Shock Totem steamrolls ahead with its seventh issue, featuring tales of classic horror, creature features, heartbreak and loss! The legendary William F. Nolan offers up “The Horror That Et My Pap—and Other Swamp Stuff,” a tale the likes of which you have never read before. S. Clayton Rhodes delivers “The Gates of Emile Plimpkin: The Gravedigger’s Legacy,” a novelette that veritably oozes horror borne of the 1800s. Damien Angelica Walters (formerly Damien Walters Grintalis) gives us the heartbreaking “Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us?” And M. Bennardo supplies this issue’s creature-feature with “Thing In a Bag.” Newcomers are front and center, beginning with the one-two punch of “Consumption” and “Among the Elephants,” by Victoria Jakes and Amberle L. Husbands, respectively. In “The Long Road,” Kristi DeMeester leads us to the water’s dark edge and tempts us to drink deep, drink long, because we are so very thirsty. Rounding things out is Dominik Parisien’s excellent poem, “Smoking, The Old Sergeant Remembers 30 Mins Past Ceasefire.” In addition to all the great fiction, you will find conversations with literary stalwart Laird Barron and Violet LeVoit. The early 70s are explored in the fifth installment of the horror-in-music serial, “Bloodstains &amp; Blue Suede Shoes.” Narrative nonfiction is handled by Kurt Newton, and with “The Hook, the Hole, and the Garden,” John Boden delivers possibly the most heart-wrenching piece of nonfiction ever published in Shock Totem. Come see why Shock Totem is billed as “...one of the strongest horror fiction magazines on the market today” (Hellnotes).

Shock Totem 7: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted

Literature & Fiction

NOLAN, William F.

Barron, Laird

Walters, Damien Angelica

DeMeester, Kristi

Newton, Kurt

Boden, John

Totem, Shock

LeVoit, Violet

Parisien, Dominik

Genre Fiction

Shock Totem Publications

The world will end.In a myriad of ways.Meet Allan, harvester of souls.Witness rebirth in an old junkyard.Behold murder and chaos and revelation.Nightmares swirl and bait. Insects scurry.The dominoes are all in line.The world will end.In bloodstains and beauty.Watch sweet little children in sacrifice.Gaze up at the living clouds.Follow the St. Vitus dance of the damned.Screaming sights and faithful mutiny.The dominoes are falling down.Dominoes is a Little Horror Book, the perfect bedtime read for strange parents and bizarro children, a book not only meant to be read but also experienced.

Dominoes

Detritus is young, a little odd, and in love with a dead girl who doesn't know she's dead. Detritus? best friend is also a ghost in a Nazi costume. These things are strange, but nothing compared to the dark and surreal wave rolling toward him. He needs to be ready. The Opposite is coming.

Detritus in Love

Yardley, Mercedes M.

Omnium Gatherum Media

There had been a plan. It wasn't a good one, and it was rough around the edges, but it was a plan. Then things went off the rails and into places where no one was comfortable. Violent places. Unspeakable places. Places stained with blood and other things. A nesting doll of crimes and sordid deeds. Darlene and Sheila were up to no good, but the mess they find themselves in makes their original plans seem like a Sunday school picnic. And it started the way you'd expect a bad day to begin: A robbery.A death. A bucket full of teeth. Welcome to Steelwater, PA. We're glad to have you.

CATTYWAMPUS: Part of the Knucklebucket Thang Series

Ford, Robert

Independently published

Dallas is a man seasoned by both time and circumstance--a fellow you hire to get certain things done. The kind of man you definitely don't want to cross. The Kid is his protégé--his younger shadow with more quirks than Dewey's System has decimals. He's loyal as a hound and just as likely to bite. After being hired for a seemingly easy job, Dallas and the Kid find themselves on a wild ride. Every stop they make introduces lies, violence and memories best left buried. When the control Dallas holds so near and dear starts to squirm free, things get ugly. The routine becomes anything but, and revenge is a bloody dish best served with a .45 pistol.

Rattlesnake Kisses

Klondike Playboy

Klondike A Marine Helicopter Pilot’s Antics and Adventures from Parris Island to Viet Nam\nJohn Boden

Klondike Playboy: A Marine Helicopter Pilot's Antics and Adventures from Parris Island to Viet Nam

Biographies & Memoirs

Xlibris, Corp.

Xlibris

If you're the type of person who takes the phone off the hook when sanity calls, then you simply can't do without these eighteen short stories from some of the strangest dark fiction authors out there. From the deepest jungle to an endless loop, from a cracked boss to a dying man, the places and people you will meet between these pages strain credulity, inflame the imagination, and stealthily swipe those precious moments that make up your nightly rest. Take a dip into the furthest reaches of reason with some of today's best authors with these strange and unruly STORIES TO STAY UP FOR, and we'll make sure you're ROBBED OF SLEEP.

Robbed of Sleep: Stories to Stay Up For

Eccles, David

Keisling, Todd

Yardley, Mercedes

Blackford, Troy

O'Neill, M C

Tenterhosen, Val

Rapino, Anthony

Bordonaro, Tom

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A BOY AND HIS LITTLE BROTHER WANDER THROUGH THE LOOSELY STITCHED SUMMER OF 1983. It was a magical one. Full of sun and surrealism, of lessons and loss, and of growing up and figuring it out.\nNestled in the mountains of Pennsylvania is a small town unlike any other. Things are strange here, always have been. People die but hang around, pets too. Everyone knows your name, and sometimes, a thing as simple as a movie coming to the local theatre is all it takes to keep you going.\n“Jedi Summer drops the floor right out from under you, leaves you standing in a childhood that’s been rolling around inside your chest for too long. But you’d trade anything to stay there just one more day.” – Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is A Chainsaw

Jedi Summer

Publications, Cemetery Dance

Cemetery Dance Publications

SPUNGUNION Pronounced: Spun-gun-yun
1. A dish made from rotting roadkill, usually a skunk or a possum. The more fragrant or maggoty, the better. 2. Something that's been on the road for a long and unfortunate time.
Deke is a broken-hearted trucker who spends half his life on the road. All he wants is to come home to the woman he loves. But he can't have that, because someone killed her. He's like a ghost, wandering through his lonely nights and days.
But then he talks to Tiny, who drives the "Soul Road", delivering lost souls. And he gives Deke a tip that leads him down that same path -- to the crummy diner Cyclops, the sin-eating Behemoth, the lovely Faun behind the counter -- all in search of answers that may never come clear.
Spungunion is a working-class blue-collar Bizarro horror fable of haunting loss and grief, somewhere between Lynch and Lansdale on the mind-bending dream-scale, with a mythic heartfelt poetry only John Boden could bring.

Spungunion

Fungasm Press

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