Dark Moon Digest - Issue #9: The Horror Fiction Quarterly

Literature & Fiction

Swanson, Stan

Genre Fiction

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing

Tales from the Holy Land is the third collection of short fiction from the Baltimore author and screenwriter. The stories take place along the narrow streets and alleys of Alvarez's heartbreaking hometown, charting secret histories of the last 100 years through the difficult and hopeful lives of tugboat men, junk collectors, beautiful women, short order cooks and an artist who captures it all in house paint on the sides of abandoned buildings.

Tales from the Holy Land

Alvarez, Rafael

In this surreal road novel, Anthony searches for the father he's never met: Andy Kaufman, the legendary song-and-dance man from the '70s. There's a few problems here, of course. Andy Kaufman died in 1984, and thanks to a recent cancer diagnosis, Anthony doesn't have much longer to live, either. However, new evidence has come to light that questions whether or not Kaufman is actually dead. Could he be in hiding, after all these years? Anthony is determined to discover the truth before his own clock runs out. During his travels, he will encounter shameless medicine men, grifters, Walmart shoppers, the ghosts of Elvis and Warhol, and the Devil himself.

Destroying the Tangible Illusion of Reality; or, Searching for Andy Kaufman

Dunham, T. Fox

Humor & Satire

Gory Hole: A Horror Triple Bill

Wallwork, Craig

Charles Bukowski had a very distinctive style. He wrote in a simple and often cruel, unforgiving voice. A typical story would involve isolation, alcohol, writing, hookers, and gambling. He wrote about the scum of the city. He became the scum. His words were scum, and it was all so damn beautiful. LONG DISTANCE DRUNKS is an anthology consisting of short stories and poetry that pay tribute to the old blue bird himself. Told in the same voice and style as Mr. Bukowski, this book is a homage to his legacy. Featuring short stories and poems by Eli Wilde, T. Fox Dunham, William Barker, Brett Williams-, Jonathan Balog, Gabino Iglesias, Craig Wallwork, S. MacLeod, Michael Bailey, Will Viharo, Jacob Haddon, Teri Louise Kelly, Joe Clifford, Tom Pitts, John Mitchel, Kyle Hemmings, Justin Hyde, Jay Wilburn, Vincenzo Bilof, and Richard Thomas.

Long Distance Drunks: A Tribute to Charles Bukowski

Halloween night. The freaks are out and having the time of their lives. The kids of Greene Point High School have organized a massive bonfire out in the woods. One drunken teen suggests playing a game, a game called Truth or Dare. That’s always a fun game. Always good for a laugh. By the end of this night, nobody will be laughing. Alcohol, sex, deadly secrets, and oceans of blood await them.Do you dare to play?Truth or Dare is a shared-world horror anthology featuring the morbid writings of many prominent authors in the field today, as well as quite a few new kids on the block you’re gonna want to keep an eye on.

Truth or Dare?

Jeremy C. Shipp

Richard Thomas

Joe McKinney

William Meikle

Nik Korpon

Usman T. Malik

Jessica McHugh

Peter Giglio

Perry Samson loves drugs. He'll take what he can get, but raw atlys is his passion. Shot hard and fast into his testicles, atlys helps him forget that he lives in an abandoned Baltimore school, that his roommate exchanges lumps of flesh for drugs at the Kum Den Smokehouse, and that every day is a moldering motley of whores, cuntcutters, and disease. Unfortunately, atlys never helps Perry forget that, even though his older brother died from an atlys overdose, he will never stop being the tortured middle child. Set in 2099, The Green Kangaroos explores the disgusting world of Perry's addiction to atlys and the Samson family's addiction to his sobriety. "I write junkie fiction. I read and watch junkie fiction. Call it a lifestyle choice. I honestly didn't think I'd discover anything new under the sun when it came to the genre. I was wrong. Green Kangaroos is the freshest, most wholly original work I've come across concerning the subject of addiction. Think Requiem for a Dream meets Cabin in the Woods, only funnier, fresher, and more harrowing. Potsticking makes krokodil seem like a good time. Jessica McHugh has crafted one mindf*ck of a novel." -Joe Clifford author of Junkie Love and Lamentation

The Green Kangaroos

McHugh, Jessica

"Frankly, I haven't been this impressed with an authorial debut since Clive Barker's Books of Blood. And no, that isn't hyperbole. John C. Foster really is that good." -- Joe McKinney, Bram Stoker Award Winning Author of Dead City  Roaring south in a black Cadillac, John Smith is on the road trip from Hell through a nightmarish version of Americana, a place of rotting hollows and dusty crossroads, slaughterhouses and haunted trains. He doesn't know how he woke up after sitting down in the electric chair, where he got the black suit with the slit up the back or even the cigarettes in his pocket. All he knows is that there is a woman guarding a great secret and he's supposed to kill her.

Dead Men (Libros de Inferno, Book I)

Foster, John C.

Chuck Palahniuk's Choke meets Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood meets an episode of HBO's old, late night series Real Sex meets the movie Death Becomes Her meets Condoleeza Rice's collection of unflushed tampons. Time is infinite, and so are strippers. The beautiful and sultry Rene leads her trio of vampire strippers from (around) Saturn to destroy Earth. Their demonic foes-the plots-have hunted them across time; Earth is the last remaining planet with sentient life in this version of the universe. Rene's love affair with a man who is half-horse, half-boy in a future version of Earth threatens her desire to inspire the apocalypse; if the vampire strippers fail to destroy the world now, men will be nearly extinct, and women will be hunted for sport by the surviving males. True love, time travel, bad music, shapeshifting plots, and a brooding supernatural detective named Will decide the fate of Earth in more than two realities. Can Rene prevent an apathetic future while allowing Earth to survive? Time travel, it turns out, really isn't all that complicated, and neither are women.

Vampire Strippers from Saturn

Bilof, Vincenzo

Kent should have it made. He has a decent job, a beautiful wife and a nice home in a trendy part of the city. Everything seems to be in its right place, at least until an old childhood friend re-emerges. Kent's life quickly begins disintegrating, starting with blackmail and progressing into murder. Someone is trying to ruin Kent's cozy little setup, and Kent isn't about to go down without a fight.

Last Dance in Phoenix

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Reichenbaugh, Kurt

Mystery

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