Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense Issue #8 / Fall 2021

The Artomique Paradigm (Part 3 of 3)By MICHAEL TIERNEYAchilles Whip Hister is dead! The Galactic summit has turned into a massacre, and the Artomiques are ready to unleash their ultimate weapon: dreadnoughts based on the Space Shark Erlik created! Can anyone, or anything, stop them?!Too Many MangosBy JIM BREYFOGLEFoes pursue the Mongoose and Meerkat in the frigid north, seeking to prevent retrieval of a magic trinket for a client! One of the bandits...appears to be Mangos!?The Black SkullBy REV. JOE KELLYA strange and forbidding artifact has wended its way to an abbey! What is the black skull, and what strange powers might this grotesque and evil object possess?! We Have Always Been BeastsBy S.H. MansouriAn evil rain falls on the cursed children of Grewal... Brothers hope that they can end the rains that have corrupted and deformed them by ending their father's life! Dead NeighborBy DAVID SKINNERArmed with his only wits and his experimental Existential Motion Detection Device, a man is determined to discover exactly what has become of his neighbor!The Light of ReasonBy TEEL JAMES GLENNJack Stone and his mentor, Doctor Argent, have finally tracked down the vampire lord, Count Mendoza! But will they be able to vanquish the cornered monster?! Locker No. 249By JAMES LAMA new student has just been assigned a locker next to that of a boy whose mysterious disappearance is connected to rumors of a Chinese mummy's curse! RemorselsBy LOUISE SORENSENGhosts of animals appear as if by magic in paintings! The phenomenon is a strange blessing... Until a butcher begins supplying choice cuts of mystery meat to the artist! BADAXETMBy PAUL O'CONNOR - WRITER KENT BURLES - PENCILLER JAMES BALDWIN - INKS BARB KAALBERG - TONES PAT BROSSEAU - LETTERS MITCH FOUST - COVER PAINTING MICHAEL TIERNEY - DIGITAL RESTORATION