It’s been a long time between drinks here at Asylum Windows, but I’m pleased to report that my 100 word horror story Captive Audience has received an honourable mention in the Necon Ebooks monthly flash fiction contest.
The story will be published in their annual Flash Fiction Anthology, but right now you can read it free on the Necon website.
Page Horrific is no more, so future reviews will be posted right here on Asylumwindows in addition to other prominent sites such as Amazon.
I’ve had a request to post some of my flash fiction, so I have.
First up, here’s my ten-word terror.
POL POT’S LAST WORDS.
‘It was art. Transforming people. Those fields were outdoor exhibitions.’
And here’s my 80 word story that I mentioned in the previous post.
COMPULSION.
Alone. Scared. Frail. Helpless.
Nose. Mouth. Open. Waiting.
Clamp. Pinch. Tighten. Hold.
Gaze. Dim. Fading. Gone.
Doors. Halls. Lights. Noise.
Shudder. Surge. Thrill. Joy.
Exit. Street. Night. Bliss.
Dizzy. High. Euphoric. Faint.
Stop. Sit. Rest. Breathe.
Calm. Quiet. Steady. Still.
Stare. Space. Moon. Stars.
Trance. Numb. Blank. Void.
Blink. Cold. Stiff. Sore.
Itch. Need. Crave. Ache.
Rise. Stretch. Walk. Seek.
Paths. Stairs. Symbols. Signs.
Wings. Wards. Floors. Rooms.
Curtains. Beds. Lumps. Snores.
Scan. Choose. Wake. Inform.
Old. Feeble. Useless. Next.
Peter Tennant is one of the editors and columnists for Black Static magazine. He recently posted his thoughts on the winning Real Fear stories here, which include a nice little summary of my story Showtime.
Thank you Mr Tennant.
That’s the title of the début short story collection from Mark Justice, one half of the dynamic duo known as Justice and Wilbanks, creators of the Dead Earth zombie series.
The book has been published by the good people at Graveside Tales and apparently an ebook version will be coming out soon as well, so stay tuned.
Mr Justice has kindly posted a free story from the collection on his website for all to read. It’s called Life’s Work, and you can read it here.
For those of you who have been living in a cave for the past few years, Mark Justice also hosts the excellent podcast Pod of Horror, which you can download at the equally excellent Horror World.
It’s always nice to discover another magazine dedicated to horror and dark fiction, especially when it’s completely by accident. Tonight I stumbled upon Shock Totem by misspelling something I was searching for on Google.
Although this is only the 4th issue, the magazine has been going for over three years now. How it’s managed to escape my attention for that long is frankly beyond me, as I spend hours every week trawling the internet in search of new places to submit my stories.
Makes me wonder how many other magazines like this are out there that I still don’t know about.
Anyone care to name a few?
I mentioned his début collection Ravenous Ghosts in a previous post and now I’ve just found out that the excellent Kealan Patrick Burke is generously giving away two of his books for free.
The Turtle Boy is a novella that I’ve been itching to read for a long time, and now it’s available for instant download in addition to a short story called Underneath.
The Turtle Boy has received rave reviews, so if you haven’t read any of Mr Burke’s wonderful work before, this is the perfect opportunity to start.
This news had me salivating like a dog. Deadite Press has released yet another Edward Lee collection entitled Mangled Meat. As with Bullet Through Your Face, this one contains three more of Lee’s hard to find and highly sought after novellas – The Decortication Technician, The Cyesolagniac and Room 415.
And as if this alone wasn’t cause for celebration, the word is that later in the year Deadite will be re-releasing what is perhaps Lee’s most highly sought and impossible to find novella of all – the notorious Header.
But until then, get your copy of Mangled Meat here.
Exciting news horror heads. Deadite Press have released another collection of Edward Lee’s extremely hard to find short stories. Eleven of them to be precise, and none of which I’ve read previously. The collection’s called Carnal Surgery and I’ve already placed my order and will reviewing the book the moment I finish it.
Buy this book now while it’s nice and cheap people. You’d be out of your mind not to.
Check out this interview with Jeff Strand, the funniest guy in horror since Edward Lee. http://snakebitefeatures.weebly.com/
