Available June 6, 2022.
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Your existence is the epitome of normal…until it isn’t. In an instant, everything changes. The peaceful security you hold dear to your heart has been ripped away and you are left fighting for your life. But don’t think for a second you have a chance in hell of surviving. Your odds are never good when staring into the face of pure evil.

Join us for tales of savagery and slaughter, where the innocent, or not-so-innocent find themselves in the most ferocious situations they have ever encountered.

The Better Off Dead series delves into the farthest corners of your mind, where your deepest, darkest fears lurk. These masters of horror will haunt your dreams and stalk your nightmares, taking you to the edge of sanity before pushing you to the brink of madness!

Featuring stories by: Scott Harper, Scotty Milder, LP Hernandez, Matthew R. Davis, David Anthony, Bryan Holm, Aric Sundquist, Nick Roberts, Otto DeFay, Tamika Thompson, Richard Clive, Steven Pajak, and R.E. Sargent.

These are tales of beauty, magic, and the otherworldly—stories of men and women ensnared by the charm of the occult, the allure of the fae, and the bids of nymphs.

Some of these tales lead down a whimsical, magical path towards love and light, while others lead to dark magic, treacherous worlds, and demonic entities.

Contains 15 short fantasy stories ranging from the whimsical to the dark, urban to epic, Enchanted Entrapments will transport you to a world of magic & wonder.

Featuring stories by: Aric Sundquist, Lilla Glass, Victor Nandi, Cory Mason, M.S. Swift, Naomi Brett Rourke, Mark Towse, N.E. Salmon, Michael A. Wexler, Kay Hanifen, C. Marry Hultman, William Tudor, Bernardo Villela, Toshiya Kamei, Sergio Palumbo. Edited by Jade Cinders.

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Fifteen tales of grindhouse action and horror!

A desert roadhouse becomes the place of ultimate survival as a young couple retaliates against its spiraling web of lost memories. A cursed board game waits patiently in a midnight attic for the only girl to ever escape its deadly ending. A no-nonsense veterinarian uses the tools of her trade to seek bloody vengeance on those who wronged her.

And many more stories...

Featuring works by: Gwendolyn Kiste, Rob E. Boley, Sarah Read, Scotty Milder, Sophie Leah, Paul Magnan, S.K. Campbell, Matt Neil Hill, Adrian Ludens, Mark Wheaton, Buck Weiss, S.R. Miller, Nik Patrick, Shannon Brady, Jaap Boekestein.

Compiled and edited by Aric Sundquist. Cover artwork by Mikio Murakami.

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Wanted! Experienced safety supervisor to work in an experimental weapons facility. Must have a practical mind, look ravishing in a lab coat, and be willing to use a flamethrower if things take a turn for the worse.

Serious applicants only, please.

When Mary Sanderson first sees the job posting online, she thinks it's a practical joke. But having no alternatives in the job market, she decides to inquire about the posting anyway, if only to satiate her own curiosity.

After a strange interview and an even stranger placement test, she soon realizes just how important her new position will be for her crew of misfit scientists as they battle a cosmic entity from beyond the stars.

Join Mary for her first horror/comedy adventure in... SERIOUS APPLICANTS ONLY!

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Join us for twelve tales of survival horror, inspired by such legendary video game franchises as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and Clock Tower…

A nurse wakes up in a hospital basement surrounded by the bodies of her coworkers and finds herself waging a desperate battle for survival against an unseen enemy. An introverted artist’s hermitage upon a private space station is interrupted by a multi-limbed alien intent on absorbing him. A woman stalked by a sadistic killer through an apocalyptic landscape decides to make one last defiant stand against her tormentor, or become his next work of living art.

And many more stories…

Featuring works by: Scotty Milder, Michelle Tang, Amelia Gorman, S.R. Miller, Jude Reid, Maggie Slater, J.C. Martinez, Richard Beauchamp, P.L. McMillan, M.J. Mars, Jay Wilburn, Eric J. Guignard.

Compiled and edited by Aric Sundquist. Cover artwork by Mikio Murakami.

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Michigan's Upper Peninsula is blessed with a treasure trove of storytellers, poets, and historians, all seeking to capture a sense of Yooper Life from settler's days to the far-flung future. Now U.P. Reader offers a rich collection of their voices that embraces the U.P.'s natural beauty and way of life, along with a few surprises.

The thirty-six works in this second annual volume take readers on U.P. road and boat trips from the Keweenaw to the Straits of Mackinac. Every page is rich with descriptions of the characters and culture that make the Upper Peninsula worth living in and writing about. U.P. writers span genres from humor to history and from science fiction to poetry. 

Featuring stories by: John Argeropoulos, Leslie Askwith, Larry Buege, Mikel B. Classen, Ann Dallman, Deborah K. Frontiera, Elizabeth Fust, Giles Elderkin, Jan Stafford Kellis, Sharon Kennedy, Amy Klco, Jennifer Lammi, Raymond Luczak, Raymond Luczak, Terri Martin, Elena McGrath, Becky Ross Michael, Shawn Pfister, Christine Sarri, T. Sanders, Gregory Saxby, Ar Schneller, Katie McEachern, Emma Locknane, T. Kilgore Splake, Aric Sundquist, Jon Taylor, Tyler Ticheelar, Donna Winters, Jan "Jon" Wisniewksi.

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“The Candle and the Darkness” by Aric Sundquist – Definitely one of the best in the collection, taking place during three nights when darkness overtakes the world to claim unbelievers. A young girl is protected only by the light of a blessed candle. But candles don’t last forever. The ending is delightfully sadistic, reminiscent of the tales of Ambrose Bierce and Charles Birkin. 5/5

Check out the other story reviews at: https://www.pophorror.com/book-review-blood-rites-2013/

One of my absolute favorite stories, “The Way We Are Lifted,” now appears in Fearful Fathom Vol. 1: Tales of Aquatic Terror, a new anthology from Scarlet Galleon Publications. This story previously appeared in a Lovecraftian collection a few years ago, but due to publishing setbacks, it didn’t find much of an audience upon release. So, it’s nice to have it available once again, and expanded to the appropriate length—clocking in at a sizeable 7,500 words. The story is set seven years after an apocalyptic flood, where the last of humanity survives by living in a garden colony on the top floor of a skyscraper.

A special thanks to Mark Parker for accepting my story, and to Luke Spooner for creating such stunning artwork based on my work. It’s nice to finally show this picture off :)

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Abodyemigphobia is the fear of the visceral aspects of the human body. Mutilation, alteration, and disfigurement at the epicenter of horror for many ages. In body horror we not only find something to fear, but we learn to fear ourselves. How can one fear themselves? Why would something so natural disturb generations of readers?

Gehenna & Hinnom is honored to present the Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology, the most disturbing and blasphemous collection of horror to ever be read by human eyes. Enter the morose. Embrace the Unknown.

Featuring stories by: Shaun Avery, Charlotte Baker, Shadrick Beechem, David Beers, Austin Biela, Chantal Boudreau, Ed Burkley, K.M. Campbell, A. Collingwood, Stuart Conover, Damien Donnelly, James Dorr, Spinster Eskie, Santiago Eximeno, Balázs Farkas, Tarquin Ford, Kenneth C. Goldman, James Harper, Kourtnea Hogan, Carl R. Jennings, Christopher Vander Kaay, Alexander Lloyd King, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Sean McCoy, John S. McFarland, Rick McQuiston, Jeremy Megargee, G.A. Miller, Kurt Newton, Drew Nicks, Sergio Palumbo, Gary Power, Jenya Joy Preece, Frank Roger, Josh Shiben, Ian Steadman, Edmund Stone, Aric Sundquist, David Turton, Mijat Vujačić, Joseph Watson, Sheldon Woodbury.

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Bizarro Pulp Press presents… A showcase of the written word that represents the best of the weird and the grotesque; More Bizarro Than Bizarro is a gallery of the strange and unusual, including possibly-dead detectives, a beer-head invasion, some especially delicious cookies, the dream of Jackie Kennedy, and of course, the best story of a talking penis ever written in the history of classical literature.

Featuring stories by: Adam Millard, Chris Kelso, Rhys Hughes, Thomas Olivieri, Grant Wamack, Pedro Proenca, Mandy de Sandra & Christoph Paul, Konstantine Paradias, Tom Leins, Carter Rydyr, Matthew Hall, Alexander Zele, John Wayne Communale, William Cook, Dj Tyrer, John Allen, Daniel Vlasaty, David Barbee, Nick Cato, Aric Sundquist, Nicholas Day, MP Johnson, Leza Cantoral.

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HOW DEEP DOES YOUR FEAR GO? Scarlet Galleon Publications and editor Mark Parker are here to help you find out!

Volume I of this new double-anthology features a long-unpublished story ("Seascape") from Jack Ketchum, a landmark collaboration ("Widow's Point") from father-and-son writing duo, Richard Chizmar and Billy Chizmar, and many other eerie tales, accompanied by full-color illustrations by Luke Spooner.

Featuring stories by: Richard Chizmar and Billy Chizmar, Mark Parker, Laird Barron, William Meikle, Cameron Pierce, Dallas Mullican, Bryan Clark, Lori R. Lopez, Annie Neugebauer, W.D. Gagliani, Stuart Keane, Jack Rollins, D.G. Sutter, Brad P. Christy, John Everson, Eric S Brown, CM Saunders, David Mickolas, Doug Rinaldi, Andrew Bell, Shane Lindemoen, Nick Nafpliotis, John Linwood Grant, Aric Sundquist, Paul Michael Anderson, A.P. Sessler, James Lowder, Jack Ketchum, Jason Sechrest.