Ever broken one of God’s “Big Ten”? Of course you have. We all have.
Except for murder and adultery—the consequences of which are obvious—what were the results? A little guilt? Did you disappoint yourself or someone else? Or did no one even notice?
THOU SHALT NOT… is an anthology of horror and crime fiction where someone breaks one of the Ten Commandments with dire, deadly, or disastrous results.
1. Worshiping false gods
2. Engaging in idolatry
3. Misusing God’s name
4. Violating the day of rest
5. Dishonoring parents
6. Murdering
7. Committing adultery
8. Stealing
9. Bearing false testimony
10. Coveting what belongs to your neighbor
Two tablets, ten commandments. They’ve all been broken…
Let’s break them again!
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We all know what blood is. It’s spilled accidentally. Or worse, on purpose—often ending in death. But squalor… a quality or state marked by filthiness and degradation from neglect or poverty. Sordid, wretched, seamy, seedy.
A short fiction anthology of horror and psychological thrillers, Tales of Blood and Squalor depicts wretched, low-class characters living in filth and poverty. With misery and blood.
A novelist a tad too committed to realism in her craft, a tourist thirsting for blood, the king of a trailer park dungeon… These fourteen stories from Dark Cloud Press will scare you, shock you, and make you reel.
Anthology authors include Sarah Gribble, Joshua Bartolome, Rob Francis, Lee Forsythe, C.W. Blackwell, Rainie Zenith, James Edward O’Brien, Lee Allen Howard, Gab Halasz, B.D. Prince, Lela E. Buis, Jay Seate, Rachel Verkade, and Bryan Dyke.
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In “The Summer House,” because Greg is haunted by what happened thirteen years ago, he returns to his family’s summer house where he lost his little sister.
He finds her again—with a nasty surprise.
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In “Keeping Cool,” after a late night at work helping hospitals handle the strange flu sweeping Pittsburgh, Terry misses the last bus home.
Searching for a working phone to call his wife, he encounters a deserted diner—and a chilling discovery.
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Seventy-six writers connected to Seton Hill University’s MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program have created a multi-genre charity anthology titled Hazard Yet Forward. All proceeds from this project benefit Donna Munro, a 2004 graduate of the program. Munro, a teacher living in St. Louis, Missouri, was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
Genres represented in the book range from horror to romance to mystery—and everything in between. Some notable writers in the anthology are World Fantasy Award winner Nalo Hopkinson, Bram Stoker winners Michael A. Arnzen and Michael Knost, Bram Stoker nominees Lawrence C. Connolly and John Edward Lawson, ALA/YALSA Best Book for Young Adults winner Jessica Warman, Rita finalist Dana Marton, Spur award winner Meg Mims, Asimov’s Reader’s Award winner Timons Esaias, Rhysling Award nominee K. Ceres Wright, WV Arts and Humanities literary fellowships winner, Geoffrey Cameron Fuller, and dark fiction writer Lee Allen Howard.
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MIRAGE: Something illusory, without substance or reality. The sticky threads that communicate the meaningless in a thousand different ways.
Collected here are 17 tales of darkness and dread, teetering on the edge of reality and unreality, nightmares and dreams, brought to you by some of the best voices in dark fiction. Tom Piccirilli, Jeffrey Thomas, Barb Lien-Cooper & Park Cooper, Lee Allen Howard, Tina Swain, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Gerald Hausman, Billie Sue Mosiman, Scott Bradley & Peter Giglio, Kealan Patrick Burke, Lori R. Lopez, Jason S. Ridler, Leigh M. Lane, Joe R. Lansdale, Curt Jarrell, E. A. Black, Edward Morris.
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