05 March 2014
Argosy is back! Classic pulp for the digital age!
The time is now. Strange things are happening across the globe. Four unwilling heroes are thrown into circumstances beyond their comprehension. Some react in good humor; others, with trepidation. Some will return scarred, others broken, and some will not return at all.
Somewhere in New England, a man returns to the place of his nightmares to search for his older brother, missing for thirty years, while in Central Texas a man awakes with no memory of his identity and little of his past. Elsewhere in the Southern United States, two men stumble upon a secret best left untold, and in Auckland, New Zealand a man disappears without a trace.
In this volume, four novelettes of modern pulp fiction, set in the modern day:
The Beat of Heavy Wings by Kurt Newton
Your Basic Plot by Curtis James McConnell
Illegal Aliens by G. Lloyd Helm
Hidden by Peter Glassborow
Available @ Amazon.com, Smashwords, or Pay-What-You-Want.
The time is now. Strange things are happening across the globe. Four unwilling heroes are thrown into circumstances beyond their comprehension. Some react in good humor; others, with trepidation. Some will return scarred, others broken, and some will not return at all.
Somewhere in New England, a man returns to the place of his nightmares to search for his older brother, missing for thirty years, while in Central Texas a man awakes with no memory of his identity and little of his past. Elsewhere in the Southern United States, two men stumble upon a secret best left untold, and in Auckland, New Zealand a man disappears without a trace.
In this volume, four novelettes of modern pulp fiction, set in the modern day:
The Beat of Heavy Wings by Kurt Newton
Your Basic Plot by Curtis James McConnell
Illegal Aliens by G. Lloyd Helm
Hidden by Peter Glassborow
Available @ Amazon.com, Smashwords, or Pay-What-You-Want.
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Enter to win11 November 2013
I've heard websites are obsolete. Hmm... that could explain my lack of updates in the past year. So, what have I been up to during this time? Here's a brief rundown:
I've heard websites are obsolete. Hmm... that could explain my lack of updates in the past year. So, what have I been up to during this time? Here's a brief rundown:
First published in 2006 in a limited hardcover edition by Delirium Books, The Wishnik is now available for the first time in an affordable trade paperback.
"Many sons wish their father dead; for Kenny Morgan, that wish came true.
With news that his father has fallen ill, Kenny casts a wish into the night. For the well-being of everyone involved, Kenny wishes his abusive, tyrannical father dead. When the wish comes true, and good fortune begins to shine upon his family, Kenny believes that his unbelievable luck is merely coincidence.
It is not.
An encounter with a demonic creature – a wishnik – in the woods behind his home, confirms that his fortunes have a sinister origin. The wishnik informs Kenny it's time for him to fulfill his part of the bargain. The good news is the wishnik wants only one thing: to be fed.
The bad news is its hunger is insatiable."
Available through Amazon.com for $12.34. Or directly from the publisher, Gallows Press, for $10.99.
"Many sons wish their father dead; for Kenny Morgan, that wish came true.
With news that his father has fallen ill, Kenny casts a wish into the night. For the well-being of everyone involved, Kenny wishes his abusive, tyrannical father dead. When the wish comes true, and good fortune begins to shine upon his family, Kenny believes that his unbelievable luck is merely coincidence.
It is not.
An encounter with a demonic creature – a wishnik – in the woods behind his home, confirms that his fortunes have a sinister origin. The wishnik informs Kenny it's time for him to fulfill his part of the bargain. The good news is the wishnik wants only one thing: to be fed.
The bad news is its hunger is insatiable."
Available through Amazon.com for $12.34. Or directly from the publisher, Gallows Press, for $10.99.
Vine Leaves #8 came out in October. Among its myriad of vignettes and poetry there is a small 300-word piece of mine called "Family Portrait." I was psyched enough just to be published in this fine journal. To add to the news, I was notified soon afterward that "Family Portrait" would be included in their yearly Best Of anthology. And to top it all, editors Jessica Bell and Dawn Ius selected "Family Portrait" as one of three prose nominations for the Pushcart Prize. I am deeply honored. Please check out this magazine if you haven't already. Each issue is full of rich lyrical prose and heady insight.
Vine Leaves #8
The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2013
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Vine Leaves #8
The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2013
@ Amazon.com
@ Barnes & Noble
Shock Totem continues to show they are not letting up but only getting better at finding both great cover art and great stories to fill their magazine. Issue #7 arrived in October containing a rare non-fiction piece of mine called "The Four Horsemen of the Parking Lot," about the time my granddaughter spent in the pediatric intensive care unit shortly after her birth.
Shock Totem has also ventured into book publishing with a short story collection by Mercedes M. Yardley, a novel by James Newman, and an unclassifiable prose-poetry mini-chapter book by John Boden. With another novel by James Newman, and a novella by Adam Cesare announced, Shock Totem has quickly become a publisher to watch.
Shock Totem #7
Shock Totem has also ventured into book publishing with a short story collection by Mercedes M. Yardley, a novel by James Newman, and an unclassifiable prose-poetry mini-chapter book by John Boden. With another novel by James Newman, and a novella by Adam Cesare announced, Shock Totem has quickly become a publisher to watch.
Shock Totem #7
Space and Time #119 contains a short story of mine called "Nikola Tesla and the Resonating Frequency Transmitter"--a story that I'm very proud of because it's the beginning of what I hope will be a series of Tesla stories, including a novel. Stay tuned.
Single issues and subscriptions, both print and electronic, available @ Space and Time.
Single issues and subscriptions, both print and electronic, available @ Space and Time.
The A cappella Zoo Bestiary is a Best Of collection of the last five years of A cappella Zoo. Once again, I'm honored guest editor Gina Ochsner selected "The Wooden Grandpa" to be included in this special volume. "The Wooden Grandpa" won Issue #4's Apospecimen Award for Flash Fiction. For five years now A cappella Zoo has published some of the best surrealist poetry and fiction available. Past issues of the magazine are free to view online, however the Bestiary is only available as a print edition.
Available @ Amazon.com
Available @ Amazon.com
I also had fun over the summer finding homes for some of my stories and poems. Here are a few places you can find my work online:
"Fifty-Year-Old Face" @ Flash Fiction Online
"kiss the sky" & "snakebit" @ Brickplight - Issue #1
"germination," "learning to drown," "parade of fools" @ Danse Macabre
"Fifty-Year-Old Face" @ Flash Fiction Online
"kiss the sky" & "snakebit" @ Brickplight - Issue #1
"germination," "learning to drown," "parade of fools" @ Danse Macabre
13 November 2012
I can't say enough about this magazine. The artwork is always great. Editors Ken Wood & Company are meticulous in choosing a literate blend of fiction, non-fiction, interviews and reviews. If you haven't read an issue already, please give a try. But be warned: Read one issue and you'll want the rest.
Table of Contents
Available directly through Shock Totem Publications or through Amazon.com:
Shock Totem (print)
Amazon (print)
Amazon (digital)
Table of Contents
- Taking Root: An Editorial by Mercedes M. Yardley
- In Deepest Silence by Ari Marmell
- Girl and the Blue Burqa by D. Thomas Mooers
- Digging in the Dirt: A Conversation with Jack Ketchum by John Boden
- Hide-and-Seek by F.J. Bergmann (Poetry)
- Eyes of a Stranger: An Essay, by Nick Contor
- Postmortem by Kurt Newton
- Jimmy Bunny" by Darrell Schweitzer
- Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
- Little Knife Houses by Jaelithe Ingold (2011 Shock Totem Flash Fiction Contest Winner)
- Canon by Anaea Lay
- Bloodstains & Blue Suede Shoes, Part 3, by John Boden and Simon Marshall-Jones
- The Catch by Joe Mirabello
- Three Strikes by Mekenzie Larsen
- To ‘Bie or Not to ‘Bie by Sean Eads
- Howling Through the Keyhole (Author Notes)
Available directly through Shock Totem Publications or through Amazon.com:
Shock Totem (print)
Amazon (print)
Amazon (digital)
05 September 2012
My second appearance in Dark Discoveries ("The Wood Box") comes in the Weird Fiction & Film Issue, featuring such weird horror luminaries as Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti, Stephen Mark Rainey, Edgar Allen Poe and Clark Ashton Smith. Also included--a special section on Hammer Films. Note: JournalStone Publishing has recently acquired Dark Discoveries, and past issues are now available through JournalStone.
07 June 2012
Star*Line issue #35.2 is now available. Three of my poems--all with an end-of-the-world theme--found its way into this issue.
Table of Contents
Features
Table of Contents
Features
- Wyrms & Wormholes • F.J. Bergmann
- President’s Message • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- From the Small Press • Joshua Gage, Edward Cox, David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Stealth SF • Denise Dumars
- New Membership Rates
- Xenopoetry • translation by Fred W. Bergmann
- from The Gallant Necrophage and Other Love Poems • Alfredo Álamo
- In The Plague Wind’s Wake • Kurt Newton
- The Church of Lucifer Falls • Ken Poyner
- (untitled) • Michael Conner
- Foreign Chef in a Small Town • Shirley Valencia
- An Old Story • Neal Wilgus
- The Last Gondolier • Kurt Newton
- Where the White Thistle Grows • WC Roberts
- Fall Of The Church of Ussher • Robert Borski
- Absent Fiends • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
- The Girl With Bees In Her Mouth • Alexandra Seidel
- Urbana • Michael R. Fosburg
- By Moonlight • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- How Things Change • James S. Dorr
- LOL_ALIENS • Elizabeth Barrette
- Zombie Heaven • Kurt Newton
- Ain’t That Nice • Neal Wilgus
- Errant Water • Alexandra Seidel
- Infant Rat Heads • F.J. Bergmann
- What the stars have to say about it • F.J. Bergmann
- Zen Fish • David Glen Larson
- Downed • WC Roberts
- Relics • Anna Sykora
- Portrait of a Beautiful Young Woman on a Bookmark • Gary Every
- From Sky to Sea • Shelly Bryant
- The Twin Peoples in Love • Elizabeth Barrette
- The Foundation of the Martian Stock Exchange • Ken Poyner
- The Withering Hand • Darrell Lindsey
- How to Name Your Human • Michael Fosburg
- The Cat Lady • Ross Balcom
- Rapunzel’s Shadow • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
- (untitled) • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
- The Seed • Anna Sykora
- The Dragon Queen • A.B.S. Dudevant
- Orcus • Wade German
- The Face • Lela E. Buis
- 10 Things To Know About Staple Removers • Ian Hunter
- Ill-Shaped Signs Unavoidable and Unmistakable • J.J. Steinfeld
- (untitled) • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
05 June 2012
Congratulations to Amy Cannon, Shahrun Moinizadeh, Alissa Ackerman, Colleen Carey and Dianne Danielson, winners of the Goodreads Book Giveaway. A signed copy of Powerlines is on its way to each of you. Thanks to everybody who entered the contest. Happy reading!
Goodreads Book Giveaway
Enter to win09 April 2012
Hey folks, I'm really proud of this one. My new novel POWERLINES is finally here:
"After his beloved brother is killed in Iraq, Ethan decides to take a weekend hike to clear his head and to get in touch with nature. His destination is a stretch of power lines that run deep into the forests of Connecticut. His journey will bring him through a reclusive area surrounded by mysteries and strange legends. Kissing his beloved and patient girlfriend, Lindsey, goodbye, Ethan sets off on his adventure.
It doesn’t take Ethan long to discover that the stories are true…something strange and insidious is hidden in the Connecticut countryside.
Something deadly.
When Ethan fails to show up at their rendezvous point, she knows that something is horribly wrong. Finding local law enforcement to be uncooperative, she partners up with an unlikely friend as she enters the woods in search of her lover.
As they follow the power lines deep into the woods, they have no idea what awaits."
Trade paperback, 278 pages. Now up for preorder at the Gallows Press website for the special discount price of $11.00. Will be available on Amazon on April 13th.
"After his beloved brother is killed in Iraq, Ethan decides to take a weekend hike to clear his head and to get in touch with nature. His destination is a stretch of power lines that run deep into the forests of Connecticut. His journey will bring him through a reclusive area surrounded by mysteries and strange legends. Kissing his beloved and patient girlfriend, Lindsey, goodbye, Ethan sets off on his adventure.
It doesn’t take Ethan long to discover that the stories are true…something strange and insidious is hidden in the Connecticut countryside.
Something deadly.
When Ethan fails to show up at their rendezvous point, she knows that something is horribly wrong. Finding local law enforcement to be uncooperative, she partners up with an unlikely friend as she enters the woods in search of her lover.
As they follow the power lines deep into the woods, they have no idea what awaits."
Trade paperback, 278 pages. Now up for preorder at the Gallows Press website for the special discount price of $11.00. Will be available on Amazon on April 13th.
09 April 2012
Also available from Gallows Press is THE GALLOWS anthology, a sampler of sorts containing stories from the following Gallows Press authors:
“Pigs” by Erik Williams
“The Pit” by Kurt Newton
“China” by Gene O’Neill
“Jam” by Mark Allan Gunnells
“Craving Soul Food” by Sam W. Anderson
“Mirror World” by Liam Davies
“Rotting Love” by T.G. Arsenault
“Unknown Causes” by Frank Duffy
“He’s Just a Baby” by Shane McKenzie
“Writer’s Block” by Chris Hedges
“Children of Filth” by Brian Knight
Trade paperback, 228 pages. Now up for preorder at the Gallows Press website for a mere $7.99. Will be available on Amazon on April 13th.
“Pigs” by Erik Williams
“The Pit” by Kurt Newton
“China” by Gene O’Neill
“Jam” by Mark Allan Gunnells
“Craving Soul Food” by Sam W. Anderson
“Mirror World” by Liam Davies
“Rotting Love” by T.G. Arsenault
“Unknown Causes” by Frank Duffy
“He’s Just a Baby” by Shane McKenzie
“Writer’s Block” by Chris Hedges
“Children of Filth” by Brian Knight
Trade paperback, 228 pages. Now up for preorder at the Gallows Press website for a mere $7.99. Will be available on Amazon on April 13th.
02 April 2012
Goldfish Grimm's Spicy Fiction Sushi. I know, it sounds raw and tasty and a little bit different. Hopefully, my featured story "Lady With An Ax" fits that description. Two stories are featured every month. This month's other featured fiction is by Jaym Gates. Check it out. Leave a comment.
15 January 2012
__Star*Line is the magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Issue #34.4 of this long-running poetry zine is now available. It includes a special themed bonus issue.
Table of Contents
Features
Table of Contents
Features
- Quarks & Strings • Marge Simon
- President's Message • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
- Stealth SF • Denise Dumars
- From the Small Press • David C. Kopaska-Merkel, Terrie Leigh Relf, Edward Cox
- Con Report • Elissa Malcohn
- Pushing ’12 • Michael Fosburg
- untitled • Ann Schwader
- Space Ninjas • Deborah Walker
- Offering • Kim L. Neidigh
- The Sorcerer’s Curse • Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
- Glow • G. O. Clark
- Ch-Ch-Children! • Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
- Two Moths Spinning in Her Eyes • Gary Every
- A Little Death • Kurt Newton
- Chimera Park • Wade German
- Ledge • Jay McLeod
- Things Lost to Shadow • Marcie Lyn Tentchoff
- Moonstruck • David Lunde
- This Conqueror Wurm • W. C. Roberts
- Space Gorillas of the Martian Mines • Lisa Nohealani Morton
- Dream Desert • Marina Lee Sable
- Hometown • Anna Weaver
- Macrocosmic Propagation • J. E. Stanley
- Crop Circle • Robert Borski
- Photophobe • Ann Schwader
- 2002: Galileo Dies • Mary Turzillo
- No Speck of Land • Elizabeth Barrette
- The Physics of Age and Baseball • Greg Beatty
- subsume • Geoffrey A. Landis
- A Break During Temporal Distortion • Robert Frazier
- Europa’s Stoic Stance • Kurt MacPhearson
- The Golden Ring • Sofia Rhei
- Hypatia • Terrie Leigh Relf
- Cosmoritus • Mitchell Hart
- Astronauts and Angels • Elizabeth Barrette
- (untitled) • Marcus Ewert
- How Fallen Angels Spend Their Golden
- Years • William John Watkins
- IV. The Emperor • Alison Stone
- Ravel: An Etymology • Matthew Richards
- The Orchard • Holly Day
- Tree (for H.D.) • Charlotte Hussey
- Workman’s Creed • Ken Poyner
- Identity • Sandra Lindow
- Multi-tasking • F. J. Bergmann
- How Martha Saved Her Life and Marriage • Gail Sosinsky Wickman
- Shuffling Off • Noel Sloboda
- Kitchen Carcharodon • Robert Borski
- Talking to SimMan • Roy Bayfield
- An Absence of Superheroes • Karen L. Newman
- Puppet Minds • Alexandra Seidel
- Lullaby for Ununoctium • Matthew Richards
- Heliocentric • P. S. Cottier
- Self-Assembled Universe • Melissa Frederick
16 December 2011
Another cool review of The Brainpan Concerto over at Hellnotes.
29 November 2011
Awesome review of The Brainpan Concerto over at The Crow's Caw penned by Jassen Bailey (owner and operator of The Bag & The Crow--which sell some of the baddest t-shirts around). There is a very limited supply of these signed and numbered hardcovers left. Available at Sideshow Press.
28 October 2011
The New England Horror Writers Association's first anthology, Epitaphs, is now available through Amazon.com. There will be a book release party at Anthocon the weekend of November 11-13, 2011 at the Best Western Wynwood Hotel & Suites in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I will be there to sign copies (along with many of the anthology's contributors). Special guests appearing at the convention include Christopher Golden, Rick Hautala, Brian Keene and Jonathan Maberry.
30 September 2011
My short story "Gingerella and the Ghastly Slipper" is now live at Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine. It was a challenge writing a Cinderella-themed story. Of course, I found it necessary to darken and deform an already cruel and twisted tale. Check it out and let me know what you think.
21 September 2011
Epitaphs: The Journal of the New England Horror Writers, edited by Tracy L. Carbone, will be released Nov. 11, 2011 by Shroud Publishing. This is the first NEHW anthology and will debut at Anthocon.
Table of Contents
Jeffrey C. Pettengill - "To Sleep, Perchance to Die"
Paul McMahon - "The Christopher Chair"
Kurt Newton - "A Case of the Quiets"
Scott T. Goudsward - "Build-a-Zombie"
John Goodrich - "Not an Ulcer"
B. Adrian White - "The Possesor Worm"
John M. McIlveen - "Make a Choice"
Michael Allen Todd - "The Death Room"
Rick Hautala - "Perfect Witness"
Holly Newstein and Glenn Chadbourne - "Stoney's Boneyard"
Trisha J. Wooldridge - "Kali's Promise"
David Bernard - "The Sequel"
David North-Martino - "Malfeasance"
Stacey Longo - "Private Beach"
Christopher Golden - "All Aboard"
L. L. Soares - "Holiday House"
Steven Withrow - "Lines at a Wake"
K. Allen Wood - "A Deeper kind of Cold"
P. Gardner Goldsmith - "Alone"
Roxanne Dent - "Pandora's Box"
Michael Arruda - "Chuck the Magic Man Says I Can"
T. T. Zuma - "Burial Board"
John Grover - "Windblown Shutter"
Stephen Dorato - "Cheryl Takes a Trip"
Philip Roberts - "The Legend of Wormley Farm"
Peter N. Dudar - "Church of Thunder and Lightning"
Table of Contents
Jeffrey C. Pettengill - "To Sleep, Perchance to Die"
Paul McMahon - "The Christopher Chair"
Kurt Newton - "A Case of the Quiets"
Scott T. Goudsward - "Build-a-Zombie"
John Goodrich - "Not an Ulcer"
B. Adrian White - "The Possesor Worm"
John M. McIlveen - "Make a Choice"
Michael Allen Todd - "The Death Room"
Rick Hautala - "Perfect Witness"
Holly Newstein and Glenn Chadbourne - "Stoney's Boneyard"
Trisha J. Wooldridge - "Kali's Promise"
David Bernard - "The Sequel"
David North-Martino - "Malfeasance"
Stacey Longo - "Private Beach"
Christopher Golden - "All Aboard"
L. L. Soares - "Holiday House"
Steven Withrow - "Lines at a Wake"
K. Allen Wood - "A Deeper kind of Cold"
P. Gardner Goldsmith - "Alone"
Roxanne Dent - "Pandora's Box"
Michael Arruda - "Chuck the Magic Man Says I Can"
T. T. Zuma - "Burial Board"
John Grover - "Windblown Shutter"
Stephen Dorato - "Cheryl Takes a Trip"
Philip Roberts - "The Legend of Wormley Farm"
Peter N. Dudar - "Church of Thunder and Lightning"
02 September 2011
The latest issue of Polluto is now available. It's the In Space No One Can Hear You Dream issue. In it you'll find my short story "Space Sucks...and Then You Die"-- a noirish tale of a man on the run from his past in a future where anything goes. I had a lot of fun writing this one.
Polluto is a bit on the bizarre side. In fact, here's what they have to say about themselves and this issue:
"This issue we’re entering into the unknown and the otherworldly, exploring strange worlds and stranger beings--not to mention the twisted, terrifying depths of some of the weirdest authors’ minds.
Subversive and thought provoking? Yes.
Crazy as a box of Buck Roger’s Intergalactic Fruit Loops? Most definitely.
Dark, dreamy, and disgustingly depraved? Would it really be Polluto if it wasn’t?"
"Space Sucks...and Then You Die" falls into the latter. Order here.
Polluto is a bit on the bizarre side. In fact, here's what they have to say about themselves and this issue:
"This issue we’re entering into the unknown and the otherworldly, exploring strange worlds and stranger beings--not to mention the twisted, terrifying depths of some of the weirdest authors’ minds.
Subversive and thought provoking? Yes.
Crazy as a box of Buck Roger’s Intergalactic Fruit Loops? Most definitely.
Dark, dreamy, and disgustingly depraved? Would it really be Polluto if it wasn’t?"
"Space Sucks...and Then You Die" falls into the latter. Order here.
01 September 2011
Kristine Ong Muslim (poet extraordinaire) sheds some light on my latest poetry collection The Ultimate perVERSEities at Good Reads. Thanks Kristine!
Also, Nick Cato (author of Don of the Dead and the crazed genius behind Novello Publishers) has this to offer at The Horror Fiction Review.
Also, Nick Cato (author of Don of the Dead and the crazed genius behind Novello Publishers) has this to offer at The Horror Fiction Review.
23 August 2011
So here's the cover art for the free chapbook you'll receive if you order THE BRAINPAN CONCERTO before September 5, 2011.
11 August 2011
You are the music while the music lasts. --T. S. Eliot
He stalks...
When a young woman is found with part of her skull removed and electrodes jutting from her exposed brain, it soon becomes apparent that a serial killer is stalking the quiet corner of Connecticut.
He kills…
His victims appear to be random, but behind his grisly M.O. is a cold, calculating, and artistic purpose as the killer seeks to create a symphony of pure human suffering.
He can’t stop. ..
It’s up to a pair of local detectives to uncover this fiend’s identity and silence his BRAINPAN CONCERTO.
Now available for preorder at Sideshow Press.
He stalks...
When a young woman is found with part of her skull removed and electrodes jutting from her exposed brain, it soon becomes apparent that a serial killer is stalking the quiet corner of Connecticut.
He kills…
His victims appear to be random, but behind his grisly M.O. is a cold, calculating, and artistic purpose as the killer seeks to create a symphony of pure human suffering.
He can’t stop. ..
It’s up to a pair of local detectives to uncover this fiend’s identity and silence his BRAINPAN CONCERTO.
Now available for preorder at Sideshow Press.
13 July 2011
From the Amazon.com product description:
"A tribute in verse to the Master of Suspense... Alfred Hitchcock.
Just say his name and the memories come flooding back...Psycho. The Birds. Vertigo. Rear Window. Notorious. And so many more.
Now Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Christopher Conlon has gathered over thirty gifted poets to create the ultimate anthology celebrating this timeless moviemaker. By turns merry and macabre, touching and terrifying, the poems in A Sea of Alone will delight Hitchcock fans everywhere."
Contributors: Sydney Duncan, Michael Louis Calvillo, Lyn Lifshin, S.D. Hintz, Steve Vernon, Elissa Malcohn, Deborah-Anne Tunney, Steve Rasnic Tem, Maria Alexander, Kurt Newton, Miles David Moore, Anne Harding Woodworth, G.O. Clark, Craig D.B. Patton, Kathi Stafford, Martel Sardina, Lucy A. Snyder, Andrew J. Wilson, Norman Prentiss, John Palisano, Bev Vincent, Richard A. Lupoff, Michael A. Arnzen, Marge Simon, Lisa Morton, Frances Boyle, Gary A. Braunbeck, James Wilson, Brian James Freeman, Rich Ristow, Raychelle Swann, and Christopher Conlon.
Available at Amazon.com.
"A tribute in verse to the Master of Suspense... Alfred Hitchcock.
Just say his name and the memories come flooding back...Psycho. The Birds. Vertigo. Rear Window. Notorious. And so many more.
Now Bram Stoker Award-winning editor Christopher Conlon has gathered over thirty gifted poets to create the ultimate anthology celebrating this timeless moviemaker. By turns merry and macabre, touching and terrifying, the poems in A Sea of Alone will delight Hitchcock fans everywhere."
Contributors: Sydney Duncan, Michael Louis Calvillo, Lyn Lifshin, S.D. Hintz, Steve Vernon, Elissa Malcohn, Deborah-Anne Tunney, Steve Rasnic Tem, Maria Alexander, Kurt Newton, Miles David Moore, Anne Harding Woodworth, G.O. Clark, Craig D.B. Patton, Kathi Stafford, Martel Sardina, Lucy A. Snyder, Andrew J. Wilson, Norman Prentiss, John Palisano, Bev Vincent, Richard A. Lupoff, Michael A. Arnzen, Marge Simon, Lisa Morton, Frances Boyle, Gary A. Braunbeck, James Wilson, Brian James Freeman, Rich Ristow, Raychelle Swann, and Christopher Conlon.
Available at Amazon.com.
27 June 2011
Chizine's final fundraising Mega-Issue is up. Read my poem, "In Reluctance I Go Wandering," among others, and donate if you can to help keep this long-running magazine alive. For every $10.00 donation your name is entered into a drawing for some great prizes. Drawing is July 4th. Good luck!
26 June 2011
More digital goodness...
Shock Totem magazine is finally making its issues available in digital. For a measly $1.99, issue #1, containing my story "Thirty-Two Scenes from a Dead Hooker's Mouth," is now available in the following formats:
Kindle edition: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
.mobi and .epub versions: Drive-Thru Horror
Nook edition: Barnes & Noble
Shock Totem magazine is finally making its issues available in digital. For a measly $1.99, issue #1, containing my story "Thirty-Two Scenes from a Dead Hooker's Mouth," is now available in the following formats:
Kindle edition: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.de
.mobi and .epub versions: Drive-Thru Horror
Nook edition: Barnes & Noble
22 June 2011
I attended the Stokers this past weekend on Long Island, NY. I met and chatted with a lot of people--some long time friends and some people I've known of for a long time but never met. I traveled to and from the convention with Marge Simon and Bruce Boston, who were both very kind and gracious. I now have to hone my chess playing skills to challenge Bruce to a match the next time we meet. I learned there is more than one 33rd Street in New York City (damn GPS! and my ignorance!). I was on four panels, performed four--count 'em four--poetry readings, attended some interesting programming events, and (the icing on the cake) made it through two pitch sessions with positive results. All in all, it was my best con experience to date. Strange because I thought the Stokers were nothing more than an elitist, self-serving event. I was wrong. The people there, from the Stoker Officials down to the authors up for awards, were all very welcoming and, dare I say, human. And the food was good. Needless to say, I'll be back.
Below is a picture of the A Sea Of Alone launch/reading event. Thanks to Christopher Colon for not letting me off easy with just one reading. A Sea Of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock will be available soon. In the mean time, thanks to Mike Arnzen, here's my reading of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Below is a picture of the A Sea Of Alone launch/reading event. Thanks to Christopher Colon for not letting me off easy with just one reading. A Sea Of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock will be available soon. In the mean time, thanks to Mike Arnzen, here's my reading of The Thirty-Nine Steps.
Back row (left to right): Michael Louis Calvillo, me, Christopher Conlon, Norman Prentiss and Michael Arnzen. Front row (left to right): Lisa Morton, Martel Sardina and Marge Simon.
26 May 2011
Now live at The New Flesh, a blogzine of miniature fictions of SciFi, horror, fantasy, bizarro and just plain weird.
While you're there check out my other flash piece "Have A Cigar."
While you're there check out my other flash piece "Have A Cigar."
09 May 2011
Live today: "Bathed in Sunlight," my second appearance at the flash fiction journal Leodegraunce.
09 May 2011
Also available online: "Baby, Baby, We're In Too Deep" at the Flash Fiction Offensive.
And while you're there, check out "The Ballad of Snake Bit Jimmy," my first story to appear at the Flash Fiction Offensive.
And while you're there, check out "The Ballad of Snake Bit Jimmy," my first story to appear at the Flash Fiction Offensive.
04 March 2011
From the Weird Tales website:
This month marks the publication of the 357th issue of the magazine, featuring exceptionally strong short fiction. Contributors include N.K. Jemisin with “The Trojan Girl”, Swedish newcomer Karin Tidbeck’s ingenious and unsettling inversion of faerie and critically acclaimed J. Robert Lennon with “Portal”, a disturbing Shirley-Jackson-esque horror story. Nonfiction includes an interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan, Matt Kressel on mitigation strategies, a focus on “young weird” fiction…and more!
That "more" includes a short prose poetry piece of mine called "The Future History of Cats." This is my second appearance in Weird Tales. (The first can still be found on the Weird Tales website.)
Single copies can be ordered at the Wild Side Press Magazine Shop.
This month marks the publication of the 357th issue of the magazine, featuring exceptionally strong short fiction. Contributors include N.K. Jemisin with “The Trojan Girl”, Swedish newcomer Karin Tidbeck’s ingenious and unsettling inversion of faerie and critically acclaimed J. Robert Lennon with “Portal”, a disturbing Shirley-Jackson-esque horror story. Nonfiction includes an interview with Caitlin R. Kiernan, Matt Kressel on mitigation strategies, a focus on “young weird” fiction…and more!
That "more" includes a short prose poetry piece of mine called "The Future History of Cats." This is my second appearance in Weird Tales. (The first can still be found on the Weird Tales website.)
Single copies can be ordered at the Wild Side Press Magazine Shop.
24 January 2011
Leodegraunce is a unique kind of flash fiction journal. Every Monday of every week a new piece of flash fiction, 200 words or less, is showcased. Each month has a different theme. January's theme is Rejuvinate. This week my contribution, "Soft Whispers in a Dead Man's Ear," is showcased for the week. There's also an interview. Leave a comment if you can. Thanks.
27 December 2010
Star*Line is the magazine of the Science Fiction Poetry Association. Star*Line is published six times a year. Issue #33.5/33.6 (Sept/Dec) is a special double issue. Now available.
Table of Contents
Features
* Quarks & Strings • Marge Simon
* President's Message/Rhysling Awards • Deborah P Kolodji
* Stealth SF • Denise Dumars
* The Hope in Horror Poetry • Karen L. Newman
* Man of Mercury, Edwin Morgan • Steve Sneyd
* Poetics of the Sphere: A Rough Guide to Modern Science Poetry • Robert Frazier
* Call for 2011 Rhysling Nominations
* Reviews from the Small Press • Edward Cox, David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Poetry
* An Incomplete Map of Death • Jennifer Crow
* The Cemetery • Kurt Newton
* untitled • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
* Dark Needs • Wendy Rathbone
* Last Thoughts • Rhonda Parrish
* Attachment • Rhonda Parrish
* Afterimage • Jennifer Crow
* Breathless • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
* Twelve Quatrains Channeling Nostradamus • Bruce Boston
* Secrets • Wendy Rathbone
* Planetfall • C. William Hinderliter
* haiku • assu
* On the Platform • Malcolm Deeley
* Batches • Michael Fosburg
* Nachthexen • Ann K. Schwader
* The Witch In Your Mirror • Ann K. Schwader
* her lithe splendour • Mike Allen
* Skipping Stone • Alan Vincent Michaels
* Frankenstein’s Cat • Robert Borski
* Holes • Carolyn Clink
* The Conjuror • Stephen M. Wilson
* Howard d’oeuvres • Stephen M. Wilson
* Chagrin du Vampire • James S. Dorr
Science Poetry
—edited by Robert Frazier
* The Study of nonTerran Languages • Suzette Haden Elgin
* Ciliate Sestina • Elissa Malcoln
* First Generation • Meliors Simms
* Miner’s Cook • Meliors Simms
* The Pantheon • Robert Borski
* Cultural Exchange • F.J. Bergmann
* Alienated • Ann K. Schwader
* Quasar • Geoffrey A. Landis
* A Hollander’s Secret Weapon • Marge Simon
* Letter Perfect • Lauren McBride
* Unbroken • F.J. Bergmann
* Four Percent • Ann K. Schwader
* Quantum Hipsters • J. R. Salling
* Robot • Angel Favazza
* Duet Singularity • Elissa Malcohn
* Central to Our Core • Lauren McBride
* A Long-Tailed Comet • Angel Favazza
* Fourth Graders Ask, Should Scientists Clone the Woolly Mammoth? • Geoffrey A. Landis
* What Fermilab Found • Suzanne Sykora
* Galileo’s Ghost • Marge Simon
* Call of the Wired • Angel Favazza
* Compatibility • F.J. Bergmann
* Requiem Æterman • Alan Vincent Michaels
* Epitaph for Homo Floresiensis • Geoffrey A. Landis
Table of Contents
Features
* Quarks & Strings • Marge Simon
* President's Message/Rhysling Awards • Deborah P Kolodji
* Stealth SF • Denise Dumars
* The Hope in Horror Poetry • Karen L. Newman
* Man of Mercury, Edwin Morgan • Steve Sneyd
* Poetics of the Sphere: A Rough Guide to Modern Science Poetry • Robert Frazier
* Call for 2011 Rhysling Nominations
* Reviews from the Small Press • Edward Cox, David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Poetry
* An Incomplete Map of Death • Jennifer Crow
* The Cemetery • Kurt Newton
* untitled • David C. Kopaska-Merkel
* Dark Needs • Wendy Rathbone
* Last Thoughts • Rhonda Parrish
* Attachment • Rhonda Parrish
* Afterimage • Jennifer Crow
* Breathless • Marcie Lynn Tentchoff
* Twelve Quatrains Channeling Nostradamus • Bruce Boston
* Secrets • Wendy Rathbone
* Planetfall • C. William Hinderliter
* haiku • assu
* On the Platform • Malcolm Deeley
* Batches • Michael Fosburg
* Nachthexen • Ann K. Schwader
* The Witch In Your Mirror • Ann K. Schwader
* her lithe splendour • Mike Allen
* Skipping Stone • Alan Vincent Michaels
* Frankenstein’s Cat • Robert Borski
* Holes • Carolyn Clink
* The Conjuror • Stephen M. Wilson
* Howard d’oeuvres • Stephen M. Wilson
* Chagrin du Vampire • James S. Dorr
Science Poetry
—edited by Robert Frazier
* The Study of nonTerran Languages • Suzette Haden Elgin
* Ciliate Sestina • Elissa Malcoln
* First Generation • Meliors Simms
* Miner’s Cook • Meliors Simms
* The Pantheon • Robert Borski
* Cultural Exchange • F.J. Bergmann
* Alienated • Ann K. Schwader
* Quasar • Geoffrey A. Landis
* A Hollander’s Secret Weapon • Marge Simon
* Letter Perfect • Lauren McBride
* Unbroken • F.J. Bergmann
* Four Percent • Ann K. Schwader
* Quantum Hipsters • J. R. Salling
* Robot • Angel Favazza
* Duet Singularity • Elissa Malcohn
* Central to Our Core • Lauren McBride
* A Long-Tailed Comet • Angel Favazza
* Fourth Graders Ask, Should Scientists Clone the Woolly Mammoth? • Geoffrey A. Landis
* What Fermilab Found • Suzanne Sykora
* Galileo’s Ghost • Marge Simon
* Call of the Wired • Angel Favazza
* Compatibility • F.J. Bergmann
* Requiem Æterman • Alan Vincent Michaels
* Epitaph for Homo Floresiensis • Geoffrey A. Landis
20 December 2010
Mythic Delirium 23
Contents
Editorial: Myths and Delusions
"The Gospel of the Rope" by Jane Yolen
"Midnight Posture" by Lyn C.A. Gardner
"In the Absence of Ghosts" by Darrell Schweitzer
"Cemetery Monologues" by Caitlyn Paxson
"Ovid’s Two Nightmares" by Sonya Taaffe
"Soma, Ganga, Agnideva" by Shweta Narayan
"A Charming Acquisition: A Sestina" by Phoebe Nir
"the sorcerer’s lament" by Eric Marin
"River of Silk" by Rachel Manija Brown
"Tigerskin" by J.C. Runolfson
"She Who Rules the Bitter Reaches" by C.S.E. Cooney
"Machine Dancer" by Sharon Mock
"How the Dead Teach the Living" by Kurt Newton
"Light Enemy" by Kacey Grannis
"Death" by Theodora Goss
"Occidental" by F.J. Bergmann
"Song of the Bogs" by S. Brackett Robertson
"As I Was Walking" by Theodora Goss
Illustrations by Paula Friedlander, Daniel Trout, Bob Snare, Don Eaves and Terrence Mollendor.
Cover art and design by Tim Mullins.
Single copies or subscriptions available here.
Contents
Editorial: Myths and Delusions
"The Gospel of the Rope" by Jane Yolen
"Midnight Posture" by Lyn C.A. Gardner
"In the Absence of Ghosts" by Darrell Schweitzer
"Cemetery Monologues" by Caitlyn Paxson
"Ovid’s Two Nightmares" by Sonya Taaffe
"Soma, Ganga, Agnideva" by Shweta Narayan
"A Charming Acquisition: A Sestina" by Phoebe Nir
"the sorcerer’s lament" by Eric Marin
"River of Silk" by Rachel Manija Brown
"Tigerskin" by J.C. Runolfson
"She Who Rules the Bitter Reaches" by C.S.E. Cooney
"Machine Dancer" by Sharon Mock
"How the Dead Teach the Living" by Kurt Newton
"Light Enemy" by Kacey Grannis
"Death" by Theodora Goss
"Occidental" by F.J. Bergmann
"Song of the Bogs" by S. Brackett Robertson
"As I Was Walking" by Theodora Goss
Illustrations by Paula Friedlander, Daniel Trout, Bob Snare, Don Eaves and Terrence Mollendor.
Cover art and design by Tim Mullins.
Single copies or subscriptions available here.
24 November 2010
From the back cover:
"The Ultimate perVERSEities collects old and new perVERSEities into a cannibalistic melting pot of the maniacal and the macabre. Twenty new poems join the original cast of forty that comprised the twin chapbooks published by Naked Snake Press in 2004. For those familiar with Newton's twisted oeuvre, he's added phantom marionettes, balloon clowns and mail order brides to his list of untapped taboos. And for those unfamiliar with Newton's unsettling blend of darkness and the bizarre...you are in for the ultimate treat."
Paperback edition available at Naked Snake Press.
Paperback edition available at Amazon.com.
Kindle edition now available at Amazon.com.
Kindle edition and other digital formats available at Smashwords.
"The Ultimate perVERSEities collects old and new perVERSEities into a cannibalistic melting pot of the maniacal and the macabre. Twenty new poems join the original cast of forty that comprised the twin chapbooks published by Naked Snake Press in 2004. For those familiar with Newton's twisted oeuvre, he's added phantom marionettes, balloon clowns and mail order brides to his list of untapped taboos. And for those unfamiliar with Newton's unsettling blend of darkness and the bizarre...you are in for the ultimate treat."
Paperback edition available at Naked Snake Press.
Paperback edition available at Amazon.com.
Kindle edition now available at Amazon.com.
Kindle edition and other digital formats available at Smashwords.
08 November 2010
The Dream People is a long running online speculative fiction, poetry & review magazine now edited by D. Harlan Wilson. Issue #34 contains fiction by Forrest Aguirre, Kyle Hemmings, Eric Schaller, Ray Wallace, and a Feature Story by John Edward Lawson. My contribution is an irreal text called "Authors Bios After the Zombie Apocalypse."
02 November 2010
BREAKING EGGS by Kurt Newton & L.L. Soares
"From Kurt Newton and L.L. Soares comes a twisted tale of murder, family bonds, and redemption.
Martin is a mob cleaner for the Vanducci crime family. When their boss needs some people erased, he and his partner, Big Phil, round them up, retreat to Vanducci’s cabin in the Vermont countryside and do what Martin does best…"break some eggs." Although he gets little joy from his career, he is paid well and the mob is the only family he knows. Still, he reminisces about simpler times–times spent on his loving grandfather’s farm…
When Karl Merriweather passes away, he leaves behind a brood of eight adopted Romanian orphans. With their father dead and rotting on the kitchen floor, Gheorghe and Nina, the eldest of the group, lead their young brothers and sisters off the family farm in search of help. Their short trek leads them to the Vanducci cabin and to horrors that rival those of their homeland.
When Martin and Big Phil return to the cabin to dispatch their latest victims, they soon discover that they are not alone. However, the damaged orphans are far from defenseless, and a deadly encounter soon leads to an unexpected alliance and a war between a mafioso hit squad and a band of misfit children.
And when the smoke clears…heads will roll."
Illustrated by Tony Karnes and Tom Moran
140 pages
5" x 8"
Trade Paperback Edition
Limited to 100 copies
Signed by both authors
Fully-illustrated
On sale now at Sideshow Press.
"From Kurt Newton and L.L. Soares comes a twisted tale of murder, family bonds, and redemption.
Martin is a mob cleaner for the Vanducci crime family. When their boss needs some people erased, he and his partner, Big Phil, round them up, retreat to Vanducci’s cabin in the Vermont countryside and do what Martin does best…"break some eggs." Although he gets little joy from his career, he is paid well and the mob is the only family he knows. Still, he reminisces about simpler times–times spent on his loving grandfather’s farm…
When Karl Merriweather passes away, he leaves behind a brood of eight adopted Romanian orphans. With their father dead and rotting on the kitchen floor, Gheorghe and Nina, the eldest of the group, lead their young brothers and sisters off the family farm in search of help. Their short trek leads them to the Vanducci cabin and to horrors that rival those of their homeland.
When Martin and Big Phil return to the cabin to dispatch their latest victims, they soon discover that they are not alone. However, the damaged orphans are far from defenseless, and a deadly encounter soon leads to an unexpected alliance and a war between a mafioso hit squad and a band of misfit children.
And when the smoke clears…heads will roll."
Illustrated by Tony Karnes and Tom Moran
140 pages
5" x 8"
Trade Paperback Edition
Limited to 100 copies
Signed by both authors
Fully-illustrated
On sale now at Sideshow Press.
19 October 2010
"Polluto 7 is now here! From bone-crushing lovers to a cross-dressing hitman, the night-soil man of the gods and sex conditioning on squids, the dangerous desires of the diabolically large and seductively small, body-swapping, gender-swapping, exploration, transcendence and re-incarnation, machines that are gods and machines that are cats ...some of the strangest and scariest authors are gathered here - enter if you dare!"
Those are Polluto's words. #7 is the Open-Themed Issue. It contains my slipstreamy short "The Zoo" about a young woman's innocent trip to a place "everyone goes" but the trip quickly devolves when she meets a man going the "wrong way."
Ordering information here.
Those are Polluto's words. #7 is the Open-Themed Issue. It contains my slipstreamy short "The Zoo" about a young woman's innocent trip to a place "everyone goes" but the trip quickly devolves when she meets a man going the "wrong way."
Ordering information here.
24 September 2010
ROCK AND SHOCK 2010
OCTOBER 15, 16 & 17 2010 - THE DCU CENTER & THE PALLADIUM IN WORCESTER, MA
Guests:
Film Personalities: Danny Trejo, George Romero, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Moseley, Doug Bradley, Dee Wallace Stone, many more...
Authors: Jack Ketchum, Joe Knetter, Dustin LaValley, L.L. Soares, to name a few...
Musical Performers: Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Gwar, for starters...
I'll be attending all three days. Friday I'll be hanging out with Tom & Billie Moran at the Sideshow Press table. Saturday I'll be splitting time between Sideshow Press and the New England Horror Writers table. Sunday I'll be back on Sideshow Press duty.
Stop by the Sideshow Press table and help us celebrate the release of BREAKING EGGS by Kurt Newton & L.L. Soares--a novella of murder, mayhem, the Mob and a group of not-so-innocent orphaned children!
See you there!
OCTOBER 15, 16 & 17 2010 - THE DCU CENTER & THE PALLADIUM IN WORCESTER, MA
Guests:
Film Personalities: Danny Trejo, George Romero, Adrienne Barbeau, Bill Moseley, Doug Bradley, Dee Wallace Stone, many more...
Authors: Jack Ketchum, Joe Knetter, Dustin LaValley, L.L. Soares, to name a few...
Musical Performers: Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Gwar, for starters...
I'll be attending all three days. Friday I'll be hanging out with Tom & Billie Moran at the Sideshow Press table. Saturday I'll be splitting time between Sideshow Press and the New England Horror Writers table. Sunday I'll be back on Sideshow Press duty.
Stop by the Sideshow Press table and help us celebrate the release of BREAKING EGGS by Kurt Newton & L.L. Soares--a novella of murder, mayhem, the Mob and a group of not-so-innocent orphaned children!
See you there!
16 August 2010
Surprise! I didn't know which issue or when, but I guess my story "The Glittering" is appearing in the next issue of Shroud Magazine.
28 July 2010
I have a new story called "The Brunt" up at Horror Garage. Read it here. Horror Garage began as a print magazine back in 2000, publishing some of the best horror in the genre. The web version of Horror Garage has shortened it fiction length but maintains that same sex, death and rock & roll attitude. Fiction, music, reviews--not to mention Garage Grrls--all add up to the equivalent of hanging out in your uncle's creepy garage. Worth a visit.
13 July 2010
The long-awaited second issue of Shock Totem features new fiction from David Jack Bell, Cate Gardner, Vincent Pendergast, Leslianne Wilder, and others. Also includes nonfiction from Mercedes M. Yardley, a conversation with James Newman, reviews, and more.
Table of Contents:
Stand Up and Shout: An editorial, by K. Allen Wood
"The Rat Burner" by Ricardo Bare
"Sole Survivor" by Kurt Newton
The Spooky Stuff: A conversation with James Newman by John Boden
"Sweepers" by Leslianne Wilder
"Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast
Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
Abominations: Hide the Sickness: An article by Mercedes M. Yardley
"Pretty Little Ghouls" by Cate Gardner
"Messages From Valerie Polichar" by Grá Linnaea & Sarah Dunn
"Return From Dust" by Nick Bronson
"Leave Me the Way I was Found" by Christian A. Dumais
"Upon My Return" by David Jack Bell
Howling Through The Keyhole (Author Notes)
Available at the following outlets:
Shock Totem
Amazon.com
Table of Contents:
Stand Up and Shout: An editorial, by K. Allen Wood
"The Rat Burner" by Ricardo Bare
"Sole Survivor" by Kurt Newton
The Spooky Stuff: A conversation with James Newman by John Boden
"Sweepers" by Leslianne Wilder
"Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast
Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
Abominations: Hide the Sickness: An article by Mercedes M. Yardley
"Pretty Little Ghouls" by Cate Gardner
"Messages From Valerie Polichar" by Grá Linnaea & Sarah Dunn
"Return From Dust" by Nick Bronson
"Leave Me the Way I was Found" by Christian A. Dumais
"Upon My Return" by David Jack Bell
Howling Through The Keyhole (Author Notes)
Available at the following outlets:
Shock Totem
Amazon.com
08 July 2010
"Last Flight Out to the Wormhole in My Mind" and "The Four Horsemen of the Parking Lot"-- two older essays previously published back in 2007 in the Delirium Insider are reprinted here.
01 June 2010
Sideshow Press accepted BREAKING EGGS! Publication later this year.
THE ULTIMATE perVERSEities, an omnibus collection of old and new perVERSEities, was handed in to Naked Snake Press. Tentative publication date later this year.
For a glimpse at an old perVERSEity, "Holocaust Beauty Pageant," check out this month's SNM Horror Magazine's Dark Poetry Section.
THE ULTIMATE perVERSEities, an omnibus collection of old and new perVERSEities, was handed in to Naked Snake Press. Tentative publication date later this year.
For a glimpse at an old perVERSEity, "Holocaust Beauty Pageant," check out this month's SNM Horror Magazine's Dark Poetry Section.
26 May 2010
HORROR AND TERROR, SLASHERS AND STUMPS
A Four-Part Conversation About Horror Fiction With Christopher Conlon, Lisa Morton, Kurt Newton, and Norman Prentiss
Part One begins on Christopher Conlon's blog: http://chrisconlon.livejournal.com/12355.html
Part Two continues on my blog: http://kurtnewton.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/horror-and-terror-slashers-and-stumps-part-two/
Part Three continues on Norman Prentiss's blog: http://nprentiss.livejournal.com/5907.html
Part Four continues on Lisa Morton's blog: http://cinriter.livejournal.com/192771.html
A Four-Part Conversation About Horror Fiction With Christopher Conlon, Lisa Morton, Kurt Newton, and Norman Prentiss
Part One begins on Christopher Conlon's blog: http://chrisconlon.livejournal.com/12355.html
Part Two continues on my blog: http://kurtnewton.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/horror-and-terror-slashers-and-stumps-part-two/
Part Three continues on Norman Prentiss's blog: http://nprentiss.livejournal.com/5907.html
Part Four continues on Lisa Morton's blog: http://cinriter.livejournal.com/192771.html
17 May 2010
I'm featured over on Mercedes M. Yardley's blog, A Broken Laptop, as part of her Be Mysterious: Writers in Masks series. See the pictures and read the essay here.
I also have a new blog site over at Wordpress called Voices From the Radioactive Furnace: Intermittent Essays and Random Writings. My old Radioactive Furnace LiveJournal site is now just a storefront.
I also have a new blog site over at Wordpress called Voices From the Radioactive Furnace: Intermittent Essays and Random Writings. My old Radioactive Furnace LiveJournal site is now just a storefront.
13 May 2010
Shock Totem #2
Table of Contents
To Be Titled: An editorial by K. Allen Wood
"The Rat Burner" by Ricardo Bare
"Sole Survivor" by Kurt Newton
The Spooky Stuff: A conversation with James Newman by John Boden
"Sweepers" by Leslianne Wilder
"Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast
Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
Abominations: Hide the Sickness: An article by Mercedes M. Yardley
"Pretty Little Ghouls" by Cate Gardner
"Messages From Valerie Polichar" by Grá Linnaea & Sarah Dunn
"Return From Dust" by Nick Bronson
"Leave Me the Way I was Found" by Christian A. Dumais
"Upon My Return" by David Jack Bell
Howling Through The Keyhole (Author Notes)
Available soon!
Table of Contents
To Be Titled: An editorial by K. Allen Wood
"The Rat Burner" by Ricardo Bare
"Sole Survivor" by Kurt Newton
The Spooky Stuff: A conversation with James Newman by John Boden
"Sweepers" by Leslianne Wilder
"Rainbow Serpent" by Vincent Pendergast
Strange Goods and Other Oddities (Reviews)
Abominations: Hide the Sickness: An article by Mercedes M. Yardley
"Pretty Little Ghouls" by Cate Gardner
"Messages From Valerie Polichar" by Grá Linnaea & Sarah Dunn
"Return From Dust" by Nick Bronson
"Leave Me the Way I was Found" by Christian A. Dumais
"Upon My Return" by David Jack Bell
Howling Through The Keyhole (Author Notes)
Available soon!
10 May 2010
A new horror ezine called Darker has just hit the web. It's got a innovative design for easier readability. My story "The Portrait in the Pines" is the Featured Story.
05 May 2010
BREAKING EGGS, a 22,000-word novella written in collaboration with L.L. Soares was just handed in to Sideshow Press.