Working for the Fat Man
I'm taking a break from working on anything new over the next few days to try to get through as many Into the Darkness submissions as I can. I think I'm down to about 45 left. I made it through 5 this morning.
So today's feature story is "Working for the Fat Man", a story about where Santa's magic comes from and what happens to the bad kids. I had a lot of fun writing this one, even though when I started it I didn't know exactly what was going to happen, just that there was some serious magic at work to allow Santa Claus to do what he does, and it wasn't necessarily good magic. I wrote this one for a Christmas-themed horror anthology, where it was accepted very quickly, but the book never happened and the publisher soon folded. I saved the story and put it in Terrible Thrills a year later. I had wanted to do this story as an ebook for a long time before I finally published it but no matter where I looked I just couldn't seem to find a suitably "evil" looking Santa Claus. Until I found the one I eventually used. There's something about the look in that Santa's eyes, whether intentional by the artist or not, that I thought fit like a glove.
The chapbook here is 32 pages and features FIVE bonus stories this time, five 100-word stories, which have also been published in Terrible Thrills. Print versions are available for $4.99 from CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3966005) and Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Fat-Man...), while the ebook version is only $2.99 and can be purchased at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Fat-Man...) and Smashwords.com (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...).
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So today's feature story is "Working for the Fat Man", a story about where Santa's magic comes from and what happens to the bad kids. I had a lot of fun writing this one, even though when I started it I didn't know exactly what was going to happen, just that there was some serious magic at work to allow Santa Claus to do what he does, and it wasn't necessarily good magic. I wrote this one for a Christmas-themed horror anthology, where it was accepted very quickly, but the book never happened and the publisher soon folded. I saved the story and put it in Terrible Thrills a year later. I had wanted to do this story as an ebook for a long time before I finally published it but no matter where I looked I just couldn't seem to find a suitably "evil" looking Santa Claus. Until I found the one I eventually used. There's something about the look in that Santa's eyes, whether intentional by the artist or not, that I thought fit like a glove.
The chapbook here is 32 pages and features FIVE bonus stories this time, five 100-word stories, which have also been published in Terrible Thrills. Print versions are available for $4.99 from CreateSpace (https://www.createspace.com/3966005) and Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Fat-Man...), while the ebook version is only $2.99 and can be purchased at Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Working-Fat-Man...) and Smashwords.com (https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...).
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