Shock Totem 11: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted

Literature & Fiction

Malerman, Josh

Matthews, Mark

Trent, Brian

Dries, Aaron

Ford, Robert

Stroup, Chad

Totem, Shock

Theodoridou, Natalia

Firetog, Trevor

Kuriata, Chris

Genre Fiction

Shock Totem Publications

California. Close your eyes and say it: California. Images of perpetual sunshine, swaying palm trees, and blue waters lapping at sandy beaches. That one word conjures visions of gold and fame, luring dreamers to its mythic shores. The original peoples lived in an abundant paradise. The Spanish found a familiarity to their homeland. The Gold Rush, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley promised instant wealth. But the beaches are only a sliver of this vast land. Beyond it lie expanses of deserts, mountains, and rugged coastline cutting it off from reality. Isolated, California reveals a dark side—wraithlike fog of the northern coast, dense shadows in ancient forests, and hellish heat of vast deserts. It is to these places you will journey. Within these pages, you will find stories of primeval specters, soured fantasies, transplanted vampires, bizarre geography. This is the reality of nightmares… This is California Screamin’.

California Screamin'

Read, Sarah

Anderson, Kevin David

Jensen, James

Wetmore, Kevin

Graham, Jean

Kaheaku, Danielle

Neumeister, Alexandra

Grifant, K.C.

Barking Deer Press

San Diego Horror Professionals: Vol 2.

Thomas, Ryan C.

Agranoff, David

Essig, Robert

Killian, Bryan

Trevino, Anthony

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Are you hungry for horror? Chew on This! has everything you need to satiate your appetite for the strange and macabre. Tonight's menu is a fifteen-course meal of subtle and atmospheric tales all the way down to the grisly, blood-drenched extremes. Creepy restaurants, treacherous take-out, forbidden feasts, and more! We've got horror so good you can taste it! Dig in! Featuring: Kristopher Triana - K. Trap Jones - Nikki Noir - Mark C. Scioneaux - Vivian Kasley - Chad Stroup - John McNee - Victorya Chase - Armand Rosamilia - Sarah Johnson and Robert Bose - S.C. Mendes -- Shenoa Carroll-Bradd - Sylvia Anne Telfer - Tonia Brown - Ronald Kelly - Chad Lutzke

Chew on This! (Demon Investors)

Lutzke, Chad

Bound Books, Blood

Kelly, Ronald

Triana, Kristopher

Jones, K. Trap

McNee, John

Mendes, S.C.

Noir, Nikki

Blood Bound Books

Almost three decades ago, a literary movement forever changed the landscape of the horror entertainment industry. Splatterlands: Reawakening the Splatterpunk Revolution is a collection of personal, intelligent and subversive horror with a point. This illustrated volume of dark fiction honors the truly revolutionary efforts of some of the most brilliant writers of all time with an all-new collection of visceral, disturbing and thought-provoking work from a diverse group of modern minds. Exploring concepts that include serial murder, betrayal, religious fanaticism, physical abuse, societal corruption, greed, mental instability, sexual assault and more, Splatterlands delivers on the promise of the original Splatterpunk movement with this collection of honest, intelligent and hyper-intensive horror with a point.
FEATURING:
HEIRLOOM by Michael Laimo - After the death of her mother, Father is all Lucienne’s got. But she’s in competition for his affection with an antique rifle. Soon her admiration for the weapon becomes far greater than she imagined.
VIOLENCE FOR FUN AND PROFIT by Gregory L. Norris - Economic collapse hurts everyone, except the greedy. For one newly-homeless it’s a time to discover all-new talents. And they open doors to vicious and profitable opportunities.
EMPTY by A.A. Garrison - Navigating the streets of a tortured, future city, a devoted wife will stop at nothing to help her husband regain his faith in religion. But, from the faithless, questionable gods require a dire payment.
AMPUTATIONS IN THE KEY OF D by Jack Maddox - Danny is a rock star and charlatan. After a routine surgery changes his life, he discovers there’s far more painful methods of finding one’s true talent.
HOUSESITTING by Ray Garton - A suburban housewife agrees to housesit for her neighbors when a routine visit to feed the pets changes her world forever. She soon realizes the definition of a horrifying secret.
DIS by Michele Garber - Things aren’t going well for Dr. Tony Weiss. He can’t deal with his patients or his quadriplegic wife. Then there is the demon that escapes from his nightmares and enters his waking world.
DWELLERS by Paul M. Collrin - During a fateful trip into the desert to evangelize to a congregation of drug-addicted souls, a would-be prophet opens the schism between Heaven and Hell. He and his atheist partner soon become participants in terrifying battle over religion.
PARTY GUESTS by Chad Stroup - On the outside, Geoffrey seems like most young men. Some might say he’s the life of the party. But on the inside he’s very different. And he’ll take you on a horrifying journey into mania that you won’t soon forget.
THE VISCERA OF WORSHIP by Allen Griffin - Inherent in all of us is the desire to belong. Searching for his place in the world, one man takes steps down a path into true darkness to find his ultimate purpose.
THE DEFILED by Christine Morgan - On the run from their enemies, a group of vicious thieves and rapists seek refuge within a community of swamp dwellers. It isn’t long before they realize their safety is anything but certain.
THE ARTIST by James S. Dorr - There are countless mediums for an artist to choose in which to ply their trade. Vince is drawn to the unusual--creating masterpieces from slabs of meat. After all, isn’t art intended to be shared?
A LETTER TO MY EX by J. Michael Major - While on a trip to Paris there’s a dire change of plans for divorced Alan and his nine-year-old daughter. It’s only then that Alan pens the horrifying letter no parent wants to receive.
DEVIL RIDES SHOTGUN by Eric Del Carlo - Joaquim Abito is a burned out cop who’s seen all the horrors that humanity has to offer. Desperate to solve the difficult case of grisly murders, he enlists some help. But it’s help that’s frighteningly expensive.

Splatterlands: Reawakening the Splatterpunk Revolution

Morgan, Christine

Garrison, A.A.

Griffin, Allen

Laimo, Michael

Garber, Michele

Collrin, Paul M.

Dorr, James S.

Grey Matter Press

"Trixie loathed her penis." That shocking revelation begins the emotional and personally horrifying quest for self-realization in a truly messed up world.Secrets of the Weird has been likened to the David Lynch's groundbreaking series Twin Peaks, but only if horror master Clive Barker and dark fantasist Neil Gaiman had teamed up to create that iconic 90s cultural masterpiece.It's here, within the dark tapestry of Sweetville, where a new designer drug offers the enticing yet dangerous promise of salvation through physical transformation as it makes the rounds of the community of club kids, neo-Nazis, drag queens, prostitutes and punks who populate the city's sin-drenched streets. Its chewable hearts and candied lips threaten to change the lives of those in the city's underground in terrible ways. And on her seemingly herculean struggle to once and for all become the woman she was born to be, Trixie is the ideal candidate to accept its treacherous bargain.With Sweet Candy poised to ignite the tenuous powder keg that is life, love and lust in Sweetville, could the arrival of the mysterious back-alley surgeon Julius Kast and his cult of peculiar specters be the final spark that lights the fuse?Take an unforgettable journey with Trixie and a cast of outsiders in Secrets of the Weird, a novel that's equal parts irreverent social commentary, dark fantasy and horrifying reality for a counterculture society where frequently dangerous, often deviant and always dark secrets will be revealed.Proudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated independent publisher.Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive

Secrets of the Weird

Teeth Where They Shouldn't Be

Oddness

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Stroup, Chad. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Stroup, Chad