The Year's Best Schlock! Horror 2013 - Softcover

Chappell, Gavin; Jansson, Mathias; Rhodes, James; McElroy, Geordie; Duncan, Birke; Welton, Benjamin; DuChene, RM; Borgia, Chuck; Slade, Mark; Jones, Kevin L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1493758829 ISBN 13: 9781493758821

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Welcome to The Year’s Best Schlock! Horror 2013, a compilation of horror stories published in Schlock! Webzine (www.schlock.co.uk) over the past year. Here you can read the work of some of the hottest new talents in horror writing today; author and independent filmmaker Birke Duncan with Lesson Plan, a cerebral new slant on that most popular trope of current horror, the zombie outbreak; Suffocato Clamoribus, a descent into the darker depths of black metal music and the New York occult scene by Benjamin Welton, freelance writer, critic, author, and poet; Psycho-Girl by RM DuChene, editor of the renowned Death Throes webzine; Mr Baron Samedi, a prose poem of voodoo and hoodoo by Chuck Borgia; Thaddeus J Applebee’s scathing review of a paper by Smithsonian ethnomusicologist and Blackwater Jukebox frontman Geordie McElroy, Blood cults of the Barossa; In Through The Outdoor by Mark Slade, editor of Dark Dreams podcast and Nightmare Illustrated magazine; The Three AM Crowd by Kevin L Jones, a regular contributor to Schlock! and Horrified Press’ many anthologies; Red Bastards by Gary Murphy, a tale of mutants and aliens set in the author’s native Cumbria; An Autumn in Messina, 1347 by Swedish art critic and poet Mathias Jansson. And finally, an episode from James Rhodes’ horror sitcom of small town diabolism, The Hettford Witch Hunt. And on the cover we have artwork by horror artist Stephen Cooney. Enjoy! Gavin Chappell (Editor).

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About the Author:

Birke Duncan has an M.A. in Scandinavian Folklore & Mythology from the University of Washington in Seattle. He and Jason Harris wrote a scholarly study of ghostly yarns told in the Puget Sound region. Mr. Duncan has also written seven radio plays and two short films. Benjamin Welton is a music critic, fiction writer, poet, and academic currently living in Burlington, Vermont. He has written for Seven Days, Crime Magazine, InYourSpeakers, Vantage Point, Schlock!, and Ravenous Monster. RM DuChene was born in Oakland California and raised over most of the left half of the United States. An avid reader throughout his life, he wrote his first piece as a present for his daughter’s birthday in 2012 and hasn’t been able to stop. Chuck Borgia is, in the words of his blog www.blogdeborgia.blogspot.co.uk, “a prophet in the principality of polished turds.” Geordie McElroy is frontman for the voodoo-folk band Blackwater Jukebox and Field Researcher for the Smithsonian Archives & Research Centre for Ethnomusicology. Mark Slade is co-editor of Nightmare Illustrated magazine. He has been published in Diabolic Tales, Schlock!, and Tales of the Undead – Suffer Eternal, vols 1-3. Horrified Press has just released his first novel, A Six Gun and the Queen of Light. He is editor-in-chief of the Dark Dreams and Blackout City Podcasts. He lives in Williamsburg, VA with his wife, daughter, and a Pomeranian that uses mind control on humans. Kevin L Jones has a lifetime of experience in the popular arts. He has in the last two years widely been published by such companies as Static Movement, Panic Press, Red Skies Press, Rainstorm Press, Horrified Press and Schlock! where he has gained great notice for his many works of short horror fiction. Gary Murphy is author of collections Scared Dog and Psychosocial, and the novella Adrenalinyte – Dark Romance. He is happy living in Egremont, West Cumbria, where he rides a black Vespa and enjoys walking his dog, Chewy. Mathias Jansson is a Swedish art critic and poet. As an art critic he is mainly focused on new media art and specially Game Art, i.e contemporary art inspired by videogames. During the last year Mathias has focused his writing in the horror genre. James Rhodes is the author of The Hettford Witch Hunt and a regular contributor to Schlock! Webzine. He has a dog and a cat.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1493758829
• ISBN 13: 9781493758821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112