Christopher Doyle's "The Grand Guignol" in WEIRDBOOK!

In the dim dark past of 1996, I attended the Clarion Writers Workshop with a number of extremely talented budding writers, one of whom was Christopher Doyle. I'd like to direct your attention to the latest issue of Doug Draa's WEIRDBOOK (issue #49), which includes Christopher's short story "The Grand Guignol," a well-executed, Weird Tales-esque occult adventure that takes place in New Orleans and Paris in the late nineteenth century. The prose style reminds me of the stories of Dr. John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, though "The Grand Guignol" is not derivative of those tales by any means. Perhaps the piece could best be described as a supernatural version of the Jacques Futrelle "Thinking Machine" series from the early 1900s. I hope Christopher plans to write more stories featuring his pince-nez-wearing protagonist, "Monsieur Alexandre DuVent, the Man Who Solves Problems!" You can buy a copy of WEIRDBOOK #49 by clicking HERE.