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In this April 2022 edition of Schlock, we’re celebrating eleven years since the first issue. We begin with the fourth instalment of Chris McAuley and Claudia Christian’s Dark Legacies series with a flashback, followed by Paul Kane bringing news of the 2022 Chillercon UK, which will be held in the opulent confines of Scarborough’s Grand and Royal Hotels. Dame Hudibras’ butterflies are causing consternation on Picklock Lane. Benjamin is feeling haunted. An explosion in a medical warehouse results in an unsolvable mystery. A stag night has a gruesome outcome. Two con tricksters roam across a superstitious kingdom. A children’s entertainer’s act goes wrong. A whistleblower tells us of the truth that lies out there. A detective exploits his one true gift in an overly magical land. An end user engages in an email feud with a software company. And we have a review from John C Adams. A kid discovers a Japanese cryptid. Martian politics proves lethal. Two police officers interview a grandmother with a strange history. The pampered pets of alien invaders stage an uprising. Meanwhile a man is resuscitated in the real world…