DAY 4 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 4 OF 30: CODY GOODFELLOW

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 “Hand of Glory,” a despairing prison inmate studies astral projection in order to escape his cell.

STORY EXCERPT:

     … Newcomb lacked the initiative or imagination to conceive an escape, or the skills or connections that would make him an asset in a jailbreak. He had no friends inside. He avoided the gangs. Kept his head down, just doing his time, but he wasn’t going to last another year.
     He strolled the yard, avoiding searching eyes while scanning the parade of hard, hate-etched faces. The driving wind was full of sand, so the cons huddled close to the outer wall, scheming and smoking. He came to the end of the line and was ready to give up. Look at the wrong con too many times and you get stomped or stabbed.
     He didn’t know how long the other man had been walking alongside him. “Make a wish,” the man said. Voice like a radio announcer, his stale sweat and sage-smoke smell just like the book…

—Hand of Glory by CODY GOODFELLOW

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ABOUT: CODY GOODFELLOW

Cody Goodfellow has written eight novels and five collections of short stories, and edits the hyperpulp zine Forbidden Futures. His writing has been favored with three Wonderland Book Awards for excellence in Bizarro fiction. His comics work has appeared in Mystery Meat, Dark Horse’s Creepy, and Slow Death Zero. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous TV shows, videos by Anthrax and Beck, and a Days Inn commercial. He also wrote, co-produced, and scored the Lovecraftian hygiene films Baby Got Bass and Stay At Home Dad, which can be viewed on YouTube. He “lives” in San Diego, California.

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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 

DAY 3 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 3 OF 30: NATALIA THEODORIDOU

3. Natalia Theodoridou presents “The Mouth”
2. Jo Kaplan presents “Her. House.”
1. Michael Harris Cohen presents “Never Better”


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In “The Mouth,” an unemployed man is anguished to watch his pet mouth go hungry.

STORY EXCERPT:

            …The clock ticks loudly on the wall, and Paul glances at it sideways, as if trying to conceal his impatience. He wants this over with.
          “I can’t lose this job,” Samuel says. “I’ve got a mouth to feed.”
          Paul raises his eyebrows. His mouth forms a brief O. “I didn’t know you had a child.”
          Would that change things, Samuel wonders, if he did?
          “Not a child,” he corrects. “Just a mouth.”
          The manager laughs. A short, nervous sound, like a hiccup. He thinks Samuel was joking…

—The Mouth by NATALIA THEODORIDOU

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ABOUT: NATALIA THEODORIDOU

Natalia Theodoridou is a World Fantasy Award-winning author, a Nebula Award Finalist, and a Clarion West graduate (class of 2018). Natalia’s stories have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Uncanny, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Black Static, Nightmare, and The Dark, and have been translated in Italian, French, Greek, Estonian, Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. An immigrant to the UK for many years, he has recently returned to Greece. For details, visit www.natalia-theodoridou.com or follow @natalia_theodor on Twitter.

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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 

DAY 2 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 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 

DAY 1 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 1 OF 30: MICHAEL HARRIS COHEN

1. Michael Harris Cohen presents “Never Better”


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In “Never Better,” two waitresses begin experimenting with mystical shrooms, both on themselves and on those they serve.

STORY EXCERPT:

     It started with two gobs of spit.
     Dee wanted what I wanted, what all wage-slaves want—Justice.
     If the customer was always right, that made us always wrong.
     “Why not go way wrong?” I’d said.
     Dead flies followed, stashed under a scallop in a coquilles Saint-Jacques or rolled into a dessert crepe. Other things came later. We were inventive.
     I felt like we were throwing tea in Boston Harbor or Tenskwatawa rallying the tribes. Food sabotage was our reckoning.
     Dee called it culinary karma. “Stiffers reap what they sow.” …

— Never Better by Michael Harris Cohen

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ABOUT: MICHAEL HARRIS COHEN

Michael Harris Cohen’s work is published or forthcoming in various places including Conjunctions, On Spec, F(r)iction, The Dark magazine, Pseudopod, and numerous anthologies. He’s won several writing contests and is a recipient of a Fulbright grant and fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Hawthornden Castle, The Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation, and others. His first book, The Eyes, was published by the once marvelous but now defunct Mixer Publishing. His forthcoming story collection, Effects Vary, will be published by Off Limits Press in 2022. He lives with his wife and daughters in Sofia and teaches creative writing and literature at the American University in Bulgaria. Find him online at Michaelharriscohen.net and @fictionknot.


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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 

Overview of my 2021 Writing Accomplishments

I don’t usually put together year-end wrap-ups, but I felt inspired last week, and wanted to recap what I’ve done, mostly for goal-setting/ objectives “missed-or-met” purposes, but partly, also, just to have everything listed in one place instead of several dozen separate social media posts!

In the year of 2021, this is what I did (related to writing!):

OVERVIEW

• I wrote and had published seven original short stories
• I had published four reprint short stories
• I edited and had published four volumes in the series, Haunted Library of Horror Classics (through SourceBooks)
• I edited and published through my press (Dark Moon Books) one Primer book for Ramsey Campbell (part of the Exploring Dark Short Fiction series)
• I edited and published through my press (Dark Moon Books) one themed anthology

(Plus a number of blurbs, reviews, introductions, etc. I didn’t particularly track)

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ORIGINAL STORIES PUBLISHED:

The Shimmer of Trees
Published in: Campfire Macabre
January, 2021
www.cemeterygatesmedia.com
(1,065 words)

Herein, the Dusk of Time Which Awaits Us All: An Account of the Astral-Afterlife
Published in: Paranormal Contact: A Quiet Horror Confessional
March, 2021
www.cemeterygatesmedia.com
(3,724 words)

Ommetaphobia
Published in: Boneyard Soup Magazine, issue #2
April, 2021
www.boneyardsoup.com
(2,838 words)

Down Amongst the Graves, Where Yon Family Lay Eternal
Published in: Unreal Magazine, issue #5
June, 2021
www.unrealmag.com
(3,506 words)

Two Hearts Make a Half; or, Ghosts of a Rodeo Clown
Published in: Were Tales: A Shapeshifter Anthology
September, 2021
www.brigidsgatepress.com
(4,000 words)

Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop
Published in: December Tales
September, 2021
www.curiousbluepress.com
(7,162 words)

If I Drive Before I Wake
Published in: In Darkness, Delight: Fear the Future
September, 2021
www.corpuspress.com
(2,817 words)


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REPRINT STORIES PUBLISHED:

The Shimmer of Trees
Published in: Pseudopod Podcast
December, 2021
www.pseudopod.org
(1,065 words)

The Moon Over Andersonville
Published in: Horror for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads
July, 2021
www.madhousemanor.com
(1,289 words)

Footprints Fading in the Desert
Published in: Longshot Island Magazine
May, 2021
www.longshotisland.net
(3,875 words)

A Case Study in Natural Selection and How It Applies to Love
Published in: Tales to Terrify Podcast
March, 2021
www.talestoterrify.com
(7,491 words)


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HAUNTED LIBRARY OF HORROR CLASSICS SERIES (AS SERIES EDITOR)

The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Published by Poisoned Pen Press through SourceBooks
Edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger
http://ericjguignard.com/haunted_library.html

• The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Vol. VIII: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M.R. James
Edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger
Published October, 2021

• The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Vol. VII: The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
Edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger
Published August, 2021

• The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Vol. VI: The Parasite and other Tales of Terror by A.C.D.
Edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger
Published May, 2021

• The Horror Writers Association Presents: Haunted Library of Horror Classics
Vol. V: Of One Blood: or, The Hidden Self by Pauline Hopkins
Edited by Eric J. Guignard and Leslie S. Klinger
Published February, 2021


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EXPLORING DARK SHORT FICTION PRIMER SERIES (AS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER):

Exploring Dark Short Fiction #6: A Primer to Ramsey Campbell
Edited by Eric J. Guignard
With fiction written by Ramsey Campbell
Published by Dark Moon Books
September, 2021
www.darkmoonbooks.com/Primer_6.html


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ORIGINAL ANTHOLOGY AS EDITOR AND PUBLISHER:

Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World (2021 edition)
Edited by Eric J. Guignard
Published by Dark Moon Books
November, 2021
www.darkmoonbooks.com/travel_anthology.html


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+HORROR LIBRARY+ ANTHOLOGY SERIES:

Additionally, I took over the anthology series +HORROR LIBRARY+ and rereleased all volumes (#1–6, plus BEST OF) under Dark Moon Books, AND read 1,200 submissions for upcoming Volume 7!
http://www.darkmoonbooks.com/horror_library.html

Interview up today with ITW's THE BIG THRILL magazine

This just in! The latest article today from THE BIG THRILL magazine is for me!!

This fantastic write-up and interview covers my latest anthology book, PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD, published by Dark Moon Books!

I’ve been reading the prominent THE BIG THRILL magazine for many years, and am so proud and thrilled to be part of this issue. Published by the International Thriller Writers, and written by Allison McKnight, my thanks to all involved and best wishes for a successful and safe 2022.

= “…PROFESSOR CHARLATAN BARDOT’S TRAVEL ANTHOLOGY TO THE MOST (FICTIONAL) HAUNTED BUILDINGS IN THE WEIRD, WILD WORLD is a guided journey through six continents… a beautifully presented anthology of ghost stories from around the world by writers from around the world. These stories come with illustrations, maps, latitude and longitude, and individual introductions from Professor Bardot himself. (Imagine Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone openings, but instead it’s a widely traveled professor of the obscure and haunted.)… ”

More Here: https://www.thebigthrill.org/?p=73797