Cirsova Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense

Just Don't Open the DoorBy MARK PELLEGRINISean lives next to a weird house with bricked-up windows and an overgrown yard... One day, he sees the strange man living next door leaving in a panicked hurry, offering one brusque warning!The Greenery Has Come AgainBy PAUL LUCASJames's childhood home is no longer his own, and returning proves an uncanny experience as the mystery surrounding the giant tree his mother named Yggdrasil blooms like the greenwood itself!Mission 21By SCHUYLER HERNSTROMCodename Joker: he's the best at what he does-wet works ops against the reptilian aliens that eat human flesh! Can he keep his perfect record when a bystander gets caught in the crossfire?!Sail SafeBy VONNIE WINSLOW CRISTAt Port Crystal, the facility director's daughter is...not her daughter! Can Radko Urban get Sally Brogan, who was kidnapped as an embryo, off the station before they're both made?!Shakespeare Among the Stars By JILL HANDLured onto a space cruise by romantic letters from a handsome holo actor that turned out to be part of a marketing campaign, Kivrin has run out of money and is stuck working the waste tanks!How I Spent My Summer Vacation By TONY BEAULIEUA young girl's parents die mysteriously while investigating a strange book: The All Story! When Paige Hamil finds her parents' notes and The All Story, Valvidian Corp agents aren't far behind!Shallow Ripples By LAUREN E REYNOLDSPolluted yet picturesque, the streams and creeks near Andy and Joey's small town attract their fair share of partying teens despite the disturbing rumors and legends-and deaths!Scent of the Yaka Aka Yo By J. MANFRED WEICHSEL Three castaways find themselves on a mysteriousisland inhabited almost entirely by women... and their strange king who condemns the men to death by the sinister Yaka Aka Yo!The Fourth Gift By DAVID SKINNERBaltasar, one of Ulrik's many Menders, diligently performs his task of recreating the Solar System-until a mysterious anomaly forming around the Moon threatens the outcome of the Plan!The Sarcomancer By DONALD JACOB UITVLUGTZain, priest of the old gods, continues his trek across Leng in search of his brother and comes across a destitute village that has been deprived of its young by a mad flesh-crafting sorcerer!The Last Day in Iram By JAMES HUTCHINGSYou have had a vision that the city of Iram is doomed! The paranoid sultan is privy to the same portents, but refuses to allow any to leave the city-will you escape before the end comes?!