Morlock the Maker — last seen in “Turn Up This Crooked Way” in Black Gate 8 — is lured into an ingenious trap by a master of golems. . . a peerless samurai encounters the greatest test of his life when he allows an old man to taunt him into battle. . . a young girl searches for a pet in a neighborhood haunted by deathwalkers and Avatar monsters. . . a bard strives to rally a tribe of Danes as they’re struck down one-by-one by an unseen monster. . . and a young scientist desperately races against time to rescue two inter-dimensional travelers trapped in a world of horrors.

This issue includes fiction from William John Watkins, James Enge, Murray Leinster, Michael Canfield, and many others. Rich Horton continues his popular series of genre retrospectives with a look at Retro-Hugos That Will Never Be, plus there are columns and reviews from Don Bassingthwaite, Steven Silver, and Todd McAulty.

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