This month, the Horror Writers Association is interviewing Horror writers from across the globe in their series, World of Horror. I had the honour of being included. If you’d like to read the interview, and discover more writers of dark fiction, check out the HWA’s website.
Saving the World started off about a man who digs holes to relieve stress. It became so much more. The initial idea came to me a few years back, after a chat with my builder. He said that whenever he had a problem, or life got a little too much, he’d pop out to his back garden with a spade and dig and dig and dig. His yard ended up a treacherous place!
I was reminded of this again last night, when watching a German TV series called Schlafende Hunde (Sleeping Dog). The main character was supposed to be preparing soil to plant tomatoes, but he was also working out a specific problem in his head. He found the answers he wanted after he had dug a six-foot hole.
Saving the World has become a story about a family who feeds their captive devil the sorrows of neighbours, and I’m honoured that editor, Eric J. Guignard, has included it in volume 8 of his series, the Horror Library. This volume is packed with a wealth of fantastic stories from talented authors.
Here’s a little more about the book published by Dark Moon Books:
Since 2006, the +Horror Library+ series of anthologies has been internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories—relevant to the moment and stunning in impact—from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as to what truly lurks among the shadows of the world(s) we live in.
Containing 31 all-original stories, read Volume 8 in this ongoing anthology series, and then continue with the other volumes.
Shamble no longer through the banal humdrum of normalcy, but ENTER THE HORROR LIBRARY!
Included within Volume 8:
• In “Saving the World,” a family feeds their captive devil the sorrows of neighbors.
• In “We Can’t Let Go,” a welfare check by a child services worker proves that not all in life is as expected.
• In “Only the Stones Will Hear You Scream,” a man meets his nightmares while caving through narrow underground passages.
• . . . and more!
**Also including a special guest-artist’s gallery of Jana Heidersdorf!
Preorder now via Dark Moon Books where you’ll find all their books and links to popular shopping outlets, or here at Amazon UK.
The Woodwose and His May Queen (first published in Terror Tract) has now been included alongside Magic in Book 23 of Demain’s Short Sharp Shocks! series. That’s double the horror! … Continue reading Magic now has bonus material!
Books
Magic (pub. by Demain Publishing 2022). Chapbook featuring two folk horror stories: Magic (first pub. Demain Publishing 2019), and The Woodwose and his May Queen (first pub. Terror Tract 2020).
Magazines and Online Journals
The Memory of Hannah Babinski – Coffin Bell: Journal of Dark Literature, Vol 5 Issue 1, (2022)
Wounds are Lips Waiting to be Kissed – Ghostlight, the Magazine of Terror, (2021)
The Woodwose and his May Queen – Terror Tract, (April 2020)
Jake – Horla Horror: home of intelligent horror, (2019)
Holding Hands – Mythic: a quarterly science fiction and fantasy magazine, Issue 3, (2017)
Anthologies
The Christmas Tree published in Kitchen Sink Gothic 2, ed: David & Linden Riley, pub: Parallel Universe Publications (2022)
Rewilding published in Call of the Wyld, ed: Mark Bilsborough, pub: Wyldblood Press (2021)
April Showers published in Aggregate: stories at the intersection between science fiction and horror, ed: Scott Grant, pub: Writerfield (2020)
The Red Spot Murders published in Ghosts, Spirits, Specters Vol 1, ed: Xtina Marie, pub: HellBound Books (2019)
Hypnos published in Monsters Among Us, ed: Claire Fitzpatrick, pub: Oscillate Wildly Press (2017)
The Banshee’s Gift published in Speculative Valentine Drabbles, ed: Roy C. Booth & Jorge Salgado-Reyes (2015) pub: Indie Author Press
Poseidon’s Standing Stones published in From the Corner of Your Eye, ed: David F. Kramer, pub: Great Old Ones Publishing (2015)
What You Wish For published in Trysts of Fate, ed: Lee Ann Story Sikora, pub Alban Lake (August 2015)
Pigeon published in Wrapped in Black: Thirteen Tales of Witches and the Occult, ed: Jennifer L. Greene, pub: Sehkmet Press (2014)
The Handwritten Journal published in The Serial Killers Quattuor, ed: James Ward Kirk, pub: JWK Fiction (2014)
Felicity Cinch published in The Rogues Gallery: The Illustrated Police News, ed: Alex Scully pub: Firbolg Publishing (2014)
Bruce, Wayne and Mike published in Changes, ed: Dorothy Davies, pub: Horrified Press (2014)
A Persuasive Argument… published in 22 More Quick Shivers ed: pub: Cosmonomic Multimedia (2014)
Coffin Bell has published my short fiction, The Memory of Hannah Babinski, in Vol 5, Issue 1 of their superb journal. Read the story and the rest of the issue, … Continue reading Coffin Bell – Journal of Dark Literature
As we came into this year, I’d just completed my first collection of short fiction, and this continues along its publication journey. That, and the fact these past twelve months … Continue reading Publication Review 2021
My story, ‘Wounds are Lips Waiting to be Kissed’, appears in the Fall 2021 Edition of Ghostlight. Presented by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers (GLAHW), the magazine contains … Continue reading Ghostlight, the magazine of terror
Dispensing with further dramatics that evoke a lack of direction, I’ll just come out and say, I’m not writing. That I’ve been fortunate enough to have written almost everyday for … Continue reading No paddle or sail, but the horizon’s a beauty
I’ve teamed up with the fine folk at A Great Read to bring my followers a great deal on books. We are offering 15% off orders over £15 placed through … Continue reading 15% Discount on Books
“Twelve grisly new tales of fur and fury in this brand new anthology of werewolf stories. Liam Hogan’s The Mortsafe, full of gothic darkness, Holly Rae Garcia’s Werewolf’s Lament (because … Continue reading Call of the Wyld
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