Table of Contents

May/June 2023

FICTION

Down the Fire Road by Doug Crandell

The Pact by G.M. Malliet

Squatter’s Rites by Hal Charles

What’s the Holdup? by Sandra Murphy

The Incurious Man by Terence Faherty

The Third Lady by Robert Edward Eckels

Friday the Thirteenth by Marilyn Todd

A Flash of Headlights by Ken Linn

A Cruise to Eternity by John Lantigua

Wait for the Blackout by Libby Cudmore

Chalk by Bill Pronzini

Something Blue by L.A. Wilson, Jr.

Judge Not by Twist Phelan

 

PASSPORT TO CRIME

The Wendigo’s Spell by Paul Halter

 

BLACK MASK

The Life and Times of Big Poppa by Michael A. Gonzales

 

SPECIAL FEATURE

2022 EQMM Readers Award

 

DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES

The Body in Cell Two by Kate Hohl

Drive, Mary by Archer Sullivan

 

REVIEWS

Blog Bytes by Kristopher Zgorski

The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock

Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb