Friday, July 14, 2017

EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION #1: A PRIMER TO STEVE RASNIC TEM is now available!!


My first book as a publisher just went live!!!!

The first in a series of scholarly primers, introducing and exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction: “EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION #1: A PRIMER TO STEVE RASNIC TEM,” published through my press, Dark Moon Books.

Line up the cigars, 'cause it’s like the birth of a new child. And immense thanks and gratitude to Michael Arnzen for his sharp commentary throughout the book, and Michelle Prebich for her gorgeous interior artwork, and especially to Steve Rasnic Tem for consenting to this project!

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Available for sale here:

(Paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Dark-Short-Fiction-Primer/dp/0998827525/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1500048816&sr=8-1

(ebook): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073VY4GKN/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500048816&sr=8-1&keywords=Exploring+Dark+Short+Fiction+%231%3A+A+Primer+to+Steve+Rasnic+Tem
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Back Copy Description:

For over four decades, Steve Rasnic Tem has been an acclaimed author of horror, weird, and sentimental fiction. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “A perfect balance between the bizarre and the straight-forward” and Library Journal as “One of the most distinctive voices in imaginative literature,” Steve Rasnic Tem has been read and cherished the world over for his affecting, genre-crossing tales.

Dark Moon Books and editor Eric J. Guignard bring you this introduction to his work, the first in a series of primers exploring modern masters of literary dark short fiction. Herein is a chance to discover—or learn more of—the rich voice of Steve Rasnic Tem, as beautifully illustrated by artist Michelle Prebich.

Included within these pages are:

• Six short stories, one written exclusively for this book
• Author interview
• Complete bibliography
• Academic commentary by Michael Arnzen, PhD (former humanities chair and professor of the year, Seton Hill University)
• … and more!

Enter this doorway to the vast and fantastic: Get to know Steve Rasnic Tem.

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Table of Contents includes:

Introduction by Eric J. Guignard
Steve Rasnic Tem: A Biography
Hungry (fiction)
Hungry: A Commentary
The Last Moments Before Bed (fiction)
The Last Moments Before Bed: A Commentary
In These Final Days of Sales (fiction)
In These Final Days of Sales: A Commentary
The Giveaway (fiction)
The Giveaway: A Commentary
Rat Catcher (fiction)
Rat Catcher: A Commentary
Whatever You Want (fiction)
Whatever You Want: A Commentary
Why Steve Rasnic Tem Matters by Michael Arnzen, PhD
In Conversation with Steve Rasnic Tem
The Subject Matter of Horror: An Essay by Steve Rasnic Tem
A Bibliography of English Language Fiction for Steve Rasnic Tem



Friday, July 7, 2017

D.O.A. III Available, and it's Awesome!

Received my contributor’s copy yesterday for the latest anthology I’m in D.O.A. III (May, 2017 by Blood Bound Books! Edited by Marc Ciccarone and Andrea Dawn, I am STOKED to be part of this alongside some of my horror idols! My own story is “RITCHIE,” a murdered high school bully who keeps coming back annually to get revenge on the victim who killed him.

Available for sale here: https://www.amazon.com/D-O-III-Extreme-Horror-Anthology/dp/1940250269/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1497420458&sr=8-1


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Edited by: Marc Ciccarone and Andrea Dawn

Table of Contents includes:


Notches by Sean Eads and Joshua Viola
The Broken Hearted by T. Fox Dunham
N Word by Shane McKenzie
Skipp’s Splatterpunk Alphabet Souffle by John Skipp
Takeaway Night by T.M. McLean
Burnt by Lucian Marano
Junk by Ryan Harding
The Package by Kristopher Rufty
Red by Richard Christian Matheson
8 out of 10 by Daniel I. Russell
Posthumous by Lloyd Kaufman and Lily Hayes Kaufman
Bury Them Deeper by David Sandner
These Beautiful Bones by Betty Rocksteady
Subject #270374 by C.M. Saunders
Beer Battered by K. Trap Jones
L’Amuse Bouche by Hal Bodner
Proud Papa by Adrian Ludens
Cry the Banshee by C. Cameron Rossi
TerrorSluts for Eternity versus the Ungodheads of the Interdimensionals by Allistair Rennie
We Believe in 5B by Airika Sneve
Taking Root by Christoph Weber
The Bliss Point by Wrath James White
Woeful City by Garrett Cook
Ritchie by Eric J. Guignard
I’d Give Anything for You by Edward Lee and Jack Ketchum
Hostile by Jeff Strand
Metal Heat by Jaap Boekestein
Repulsive Glamour by John McNee
The Bitch by Kristopher Triana