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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