Insidious Assassins ToC Finalized; “Omnibus Antho” Release Date 0n 6th

Two more quick notes to begin the new year, the first from Editor Weldon Burge that Smart Rhino Publications’s anthology INSIDIOUS ASSASSINS (see November 12, September 9) is expected to be out later this month “barring any problems.”  With it has come the latest, and final, table of contents with mine, “The Labyrinth,” ninth from the end.  To wit:

Introduction: The Allure of the Insidious — Weldon Burge

Those Rockports Won’t Get You Into Heaven — Jack Ketchum

Dead Bill — Shaun Meeks

Worse Ways — Meghan Arcuri-Moran

No One of Consequence — Christine Morgan

And the Hits Just Keep On Comin’ — Doug Rinaldi

The Night Gordon Was Set Free — Billie Sue Mosiman

Almost Everybody Wins — Lisa Mannetti

Friends From Way Back — Dennis Lawson

The Repo Girl — Patrick Derrickson

Letter for You — Carson Buckingham

The Rock — Joseph Badal

The Handmaiden’s Touch — Doug Blakeslee

The Bitter and the Sweet — DB Corey

Influence — Martin Marty Zeigler

Agnus Dei — Jezzy Wolfe

Labyrinth — James Dorr

Blenders — Greg Smith

One of Us — Austin S. Camacho

The Absinthe Assassin — Joanne M Reinbold

Slay It Forward — Adrian Ludens

Tantse So Smert’Yu — Ernestus Jiminy Chald

What the Blender Saw — L.L. Soares

Code Name Trine — Martin Rose

Bestsellers Guaranteed — Joe Lansdale

Then from Aaron J. French, the long-delayed “omnibus” combined anthology MONK PUNK & THE SHADOW OF THE UNKNOWN (cf. August 21) is finally due for release in print and Kindle this Tuesday, January 6th, from Hazardous Press.  “I’m sorry this has taken so long.  We had some formatting issues with the length (the book is over 500 pages!), which took a long time to work out, and then the cover art needed to be reworked. . . .“  My offering in this one is from the SHADOW OF THE UNKNOWN side, titled “The Festering,” and has to do with problems with plumbing.

Very big problems.