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DAY 10 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 10 of 27: David Tallerman

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”
10. David Tallerman presents “Casualty of Peace”

EXCERPT:

            During the week, we build bombs.
            The bombs look like mushrooms—like a field of fungi stretching to every horizon. In the low light, the factory floor is without walls, without ceiling. There's only us and the bombs--and there are so many more of them than us.
            Is that how it feels for you? Out there, where you are, have the munitions already outnumbered those they're supposed to kill? While I work, I think of you. We build bombs to kill young men. We build bombs to make widows of girls like us. We build bombs to make money, to buy food, to stay alive, to build more bombs.
            Some of the women talk and joke. Some of them even sing. I wonder how they can…
— Casualty of Peace by David Tallerman
ABOUT: David Tallerman

      David Tallerman is the author of the recently released YA fantasy, The Black River Chronicles: Level One, the Tales of Easie Damasco series, and the Tor.com novella, Patchwerk. His comics work includes the absurdist steampunk graphic novel, Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science, and the Rosarium miniseries, C21st Gods.
     David's short stories have appeared or are due in around eighty markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. A number of his best dark fantasy and horror stories were included in his debut collection, The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories.
     He can be found online at davidtallerman.co.uk.

DAY 9 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 9 of 27: Carole Johnstone

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”
9. Carole Johnstone presents “Better You Believe”

EXCERPT:

            Even though I’m still descending through the French couloirs, the snowpack is harder, the incline less steep. I’m surprisingly warm, but I know much of that is a cocktail of O and illusion—I last felt my feet at Camp IV. I don’t feel bad, I don’t feel good. I don’t feel much of anything at all. Not even afraid.            There’s a subtle but sudden shift in the air around me, like a hush, a breath too close to my ear; my heart stutters a little to feel it through my hood and balaclava. And then Jakub Hornik appears from the gloom behind and above—maybe ten feet east, no more —face-first and flat on his belly, anchored to nothing. He doesn’t flail or shout as he slides down the snowfield; he makes no sound at all save the fast friction of his suit against ice…
— Better You Believe by Carole Johnstone
ABOUT: Carole Johnstone

British Fantasy Award-winning Carole Johnstoneis a Scottish writer, currently living on the island of Cyprus. Her short fiction has been published widely, and has been reprinted in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year and Salt Publishing’s Best British Fantasy series.Her debut short story collection, The Bright Day is Done, is available from Gray Friar Press, and her novella, Cold Turkey, is part of TTA Press’ novella series. Both works were shortlisted for a 2015 British Fantasy Award.She is presently at work on a novel, but just can’t seem to kick the short story habit.More information on the author can be found at carolejohnstone.com.

DAY 8 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 8 of 27: Darren O. Godfrey

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Littlepresents “The Plumber”
8. Darren O. Godfreypresents “D.U.I.”

EXCERPT:

            I hit the gas; the Nova’s rear tires threw gravel, and I was back on the northbound 30, accelerating, and moaning somewhere down deep in my throat because the dream was not over, the nightmare was not over, and I was not going home...             “He killed me—” the girl began, her voice high and shrill, “He came back and he killed me!”
— D.U.I. by Darren O. Godfrey
ABOUT: Darren O. Godfrey

Darren O. Godfrey grew up in Idaho, saw much of the country, then ended up back in Idaho. His fiction has appeared in Gorezone Magazine (the late, great sister publication to Fangoria) and Black October Magazine, The Art Times, as well as The Museum of Horrors, Borderlands 2, Borderlands 5, Borderlands 6, and Quietly Now: An Anthology in Tribute to Charles L. Grant, among others. His story, “Recess,” was selected for All-American Horror of the 21st Century, the First Decade, edited by Mort Castle.

DAY 7 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing(Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 7 of 27: Bentley Little

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”
7. Bentley Little presents “The Plumber”

EXCERPT:

The plumber didn’t wait for an answer but hung up. Andy was left listening to a dial tone, and he walked back out of the bedroom. The hallway was virtually dry, lines of paper towels soaking up whatever water remained, and fortunately there didn’t appear to be any long-term water damage. When he’d called yesterday, the plumber had come by about an hour later, and he expected it to take about that long for the man to show up today. But it was literally moments after Andy hung up the phone that the doorbell rang...
— The Plumber by Bentley Little
ABOUT: Bentley Little

Bentley Little is a horror writer who is intensely disliked by everyone who has ever met him. He would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the Pulitzer Prize committee for that thing he did. Also to the state of Nebraska, for that other thing.

DAY 6 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 6 of 27: Tom Johnstone

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”
6. Tom Johnstone presents “Oldstone Gardens”

EXCERPT:

“Well, it could be up that road,” she said, pointing to this one-way street. I remember one of the houses had this two-piece door at the front, kind of a stable door. I was sure we’d been up it before, and there’d just been a wall at the end. I asked her what she meant by ‘could be.’ Was it there or wasn’t it? She said, “It’ll be there if it’s there. It comes and goes, you see. Now you see it, now you don’t!”

— Oldstone Gardens by Tom Johnstone
ABOUT: Tom Johnstone

Tom Johnstone lives with his family in Brighton, where he works as a gardener for the local authority, and enjoys extreme lawn-mowing and guerrilla hedge-cutting. His fiction has appeared in the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Black Books of Horror (Mortbury Press), Brighton—The Graphic Novel (Queenspark Books), Supernatural Tales #27 & #31, Terror Tales of the Scottish Highlands (Gray Friar Press), and Strange Tales V (Tartarus Press). Ellen Datlow selected one of his stories for reprint in Best Horror of the Year #8, and the anti-austerity anthology he co-edited with the late Joel Lane, Horror Uncut, was nominated for the 2015 British Fantasy Award. More information at tomjohnstone.wordpress.com.

DAY 5 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 5 of 27: John M. Floyd

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”
3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”
4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”
5. John M. Floyd presents “The Red-Eye to Boston”

EXCERPT:

The old geezer in front of him was certifiably insane, he had no doubt of that. Nobody with all his marbles sees the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the toilet of a jet aircraft...

— The Red-Eye to Boston by John M. Floyd
ABOUT: John M. Floyd

John M. Floyd ’s work has appeared in more than 200 different publications, including The Strand Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Mississippi Noir, and The Best American Mystery Stories 2015. A former Air Force captain and IBM systems engineer, John is also a three-time Derringer Award winner and an Edgar nominee. His sixth book, Dreamland, was released in October 2016. http://www.johnmfloyd.com

DAY 4 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 4 of 27: Jay Caselberg

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”4. Jay Caselberg presents “The Ride”

EXCERPT:

She had died nearly four years ago. Or at least that’s what they told him. Some hiking holiday, exploring the ancient sites. The news had taken some time to reach him. After all, what’s a boyfriend? Not really next of kin. Not family. Not that they’d ever found a body.
— The Rideby Jay Caselberg
ABOUT: Jay Caselberg

Jay Caselberg is an Australian author based in Germany. His work has appeared in multiple venues worldwide and in several languages, both novels and short fiction. His work usually wanders across genre boundaries and proudly wears a dark edge. http://www.caselberg.net.

DAY 3 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 3 of 27: Rebecca J. Allred

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”
2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”3. Rebecca J. Allred presents “Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirt”

EXCERPT:

Vilte thought it nonsense that, sick or not, a person should be sequestered for the better part of a decade; even more perplexing that a mother should live in the same house as her daughter but never be allowed to meet. Yet whenever Vilte asked Father what ailed her mother and why it prevented her from acting as a mother should, Father told her only that Mother was unwell, and that when she was older, Vilte would understand.
— Mother’s Mouth, Full of Dirtby Rebecca J. Allred

ABOUT: Rebecca J. Allred

After conquering a decade of medical training, Rebecca Allred moved to the Pacific Northwest where she now has time to pursue her passion for creating dark literature. She enjoys horror movies, video games, comic books, and homemade pasta. She is also technically the member of a circus. Rebecca’s stories have appeared in A Lonely and Curious Country: Tales from the Land of Lovecraft; Nightscript II; and Borderlands 6; among others. She is currently working on her first novel. Visit Rebecca online at www.diagnosisdiabolique.com.

DAY 2 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 2 of 27: Edward M. Erdelac

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”2. Edward M. Erdelac presents “Hear The Eagle Scream”

EXCERPT:

"When a shoe scuffed the boards, Jim snapped awake to see a dark figure standing at the edge of the porch, skylit against the stars. The cicadas were going, and the cattle muttered to each other in the pen. A shiver went all through him at the familiar curve of that hat, at the lean, tall frame."
— Hear The Eagle Screamby Edward M. Erdelac

ABOUT: Edward M. Erdelac

Edward M. Erdelac is the author of ten novels including the Merkabah Riderseries, Andersonville, and Monstrumführer. His stories have appeared in dozens of anthologies and periodicals, most recently Heroes of Red Hook, Transmissions From Punktown, and Star Wars Insider Magazine. Born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, he lives in the Los Angeles area with his family. New and excerpts from his work may be found at his Delirium Tremens blog, http://www.emerdelac.wordpress.com.

DAY 1 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 6

I’ll be unhurriedly posting all contributors here, one-a-day, to reveal the T.O.C. for this latest anthology volume that I edited for +HORROR LIBRARY+, to be published by Farolight Publishing (Cutting Block Books) in April, 2017.

DAY 1 of 27: JG Faherty

1. JG Faherty presents “The H Train”


EXCERPT:

“It’s just a job. Someone has to do it, so might as well be me. Least that’s what I like to tell myself, that it could be worse . . . I could be one of them.”

—The H Train by JG Faherty
ABOUT: JG Faherty

A life-long resident of New York’s haunted Hudson Valley, JG Faherty has been a finalist for both the Bram Stoker Award® (THE CURE, GHOSTS OF CORONADO BAY) and ITW Thriller Award (THE BURNING TIME), and he is the author of 5 novels, 9 novellas, and more than 50 short stories. He writes adult and YA horror/sci-fi/fantasy, and his works range from quiet, dark suspense to over-the-top comic gruesomeness. He enjoys urban exploring, photography, classic B-movies, good wine, and craft beers. You can follow him at www.twitter.com/jgfaherty, www.facebook.com/jgfaherty, www.jgfaherty.com, and http://jgfaherty-blog.blogspot.com.