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Welcome to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. My editorship of EQMM began in the summer of 1991 following a call from then editor Eleanor Sullivan, who was helping in the search for her successor. I was mystery-fiction editor at Walker & Company at the time, and had charge of a series of anthologies of EQMM stories. The connection would provide an entrée to a whole new world of publishing.
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In EQMM’s September/October 2024 issue, we usher in the spooky season with monsters real and metaphorical. In “Knock-Knock” by Sarah Hilary, a woodworking apprentice in Japan tries to escape an ancient ghost, and in a tale with Gothic atmosphere a man who travels to a remote island to find out what happened to an old classmate discovers that the line between life and death isn’t straightforward (see “Gannets and Ghouls” by Sue Parman”). In Robert L. Fish Memorial Award winner Kate Hohl’s “Rosabelle,” a scrappy WWII-era wannabe actress assists her grifter (or is she?) psychic landlady at a séance, and in…
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The Heiress. The Hireling.
by Joyce Carol Oates
(in memoriam Julio C.)
She has begun to sleep more soundly in the new place at the edge of the lake large as an inland sea. She has begun to sleep with more passion, hearing waves in the night like great tongues lapping. Her dreams thrill her even as they exhaust her. Her dreams caress her even as they batter her. Her dreams are a source of intense love-sensations for her even as they cause her to weep in the luxury of guilt for she is a (new) widow and a (new) heiress and the fact is the elderly husband had chosen her, she had not chosen him; the elderly husband had loved her, and wanted her, and it had made him very happy, the elderly husband had died of sheer happiness, and the madness of such happiness, marrying her. READ MORE
Cadere ex Stellae
by Pat Black
“This is some place,” DS Linklater said, gesturing towards the sky, the sea, and the rocks. “I mean, if you were going to do it . . .”
“Don’t say that,” D.I. McIntyre said, shortly.
“Well . . . You know what I mean.”
McIntyre had dressed for the occasion. A long dark coat complemented her tall, slim frame and long limbs. For the most part, the buttons resisted the wind, which came in great gusts and shrieks. It brought the smell of the sea that drowned the background, a silvery tumult raging at the moon. READ MORE
