Monday, February 14, 2022

DAY 21 OF ANNOUNCING! Table of Contents for: +HORROR LIBRARY+ Volume 7

ANNOUNCING: I’m posting all contributors, one-a-day, to reveal the Table of Contents for +Horror Library+ Volume 7, to be published by Dark Moon Books on March 1, 2022!

DAY 21 OF 30: DARREN O. GODFREY

21.
Darren O. Godfrey presents “Discovery of Blanks”
20. Zoe Kaplan presents “The Test”
19. Colin Leonard presents “The Burning Heart”
18.
David Afsharirad presents “just keep walking”
17.
William Meikle presents “Gateway to Oblivion”
16.
Valya Dudycz Lupescu presents “The Tooth Butcher”
15.
Gene O’Neill presents “Ring Rust”
14.
H. Pueyo presents “Death Republic”
13.
Scotty Milder presents “Giant and Child: A Fugue”
12.
Lucy Taylor presents “If You Touch Me, I Can Cry”
11.
Terry Dowling presents “The Key to Mabella”
10.
Christi Nogle presents “The Apartment”
9.
Baba Jide Low presents “Pretties / Serpent”
8.
Kristi Petersen Schoonover presents “February Thaw”
7.
Bentley Little presents “In the Valley”
6.
Rex Burrows presents “Skandalopetra”
5.
Alex Woodroe presents “Abandon”
4.
Cody Goodfellow presents “Hand of Glory”
3.
Natalia Theodoridou presents “The Mouth”
2.
Jo Kaplan presents “Her. House.”
1.
Michael Harris Cohen presents “Never Better”


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In “Discovery of Blanks,” a British gentleman’s social club meets to hear the strange tale of a former member who sought the “blank people within society.”


STORY EXCERPT:

    Among the many strange and wonderful tales told at this hearth, gentlemen, this may be the first to involve a former member of the club—yes, your expressions tell me you know. It is time. Time to settle once and for all the rumors, the myths, surrounding the last days of our friend, Nathan Perkins. It is his closing adventure, and his noteworthy doom. The only obstruction to your belief of the tale may be your trust in me. And your trust in Perkins, for you see, most of what I have to tell you was described to me by the man himself.
    ’Twas by firelight not unlike what we have here. The circumstances were far less restful than these, however: there was no brandy to be had, and scarce little tobacco. There was protection from the elements in the form of walls and ceiling, but I had never felt so exposed in all my life, gentlemen, in the receiving of the knowledge . . .

Discovery of Blanks by DARREN O. GODFREY


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ABOUT: DARREN O. GODFREY


As a reader of the Horror Library series of anthologies, you would know that Darren O. Godfrey’s “D.U.I” appeared in Volume Six. If you’re an avid fan of other such creepy compilations, you might be aware of his work in The Museum of Horrors, Borderlands 2, Borderlands 5, Borderlands 6, All-American Horror of the 21st Century, Tales From the Gorezone, and Quietly Now: An Anthology in Tribute to Charles L. Grant. It’s even possible that you’ve encountered his stories in such diverse places as Gorezone Magazine, Black October, Mystery Weekly, and The Art Times.

            What you probably didn’t know, though, is that, as a contest winner, Darren came up with the middle name of Cracked Magazine’s nebbish janitor Sylvester P. Smyth. (It’s Phooey, if you’re curious. Or even if you aren’t.)


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AVAILABLE HERE!:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Library-7-Eric-Guignard/dp/1949491390/

Publisher’s Page: http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/Horror_Library_7.html




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