Year's Best Body Horror 2017 Anthology
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Tarquin Ford Tarquin Ford is the pen name of an Atlanta-based writer of strange tales. He learned while working in the pennies-for-blogposts trade that his real name is so common that it renders him anonymous. His work has appeared in thousandandonestories.com, Yellow Mama, J.J. Outre Review, and Infernal Ink.
Ken Goldman, former Philadelphia teacher of English and Film Studies, is an affiliate member of the Horror Writers Association. He has homes on the Main Line in Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore. His stories have appeared in over 855 independent press publications in the U.S., Canada, the UK, and Australia with over thirty due for publication in 2017. Since 1993, Ken’s tales have received seven honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror. He has written five books: three anthologies of short stories, YOU HAD ME AT ARRGH!! (Sam’s Dot Publishers), DONNY DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (A/A Productions) and STAR-CROSSED (Vampires 2); and a novella, DESIREE, (Damnation Books). His first novel OF A FEATHER (Horrific Tales Publishing) was released in January 2014. SINKHOLE, his second novel, has been accepted by Bloodshot Books and will be published late summer 2017.
James Harper, a transplanted native in a city full of them, is a writer working in Washington DC. He has a short story, “Just for One Day,” in the anthology Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 51 DC Guys, edited by Richard Peabody. In early 2015, the short story version of his novel, Love Craft, was collected in Swallowed by the Beast, an anthology edited by Samie Sands. Last year, a longer version was accepted for publication next year in Dunhams Destroys Lovecraft, a journal from Dunhams Manor Press. His novelette, “Return of the Caledonians,” appears in The Corpse Candle and Other Nightmares, edited by Patrick Dotson. In addition, it appears in the Halloween anthology, Tales of Horror on Halloween Night, edited by Samie Sands. More recently, His short story, “Death Ray,” can be found in Busted Lip, the inaugural anthology from Fat-Lip Press. Another short story, “Reptoid,” appears in Black Candy, a Halloween anthology from Jaded Books Publications edited by Mitch Workman.
Kourtnea Hogan is a horror hound from southern Indiana. Raised on Stephen King novels and 80’s horror movies, she fell in love with the genre at a young age and never looked back. She has recently finished her Master of Fine Arts and will be attending film school in the fall.
Carl R. Jennings is, by day, a thickly Russian accented bartender in Southwestern Virginia. By night, he is the rooster-themed superhero: the Molotov Cocktail, protecting the weak and beer-sodden. While heroically posing on a rooftop in the moonlight in case a roaming photographer happens by, he finds the time to write down a word or two in the lifelong dream that he can put aside the superhero mantle and utility comb and become a real author.
Christopher Vander Kaay has been published at McSweeney’s and Everyday Fiction, has published three educational books about horror & sci-fi film history, and is a contributing writer at Bloody-Disgusting.com.
Alexander Lloyd King is a proud resident of Sistersville, West Virginia. He appreciates his small town and finds inspiration there.
Thomas C. Mavroudis is a Denver native, husband, and father. He possesses an MFA from the University of California, Riverside, where he studied under Stephan Graham Jones. He is the co-founder of the serial fiction blog Saturday Morning Serial (saturdaymorningserial.net) and his publishing credits include Crosscurrents, Dreaming in R’lyeh, and Turn to Ash, and forthcoming in anthologies from Frith Books and Muzzleland Press.
Sean McCoy is a board game designer living in Dallas, Texas. He lives with his girlfriend and their two dogs. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/seanmccoy.
John S. McFarland ’s first novel, The Black Garden was published in 2010 to universal praise. His work has appeared in The Twilight Zone Magazine, Eldritch Tales, National Lampoon, River Styx, Tornado Alley, and in six anthologies, including A Treasury of American Horror Stories, along with work by Stephen King and H. P. Lovecraft. He has written extensively on historical and arts-related subjects and has been a guest lecturer in fiction at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a lifelong Bigfoot enthusiast, and Annette: A Big, Hairy Mom is his first novel for young readers. Its sequel will appear in 2017.
Rick McQuiston is a forty-nine-year-old father of two who loves anything horror-related. He’s had nearly 400 publications so far, and written five novels, ten anthologies, one book of novellas, and edited an anthology of Michigan authors. He is also a guest author each year at Memphis Junior High School. Currently, Rick keeps the wife happy while trying to conjure up new stories.
Jeremy Megargee was still a child when he picked up his very first Goosebumps book by R.L. Stine, and he knew he had fallen head over heels in love with all things horror. It’s a love affair that has only grown stronger over the years, a borderline obsession with stories that explore the darkest recesses of the human imagination. He guesses you could say he’s like a twisted explorer in that way . . . always stalking down those special stories that have the ability to invoke a creepy-crawly feeling right down to the marrow of his bones.
Jeremy weaves his tales of personal terror from Martinsburg, West Virginia with his cat Lazarus acting as his muse/familiar.
G.A. Miller discovered horror very early on, courtesy of Creature Features on television in the late-1950’s/early-1960’s. There, he first saw the Universal classic monster movies and many others. As he grew a little older, a friend’s brother had a treasure trove of EC Comics from the mid-1950’s and this only furthered his fascination.
In 1976, he browsed paperbacks at a newsstand, a cover catching his eye. Embossed black, with one spot of color on it: a red drop of blood. It was the first paperback printing of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot, and it marked his induction as a Constant Reader, a position he still enjoys to this day.
Kurt Newton’s dark fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Weirdbook, Dark Discoveries, and Shroud. He is the author of two novels, The Wishnik and Powerlines. He is a lifelong resident of the Connecticut woods.
Drew Nicks has always been fascinated by horror. Continued viewings of Jaws and Aliens as a youth skewed his young mind. His work has been featured in Dark Corner Books, Road Maps and Life Rafts and The Lovecraft Lunatic Asylum. He resides in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Sergio Palumbo is an Italian public servant who graduated from Law School working in the public real estate branch. He has published a Fantasy Roleplaying illustrated Manual, WarBlades, of more than 700 pages. Some of his works and short stories have been published on American Aphelion Webzine, WeirdYear, Quantum Muse, Antipodean SF, Schlock! Webzine, SQ Mag, etc., and in print inside 32 American Horror/Sci-fi/Fantasy/Steampunk Anthologies, 52 British Horror/Sci-Fi Anthologies, 2 Urban Fantasy/Horror Canadian Anthologies and 1 Sci-Fi Australian Anthology by various publishers, and 16 more to follow in 2017/2018.
Gary Power is the author of several short stories that have been published in respected anthologies such as When Graveyards Yawn (Crowswing Books), Spinetinglers (Spinetinglers publishing), The (BFS nominated) Black Book of Horror— (Mortbury Press) and most recently ‘Hell’s Bells’ in The Horror Zine (USA) and ‘The Road to Hell’ with the Digital Publishing Corp of Canada.
Imminent publications are a radio/podcast play of ‘Flitching’s Revenge’ with Manor House Audio and ‘Deeper than Dark Water’ with the ‘Vault of Evil’.
He is a member of the British Fantasy Society and the prestigious Clockhouse London Writers group and was shortlisted for the Ian St James short story award.
Jenya Joy Preece found her love of horror when she was twelve years old while reading Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven” for a school assignment. From that day on, she couldn’t get enough of the genre.
In 2009, she dedicated herself to writing only what she calls, “good honest horror.” Her work is not for the weak of stomach or faint of heart, which she’d have no other way. Nothing brings her more joy in life than to
spread fear and emotions through writing.
Frank Roger was born in 1957 in Ghent, Belgium.
His first story appeared in 1975. Since then his stories appear in an increasing number of languages in all sorts of magazines and anthologies, and since 2000, story collections are published, also in various languages. Apart from fiction, he also produces collages and graphic work in a surrealist and satirical tradition. They have appeared in various magazines and books. His work is a blend of genres and styles that can best be described as “frankrogerism”, an approach of which he is the main representative.
By now he has a few hundred short stories to his credit, published in more than 40 languages. In 2012 a story collection in English The Burning Woman and Other Stories was published by Evertype (www.evertype.com). Find out more at http://www.frankroger.be.
Josh Shiben lives in the swamps of Fredericksburg, Virginia with his wife and two mongrels. An aerospace engineer by day and couch potato by night, Josh has from a young age been in love with storytelling. His work can be found in collections scattered across the various corners of the internet, covering everything from vampires to domesticated velociraptors.
Ian Steadman is a writer from the south of England. His fiction has most recently been published by Black Static and Unsung Stories. You can find out more at www.iansteadman.com, or he sometimes manifests on Twitter at @steadmanfiction.
Edmund Stone is a writer and poet of horror and fantasy living in a quaint river town in the Ohio Valley. It is a rural and backward area from which he derives a wealth of characters and strange ideas. He writes at night, spinning tales of strange worlds and horrifying encounters with the unknown. He lives with his wife, a son, three dogs and a mischievous cat.
Edmund is an active member of The Write Practice, a member only writer’s forum, where he converses with other writers while perfecting his craft. Edmund’s poetry is featured in the Horror Zine, Summer 2017 issue. He has a poem featured in issue #6 of Jitter by Jitter Press. He also has a short story to be featured in an upcoming anthology by Fantasia Divinity and another to appear in a February 2018 anthology by Schreyer Ink Publishing.
Aric Sundquist is a writer of speculative fiction. Born and raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, he graduated from Northern Michigan University with a Master’s Degree in Creative Writing. His stories have appeared in numerous publications, including The Best of Dark Moon Digest, Night Terrors III, Evil Jester Digest Vol. 1, and Division by Zero 4: rEvolution. Being a writer and a musician at heart, he also enjoys tabletop board games, playing guitar, and traveling with his girlfriend.
David Turton has extensive training in Journalism, Marketing and Public Relations and has been writing as a career for over fourteen years. A huge horror fiction fan, particularly the works of Stephen King, David has written several short stories, all centred around dark tales of horror and dystopia. He is also in the final stages of his first novel, an apocalyptic horror set in the near future.
Mijat Vujačić is an economist by trade, storyteller at heart. He is a published author of three horror novels written in Serbian: Krvavi Akvarel, NekRomansa, and Vampir. His stories appeared in SQ, Devolution Z, Crimson Streets, Encounters, Acidic Fiction, Creepy Campfire Quarterly, Under the Bed, 9Tales, and Infernal Ink magazines, as well as in professional anthologies Toxic Tales, Silent Scream, The Nightmare Collective, and The Worlds of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Vol1. He believes a strong work ethic is the root of all success, and that it is best to err on the side of action. A fan of all things horror, he is also an avid gamer, hobby blogger, hookah enthusiast, and a staunch dog person. He lives in Belgrade, Serbia.
Joseph Watson hails from Chesterfield in the UK and graduated from Sheffield Hallam University with a B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies. When he’s not writing stories, he blogs about video games at logicbutton.com.
Sheldon Woodbury is an award-winning writer (screenplays, plays, books, short stories, and poems). He also teaches screenwriting at New York University. His book Cool Million is considered the essential guide to writing high concept movies. His short stories and poems have appeared in many horror anthologies and magazines. His novel The World on Fire was published September 2014 by JWK Fiction.
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