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First, a hotel maid finds a new piece for her terrifying collection while cleaning a room in “Aleph Mem Tav.” Then, in a new story by Christina Ladd, a new and strange decorative statue brings more than just tourists in “Organ of the Tide.” A car ride out to the summer island becomes a horrifying metaphysical journey in Livia Llewellyn’s reprinted “New Fox Smell.” A medium meets their match in an absolute spiritual void in “The Hollow House” by CHM alum Scott J. Couturier followed by a story of the dire consequences of coloring outside the lines in “Leaden Within the Lines.” You never know what you’ll get when new neighbors move in, or what you’ll lose in “Keepers of the Garden.” Then we will start to wind things down with a chaotic stream of consciousness in “The Indomitable AMS” before closing with an utterly weird tale blending the animated antics of the classic cartoon with cold, punishing reality in “He Will Not Fall Until....”