Announcing my first anthology as editor

 

Dear readers,

Are you ready for three science fiction stories that will make you throw up? Well, you’re in luck because I have decided to try my hands at editing an anthology in my Tales to Make You Vomit universe, and it is going to be disgusting!

If you’re unfamiliar with Tales to Make You Vomit, a ghoul called the Librarian keeps a library of the most disgusting books ever, which she challenges visitors to read, without throwing up. Each title in the series features a frame narrative involving a visitor to the library, as well as the text of the book that visitor must devour.

So far, the three books in the series are She Was Asking for It, which is about the disgusting sex lives of failed Hollywood actors, Kittycat Massacre, about a crazy old woman who tortures and abuses cats in front of an adolescent girl, and Savage Headhunters, about the trophy collecting practices of US servicemembers in the Japanese theater of World War II.

You can also find all three books on Godless, which is their natural home.

The new book is titled Tales to Make You Vomit: Gruesome Futures. NASA has made a return trip to the moon. The astronauts exit their craft, only to discover that the librarian has decided to put humanity on trial by forcing each of them to read a science fiction book from her collection. If just one can read a book without throwing up, the earth will be spared. But each time one of the astronauts vomits, the librarian will launch, by catapult, a giant rock at the earth, which will, upon impact, cause massive loss of life.

The three books the astronauts must read are:

It Only Hurts When I Swallow, by Misha Burnett, which is about the horrific punishment received by a man in the future, The Rape and Annihilation of Babe Babylonia, by Max Gunssler, which is about the horrific punishment received by a woman in the future, and a currently untitled story by Todd Love, which is sure to be especially disgusting. And of course, the frame narrative will be written by me, J. Manfred Weichsel.

So, you’re probably wondering right now, who the fuck are these people? Well…

Misha Burnett is completely autodidactic. Having always read anything he could get his hands on, he further educated himself in the library of a university where he was working as a janitor, although according to him he started at the university with a better grasp of most subjects than the majority of the instructors. His major influences include Tim Powers, Samuel Delany, William Burroughs, and Phillip K. Dick. You can find all his books, as well as magazines and anthologies he has appeared in, on his Amazon page.

If you’re looking for someplace to start, An Atlas of Bad Roads is a great horror collection, while Endless Summer is an excellent collection of science fiction. Misha also has a Kickstarter going on right now for a new collection called Small Worlds. Later this year, Misha and I will appear in an anthology from Cirsova called The Mighty Sons of Hercules, so keep an eye out for that one too.

Max Gunssler blogs about exploitation films and B movies as Christopher Zisi at his blog Zisi Emporium for B Movies. As Max Gunssler, he writes novels inspired by the kinds of movies he blogs about. You can find many of his books on Amazon. He also has a few books on Godless, which are too hot for the world’s longest river.

Todd Love writes extreme horror books. You can find many of them on Godless. He also has books on Amazon, including the short story collection Howling of the Damned, which is especially disgusting. His next book, What Grief Consumes, will be available on Amazon June 4th.

The Gruesome Futures cover will be by the regular Tales to Make You Vomit cover artist Ramiro Roman, Jr. He does a lot of incredible art and comics under the name SkinCube. You can learn all about his many amazing projects at his linktree.

So that’s about it! I have penciled in July 22 as the release date. This is a very special day for me, because it’s my birthday, so what better day to release my first anthology as an editor?

Thanks for reading!

Sincerely,

J. Manfred Weichsel