Ash Falls: Sampler, Volume 1 (Fiction Vortex Sampler)

Malum non dormita.

Ash Falls is the city your mother didn't know to warn you about. Supernatural creatures run the underworld. Spirits stalk the streets. Dark magic kills more people than firearms.

Located beneath a mysterious evil vortex that first peoples flatly referred to as "the hole in the sky," Ash Falls remains off-the-map as far as most modern earth-dwellers are concerned. But for those unfortunate souls who have found themselves pulled in by its dark forces, Ash Falls is not only home, it's a living nightmare where evil never sleeps.

Jeremy is a retired musician, fighting back against adult-onset epilepsy armed only with imagination, keyboard, and monitor. Early exposure to the balancing influences of H.P. Lovecraft and C.S. Lewis have created a life-long interest in creating fiction that makes a person think as well as feel. He prefers dogs to cats, whiskey to vodka, and role-playing games to shooters.

Keith Edwin Fritz entered this world on Halloween. The year, 1974, was the same as when Stephen Edwin King published his first novel. Keith prefers to think neither the date nor their middle names were a coincidence. Today Keith teaches 7th Grade Language Arts and writes to his heart's content during his "spare time". The best of these moments are nearly always by moonlight. The worst of them are also by moonlight. Keith lives with his wife, Corina, in Lawrenceville, NJ.

Steve Cotterill is an author based in Birmingham, UK, with his spouse and two cats. He recently graduated from Birmingham City University's MA in Creative Writing and is working an Urban Fantasy novel, as well as many other projects. He loves Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction, especially near future dystopias, urban fantasy and the Gothic. His work is currently appearing on Fiction Vortex's 'Serial Box', Ash Falls and he has had stories published in Quantum Corsets' Weird Ales and Flash Fear. He has a new story appearing in Infinite Dysmorphias in 2017.