The Good Work Accepted by Australian Antho Blurring the Line

Do you know what���s real and what isn���t?

There are many tales and urban myths of monsters that shouldn���t exist, of demons and devil possession, of serial killers wearing human skin, of ghosts terrorizing families . . .

But these tales also sound like fiction, don���t they?

We hope so.

But . . .

But what if . . .

So begins the description from Australian publisher Cohesion Press for their upcoming anthology BLURRING THE LINE, currently due out the third quarter of this year.�� And yesterday, late night by US clocks, the word came to me:�� a story of mine of witch hunters in Victorian England, ���The Good Work,��� will be among its contents.

But is it fiction or is it a true tale.�� Ah, that is the question — it could happen, couldn���t it? Stranger things have.�� The guidelines last fall noted that, for instance:

A man called Arnold Paole was accused of being a vampire in 1732 in Yugoslavia, after his body was dug up five years after his death and found with long pointed teeth and nails, with blood in his mouth.

The Mothman of West Virginia was a winged man-sized creature with glowing red eyes and huge moth-like wings sprouting from its back, seen repeatedly during 1967 and 1968.

In 1977, a dead creature that looked a lot like a plesiosaur was caught in the nets of a Japanese fishing vessel, the Zuiyo-maru, offshore east of Christchurch, New Zealand.

The sage Apollonius of Tyana, born in Turkey at the start of the first century AD, hunted demons, and once saved one of his students from a vampire who was going to drink his blood and eat his soul.

These are all supposedly true stories . . .

So to see for yourself this fall, check back here for more information on BLURRING THE LINE as it becomes revealed.