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Aegri Somnia {Apex Publications}
Aegri Somnia translated literally means "a sick man's dreams." Loosely, it can mean "troubled dreams." The first twelve Apex Featured Writers were tasked with writing the darkest, scariest short fiction their twisted minds could create using the theme of "aegri somnia."
The Details:
Short horror fiction anthology, with twelve stories
Each story is between 2500 and 7500 words in length
The first 250 copies preordered and purchased will be signed by the twelve contributors, the cover artist, and the editor
Aegri Somnia contributors: Cherie Priest, Scott Nicholson, Steven Savile, Lavie Tidhar, Christopher Rowe, Mari Adkins, Rhonda Eudaly, Angeline Hawkes-Craig, Nancy Fulda, Jennifer Pelland, Eugie Foster, Bryn Sparks.
The cover art was done by the talented Michael Bielaczyc of Aradani Studios. Justin Stewart did the lettering design.
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An Alien Land by Mike Resnick {Dark Regions Press}
Hardcover cloth only $30.00 OUR PRICE: $28.60
Amityville House of Pancakes, Vol 1 {Creative Guy Publishing}
Anthology, 4 novellas. The Girl in B33, by J.D. Welles, Dirk Moonfire & the Nefarious Space Women, by Jack Mangan, Cultural Clashes in Cádiz, by Jetse de Vries, and Gypsies Stole My Tequila, by Adrienne Jones. All introduced by Sally, your zombie hostess.
Item description: Like a phoenix, gasping and wheezing from the smoke of its fiery death and rebirth, AHOP lives on, if somewhat haphazardly. Creative Guy Publishing announces the first annual Amityville House of Pancakes Omnibus, frightening small children and offending old people as it blazes through a small town near you. Like a cavalcade of Herb Tarlecks on Viagra, AHOP intends to offend, amuse and get some all at the same time. AHOP features the works of four deranged, but really very nice, authors blazing trails into the somewhat suspect genre of humorous speculative fiction. This volume includes novellas from each author, so you do the math. Oh all right, four novellas, for one generous helping of 80,000 action-packed, hilarious words. Well, not all of the words are hilarious in and of themselves. But when you put them all together, oh boy!
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Amityville House of Pancakes, Vol 2 {Creative Guy Publishing}
As if one suspect post-mortem breakfast trip wasn't enough, AHOP returns in its second annual volume to delight the sad souls who enjoy humorous speculative fiction. We can't promise AHOP 2 will be funnier than last year's edition, but we can promise that it will be greasier. AHOP 2 will again feature four novella length works from some of today's most demented, twisted and depraved, er, rather creative and talented minds.
More mayhem from the folks that aren't sure of the difference between funny-haha and funny peculiar, these four new novellas are guaranteed (offer not valid where prohibited by law) to tickle, please, delight and restore you, all via the magic of humorous speculative fiction. Amityville House of Pancakes: You don't have to be dead to eat here, but it helps.
Novellas included:
Gella Murphy: Public Dick, by Marlo Dianne
Firebirds and Truth, by Uncle River
Froggie, by Sally Kuntz
The Last Generation To Die, by Carlos Hernandez
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Amityville House of Pancakes, Vol 3 {Creative Guy Publishing}
Welcome back to the weirdness once again! This year, AHOP 3 is featuring three novellas of greasy, happy goodness. Gary K. Wolf (Who Censored Roger Rabbit?) and Jehane Baptiste lead off with "The UnHardy Boys in Outer Space," followed by K.M. Praschak's "Paragon," and capped off with another Dalton Quayle adventure by Paul Kane, "Dalton Quayle and the Tomb of King Tuti Frutti."
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Ancient Exhumations +2 by Stanley C. Sargent {Elder Signs Press}
Ancient Exhumations +2, by Stanley C. Sargent, is a
revised and expanded version of Ancient Exhumations
originally published by Mythos Books in 1999.
The stories in this collection range from the
Lovecraftian-inspired and original Mythos creations to
those that venture deeper into the realm of dark
fiction. New and experienced readers of Lovecraft will
be captivated by the horror and subtle humor of these
carefully crafted stories. This revised and expanded
version features two new stories and several new
illustrations.
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Angel of Manslaughter {Cindy Rosmus}
Fifteen gritty stories by a hardboiled Jersey female.
Bloodlust, just plain lust, a serial killer’s “coming of age”…jail bait, jealous wives…even a leap of faith in the right direction. Something for everybody!
With a great front and back cover by Tim Ramstad.
Paperback, perfect-bound, 96 pages.
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Best of Apex 2005 {Apex Publications}
80 pages of the best stories printed in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest during 2005. Big sisters with little sister dark secrets. Crazed street accountants fighting giant hyper-sexual beasts on the streets of a mega-city. A village doctor fighting the ghosts of a dark past.
Experience Apex.
Accountant: Life on the Streets by Bryn Sparks
Crucifixation by Lavie Tidhar
Erasure by Jennifer Pelland
Trees of Bone by Daliso Chaponda
Big Sister/Little Sister by Jennifer Pelland
Layers by Mike Simon
An Odd Day in I-Forgot by Athea Workman
Oranges, Lemons, and Thou Beside Me by Eugie Foster
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The Best of SDO edited by Mark Anthony Brennan & David Bowlin, cover art by Cathy Buburuz {Perplexed Puffin Press}
Sintrigue Dot Org (SDO) was featured on the cyber screen from 2002 to
2005. Creator and Webmaster David Bowlin (a.k.a Sintrigue) established
a lively on-line haven for genre fiction lovers and writers. With
editorial direction from Mark Anthony Brennan, the site also featured
superb genre fiction from around the world.
Within these covers are printed some of the best fantasy, detective
and ghost stories featured at SDO. These 16 stories showcase not only
the high caliber of SDO's fiction, but also the breadth of styles that
were featured.
"This dedicated staff at SDO...are talented and experienced, and know
what they like and what their readers will enjoy. SDO...is an e-zine
that I highly recommend."
- Brutal Dreamer, The Popper Gazette Reviews
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The Best of the Dream People Poets edited by Jennifer C. Barnes {Raw Dog Screaming Press}
The Best of The Dream People Poets is a collection of poems from 8 of the best experimental & surreal poets writing today. This 40-page illustrated chapbook includes poems from Hugh Tribbey, Andrew Penland, J. D. Nelson, Jim
Wittenburg, Richard Fein, Janis Butler Holm, Andy Miller and Dale Michael Houstman.
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Blood Sampler: Subtle Sips & Spicy Shots by David Lee Summers and Lee Clark Zumpe {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Two of the finest minds in the genres have amalgamated their imaginations to come up with some of the rockinest and rollinest vampire flash fiction this side of Bucharest. David Lee ["Yes, we have no sferatu"] Summers, of Tales of the Talisman and Heirs of the New Earth fame, and Lee Clark ["So that's Buffy"] Zumpe, mild-mannered reporter for a daily metro-Floridian newspaper, take you on a journey through the short stuff. With detailed illustrations by Caroline O'Neal, who also did the cover art, Blood Sampler is a must-read even if you don't care for the suckers.
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Bondage {Sam's Dot Publishing}
With seven original tales and eleven all-new poems, including at least one that is sure to be banned in Orlando, Anaheim, and Paris, and illustrated by Marge B. Simon and Marcia A. Borell, BONDAGE: Tales Of Obsession will take you to worlds of the unanticipated, the compulsive, and the perverse, both in this Universe and in your mind. Housed inside a cover designed in the classic sense by Bruce Boston, this trade paperback is sure to be talked about for decades to come.
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Calpurnia’s Window by Cindy Rosmus {Cindy Rosmus}
Ten wicked, gritty stories by Jersey’s sexiest!
If you can’t get your fill of hit men and hackers, cheating bitches and scum, this book is for you, with love.
With a great front cover by Gin Fenton (GinElf); back cover by Tim Ramstad.
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Candy in the Dumpster New and Used Stories By Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson and Martin Mundt {Dark Arts Books}
The first Dark Arts Books release is Candy in the Dumpster, a compilation of 12 "new and used" horror stories by four Chicago authors: Jay Bonansinga, Bill Breedlove, John Everson, and Martin Mundt. This volume, featuring an introduction by another Chicago horror veteran, Mort Castle, was released at the World Horror Convention in San Francisco in May 2006. The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 2007 anthology noted, "A few of the originals are utterly tasteless and utterly hilarious, particularly one each by Martin Mundt and Bill Breedlove."
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Celeraine by David McGillveray {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Celeraine, published in trade paperback format by Sam's Dot Publishing, consists of three interplanetary science fiction stories by British author David McGillveray. Each story presents a specific problem that humanity might expect to encounter as it moves among the stars one day.
In "The Grieving," the Kellie colony has failed and the Whaskera are dead. Lammas must find out why, and why the woman he loved has been lost in space and time.
In "Celeraine," people get the governments they deserve, but the Somnambulist, a repository of Earth history, can give the Azou Home so much more. But if they don't want it, will Earth force it on them?
In "Ryme's Garden," an alien life form takes over the vegetation, and the birds have not returned. It's time to get out the half-track lawndogs. But is Ryme ready for the changes?
CELERAINE is an E-ride into three interplanetary worlds you won't forget.
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Champagne Horror edited by Cathy Buburuz & Randy Nakoneshny {Cathy Buburuz}
Have Champagne Horror Magazine delivered to your door for just $10, no matter where you live. This rare collector's item, edited by Cathy Buburuz and Randy Nakoneshny, features the work of artists, poets and writers from seven countries including Canada, the United States, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Japan. A 60-page, 8-1/2 x 11" horror extravaganza with semi-gloss cover art by award-winning Hungarian artist Horvath Akos. We've just knocked two dollars off the price and are now offering free postage if you order before the end of the year.
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Clash of Steel: Book One - Reluctant Hero {Carnifex Press}
A Duel Of Fathers And Sons by Patrick Weekes - A son is forced to defend his house honor by fighting in a way that he is opposed to.
Brotherhood Redemption by Erin Mackay - A once-proud knight comes face to face with the ones who destroyed his world.
Hero Home by Shauna Roberts - A hero returns years later, only to discover his legend has become twisted.
An End To Tyranny by Robert J Santa - A simple soldier goes about his duty, wondering if he has any effect on the battle.
Nightshadows by Steve Losee - An assassin takes on what he thinks a simple job.
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Clash of Steel: Book Two - Assassin {Carnifex Press}
Snake In The Grass by Erin Hartshorn - Mihoj has been hired to assassinate the prince, but the job is complicated by a lack of honesty from his employer.
Sultans Sons by Dayle A. Dermatis - Under stars that glitter like the jewels on a sultans goblet, two disparate women both hope and fear for their son's futures , but bloodlines and Fate prove to be worthy opponents.
Three Rules To Live By by Ramon Rozas III - A highly trained assassin is hired to eliminate a minor noble. She plans carefully for her work, but when events do not go as planned, she must use all of the rules her master has taught her.
Its A Living by Drew Karpyshyn - Killing for hire's a tough way to earn your coin; you never know who you can trust. There's always some young up and comer looking to take your place. Aaron Kardian understands this better than most. Fortunately, Aaron's very good at what he does. The best. But sometimes even the best can have a job go sideways...
Doomed Apprentice by Lawerence Weinstein - Kuorl thought nothing could be worse than enslavement to the evil sorcerer Dal Barat. But when he encounters an assassin seeking to ensnare him in a plot to kill his master, he learns that slavery takes many forms.
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Clash of Steel: Book Three - Demon {Carnifex Press}
Demons and Devils, Creatures of Hell... Fourteen Fantasy Writers Battle Evil Incarnate!
"Demon Heart" by Bryan Berg
"Zeerembuk" by Steve Goble
"To Hunt A God: A Tale of The Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar" by Angeline Hawkes
"Azieran: Bound By Virtue" by Christopher Heath
"Joenna's Axe" by Elaine Isaak
"The Usual Stakes" by Corey Kellgren
"Into Shards" by Murray Leeder
"Blood Ties" by Trista Robichaud
"Mistaken Identity" by Robert J. Santa
"The Vengeance of Tibor" by Ron Shiflet
"Toxic" by Steven L. Shrewsbury
"The Beast of Lyoness" by Christopher Stires
"The Lesser" by Patrick Thomas
"Son of The Rock" by Laura J. Underwood
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The Clocktower Black by Michael Thomas Knight {Goblin Press}
pgs 24
Awakening
A young man wakes from a night of drinking in a decrepit, abandoned
cemetery. He laughs at the prank his friends have put over on him but
not at the wild dogs that engage to pursue him. As they give chase he
runs to free himself of this situation and get safely beyond the open
gates. He realizes he may not make it to the gates in good time so he
turns to fight off the dogs. Oddly, the dogs cease their pursuit and
turn and run from him. He uses the precious seconds he’s been granted
to get out of the cemetery before anything else can go wrong. For some
strange reason, he finds he can’t leave the hallowed grounds.
Bon Fire
Every year on Halloween night a small group of friends get together
before the warm orange glow of Bon Fire. Seated around a blazing fire
pit, they take turns telling scary stories, catch up on each other’s
lives and share some good times. When the friends bring in new
boyfriends and girlfriends, the group makes them feel welcome and
comfortable. This is what they did this very year with Samantha. When
Samantha disappears into the woods they realize no one from the group
actually invited her to this intimate gathering. A search for her down a
hidden dirt path will reveal the creepy truth of her origin.
Ceremony
In a darkened basement a man in a hooded cloak stands before a makeshift
alter. Speaking ancient Latin words he begins a ceremony of the dark
arts. Before him lies a picture of his ex-love. In one upscale apartment
bedroom across town a woman’s husband stands with glazed eyes as if
being moved by some unseen force. He is a puppet of flesh and commanded
to carry out his violent mission. The man in the hooded cloak is quite
pleased with the results of his ritual. But is the ceremony over? Or has
it just begun?
6" x 9", saddle-stitch binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and
white interior ink, 100# white exterior paper, full-color exterior ink
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The Complete Accursed Wives by Bruce Boston {Bruce Boston}
Trade paper, illustrated by Allen Koszowski, Talisman/Dark Regions,
2000, 100 pages, ISBN 1-888993-19-7
Five short stories and thirty-five poems, all of Boston’s Accursed Wives series. Includes the story “Curse of the Alien’s Wife,” winner of the Best of Soft SF Award, and two Asimov’s Readers’ Award winners for poetry.
“In an uncomplicated yet artful manner, Boston renders present-day marital travails anew through SF tropes....carefully cataloguing the extensive list of relationship crimes we are prone to commit against one another, making this a must-read for those of us endlessly intrigued by the male-female dynamic.” --Trent Walters, SFSite
Read the complete review. (http://www.sfsite.com/10b/caw114.htm)
“Boston has the gift of making his poetry appealing to people who generally aren't fond of poetry...They have a distinctive music that is quite ravishing...He creates cadences more subtle than Poe's by using syllabic and blank verse with startlingly varied iambic pentameter. He creates his own stanza forms. He also manipulates rhyme in sly and original ways. Instead of creating predictable, boring end-rhyme patterns, he uses advanced techniques: slant, internal, and vowel rhyme...The poems read like colloquial speech, but are nimbly crafted to croon subliminal music.”--Mary Turzillo, Sci-Fi.com
Read the complete review. (http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue204/books2.html)
Copies signed by the author on request.
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Cover of Darkness {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Cover Of Darkness is an assembly of short stories from the dark edge of urban fantasy. Tales involve mundane things, such as taking the bus home, to climbing a haunted tree, to watching a pas d'une under the stars . . . to a man who plays with spooky dolls. Lightly seasoned with poetry, this anthology is to be savored over time--read it all at once only if you dare!
stories:
Crickets by Gregory Bastianelli
Riding The 72 by Andrea Saavedra
Cracks by Kristine Ong Muslim
Unkindness by Kate England
Sometimes The Good Witch Sings To Me by L L Soares
Dance By The Light Of The Moon by Tyree Campbell
The Hanging Tree by Erick Lindman
Uncle Horace by Kate Flannery
Insanity In 7 Minutes by Daniel Gould
Karma by Chazley Dotson
Not You by Tamara Wilhite
Dream Well by Jeremiah Job Levine
Stealing From Prometheus by Edward Cox
poems:
Because Missionaries Put It There by Holly Day
Sunday Idyll by Phillip Ellis
Jealous Spirits by Cathy Buburuz
The Path Of Time by Angela Albee
State Mental Hospital by Ray Greenblatt
Before Dawn by Jason Souders
cover art: Universal Judgement by Marge B. Simon
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Cover of Darkness 2008 edited by Tyree Campbell {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Cover of Darkness 2008 is a perfect bound magazine anthology featuring dark urban fantasy and horror, with cover art by Bruce Boston. The feature writer in this issue is Stoker Award winner Scott Nicholson [of "The Farm" and "They Hunger"], who contributed his "Beggar's Velvet." Other writers include Michael Merriam, L. Catherine Rollosson, Tyree Campbell, Cathy Buburuz, David Kopaska-Merkel, Pam Clements, and many more! Helpful hint: read this publication with all the lights on.
stories
Scott Nicholson: Beggar's Velvet
Tyree Campbell: Crotalus
L. Catherine Rollosson: The Chestnut Tree
Kurt Bachard: Resurrection Insurrection
Michael Merriam: Shades of Light and Foam
J. J. Steinfeld: Streets Are Not Always For Walking
Alison Winfree: Plucked from the Cloak of Satan
John W. Oliver: Better Dead Than Never
Rebecca Young Winslow: The Ghost in the Bathtub
Argentina Marcuteanu: Infusion of Justice
Ferrel D. Moore: Haints
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: The Scream
Greta Sloane: Fires of Hazelbury
poems
Pam Clements: Two Spells
Terrie Leigh Relf: An Alien Abandoned on Earth Laments Her Fate
Cathy Buburuz: The Angel of Death
Cathy Buburuz: After the Suicide
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Crawling Between Heaven and Earth by Sarah A. Hoyt {Dark Regions Press}
Eleven previously uncollected fictions. Includes reprints from the pages of Absolute Magnitude, Analog, Dark Regions Magazine, Dreams of Decadence, and Weird Tales, three original stories, plus the novelette "Songs."
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Dark Corners of the Mind by D.W. Jones {Blood Moon Rising Productions}
We all have things we don't tell anyone. Dark fantasies, dreams, and even nightmares that we are afraid to let into the light for fear of coming alive or true.
These things we keep buried in the deepest part of our being, not looking at them, even ignoring them like the dust bunnies under the bed or even behind the corner dresser.
These are the Dark Corners of the Mind.
From D.W. Jones, book reviewer for Blood Moon Rising Horror Magazine, comes this vision of horror in the form of six tales of terror. After years of reviewing books, now it's his turn to bring on the nightmare.
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Darkness Descends by Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc {Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc}
Darkness Descends is the premier collection of flash fiction and short stories by best selling, award winning Horror Sinisteria author, Andrea Dean Van Scoyoc winner of the 2005 Preditors and Editors Horror Novel of The Year.
Stories include some of her most popular; the chilling “All Wrong,” the twisted and downright disturbing “The Lofters” the nightmarish “I Will Always Come Home To You” and the eerie “And The Children Shall Lead.”
Thirteen tales of macabre madness and shadowed whisperings.
As Darkness Descends...you will pray for the light…
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Dissolution by Jennifer Loring {Jennifer Loring}
An outcast who summons zombies to avenge her...A jilted lover who reveals her true bloodthirsty nature...A Red Riding Hood who discovers the wolf within... Spanning seven years of work, "Dissolution" collects twenty-seven of Jennifer Loring's short stories, including eight that have never before been published.
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Doomsdays by Jeffrey Thomas {Dark Regions Press}
Everyday is a Doomsday. Every hour is someone's private Armageddon.
In this collection of twenty-two Apoclaypses one will encounter:
-An Earth buried under strange blue ash, and overrun with the blue-encrusted undead
-The dead of multiple wars, returning on one Halloween night
-Puppet beings made from human trash, living and loving in a secrect kingdom
-A ghastly graveyard cherub that won't stay put
-A monstrous version of ourselves, released from a parallel dimension and bent on our destruction
Haunted Factories, a haunted zoo, worlds both surreal and nightmarish, stalked by phantoms, murderers, and monsters...unleashed from the rich imagination of Jeffrey Thomas, the acclaimed author of Punktown and Letters From Hades.
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The Drabbler #1 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
The Drabbler #1 contains the very best entries from The First Between Kisses Drabble Contest, held from 1 April to 31 May 2004, and themed to "alien candle shop." Includes illustrations by 7ARS and Marcia Borell.
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The Drabbler #2 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
The theme of The Drabbler #2 is "alien brothel." This issue contains stories by various writers, and related in some way to alien brothels. The stories range from alien abduction for interesting purposes, to various rituals, to...well, what do you call it when the brothel comes alive and devours the patron? The Drabbler #2 is seductively and sensuously illustrated by 7ARS.
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The Drabbler #3 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Drabbler #3 contains the best stories received for the Third Between Kisses Drabble Contest, which was themed to "Eve and no Adam: The Last Woman in the Universe." Naughtily illustrated by 7ARS, this apocalyptic anthology is a hotbed of passions, intrigue, and remote control.
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The Drabbler #4 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Aliens and Forbidden Love. This issue is edited by L. A. Story Houry and illustrated by 7ARS.
Features: Gail Kavanagh, Cathy Buburuz, Terrie Leigh Relf, Melissa Mead, Gabriel Llanas, Amy M. Smith, Jason D. Wittman, Kevin James Miller, Ian Donnell Arbuckle, David A. Olson, Michael A. Kechula, Jennifer Schwabach, Kathleen Crow, and Greg Beatty.
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The Drabbler #5 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Theme: The Three Moons. Edited by Terrie Relf and illustrated by 7ARS.
Features: Melissa Mead, Guy Koehler, Andra Marquardt, Amy M. Smith, David Olson, Michael A. Kechula, Karen L. Newman, Esther Schrader, Darryl Brooks, Shelley Lesher, and Greg Beatty.
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The Drabbler #6 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Drabbler #6 is a combined issue, with stories themed to "Alien Employment Line" and "Alien Religious Practices." The stories are hilarious, pithy, poignant, and include a touch of wonder and carnations.
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The Drabbler #8 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Theme: Alien Pet Care
Includes work by Amy M. Smith, Melissa Mead, Norman Riger, Kara Hartz, Sean Eret, Bill West, Diane Arrelle, Donald Jacob Uitvlugt, Rikk Flohr, Graeme S. Houston, Matt Harrah, Christine Poulsen, Trina Jacobs, JD Spencer, M. Frost, Mark Terence Chapman, John Parke Davis, and Grace Murray.
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The Drabbler #9 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Edward Cox: The Unforeseen: Earth Receives A Letter Of Complaint After Historic Events During A Lunar Landing
J. Bruce Fuller: In Luna Atrum Pars
Jason D. Wittman: The Adventures Of Carol "Minnesota" Wilde On The Dark Side Of The Moon
Michael A. Kechula: Exploring The Dark Side Of The Moon
Terrie Leigh Relf: The Boortean Ambassador Prepares For Her First Visit To Haura
Michael Hunt: Human Waste
Dave Marquardt: The End
Jennifer Schwabach: Inevitable
Peter Andrew Smith: Moon Shot
Graeme S. Houston: Not Quite What Arthur Envisaged
Will Riley: Career Change
Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin & Terrie Leigh Relf: Scavengers
N. C. Whitehead: Cocytus
Marva Dasef: Setting Foot On The Dark Side
Michael McCarty: The Sky People
K. A. Patterson: Cafe Luna Noire
Rikk Flohr: Forgotten Culture Thieves Of The Light And Dark
Cate Donoghue: The Price Of Progress
Chance W. Nolan: In A Dark Place
Dave Marquardt: Long-Winded
Trina Jacobs: Damn Travel Agent
Andra Marquardt: Heaven Or Hell?
Dave Marquardt: Birthday Party
Paul Sigurdson: Lunar Soul
Cathy Buburuz: The Woman In The Moon
Matt Harrah: Lovely This Time Of Year
William Meikle: Always On The Dark Side
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Drabbler 10 {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Haunted Spaceports
William J. Kerr Sr.: Alice Through the Wall
Peter Andrew Smith: A Matter of Perspective
Trina Jacobs: Anniversary
Ed Cox: Celestial Necromancer at Phantom V: Renton Orbits the Derelict Spaceport With His Beautiful Sidekick, Kayla
Rikk Flohr: Deja Doo and the Mystery of the Haunted Space Port
Cathy Buburuz: Unleashed
Marcie Tentchoff: River of Stars
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Shadows
Marcie Tentchoff: Timeless
N.C. Whitehead: Black Hole
Graeme S. Houston: The ghost that was annoying Harry the station-manager, and Dug the barman
Alex Moisi: Fix It!
Michael Hunt: Living Ghosts
Marge Simon: That Damned Smell
Michael Hunt: On a dark stellar highway, sweat beading my hair, coffee aroma permeating the air
Heather Kuehl: Pluto. . .A Ghostly Planet with a Million Possibilities
Melissa Mead: All in Good Time
Francis W. Alexander: So Far From Home at Spaceport Nine
William J. Kerr Sr.: Spaceport Gamma 3.
Gerri Leen: Dust to Dust
Gerri Leen: Over the Fold
Aurelio Rico Lopez III: Making Contact
Elissa Malcohn: Identity Theft
Michael Hunt: Dude—Where’s My Shuttle?
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Ebb Tides and Other Tales by Mary Soon Lee {Dark Regions Press}
Rising genre star Mary Soon Lee's Ebb Tides and Other Tales brings together twenty previously uncollected stories, including reprints from the pages of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Interzone, Aboriginal SF, Amazing Stories, and three original tales appearing here for the first time.
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Ecotastrophe edited by J Alan Erwine {Sam's Dot Publishing}
ECOTASTROPHE is a collection of short stories and poetry that examines futures we could face if we continue to damage Earth’s ecology.
The oceans are dying and only desperate measures could save them in Jan Mortimer’s The Empty Ocean. Michelle Mellon’s Undiscovered Horizons questions whether we can truly find the answers out among the stars, or can we only hope to change the future by changing the past as Rebecca S.W. Bates postulates in Walking the River. Also featuring the works of JE Gurley, Bruce Boston, E. Catherine Tobler, Kristine Ong Muslim, and Adam Banks, among others, ECOTASTROPHE is a grim but illuminating view of several possible ecological futures for humanity.
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The Elastic Book of Numbers edited by Allen Ashley {Elastic Press}
In this unique collection of 21 stories, some of the world's finest fictioneers examine the effect of numbers on humankind's past, present and future. From the rewriting of history through the thrill of the roulette wheel to the codes controlling the starships, each of these tales engages with numbers in innovative, entertaining and meaningful ways. Featuring stories by Marion Arnott, Allen Ashley, Neil Ayres, Paul Evanby, Toiya Kristen Finley, Jeff Gardiner, Kay Green, Sam Hayes, Charles Lambert, Joel Lane, Tim Lees, Phil Locascio, Rosaleen Love, John Lucas, Mark Patrick Lynch, Ellen McAteer, Joy Marchand, Tim Nickels, Donald Pulker, E. Sedia, Eric Shapiro, Julian Todd, and Neil Williamson.
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Embracing the Starlight by Dave Smeds {Dark Regions Press}
Eleven previously uncollected stories. Includes reprints from the pages of Full Spectrum 4, Asimov's Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Fantasy and Science Fiction, and others, and one original story, "Family Values."
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Encounters edited by Tyree Campbell {Sam's Dot Publishing}
In here you'll meet some special people and special creatures. David, who watches the night sky for aliens, only to discover that they're already here. Lucy, who needs a friend and decides that a bear would be great . . . but there's a problem. Andy, who learns that some mannequins are more than what they seem. Isabella, a very unusual dragon. Terri, who's lost on another planet. And Joseph, who hasn't lost his mind . . . not exactly.
These six youngsters are just like you, no matter how old you are. They are curious, lonely, brave, lost, creative, adventurous . . . special. They have a lot in common with you--except, perhaps, for the dragon's scales. Come join them on the adventures of a lifetime.
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English Soil Society by Tim Nickels {Elastic Press}
The stories of Tim Nickels defy easy categorisation. They might be folktales from an alternate world, modern-day myths or eccentric fables written by creatures under the earth or from the stars. Yet, despite their elusive, amorphic qualities and dextrous, lullaby prose, they are also rooted with an intensity of emotion that aptly characterises the human condition, expressing both the personal and collective anxieties which affect us all.
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The Ephemera by Neil Williamson {Elastic Press}
Nothing lasts forever. Everything is ephemeral.
Time slips by, people change, happiness is fleeting.
Neil Williamson's collection of bittersweet tales features fourteen stories
of impermanence: from the ends of love affairs and the brief sanity of
wartime convalescence, to the fading away of old languages and the dying of
humanity itself.
An artist communicates solely through a bizarre mosaic, a father and his
dying daughter seek hope in plague-ridden Scotland, a London pensioner’s
existence is inextricably bound to that of his pet canary, and in the
jungles of Borneo a criminal searches for his missing son hoping for
reconciliation before the end of the world.
"Emotionally complex and displaying a keen eye for detail, the stories in
Neil Williamson's collection The Ephemera are a rich and rewarding read from
a stylish new Scottish talent" – Jeff Vandermeer
"Subtle, evocative and compelling, The Ephemera is a collection that shines
with reflection and intelligence" - Liz Williams
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Esperance {Sam's Dot Publishing}
A compendium of works by Jim Baker and by writers associated with him during his years at the helm. Including brief anecdotes and tributes, ESPERANCE re-introduces Jim Baker to the Universes at large. Come learn more about this gallant and irascible man whose dreams affected so many others.
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Florida Horror: Dark Tales From the Sunshine State edited by Armand Rosamilia {Carnifex Press}
Twelve twisted tales of Horror! Stories from John Hubbard, Lon Prater, Belea T Keeney, Gary Fry, Jim Chaplin, Eric Diehl, Heather Lee Fleming, Misty L Gersley, Ward Parker, Richard Pitaniello, Daniel R Robichaud and E.N. Wilson
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Fourteen Tales From a Shop Called Imagination by Ken Wiseman {Dark Regions Press}
Welcome to the Shop Called Imagination. Come on in. Take your time. Browse for a while.
There are lots of fantasies here. Fourteen in all. Any of a number are bound to please. We have horror, "The Finder-Keeper," which may just answer the age-old question of where lost things--socks, earrings, children--go when they disappear. We have humor, "The Xeroxorcist," about a copy machine possessed the devil and the repairman hired to perform the xeroxorcism.
Come. Have a look You're sure to find something pleasing. Something dark perhaps? Like the "Straw Goat," a little nature spirit made of twisted straw and malevolence. Or "Barelli's Demon," one man's hate and prejudice made flesh. Or "The Snowman," a murderous thing filled with dark vengeance. Maybe you'd prefer something to delight? "Grandma Babka..." with her good luck gingerbread houses. "Archie..." and his lures for nature spirits in Arcady, where lovemaking is a sport. "My Mother's Purse" with its contents of adult secrets to be kept from a child's eyes. Romance? Try "Brother Senechelle." Something unique? "Seasons of Ice, Fields of Winter." Something unexpected? "Moses." And for the conoisseur, you who have seen and read them all: "Brother Estevan" who will take you on a trip through a world in a painting so strange it has mystified critics and historians for hundreds of years.
So come on in. Take a break from life and its stresses. Escape reality for a time. The Shop Called Imagination will always be open to you; just a few page turns away.
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Fugue XXIX by Forrest Aguirre {Raw Dog Screaming Press}
Fugue XXIX is the first full-length collection of short stories available from World Fantasy Award winning editor and author Forrest Aguirre. These marvelous tales come to you from the fringe of speculative literary fiction where innovative minds keep busy dreaming up the future’s uncharted territories and mining forgotten treasures of the past. Whether exploring the stars or unearthing ancient cultures these stories will surprise and delight. In Aguirre’s world anything can happen, and does, with regularity.
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Funnybones: The Humorous Horror Fiction of Paul Kane by Paul Kane {Creative Guy Publishing}
Paul Kane - author of Alone (in the Dark) and Touching the Flame - has returned, not to terrify this time, but to tickle the funnybone. Inside this book you'll find a collection of his most outrageous humorous horror, with stories ranging from "Dracula in Love" to "The Last Temptation of Alice Crump"...and not forgetting fan favourite "The Bones Brothers."
Funnybones also includes several of the adventures of Dalton Quayle, that most famous of supernatural detectives.
Before you can say, "Please for the love of God, no more, my belly," Master of the Farce Paul Kane will have you laughing out loud and embarrassing yourself on the bus. IMPORTANT: Do not read while drinking milk.
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Future Syndicate edited by J Alan Erwine {Nomadic Delirium Press}
Crime has always been with us, and probably always will be. Future Syndicate looks at what the future of crime might be, and what criminals might look like in the future.
Featuring the works of Jason Sizemore, Bret Tallman, Jason Andrew, Rebecca S.W. Bates, J Alan Erwine, Lavie Tidhar, Bruce Horner, and Rebecca M. Senese, Future Syndicate gives you eight distinct views of what crime might become...
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Gutter Balls by Cindy Rosmus {Cindy Rosmus}
Fifteen even grittier stories by Jersey’s creepiest!
Watch Satan-loving hubbies, Pornmeisters, and an unsuspecting bridal party get theirs!
Stick around and get yours.
With great front and back covers by Tim Ramstad.
Paperback, perfect-bound
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Hell on the Installment Plan edited by Jennifer C. Barnes {Raw Dog Screaming Press}
Hell on the Installment Plan offers three scathing tales of supernatural punishment. From greed to murder, lust to wrath, every sin stands in attendence for those who dare to open these pages. Abel Diaz, John Edward Lawson, Susanne S. Brydenbaugh, and Tim Curran purge their personal demons for your enjoyment in this first installment of the “Wrong Side of the Afterlife" series.
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I Was A Sasquatch Sex Slave by S.D. Hintz & Jerrod Balzer (w/ Mark McLaughlin & Mike McCarty) {Skullvines Press}
Sasquatch is real. His feet are as big as they say, but so is his... lust.
In this first book of the dark humor series spoofing on tabloids, you'll see Bigfoot as you've never imagined.
Read how they terrorize Eskimos in the Arctic regions and grumpy old men in the Florida swamps. Learn of strange variations as they rampage through a castle party and battle Freakenstein as the Hairless Undead.
You will laugh, cringe, scream, vomit; it might even turn some of you freaks on. One thing is certain: The images will haunt you forever.
Here are seven tales by S.D. Hintz and Jerrod Balzer, with an eighth story by Mark McLaughlin.
Pages: 70
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In the Outposts of Beyond edited by Tyree Campbell {Sam's Dot Publishing}
"In the Outposts of Beyond" is a trade paperback anthology of stories and poems centered around taverns, trading posts, and watering holes in the Universe. Assassins and refugees, corporate hierarchs and minions, ghosts and shadows, escort you through the fortunes and glories of the worlds of Beyond. Think Casablanca in Outer Space, complete with Ricks and Ilsas and Victors...and Peter Lorres.
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Into the Yellow and Other Stories by Barbara Davies {Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company}
Visit ancient Rome, lunar settlements, and alien worlds. Meet zombies and vampires, mermen, dragons, and demons. Experience nano technology and watch history happen from a time machine. Barbara Davies explores the spectrum of speculative fiction in this collection of entertaining and thought-provoking stories.
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Invitations {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Invitations contains fantasy and science fiction stories and poems for younger readers, with no bad language or "adult" themes. Stories include a rescue by time travel, anticipating a trip to another world, and a nature hike to see Herne the Hunter, among others. This anthology also includes three pages of fantasy to color, a word search, and a brief description of gargoyles.
Includes works from Kathleen McCarthy, Stephen D. Rogers, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Michael Manis, Sarah Zama, Vera Searles, Rebecca Shelley, Leila Eadie, Samantha Henderson, Stella Evans, Karen A. Romanko, Dorothy Imm, Lee Clark Zumpe, Amy Tibbetts, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Guy Belleranti, Kristine Ong Muslim, Charlotte Scott, Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin and Terrie Leigh Relf, by Karen L. Newman, John Ramos, Michael Lohr, McBeth & Libragirl, Cathy Buburuz and Ellen Million, Erin Donahoe, and 7ARS.
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Just Because: The Works of James Baker {Sam's Dot Publishing}
James Bruce Baker was best known as the editor and publisher of ProMart Publishing, but he was more than that. Jim was also a poet, a novelist, a short story writer, and an opinionated essayist.
Just Because is a collection of his stories, poems, and essays put together as a tribute to a man who did so much for the small press, and so much for many small press writers, poets, and artists.
Jim dreamed of mankind going to space, and he dreamed of the human race improving itself and finally growing up. Here you will find just a sampling of his blueprint.
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Kafka's Uncle and Other Strange Tales by Bruce Taylor {Afterbirth Books}
KAFKA'S UNCLE: Meet Anslenot and his tormentor/confidant, a giant tarantula, as they wander through a blasted, desecrated landscape of broken ideals and shattered hopes. In this land, nothing is right. The Militant Lambs fight with the Opposition. President Maotse Boosh spreads his own thoughts ("Consumers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your money!") And a Little Red Haired Girl tries to talk to Anslenot about Recovery Issues, but alas, gets nowhere because he is so sick that he has no idea how sick he is. When the heavens take pity on Anslenot and arrange the stars to form a message that becomes totally obscured, what choice does he have but to take over the journey of Kafka's character in his classic story, The Bucket Rider...
THE HUMPHREY BOGART BLUES: Marilyn Monroe is trying to make sense of it all. Is she in a nether world induced by drugs? Who knows. But there she is, on a balcony, looking out over New York and being visited by the entertainment spirits--Humphrey Bogart, Elvis, the Beatles--all trying to help her out. However it is the Martians who offer the most solace...
AND 32 MORE STORIES...
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Like a Chinese Tattoo Twelve Inscrutably Twisted Tales By Cullen Bunn, Rick R. Reed, David Thomas Lord and JA Konrath {Dark Arts Books}
Unusual, weird and wonderful, herein are twelve stories from the minds of
four supremely talented - and twisted - authors. From the curse of the
living dead to vengeance from beyond the grave, from the darkest corner of
Africa to the bowels of the local cemetery, these tales are as unique and
as mysterious as.well, a Chinese Tattoo!
For fans of JA Konrath's Jack Daniels mystery series, this collection
includes a Harry McGlade novella, "The Necro Files!" In addition to the
hysterical, that's-just-so-wrong! "Necro Files," the book offers Rick R.
Reed's dark revenge tale "Moving Toward the Light," David Thomas Lord's
deceptively creepy "The White Room" and Cullen Bunn's darkly horrifying
"Tomorrow, When The Demons Come" (as well as one of Cullen's insanely
twisted WHC Gross-Out stories!) And those are just a few of the 12
offerings.
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Like Birds in the Rain by Marge Simon {Sam's Dot Publishing}
Michael Arnzen has this to say about Like Birds In The Rain: ". . . presents a stunning series of literary character studies and poetic flash fictions that are remarkably colorful, slyly cagy, and certainly one of a kind. From twists of dark irony to eruptions of spontaneous wonder, these slices of life cut to the marrow. Simon, a masterful visual artist, always brings a painter's eyes to her fiction and her poetry. In this outstanding new collection she dapples her brush across an emotional canvas to reveal an interior landscape unlike anything she has gifted us with before."
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