Dark Dreams and Weird Worlds: A Collection of Science Fiction and Horror Stories

by Gary Hill, Heath D. Alberts (Contributor), Kurt Belcher (Contributor)

Covering ground ranging across science fiction and horror (and even a bit of fantasy), this collection has 18 pieces of fiction from nine different writers.

The writers included in this book are:

Heath D. Alberts
Kurt Belcher
Bill Camp
Henrik Sandbeck Harksen
Gary Hill
Ken Lateer
Ian Christopher LeBlanc
Mark Matzeder
Dustin Urness

The cover was designed by Ken Lateer.

172 pages, Paperback

First published October 12, 2017

About the author

Gary Hill has been publishing Music Street Journal (musicstreetjournal.com) since 1998. Since 2018 Hill has published MSJ simultaneously on-line and in book form. He also published all the archives in book form. In 2019 Hill began a series of books under the Music Street Journal banner focused on the Rockford, Illinois music scene titled, "Music Street Journal Local: Rockford Area Music Makers." In August of 2006 his first book The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft was published. Since then several other books (The Concert Photography of Gary Hill, the original edition of Strange Realities: Collected Short Stories and More by Gary Hill Expanded and Revised Edition, Poetry of the Air: A Collection of Love Letters from Musicians to Music and The Suite Music World of Gary Hill and a series of three books The Dark Starr Files) have been released. Wizard Song, his first book length science-fiction piece was released on March 31st, 2020. Hill has also written for cable television (Cops 2.0 on G4), All Music Guide, Demand Media Studios and more. He launched Tale of Wonder and Dread Publishing to release science fiction and horror books in 2018, but published a collection of those types of stories in 2017 titled "Dark Dreams and Worlds." Under the Tales of Wonder and Dread nameplate, Hill has published more than a dozen books including a series on Rockford Illinois cemeteries (Rockford's Final Resting Places), Spooky Rockford and Spooky Rockford Two and Spooky Berwyn. Hill launched Spooky Ventures in 2019 and has been doing video interviews, Spooky News segments and more for the Spooky Ventures YouTube Channel since then.

Reviews

[Mark Matzeder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Disclaimer/fair notice: I have two stories in this collection and admit my bias favoring them.
The collection as a whole stands as a tribute to the sci-fi and horror genres of short fiction. Each of the contributors offered work that leaves a reader tasting the dish long after consuming it.