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Thank you. From the blackest corners of your mind, they call, pulling you deep into shadow, twisting your senses, keeping you from sleep.

It's time to face your darkest fears.

This is Tales to Terrify. Good evening, children of the night, and welcome.

No, you're not losing your mind, not more than usual anyway. I'm not the regular host Drew Sevestini.

I'm fiction editor Meredith Morganstern.

In honor of the dark and divine feminine that is Women in Horror Month,

I've taken the bloody baton from Drew for a while.

This month, I'll explore some of the

most common themes in horror written by and about women. I'll also honor a few horror midwives,

those who help birth some of our wickedest nightmares. But first, as the fiction editor here,

I'd like to thank all you weirdos for your recent submissions.

They gave me enough nightmare fuel for a good long while.

We received a lot of stories of cannibalism this time around, which makes me wonder what some of you got up to during quarantine.

I'd also like to thank everyone who submitted a haunted house story as you made my petrified little heart burst with rancid delight.

I'm incredibly grateful to our new slush readers who've worked hard these last few months.

Kathy Palm, Christy Nogel, Elizabeth Huffstettler, Kathleen Beckett, Jasmine Arch, and Amanda

Delmell.

Thank you all from the bottom of my dark and bleeding soul.

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