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 2 OF 30: JO KAPLAN
2. Jo Kaplan presents “Her. House.”
1. Michael Harris Cohen presents “Never Better”
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In “Her. House.,” a couple visits a haunted house, to discover hauntings may not
be as traditionally expected.
STORY EXCERPT:
My
mother used to tell me that drinking, for people like her brother, was all
about “chasing the demon.” It starts with one drink, a nice little buzz; but
once they’ve gotten the taste, they grow convinced there’s a better buzz out
there, one for which they search with great zeal. Pretty soon they’re sloshed,
but they keep drinking anyway, always convinced a better buzz is hiding just
beneath the next bottle. Always chasing the demon.
I
never really understood what she meant by that until I started visiting haunted
houses for the thrill of it. Not your tacky Halloween haunts, I mean—real haunted houses…
—Her.
House. by JO KAPLAN
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ABOUT: JO KAPLAN
Jo Kaplan is a Los Angeles based writer and professor. She is the author of the
haunted house novel It Will Just Be Us and the forthcoming gothic
western When the Night Bells Ring. She also writes under the name Joanna Parypinski. Her work has
appeared in Fireside Quarterly, Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Vastarien,
Haunted Nights edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, and Bram Stoker
Award-nominated anthology Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other
Horrors. She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community
College.
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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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