Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction No. 53, June 2026 – Hobb’s End Press!

Posted on May 18, 2026

Some of you might remember a couple of months back I had a time-traveling western tale featured in a genre publication on Amazon. That magazine made it to the number one spot overnight (Mobius Blvd). Well, my story The Missouri Man is back! It’s been reprinted in the current issue of Dark Horses Magazine. From Hobb’s End Press. It is edited and compiled by Wayne Kyle Spitzer. The tale is about a lawyer who one day finds a hole in back of his refrigerator. And that hole is a time tunnel, leading back to a frontier era in which he must become an unlikely hero. I’ll leave the usual pics and links below. Check it out in case you missed it the first time around. The June issue is a whopping 352 pages! It is available in print or Kindle formats.

Hobb’s End Press presents…

Dark Horses: The Magazine of Weird Fiction – June 2026 Issue

Featuring Dagstine reprint: “The Missouri Man”

AUTHOR LINE-UP:

Join us for a monthly tour of writers who give as good as they get. From hard science-fiction to stark, melancholic apocalypses; from Lovecraftian horror to zombies and horror comedy; from whimsical interludes to tales of unlikely compassion–whatever it is, if it’s weird, it’s here. So grab a seat before the starting gun fires, pour yourself a glass of strange wine, and get ready for the running of the dark horses!

In this issue:

BEYOND THE BEATEN PATH
Jenny Morelli

BEYOND THE BREAKERS
Chris McGinley

GORE
Andrew Albritton

THUNDER ROAD
Wayne Kyle Spitzer

HOW NAVIGATION WORKS
Griffith Pound

THAT TIME WAS THE PLACE WHERE I EXIST
Robert Pettus

THE GATHERING OF THE DRAGONS
Matias Travieso-Diaz

THE SILVER FRONT
George P. Cross

THE WORLD BEYOND THE WATER
Daniel Burnbridge

GHOST INQUISITOR
Bill Walthall

CHILD OF CENTAURUS
R.A. Daunton

DRAINS
David Castlewitz

FIVE SOFT FINGERS
Sophia Krich-Brinton

LISL
Lisa Marie Miller

NEURAL CRUCIBLE
Ernesto Sanchez

THE GROMSKIN
Mark Nuzzi

THE MISSOURI MAN
Lawrence Dagstine

A TASTE OF TRUTH
Bill Diamond

PLUNGE
Anuel Rodriguez