Lustre
Sebastian Gray, "Lustre" in Cosmic Horror Monthly, Issue #64, October 2025. Just outside of Hell stands the city of Lustre—a city where a strange kind of consumerism of hedonism and soul-trade thrives. Ligotti’s pessimism meets Ballingrud’s hellscapes in this wonderfully weird short story by Sebastian Gray. The limping, bleeding, injured demons make an offer, but you are literally damned if you do, damned if you don’t. There is no escape; there is no way to make the hurt stop.