Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, September-October 2024 | Tricks and Treacherous Treats

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 Josh Pachter’s “Wind Phone,” there is communication with the dead—but also a more concrete task at hand. And more spooky “The Heiress. The Hireling.” by Joyce Carol Oates "Through Thick and Thin” by Andrew Welsh-Huggins "Hell-Bent for Leather” by Tom Andes "The Gaslight Sonata” by Richard Helms "Bad Hydrous” byDoug Crandell "The Lonely One” by Bill Pronzini "Not All Hauntings Are by Ghosts” by Robin Kirman "Cadere ex Stellae” by Pat Black "[The Applause Dies.]” by Lori Rader-Day PASSPORT TO “The Night Watch” by Marlen Visser DEPARTMENT OF FIRST “The Jews on Elm Street” by Anna Stolley Persky and “Head Start” by Kai LovelaceBLACK MASK “The Phantom of the Concourse Plaza” by Jerome Charyn