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

Shape-shifters, skin-walkers, werewolves - the beasts go by many names and take on many different forms. Some fight the curse, others relish the freedom as they stalk and consume their human prey. Sixteen terrifying new stories from today's modern masters of literary horror featuring tortured souls with thoughts dark and twisted... and flesh like smoke.

Flesh Like Smoke

Meikle, William

Goodfellow, Cody

Schweitzer, Darrell

Waggoner, Tim

Gafford, Sam

Morgan, Christine

Stone, Sam

Erdelac, Edward M.

April Moon Books

The third act in the critically-acclaimed series by Written Backwards, is a symmetrically-structured anthology of psychological horror by Bram Stoker Award nominated editor Michael Bailey, whose previous anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Qualia Nous and Pellucid Lunacy. The anthology contains 45 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, Scott Edelman, Richard Thomas, Richard Chizmar and Gene O’Neill, and with 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Erik T. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and also includes an introduction by the extraordinary Chuck Palahniuk.

Chiral Mad 3

Chizmar, Richard

Malerman, Josh

Castle, Mort

Thomas, Richard

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

Edelman, Scott

Guignard, Eric J.

Booth III, Max

KING,STEPHEN

Anderson, Paul Michael

Braunbeck, Gary A.

Yardley, Mercedes M.

Arcuri, Meghan

Kemper, Erinn L.

Cataneo, Emily B.

Campbell, Ramsey

Ketchum, Jack.

Bodner, Hal

Brock, Jason V.

O’Neill, Gene

Lin, Jessica May

Written Backwards

The third act in the critically-acclaimed series by Written Backwards, is a symmetrically-structured anthology of psychological horror by Bram Stoker Award nominated editor Michael Bailey, whose previous anthologies include The Library of the Dead, Qualia Nous and Pellucid Lunacy. The anthology contains 45 illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne, over 20 stories by the likes of Stephen King, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Gary A. Braunbeck, Mort Castle, Josh Malerman, Scott Edelman, Richard Thomas, Richard Chizmar and Gene O’Neill, and with 20 intertwined poems by the likes of Elizabeth Massie, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Erik T. Johnson, Stephanie M. Wytovich, and also includes an introduction by the extraordinary Chuck Palahniuk.

The future of humankind as an ever-changing organism is a subject of much debate. Where is our evolutionary path leading? Will the next rung take the form of mental transcendence, will it set humankind on a course toward divinity, or will this uncertain path involve a dark and terrible reversion? Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales of dark science fiction that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.Co-editors Michael Bailey and Darren Speegle present eighteen tales of dark science fiction that explore the course of evolution, written by some of the best literary minds in the fields of science fiction and horror.

Adam's Ladder

EVENSON, BRIAN

LEBBON, Tim

Langan,John

Morton, Lisa.

Lannes, Roberta

Literary

One of Refinery29's and POPSUGAR's Favorite New Books\nA scary story becomes far too real in this “unsettling” supernatural thriller in the vein of A Head Full of Ghosts that “will keep you guessing to the very last page” (Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger)\nRed Lady, Red Lady, show us your face...\nIn 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit of a vengeful witch killed centuries before. Heather knew the stories were just that, until her best friend Becca began insisting the Red Lady was real—and she could prove it.\nThat belief got Becca killed.\nIt’s been nearly thirty years, but Heather has never told anyone what really happened that night—that Becca was right and the Red Lady was real. She’s done her best to put that fateful summer, Becca, and the Red Lady, behind her. Until a familiar necklace arrives in the mail, a necklace Heather hasn’t seen since the night Becca died.\nThe night Heather killed her.\nNow, someone else knows what she did . . . and they’re determined to make Heather pay.

The Dead Girls Club: A Novel

Crooked Lane Books

This is book #03 in our APEX VOICES series! In her first collection of short fiction, Damien Angelica Walters weaves her lyrical voice through suffering and sorrow, teasing out the truth and discovering hope. Sometimes a thread pulled through the flesh is all that holds you together. Sometimes the blade of a knife or the point of a nail is the only way you know you're real. When pain becomes art and a quarter is buried deep within you, all you want is to be seen, to have value, to be loved. But love can be fragile, folded into an origami elephant while you disappear, carried on the musical notes that build a bridge, or woven into an illusion so real, so perfect that you can fool yourself for a little while. Paper crumples, bridges fall, and illusions come to an end. Then you must pick up the pieces, stitch yourself back together, and shed your fear, because that is when you find out what you are truly made of and lift your voice, that is when you Sing Me Your Scars. Blurbs: "Sing Me Your Scars revolves in the mind's eye in a kaleidoscope of darkness and wonder." —Laird Barron, author of The Croning and The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All "Damien Angelica Walters writes prose as sharp as a scalpel. With surgical precision, she slices through her characters' veneers to lay bare the secret scars underneath, the knots of fear and desire twisting them. The women and men in these stories struggle against their own, oddly-beautiful damage, and even when they succumb to it, the narrative is never less than compelling. Anatomist of dreams and nightmares, Walters is a writer to watch." —John Langan, author of The Wide, Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies Table of Contents Part I: Here Sing Me Your Scars All the Pieces We Leave Behind Girl, With Coin Paskutinis Iliuzija (The Last Illusion) Glass Boxes and Clockwork Gods Sugar, Sin, and Nonsuch Henry Part II: And The Now Running Empty in a Land of Decay Scarred The Taste of Tears in a Raindrop Always, They Whisper Dysphonia in D Minor Shall I Whisper to You of Moonlight, of Sorrow, of Pieces of Us? Immolation: A Love Story Part III: And Away Melancholia in Bloom Iron and Wood, Nail and Bone And All the World Says Hush They Make of You a Monster Paper Thin Roses of Maybe Grey in the Gauge of His Storm Like Origami in Water

Sing Me Your Scars (Apex Voices)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Apex Book Company

“Once upon a time there was a monster. This is how they tell you the story starts. This is a lie.”
Sometimes things are not what they appear to be. DNA doesn’t define us, gravity doesn’t hold us, a home doesn’t mean we belong. From circus tents to space stations, Damien Angelica Walters creates stories that are both achingly familiar and chillingly surreal. Within her second short story collection, she questions who the real monsters are, rips families apart and stitches them back together, and turns a cell phone into the sharpest of weapons. 
Cry Your Way Home brings together seventeen stories that delve deep into human sorrow and loss, weaving pain, fear, and ultimately resilience into beautiful tales that are sure to haunt you long after you finish the collection. “Once upon a time there was a girl…”

Cry Your Way Home

“The editor’s claim that the first season of True Detective was a big inspiration for this anthology is evident: Ashes and Entropy sports a finely balanced mixture of grit, crime and blood along with the irrational, occult and weird.”–Rue MorgueStand on the precipice and prepare to dive down through the event horizon into the bleak and mind-shattering void of both the cosmos and of humanity.Nightscape Press is proud to present ASHES AND ENTROPY edited by Robert S. Wilson, an anthology of cosmic horror and noir/neo-noir. ASHES AND ENTROPY is beautifully illustrated by Luke Spooner and includes brand new stories by Laird Barron, Damien Angelica Walters, John Langan, Kristi DeMeester, Jon Padgett, Nadia Bulkin, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Lucy A. Snyder, Tim Waggoner, Jessica McHugh, Paul Michael Anderson, Max Booth III, Lynne Jamneck, Greg Sisco, Lisa Mannetti, Nate Southard, Erinn L. Kemper, Matthew M. Bartlett, Autumn Christian, and more.

Ashes and Entropy

Bartlett, Matthew M.

Bulkin, Nadia

Snyder, Lucy A.

Padgett, Jon

Nightscape Press, LLP

Edited by Richard Thomas Foreword by Chuck Wendig Cover art by Daniele Serra Interior illustrations by Luke Spooner TABLE OF CONTENTS: Wilderness by Letitia Trent Monster Season by Joshua Blair Cat Calls by Rebecca Jones-Howe Ceremony of the White Dog by Kevin Catalano The Armadillo by Heather Foster The Last Manuscript by Usman T. Malik Single Lens Reflection by Jason Metz The Mother by Nathan Beauchamp Everything in Its Place by Adam Peterson When We Taste of Death by Damien Angelica Walters Figure Eight by Brendan Detzner My Mother's Condition by Faith Gardner Fragile Magic by Alex Kane The Eye Liars by Sarah Read Searching for Gloria by W. P. Johnson And All Night Long We Have Not Stirred by Barbara Duffey Dull Boy by David James Keaton Brujeria for Beginners by Marytza Rubio Heirloom by Kenneth Cain The Owl and the Cigarette by Amanda Gowin Desert Ghosts by Mark Jaskowski Blood Price by Axel Taiari

Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology

Keaton, David James

Catalano, Kevin

Trent, Letitia

Detzner, Brendan

Dark House Press

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