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February 9, 2019
MISCREATIONS: GODS, MONSTROSITIES & OTHER HORRORS
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Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, co-edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey, is officially the next anthology to be released by Written Backwards. More news soon, but look forward to this exciting miscreation in early 2020!
February 6, 2019
PALINDROME HANNAH – NOW AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO BOOK
Palindrome Hannah, the debut composite novel by Michael Bailey, is now available as an audio book. You can find it on Audible, Amazon, and iTunes. Narrated by the wonderful Lawrence Alexander. Give it a listen!
Enter a cruel palindrome world: a symmetric place where disturbing situations displace the common; where good acts transmute to evil ones; where windows and mirrors are interchangeable. Within, characters influence each other through macabre arrangements of involuntary happenstance, and learn the inevitability of coincidence. A segmented story of a mother and daughter intertwines the others. This hidden sixth story, assembled from the five separate narratives, uncovers the sad life of a child who carries a palindrome name, and her struggling teenage mother. With five stories heading one direction, and Hannah traveling the opposite, the story unfolds like a palindrome. A puzzle within a puzzle.
Also available in trade paperback for $14.95, or eBook for $6.95. Fiction; 334 pages; 8×5 format; illustrations by Michael Ian Bateson.
February 1, 2019
SCIENCE FICTION EBOOK SALE!
The following eBooks are on sale in the US and UK from February 1st through the 8th: Qualia Nous (anthology), Adam’s Ladder (anthology), and Other Music (novel by Marc Levinthal). For cheap, snag the following:
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$1.99 in the US, and £1.99 in the UK.
A literary blend of science fiction and horror, Qualia Nous contains short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world.
“0-1” (Introduction) by Michael Bailey
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” by Usman Mlk (winner of the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction)
“The Shaking Man” by Gene O’Neill
“Dyscrasia” by Ashlee Scheuerman
“The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” by Emily Cataneo\
“The Angel Chaser” by Erik T. Johnson
“Psychic Shock” by Ian Shoebridge
“Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” by D.J. Cockburn
“Second Chance” by John R. Little
“The Effigies of Tamber Square” by Jon Michael Kelley
“Shades of Naught” by Lori Michelle
“The Price of Faces” by James Chambers
“Simulacrum” by Jason V Brock
“Shutdown” (poem) by Marge Simon
“Lead Me to Multiplicity” by Peter Hagelslag
“Cataldo’s Copy” by Chris Larsen
“The Neighborhood Has a Barbecue” by Max Booth III
“Tomorrow’s Femme” (poem) by Marge Simon
“The Jenny Store” by Richard Thomas
“Night Guard” by Erinn Kemper
“A New Man” by William F. Nolan
“Voyeur” by John Everson
“Kilroy Wasn’t There” by Pat R. Steiner
“In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” by Paul Michael Anderson
“Dura Mater” by Lucy A. Snyder
“Ruminations” by Rena Mason (winner of the Bram Stoker Award for short fiction)
“Good and Faithful Servant” by Tom Monteleone
“Twelve Kilos” by Patrick Freivald
“Breathe You In Me” by Mason Bundschuh
“18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” by Elizabeth Massie
“No Fixed Address” by Gary A. Braunbeck
Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Award, and nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. Due to contractual obligations / limitations, the eBook edition does not contain “The Jaunt” by Stephen King. Also available in trade paperback for $14.95. Fiction / poetry; 448 pages; 9×6 format.
$1.99 in the US, and £1.99 in the UK.
The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.
“Ch-Ch-Changes” by Chaz Brenchley
“Filigree, Minotaur, Cyanide, Bloom” by Damien Angelica Walters
“How He Helped” by Ramsey Campbell
“Spirits” by Gene O’Neill
“The Mythic Hero Most Likely to Squeeze a Stone” by B.e. Scully
“My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” by John Langan
“Undersound” by Mark Morris
“A Laughing Matter” by Erinn Kemper
“The Serile” by Paul Meloy
“Eyes of the Beholders” by Lisa Morton
“Strings” by Tim Lebbon
“Sliced Bread” by Jeffrey Thomas
“I Will Be the Making of You” by Rena Mason
“Nameless Citizen” by Brian Evenson
“Painting the Burning Fence” by Roberta Lannes
“Pity This Busy Monster Not” by Scott Edelman
“An End to Perpetual Motion” by Mark Samuels
“Swift to Chase” by Laird Barron
Finalist for the Foreword Reviews Book of the Year / IndieFAB. Also available in trade paperback for $14.95. Fiction; 304 pages; 9×6 format.
eBook on sale for only $1.99 in the US, and £1.99 in the UK.
With the discovery of the Thompson Corridors, the universe has been opened up, connecting humankind with a vast network of sentient species. Xenosociologist Jesse Suzuki, a nanotech-rejuvenated “oldster,” has joined the forced exodus of the newly young, mandated by law to ship out through the Corridors after his 80th birthday. Jesse finds his way to Eastlink, a sprawling human habitat orbiting Shjodathz, home to a race of regenerating beings who maintain direct memory of all their past incarnations. While studying the Shjodathí and their planetary biomachine guardian Kedel, he discovers a strange anomaly within the AI’s mind that leads him on a perilous, mind-blowing adventure.
The debut solo novel by Marc Levinthal is also available in trade paperback for $12.95. Fiction; 182 pages; 9×6 format; cover artwork by George C. Cotronis; introduction by John Skipp; interior artwork by Michael Bailey.
January 22, 2019
OUR CHILDREN, OUR TEACHERS
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Unfortunately, Our Children, Our Teachers is no longer available to read online. If you read the novelette during the free reading period, please consider leaving a review on either Amazon or Goodreads (or both).
A little backstory ….
Jack Ketchum (Dallas Mayr) took a special interest in this project early on because the concept was perhaps something necessary to bring out into the open, something that might happen one day, which would be unfortunate. We wanted to collaborate on either a novelette- or novella-length work, and this story haunted us most. Unfortunately, he was unable to collaborate because of medical issues before he passed, and asked that I finish this one on my own.
The story made the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot. So kudos to you, Jack (Sheriff Mayr in the story; that’s his voice). This one’s for you, my friend.
If you would rather have a more permanent copy, this novelette is also available as an eBook for $1.95, and in trade paperback for $6.95.
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January 20, 2019
2018 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® PRELIMINARY BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association recently announced the preliminary ballot for the 2018 Bram Stoker Awards®, the details of which you can find below. While Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations (the final anthology by Written Backwards) did not survive the great culling, there are many great anthologies competing this year for Superior Achievement in an Anthology. But hey, Lucy and I gave it our best, and it’s a great book full of collaborations that hopefully brought the writing community together. Check it out if you haven’t already!
The anthology co-editors made the cut for different categories, however. Garden of Eldritch Delights by Lucy A. Snyder is on the list for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, and my own novelette, Our Children, Our Teachers, for Long Fiction.
Kudos to those on the preliminary ballot, lots of friends in the genre, no doubt, and also kudos to those whose work did not make the cut. There are many works I’d personally add to this list, but lists can only be so long. And 2018 was a great year for horror!
Superior Achievement in a Novel
The Shape of Water – Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus
Dark Mary – Paolo Di Orazio
The Hunger – Alma Katsu
The Outsider – Stephen King
Glimpse – Jonathan Maberry
Unbury Carol – Josh Malerman
Naraka – Alessandro Manzetti
Hazards of Time Travel – Joyce Carol Oates
Foe – Iain Reid
Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel – Ahmed Saadawi
Dracul – Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
The Cabin at the End of the World – Paul Tremblay
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
The Garden of Blue Roses – Michael Barsa
What Should Be Wild – Julia Fine
Breaking the World – Jerry Gordon
I Am the River – T.E. Grau
The Rust Maidens – Gwendolyn Kiste
Fiction – Ryan Lieske
The Honey Farm – Harriet Alida Lye
The War in the Dark – Nick Setchfield
The Nightmare Room – Chris Sorensen
Baby Teeth – Zoje Stage
The Moore House – Tony Tremblay
Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel
Pitch Dark – Courtney Alameda
The Wicked Deep – Shea Ernshaw
Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower – Christian McKay Heidicker
Dread Nation – Justina Ireland
Wormholes: Book One of Axles and Allies – Dani Kane
Sawkill Girls – Claire Legrand
Broken Lands – Jonathan Maberry
The Night Weaver – Monique Snyman
The Wren Hunt – Mary Watson
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White
Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel
Abbott – Saladin Ahmed
Cursed Comics Cavalcade – Alex Antone and and Dave James Wielgosz
Moonshine Vol. 2: Misery Train – Brian Azzarello
Redlands Volume 1: Sisters by Blood – Jordie Bellaire
Bone Parish – Cullen Bunn
Denver Moon: Metamorphosis – Warren Hammond and Joshua Viola
Destroyer – Victor LaValle
Gideon Falls Volume 1: The Black Barn – Jeff Lemire
Monstress Volume 3: Haven – Marjorie Liu
Infidel – Pornsak Pichetshote
Superior Achievement in Long Fiction
Our Children, Our Teachers – Michael Bailey
The Barrens – Stephanie Feldman
Shiloh – Philip Fracassi
You Are Released – Joe Hill
Cruce Roosters – Brent Michael Kelley
Black’s Red Gold – Ed Kurtz
Dead Lovers on Each Blade, Hung – Usman T. Malik
The Devil’s Throat – Rena Mason
Body of Christ – Mark Matthews
Bitter Suites – Angela Yuriko Smith
Shape Shifting Priestess of the 1,000 Year War – Todd Sullivan
Superior Achievement in Short Fiction
“All Summers End” – Tom Deady
“Life After Breath” – Tori Eldridge
“Cold, Silent, and Dark” – Kary English
“The Gods in Their Seats, Unblinking” – Kurt Fawver
“The Woman in the Blue Dress” – Heather Herrman
“Mutter” – Jess Landry
“Dead End Town” – Lee Murray
“Glove Box” – Annie Neugebauer
“Fish Hooks” – Kit Power
“Her Royal Counsel” – Andrew Robertson
“A Winter’s Tale” – John F.D. Taff
“And in Her Eyes the City Drowned” – Kyla Lee Ward
Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection
Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked – Christa Carmen
Spectral Evidence – Gemma Files
That Which Grows Wild – Eric J. Guignard
Coyote Songs – Gabino Iglesias
Octoberland – Thana Niveau
Frozen Shadows: And Other Chilling Stories – Gene O’Neill
Apple and Knife – Intan Paramaditha
Occasional Beasts: Tales – John Claude Smith
Garden of Eldritch Delights – Lucy A. Snyder
Little Black Spots – John F.D. Taff
Dark and Distant Voices: A Story Collection – Tim Waggoner
Superior Achievement in a Screenplay
Hereditary – Ari Aster
The Haunting of Hill House: The Bent-Neck Lady, Episode 01:05 – Meredith Averill
The Haunting of Hill House: Screaming Meemies, Episode 01:09 – Meredith Averill
Mandy – Panos Cosmatos and Aaron Stewart-Ahn
Ghost Stories – Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman
Halloween – Jeff Fradley, Danny McBride and David Gordon Green
Annihilation – Alex Garland
Bird Box – Eric Heisserer
Overlord – Billy Ray and Mark L. Smith
A Quiet Place – Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and John Krasinski
Superior Achievement in an Anthology
A New York State of Fright: Horror Stories from the Empire State – James Chambers, April Grey and Robert Masterson
The Devil and the Deep: Horror Stories of the Sea – Ellen Datlow
Suspended in Dusk II – Simon Dewar
A World of Horror – Eric J. Guignard
Welcome to the Show – Doug Murano and Matt Hayward
Hellhole: An Anthology of Subterranean Terror – Lee Murray
The Fiends in the Furrows: An Anthology of Folk Horror – David T. Neal and Christine M. Scott
Phantoms: Haunting Tales from Masters of the Genre – Marie O’Regan
Lost Highways: Dark Fictions from the Road – Alexander D. Ward
Quoth the Raven – Lyn Worthen
Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction
Horror Express – John Connolly
Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture – Dennis Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry
The Howling: Studies in the Horror Film – Lee Gambin
Woman at the Devil’s Door: The Untold True Story of the Hampstead Murderess – Sarah Beth Hopton
We Don’t Go Back: A Watcher’s Guide to Folk Horror – Howard David Ingham
Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror – Darryl Jones
It’s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life – Joe Mynhardt and Eugene Johnson
A Place of Darkness: The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema – Kendall R. Phillips
Wasteland: The Great Ward and the Origins of Modern Horror – W. Scott Poole
Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series – Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
Artifacts – Bruce Boston
The Comfort of Screams – G.O. Clark
Bleeding Saffron – David E. Cowen
The Hatch – Joe Fletcher
Witches – Donna Lynch
Thirteen Nocturnes – Oliver Shepard
War – Marge Simon and Alessandro Manzetti
The Devil’s Dreamland – Sara Tantlinger
Candle and Pins: Poems on Superstitions – Jacqueline West
Gwendolyn Witch and Other Macabria – Twyla Wren
January 16, 2019
GAK
We recently lost an artist, a friend, an exemplary role model of human kindness. Gak will forever be with us, his work hanging on walls, filling the pages of books, some of his art even tattooed onto skin. His life will always be remembered because he always made ours a little better.
Below are the illustrations he created for The Library of the Dead, one of his final projects. We had future plans, so perhaps we’ll collaborate on those in the next go-round. Miss you, Gak. Your work speaks for itself …
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Illustration for “Those Who Shall Never be Named” by Yvonne Navarro.
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Illustration for “The Last Things to Go” by Mary SanGiovanni & Brian Keene.
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Illustration for “A Raven in the Dove’s Nest” by Roberta Lannes.
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Illustration for “I’m Not There” by Kealan Patrick Burke.
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Illustration for “A Chimera’s Tale” by Chris Marrs.
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Illustration for “I’m Getting Closer” by J.F. Gonzalez.
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Illustration for “Living Through Better Chemistry” by Weston Ochse.
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Illustration for “Cthylla” by Lucy A. Snyder.
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Illustration for “Fault Lines” by Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon.
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Illustration for “Jaded Winds” by Rena Mason.
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Illustration for “Tears of the Dragon” by Michael McBride.
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Illustration for “Phantom on the Ice” by Erinn L. Kemper.
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Illustration for “Night Soliloquy” by Sydney Leigh.
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Illustration for “Broken Lady” by Gene O’Neill.
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Illustration for “Tales the Ashes Tell” by Gary A. Braunbeck.
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Illustration for “The Librarian” tie-in piece by Michael Bailey and the introduction, “Special Collections,” by Norman Partridge.
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J.F. Gonzalez tribute illustration.
Brian Keen also has a nice article on gak, which can be found here: http://www.briankeene.com/2019/01/15/gak-in-remembrance/
December 10, 2018
END OF THE YEAR ANTHOLOGY SALE!
Thank you for another great year! To celebrate, Written Backwards is offering a discount on eBooks December 10th through the 17th, simultaneously in the United States and United Kingdom. Most anthologies are on sale for only $1.99 / £1.99, and a few books are absolutely free! (*December 10th through the 14th only).
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$1.99: for a limited time, stock your digital readers with some of the best anthologies Written Backwards has to offer, including Chiral Mad 4: An Anthology of Collaborations, the illustrated Chiral Mad 3, as well as Chiral Mad 2, the original Chiral Mad, the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Library of the Dead, and the critically-acclaimed dark science fiction anthologies Adam’s Ladder and You, Human. All for under 2 bucks.
Free: as a personal thank you, editor Michael Bailey is offering his standalone novelette, Our Children, Our Teachers, absolutely free, as well as Pellucid Lunacy, the first anthology ever published by Written Backwards. Get ’em while you can. 4 days only.
Scroll for direct links to each title:
4 short stories, 4 novelettes, 4 novellas, and 4 graphic adaptations make up this mammoth book of wonders, but here’s the catch: every single story in this anthology is a collaboration. Michael Bailey and Lucy A. Snyder even collaborated on the co-editing to bring you an incredibly diverse and entirely collaborative dark fiction experience!
The third act in the critically-acclaimed series contains 45 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, Scott Edelman, Richard Thomas, Richard Chizmar and Gene O’Neill, and with 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Erik T. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich.
An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of David Morrell, Mort Castle, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, Ann K. Boyer, John Skipp, Gary McMahon, Lucy A. Snyder, Thomas F. Monteleone, and many others, with an intro and outro by Michael Bailey. Also features the Bram Stoker Award winning novelette by Gary A. Braunbeck.
An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty-eight short stories by established authors and newcomers from around the world. Featuring the imaginations of Gord Rollo, Monica J. O’Rourke, Jon Michael Kelly, Meghan Arcuri, Christian A. Larsen, Jeff Strand, Gary McMahon, John Palisano, Jack Ketchum, and many others, with an introduction by Thomas F. Monteleone.
An anthology of literary fiction inspired by Chapel of the Chimes, a crematory and columbarium founded in 1909 in Oakland, California, and one of the area’s most beautiful historic buildings. Thousands are entombed in golden books (urns) shelved from floor to ceiling in a glowing labyrinth of nearly countless rooms.
The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.
Bram Stoker Award winning editor Michael Bailey brings you a genre-bending anthology of dark science fiction and poetry, with fiction illustrated beautifully throughout by world-renowned artist L.A. Spooner, poetry and spot illustrations by the always-impressive Orion Zangara, and an incredible introduction on humanness by New York Times bestselling author F. Paul Wilson.
Absolutely free:
Children are often our greatest teachers, but what happens if the lesson is too heavy to hold? In Our Children, Our Teachers, a standalone novelette by Michael Bailey, a high school in rural Brenden, Washington is taken hostage by a gathering of unlikely students trying to teach the world a new lesson … a foreshadowing, perhaps, to darker times ahead for the American education system, if gun control is not addressed properly.
An anthology of psychological horror containing twenty short stories by unknown and established authors around the world, including Kristine Ong Muslim, Amanda Larson, Lee Clark Zumpe, Amanda Pillar, Aaron J. French, and more. The first anthology ever published by Written Backwards.
December 6, 2018
WHO’S WHO / THE LIST
Written Backwards has survived over the years publishing a wide array of creativity: short stories, novelettes, novellas, poetry, illustrations and, most recently, graphic adaptations. Most of the work appears in original anthologies, but a few select novels, debut fiction collections, and other strange projects have popped up over the years.
The goal: to seek diverse work, to push literary boundaries, to create the most beautiful books imaginable (and to provide professional-rate payments to contributors when at all possible). The result: a who’s who list of writers and artists. Millions of words. Hundreds of illustrations. Familiarize yourself with these wonderful people.
So, just who has Written Backwards published over the years, and where? Here’s a start, alphabetically by last name. All are short stories (unless specified, like this).
Addison, Linda D.
“Things That the Earth No Longer Bears” (poem) and “Life Poems” (a series of haiku) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Alfrey, Aeron
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Anderson, Paul Michael
“In the Nothing-Space, I Am What You Made Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Agonizing Guilt of Relief (Last Days of a Ready-Made Victim)” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Universe is Dying” – You, Human © 2016
Bones Are Made to Be Broken (fiction collection) © 2018
How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Arcuri, Meghan
“Inevitable” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Watch Me” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Near Future © 2017
“What’s in a Mentor” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Arnzen, Michael
“Why the Bram Soker Award Matters” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Bahr, Laura Lee
“The Cause” – You, Human © 2016
Bailey, Michael
Palindrome Hannah (composite novel) © 2005, 2018
Phoenix Rose (composite novel) © 2009, 2018
Scales and Petals (fiction & poetry collection) © 2010, 2018
“I Wanted Black” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
“Underwater Ferris Wheel” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Intro” / “Outro” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“0 – 1” (introduction) – Qualia Nous © 2014
Inkblots and Blood Spots (fiction & poetry collection) © 2014, 2018
“The Librarian” and photography – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Interior artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
Ensō (collection of children’s fables) © 2017
“Someone’s Gotta Do It” (nonfiction), “A Haunted Statue” (nonfiction), selected poetry, notes, and guest Editor – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Our Children, Our Teachers (novelette) © 2018
Baldwin, Ben
Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
Balog, Jonathan
“Fail-Safe” and “Insomnia in Reverse” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Barron, Laird
“Swift to Chase” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Loveliest Form of the Dark Side” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Batson, Michael Ian
Cover artwork and illustrations – Palindrome Hannah © 2005, 2018
Cover artwork – Phoenix Rose © 2009, 2018
Bear, Elizabeth
The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Sarah Monette) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Biggs, John
“Dear Boy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Blackthorn, Rose
“Prescience” and “Arbitration” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Bodner, Hal
“A Rift in Reflection” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“Keepsakes” – You, Human © 2016
Booth III, Max
“Flowers Blooming in the Season of Atrophy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Neighborhood Has a Barbeque” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Blood Dust” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Big Question” (Guest of Honor Interview of Victor LaValle) and “The Importance of First Novels” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Boston, Bruce
“Reflecting on Reflections” and “Beyond Symmetry” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Carnival of Ghosts” (poem, with Marge Simon) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Boyer, Ann K.
“In the Eyes of the Beholder” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Braoddus, Maurice
“Wolf at the Door” (with Anthony R. Cardno) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Braunbeck, Gary A.
“Need” – Chiral Mad © 2005, 2012 (reprint)
“The Great Pity” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
“No Fixed Address” (novelette) – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Tales the Ashes Tell” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Silver Thread, Hammer Ring” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Falling Faces by the Wayside” – You, Human © 2001, 2016 (reprint)
“Somewhere Between the Mundane and the Miraculous” (introduction, with Janet Harriett) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Brenchley, Chad
“Ch-Ch-Changes” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Here Today and Gone Tomorrow” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Brittany, Michele
“Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Nicholas Diak) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Brock, Jason V
“Simulacrum” – Qualia Nous © 2013, 2014 (reprint)
“Windows, Mirrors, Doors” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Unity of Affect” – You, Human © 2016
“When Horror Gets Real” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Brozek, Jennifer
“Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” (with Seanan McGuire) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Bulkin, Nadia
“A Luta Continua” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Bundschuh, Mason Ian
“Another Man’s Bones” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Breathe You In Me” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Burke, Chesya
“Peregrination” (novelette, with LH Moore) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Burge, Weldon
“Sizzle” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Burke, Kealan Patrick
“I’m Not There” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Cabeen, Bob
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Cardno, Anthony R.
“Wolf at the Door” (with Maurice Broaddus) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Caruso, Santiago
Illustration – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprint)
Castle, Mort
“The Counselor” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2011, 2013 (reprint)
“Prayer” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Robot” – You, Human © 2016
“Hey, Kids! Comix! You Can Play, Too!” (nonfiction) – Mort Castle
Campbell, Ramsey
“The Word” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 1997, 2013 (reprint)
“Know Your Code” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“How He Helped” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Way of the Worm” (novel excerpt) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Cantella, Julian
“Here You Come Again” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Cataneo, Emily B.
“A Guide to Etiquette and Comportment for the Sisters of Henley House” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Rondelium Girl of Rue Marseilles” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Black Crow of Boddinstraße” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Gwendolyn Kiste) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Catronis, George C.
Cover artwork – Other Music © 2016, 2018
Cover artwork – You, Human © 2016
Chadbourne, Glenn
Illustrations – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
“Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Jack Ketchum) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Chambers, James
“Mnemonicide” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Price of Faces” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Why Graphic Novels Matter in Horror” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with Jason Whitley & Christopher Mills) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Chapman, Greg
Cover artwork – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Illustrations – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017 (reprints)
Chizmar, Richard
“The Poetry of Life” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Ditch Treasures” – You, Human © 2016
Christian, Autumn
“Pink Crane Girls” – You, Human © 2016
Clark, G.O.
“Her Apparition Walked Right Through Him” (poem) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Clasen, Dr. Mathias
“The Science of Horror: Why Dark Horror Seduces” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Cockburn, D.J.
“Peppermint Tea in Electronic Limbo” – Qualia Nous © 2014
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“With Rising Alarm” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
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“Guest of Honor Interview” (of Sam Weller) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“Furthers Horror Studies Scholarship for Second Year” (essay on the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference, with Michele Brittany) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“The Fundamental Importance of YA Books” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“That Perilous Stuff” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“100 Things to Do Before You’re Downloaded” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016
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“Faking it Until Forever Comes (novelette) – Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them © 2017 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Far Future © 2017
“Pity This Busy Monster Not” (novelette) – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Words + Pictures = Our First Nightmares” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“What the Walrus Hears” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
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“Nameless Citizen” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Shimmering Wall” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
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“Storm of Lightning” – Chiral Mad © 2012
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“Sigil” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Whitechapel” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
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“Detritus Girl” (novelette, with Valerie Marcley) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Goodfellow, Cody
“Key to the City” – You, Human © 2016
Gonzalez, J.F.
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“Lead Me to Multiplicity” – Qualia Nous © 2014
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Cover artwork – Scales and Petals © 2010, 2018
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“Ghost Drawl” (with J. Daniel Stone) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Jordan, David
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“Fade to Null” (graphic adaptation, with Daniele Serra) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
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“The Persistence of Vision” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“The Tended Field of Eido Yamata” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Effigies of Tamber Square” – Qualia Nous © 2014
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“Phantom on the Ice” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“A Flash of Red” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Gumi-Bear” – You, Human © 2016
“A Laughing Matter” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The HWA Needs You” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“There is Nothing Lost” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Ketchum, Jack
“Amid the Walking Wounded” – Chiral Mad © 1998, 2012 (reprint)
“The Right Thing” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Seconds” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“On Readings” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Firedance” (graphic adaptation, with Glenn Chadbourne) – Chiral Mad 4 © 1998, 2018 (reprint of text only)
Kiera, Mackenzie
“Conjuring the Uncanny” (Guest of Honor Interview of Ramsey Campbell) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Kiernan, Ciatlín R.
“Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)” (novelette) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2014, 2017 (reprint)
King, Stephen
“The Jaunt” – Qualia Nous © 1981, 2014 (reprint)
“The Last Rung of the Ladder” – Chiral Mad 3 © 1978, 2016 (reprint)
“I Am the Doorway” – You, Human © 1976, 2016 (reprint)
Kiste, Gwendolyn
In Her Flightless Wings, a Fire (novella, with Emily B. Cataneo) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Krisch, Glen
“Sudden Sanctuary” (graphic adaptation, with Orion Zangara & Matt Stockwell) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Lacey, Patrick
“Send Your End” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Langan, John
“My Father, Dr. Frankenstein” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Lannes, Roberta
“A Raven in the Dove’s Nest” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Painting the Burning Fence” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Girl with Black Fingers” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Larsen, Christian A.
“Mirror Moments” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Cataldo’s Copy” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Larson, Amanda
“Behind the Walls” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
LaValle, Victor
“Spectral Evidence” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“Picture-in-Picture” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Lebbon, Tim
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“Strings” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Leigh, Sydney
“Night Soliloquy” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Folie à Deux” and “Folie à Plusieurs” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Levinthal, Marc
Other Music (novel) © 2016, 2018
“The Pretty Puppets” – You, Human © 2016
Lin, Jessica May
“Red Runner vs. the Surgeon, Issue 18” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Little, John R.
“Second Chance” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“The Goldilocks Zone” – You, Human © 2016
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – The Confessions of St. Zach © 2016
Lucia, Kevin
“Scavenging” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Macae, Frisco
“Newton’s Third Law” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Macleod, Bracken
“A Sense of Dread” (nonfiction, with Douglas Wynne) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Afterword” (nonfiction) – Bones Are Made to Be Broken © 2018
How We Broke (novella, with Bracken MacLeod) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
MacLeod, Jay
“Eraser” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Malerman, Josh
“The Bigger Bedroom” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Jupiter Drop” (novelette) – You, Human © 2016 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“The Challenge” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Malik, Usman T.
“Blood Women” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (Bram Stoker Award winner, Nebula Award nominee)
Marcley, Valerie
“Detritus Girl” (novelette, with P. Gardner Goldsmith) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Marrs, Chris
“A Chimera’s Tale” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Mason, Rena
“Ruminations” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (Bram Stoker Award winner)
“Jaded Winds” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Introduction” (nonfiction) – At the Lazy K © 2015
“I Will Be the Making of You” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Massie, Elizabeth
“18P37-C, After Andrea Was Arrested” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Black River #1” and “Black River #2” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“Down and Out on Poplar Street” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The House at Wydham Street” (novel excerpt) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Substance of Belief” (with Marge Simon) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
McBride, Michael
“Tears of the Dragon” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
McGuire, Seanan
“Home and Hope Both Sound a Little Bit Like ‘Hunger'” (with Jennifer Brozek) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
McMahon, Gary
“Some Pictures in an Album” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“The Chute” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
McQuiston, Rick
“The Other Side of the Glass” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Meloy, Paul
“The Serile” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“The Gearbox” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Michelle, Lori
“Shades of Naught” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Miller, Eric
“Yes, Horror Films Are Important” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Mills, Christopher
“The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with James Chambers & Jason Whitley) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Monette, Sarah
The Wreck of the Charles Dexter Ward” (novelette, with Elizabeth Bear) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2012, 2018 (previously audio only)
Monteleone, Thomas F.
“Fun with Your New Asymmetric Head” (introduction) – Chiral Mad © 2012
“When I Was” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“Good and Faithful Servant” – Qualia Nous © 1976, 2014 (reprint)
“The Star-Filled Sea is Smooth Tonight” – You, Human © 1977, 2016 (reprint)
“Are You Sure You Really Want to Do This?” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Moore, LH
“Peregrination” (novelette, with Chesya Burke) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Morrell, David
“Orange is for Anguish, Blue for Insanity” (novelette) – Chiral Mad 2 © 1988, 2013 (reprint)
Morris, Mark
“Undersound” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
Morton, Lisa
“Introduction” (nonfiction)- The Burden of Indigo © 2016
“Eyes of the Beholders” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Afterword” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Muslim, Kristine Ong
“Moonman” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Mynhardt, Joe
“Illustrations and the Horror Genre” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Navarro, Yvonne
“Those Who Shall Never Be Named” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Nolan, William F.
“A New Man” – Qualia Nous © 2014 (reprint)
Ochse, Weston
“Reliving Through Better Chemistry” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
O’Neill, Gene
“The White Quetzal” – Chiral Mad © 1985, 2012 (reprint)
“Tight Partners” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
“The Shaking Man” – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Broken Lady” – The Library of the Dead © 2015
At the Laxy K (novella, Allevon #1) © 2015
“3-Dot People” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
The Confessions of St. Zach (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #1) © 2016
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The Near Future (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #3) © 2017
The Far Future (composite novel, The Cal Wild Chronicles #4) © 2017
“Spirits” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“Some Thoughts on Short Story Collections” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“Existentialism, Progressive Jazz, and the Blues” (introduction) – Artifacts © 2018
O’Neill, Patrick
“Alderway” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Passing Affliction” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Opperman, K.A.
“The Ocean Queen” (poem, with Ashley Dioses) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
O’Rourke, Monica J.
“Five Adjectives” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Ottino, Amanda
“Enchanted Combustion” – Chiral Mad © 2012
Palahniuk, Chuck
“Observations on Horror Burnout” (introduction) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Palisano, John
“Gaia Ungaia” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“The Geminis” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
“Welcome to Our Show” (foreword) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Parkes, Ciarán
“The Speed of Sound” and “Recognizing Trees” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
Partridge, Norman
“Special Collections” (introduction / novelette) – The Library of the Dead © 2015 (Bram Stoker Award nominee)
Payne, R.B.
“Cubicle Farm” – Chiral Mad © 2012
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“Indian Summer” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2013
Pillar, Amanda
“Broken Reflections” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Piorkowski, Dan
“Sweaters” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Quigley, Lisa
“Emcee Interview” (of Jeff Strand) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
Rollo, Gord
“Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers” – Chiral Mad © 2005, 2012 (reprint)
Rucker, Lynda
“Encore for an Empty Sky” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Samuels, Mark
“An End to Perpetual Motion” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
SanGiovanni, Mary
“The Last Things to Go” (with Brian Keene) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
“Afterword” (nonfiction) – The Library of the Dead © 2015
Scheuerman, Ashlee
“Dyscrasia” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Scully, B.E.
“Dog at the Look” – You, Human © 2016
“The Mythic Hero Most Likely to Squeeze a Stone” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
“We Come in Threes” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
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Cover artwork and illustrations – Inkblots and Blood Spots © 2014, 2018
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Shoebridge, Ian
“White Pills” – Chiral Mad © 2012
“Psychic Shock” – Qualia Nous © 2014
Simon, Marge
“Shutdown” (Rhysling Award winner) and “Tomorrow’s Femme” (poems) – Qualia Nous © 2014
“Mirror Image” and “Reflections Through the Raven’s Eye” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
“The Fourth Law” – You, Human © 2016
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“Carnival of Ghosts” (poem, with Bruce Boston) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Importance of Poetry in the Genre” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
“The Substance of Belief” (with Elizabeth Massie) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
Skipp, John
“Empathy” – Chiral Mad 2 © 2011, 2013 (reprint)
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“Hopium Den” – You, Human © 2016
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“The Motel Business” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
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“Dura Mater” – Qualia Nous © 2014
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“Sliced Bread” – Adam’s Ladder © 2017
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“Saudade” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
Tlotlo Tsamaase
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“Where No Horror Writer Has Gone Before” (nonfiction) – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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“The Whipping Girls” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
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“The Birth of Venus” – Prisms © 2019 (PS Publishing)
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Weller, Sam
“Böse” – Stokercon 2018 Anthology © 2017
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Whitley, Jason
“The Ghost of the Bayou Piténn” (graphic adaptation, with James Chambers & Christopher Mills) – Chiral Mad 4 © 2018
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“It Can Walk and Talk, and You’ll Never Have to Worry About Housework Again” – You, Human © 2016
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“Welcome Home, Darling” and “Put Me to Dream” (poems) – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
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Yardley, Mercedes M.
“The Dead Collection” – Chiral Mad 3 © 2016
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Illustrations – You, Human © 2016
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Zumpe, Lee Clark
“This Blasphemous Mockery” – Pellucid Lunacy © 2010
Fun fact: Gary A. Braunbeck, P. Gardner Goldsmith, Erik T. Johnson, and Jack Ketchum have appeared in all four volumes of Chiral Mad.
November 26, 2018
INKBLOTS AND BLOOD SPOTS
Previously published through Villipede Publications, Inkblots and Blood Spots, a collection of stories and poems by Michael Bailey, is now available from Written Backwards in trade paperback for only $12.95 (new 8×5″ format), and in eBook for only $4.95 The book is illustrated throughout by Daniele Serra, and features an introduction by Douglas E. Winter.
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Stories include the Bram Stoker Award-nominated “Fireman / Primal Tongue,” which also received an Honorable Mention for Year’s Best Horror; “Dandelion Clocks,” a haunting, melodic tribute novelette to the tragedy of 9/11; “I Wanted Black,” where a young boy’s birthday is anything but cause to celebrate; “Mum,” a tale of two sisters unfolding like the bandages on their mother’s badly burned body.
Take a surreal stroll through a carnival in “Underwater Ferris Wheel,” where the biggest attraction may be your last ride; witness a pregnant woman’s harrowing encounter with soul-stealing faerie in “Not the Child”; and find out why it gets cold in a little girl’s room at night when she sees “A Light in the Closet.”
Praise for Inkblots and Blood Spots
“A writer willing to bypass all the familiar territories and stake out a new narrative landscape all his own. With this collection of dynamic stories and poems, he will show you as well.” – Thomas F. Monteleone
“A smart collection of stories that evoke real fear, because they’re grounded in emotional truth. Michael Bailey has that rare ability to terrify readers and break their hearts—often in the same paragraph.” – Norman Prentiss, author of Invisible Fences
“A dazzling assortment of stories and poems. They bleed into our souls like knives and leave us breathless.” – John R. Little, author of DarkNet and Miranda
“Artfully executed. A unique and powerful contribution to speculative literature.” – Tim Deal, Shroud Quarterly
“A cornucopia of dark, diverse treasures. Michael Bailey delivers the kind of startlingly original, beautifully imagined, and deeply affecting stories that linger long in the mind, and even longer in the psyche.” – B.E. Scully, author of Verland: The Transformation
“Both haunting and poignant. Filled with love and loss, the weight of these resolutions echoes out into the darkness with a heartbreaking permanence.” – Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration
“Michael Bailey continues to amaze. He is on track to becoming his generation’s Ray Bradbury.” – F. Paul Wilson
October 29, 2018
HALLOWEEN E-BOOK SALE
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For a limited time, Written Backwards is running a $1.99 / £1.99 eBook sale on three titles in the US and UK. Now through November 5th, you can get Yes Trespassing, the debut fiction collection by Erik T. Johnson, Qualia Nous, a dark fiction anthology featuring two Bram Stoker Award winning short stories, and Inkblots and Blood Spots, the second fiction & poetry collection by Michael Bailey, illustrated throughout by Daniele Serra. See below for direct links.
Twenty-five, or maybe twenty-six or -seven or perhaps twenty-eight (let’s say it’s twenty-eight) individual works by Erik T. Johnson, some previously-published, some appearing in this book for the first time, stories like “The Leaf” and “Krug’s Pen,” “The Depopulation Syndrome,” “The Invention of the Mask” (which you can find on the front cover), “The Depopulation Syndrome” and the novella Scissors Seldom Come. Trespass. Read the horror, the wonder, the mindscrewing. This book will change you.
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A literary blend of science fiction and horror, Qualia Nous contains short stories, novelettes, and poetry from established authors and newcomers from around the world. Features Bram Stoker Award winning stories by Usman T. Malik and Rena Mason, as well as fiction by Stephen King, Emily B. Cataneo, Erinn L. Kemper, Patrick Freivald, William F. Nolan, John Everson, Elizabeth Massie, John R. Little, Richard Thomas, Gary A. Braunbeck, and many others. Recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Award.
* Please note that because of contractual obligations, the eBook edition of Qualia Nous does not contain “The Jaunt” by Stephen King.
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From the mind of award-winning author and editor Michael Bailey comes Inkblots and Blood Spots, a painfully beautiful collection of short stories and poetry that reaches deep into the imagination, breaking hearts and boundaries along the way. Features an introduction by Douglas E. Winter, and illustrations throughout by Daniele Serra.
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Each book is under two bucks, or free with Amazon Unlimited (or if you’ve previously purchased a trade paperback edition through Amazon).
