Bloodsaints, Happy Head Step Out On Stage

No, that’s not the name of a new rock group. It is, in fact, the BLOODSAINTS ANTHOLOGY with my story in it called “Mr. Happy Head” (see October 23, 12, et al.). And it’s a charity anthology to boot, with profits to go to help out with COVID-19.

The general theme(s): Extreme Horror, Splatterpunk, Grindhouse, bizarro, or extreme dark psychological thriller. O-o-o-o-kay! You can see the attraction, why it’s one I was quick to submit to myself. And, reprints being allowed, the tale I chose was one originally published in WICKED MYSTIC for Spring 1996, as well as reprinted in UK publisher Flame Tree’s omnibus MURDER MAYHEM SHORT STORIES twenty years later, in 2016. It holds up well, yes?

To let present publisher Terror Tract explain: In this no-holds barred collection of grizzly tales, the BLOODSAINTS ANTHOLOGY takes you places that you’re glad only exist on paper. These authors, called the Bloodsaints, have donated their dark stories for the greater good. With the world attacked by a pandemic, these dark scribes have assembled to pool their proceeds to be donated to UNICEF for COVID 19 relief. To see for yourself or, better, order a copy one need but press here. But — word to the wise — don’t look to Mr. Happyhead, of the story of his name, to be counted among us saints himself.

No, he’s rather nasty.