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Invitation to Madness

Recently established publishing outfit ‘Forgotten Tomb‘ are a small press with big ambitions, who recently invited me to submit to one of their first forays into the world of anthologies.

My piece, ‘Rank & Defile‘, has now been accepted into their ‘100 Doors To Madness‘ anthology, which aims to celebrate the diversity of the horror genre by providing 100 original scares from 100 different authors in the form of flash/micro fiction.

They’ve had the great idea of keeping the Table of Contents as a live document, so anyone wanting to keep track with whose getting involved can do so over at the FT website link above.

Publication is planned for September 2013, but the anthology may be out earlier if the 100 slots become filled before then. The anthology should be available from all the usual online retailers and I’ll put up more details nearer the time. Until then here’s a preview of the cover artwork to whet your appetite.

 

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Insight into Horror

Those lovely people over at Cyber Launch Party are spending today celebrating the release of the ‘Shadow Masters‘ anthology.

Several of the included authors will be stopping by over the course of the day, to spend time giving people a bit more info about both themselves and where the idea for their story in the anthology originally came from.

You can check out what each of us had to say on the origins of their particular horror at either the blogspot or the Facebook event page.

 

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Out Of The Shadows

OUT TODAY: The ‘Shadow Masters‘ anthology from The Horror Zine is now available from Imajin Books.

Below, as promised, is the full cover reveal, and a Table of Contents to whet your appetite. As you can see, award-winning editor Jeani Rector has assembled some serious talent in these pages.

If you’re quick, you can grab an e-copy from Amazon for the bargain price of £0.77.

Details of the various outlets you can buy the anthology from are listed over on the Publications Page.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to attend an online launch party (I just hope the booze isn’t electronic as well!).

Table Of Contents:-

Foreword by Joe R. Lansdale
“The Thing That Was Not There” by James Marlow
“Red Velvet” by Shaun Meeks
“The End of the Trail” by Bentley Little
“Same Sex Vampire Wedding” by Garrett Rowlan
“The Church” by Matthew Wilson
“Holodomor Girl” by Yvonne Navarro
“Squirrels” by Larry Green
“The Hung Preacher” by Scott Nicholson
“The Unknown” by Chris Castle
“Don’t Feed the Dog” by Rick McQuiston
“The Classmate” by Melanie Tem
“Abandoned” by Bruce Memblatt
“Wet Birds” by Elizabeth Massie
“Fearful Symmetry” by Devon Carey
“‘Come Down to the Store, Minerva!’” by Earl Hamner
“The People Eaters” by Christian A. Larsen
“101 Damnations” by Carl Barker
“The Cellar” by Tim Jeffreys
“Pig” by Michael Thomas-Knight
“Dream House” by Cheryl Kaye Tardif
“The Last Memory” by Dominick Nole
“The Wood Witch” by Jonathan Chapman
“The Housewarming” by Ronald Malfi
“I am the Feeder” by Christopher Hivner
“Red Ink” by Lisa Morton
“Tommy Boy” by J.M. Cozzoli
“Willard Junction” by Christopher Nadeau
“Suka: The White Wolf” by Jeff Bennington
“Seeing the Light” by William Rasmussen
“Them Ol’ Negro Blues” by J.G. Faherty
“Happy Cthulhu to You” by Lance Zarimba
“The Gremlin” by David Landrum
“Flame of Freedom” by Aaron J. French
“Reanimated” by Jeani Rector
“The Famous Film Star” by Jeani Rector
“Foundlings” by Dean Wild

 

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Shadows drawing near

The official release date for the upcoming ‘Shadow Masters‘ anthology from The Horror Zine has now been confirmed as Monday 27th May 2013.

Imajin Books will be releasing the anthology in both trade paperback and for Kindle. I should have an artwork preview to share with you all a few days before the release, so stay tuned.

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The ‘blade itself

Have just heard that my story ‘With The Band‘ has been accepted by Niteblade magazine for publication in a future issue. Am really pleased with this one, as it’s a magazine that I’ve been trying to ‘crack’ for a while now.

Early days yet, but once I have a rough idea of publication date etc, I’ll update the site.

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Strange bedfellows

Author Lisa J Hobman recently invited me to write a guest blog for her over at Glipho, which came as something of a pleasant surprise.

Whilst many would suggest that our respective genres are worlds apart in terms of their subject matter, personally I think that romance and horror have a lot more in common than one might initially think.

You can read my thoughts on the matter here… and while you’re there, why not find out a bit more about Lisa and her work

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Delayed Futures

Angelic Knight Press‘ upcoming ‘No Place Like Home‘ anthology, which was originally slated for a January release, has now been pushed back a few months.

The book will be released in June, just before the World Horror Convention in New Orleans, so for now it seems that the near future will just have to remain that little bit further away.

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A Home for Horror

The previously mentioned upcoming anthology from The Horror Zine now has a publisher and a name.

Imajin Books were the publisher for The Horror Zine‘s last anthology (‘What Fears Become’) so it seems fitting that they will now follow it up with this second collection, entitled ‘Shadow Masters’.

Jeani Rector has assembled another impressive cast of contributors for this latest anthology and I’m extremely excited to be a part of it.

More information and publication dates to follow once I know.

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Bug’s Life

The second of this month’s new stories, ‘To Kafka, With Love‘, is now available over at The WiFiles.

The story is free to read online and you can check it out here.

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Wishful Thinking

[image error]‘When Wishes Are Horses’ is the first of two new short stories from me published this month and is now available as part of the inaugural issue of Bloodtide.

The ezine is a new offshoot from Crimson Melodies Press and features serial, flash and short fiction in the fields of dark fantasy and horror.

You can download Issue #1 here, with the option of making a small donation to support the zine.

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