DECEMBER 13, 2016
It’s fun to say these words.
My debut collection of stories, BEHOLD THE VOID, is now available for pre-order. It is currently available as a paperback or hardcover edition. Both editions come with a free electronic version, as well.
I want to thank Christopher Payne at JournalStone for not only agreeing to publish the book, but for being excited about the stories, which makes it that much more fun to work with him. Huge thanks also to artist Chuck Killorin for the amazing design.
About the book:
BEHOLD THE VOID is nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980’s and the stylistic prose of today’s literary giants.
Revenge takes a monstrous form when a scorned lover acquires bizarre, telekinetic powers; a community swimming pool on a bright summer day becomes the setting for a ghastly nightmare of sacrifice and loss; a thief does bloody battle with a Yakuza for the soul of a horse god; a priest must solve the mystery of a century-old serial killer or risk the apocalypse; a newly-married couple discover that relationships-gone-bad can be poisonous, and deadly; a child is forced to make an ultimate choice between letting his parents die or living with the monsters they may become; and when a boy is trapped on a beach at low tide, he must face death in many forms – that of the rising water coming to consume him and the ghost of his dead mother who wants him back, reaching for him with dark, longing arms…
The Table of Contents:
Soft Construction of a Sunset
Altar
The Horse Thief
Coffin
The Baby Farmer
Surfer Girl
Mother
Fail-Safe
Mandala
With an Introduction by Laird Barron.
Available March 10, 2017
To pre-order click here.
More news to come…