becomes apparent that the doll is more than just a cheering child's toy. Hannah Mariska's 'Mother Earth' tells of a mother's grief through the eyes of a nosey upstairs neighbour who witnesses something they shouldn't. Mathew Gostelow's 'Do Not Read' is a brilliant take on the popular horror trope of incantations. One night, Jenny, a little girl, requests her father read her a book, The Tallyman, from the library. Chloe Gambell's ghost story 'Mine' tells of family trauma. A young woman travels to her maternal homeland to visit her grandparents in Normandy, France, where they live in a former sanatorium. 'Dawn' by Amanda Moussa is an unsettling story exploring the self and the body at the edge of death. Damien B. Raphael's story 'Don't Be A Stranger' is a weird and compelling tale of a couple's demise after a fancy dress party. Mari Ellis Dunning's beautifully told folk horror 'Rumours' explores the arrival of mermaid...