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Since our first inception in 1985 we have travelled a long and winding road of various coteries and shadowy visions. From the lowest stygian abyss to the tallest superstructures of dark fantasy, it’s been a long haul fraught with peril and rejection. Yet we stayed the course, sifting through trends and the mainstream looking for the unknown, the unwanted, and the unheard. We found you in a riverbed. A floater. A murky ballerina. A hanging garden of rust. We found you wanted more. And even less. So we divided into two. One for us. One for you. The work is more serious now; we’ve separated into the light and back into the dark. The light floated away while our dark side quarreled for being, its breath almost choked low, but in the end it survived, a contiguous thing waiting to be released from our hearts. We stood on shaking legs and lifted our eyes to the moon as blood reigned from our fingers. We’re back from the dead. And we’re fucking pissed.

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nter a world of 13 Seeking to escape her abuchilling stories; a place sive husband, Blake, Jessica where the supernatural, the Lobato and her five-yearhat would you do if the macabre, and the horrific old daughter Megan flee zombie apocalypse collide. 13 Nightmares de- Chicago and hide in the happened tomorrow? Would livers on the chills and small town of Hope you keep trying to survive thrills scale. These tales will Springs, Oklahoma. It's a and protect your loved ones satisfy the most supernatu- quiet community of softball against a world filled with rally starved, macabre games, weekend cookouts, the living dead? Meet Jack munching, horror hound and Sunday meetings. Garret. While driving around. So sit back - do not There's just one drawback. through Oklahoma a mastry to get comfortable beSomething bestial emerges sive earthwhen quake WHAT INSPIRES ME TO WRITE HORROR the strikes and shatters the landscape. hat inspires me to write horror? Why do I write at all? But this is I started scribbling down stories on notebook paper no natural when I was about thirteen years old. It was during the phenomena, decade of the 1960s and I was a skinny kid whose imagination was being fueled by late night black-and-white horror movies and for in its the voracious reading of science fiction and fantasy. After I grew wake, the older, I kept returning to writing thanks to the internet. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve alsun turns dark and the ways wanted to write horror and bring into the light those creepy things that live under the bed or in the shadowed corners dead crawl of the mind. Hopefully, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve done so with my trilogy of terror: Unfrom their dead Flesh, Ebon Moon, and 13 Nightmares." graves. Jack must lead cause these will keep you his family on a desperate moon is full. Now that beast on the edge of your seat journey through a devastatcraves little Megan's flesh and prepare to dream 13 ed countryside filled with during the next total eclipse Nightmares. the ravenous undead. Before of the moon. Jessica is it is done, he will face the about to learn there are darkest fear in his heart. worse things to fear in the night than a murderous husBON MOON band.

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WRAPPED IN RED Thirteen Tales of Vampiric Horror Edited by Jennifer L. Greene Sekhmet Press, 2013

A Dark World of Spirits and Fey Edited by Alan Russo Zombie Works Publications 2013

Review by Sara Young

Dark World of Spirits and Fey was born of social media and ingenuity. Posts and responses on Alan Russo’s Facebook page guided him to the subject matter, title and content of his latest Zombie Works anthology. Collections about ghosts, ghoulies and every manner of scary monster are easy to come by; stories about the dark side of spiritual beings and fairie folk, not so much. The book grabs the eye from the beginning for this reason alone.

very horror junkie needs a good anthology around. Small doses spread throughout the day keep the blood levels up. Spare time can be filled with a little nibble. A dark tale as the lights go out brings the shadow on the wall to life and makes daylight a little sweeter. The right collection of stories to be devoured in a sitting keeps the fan engaged, thoughtful, in suspense, or full of adrenaline for as long as the reader draws it out.

rapped In Red is that collection. Smart, stimulating and wide-ranging, it’s not another group of ho-hum bloodsucker tales. Thirteen different writing styles bring as many varieties of the undead to life. Besides having at least one horrifying beastie to suit any vampire fan, the book touches the spectrum of genres, settings and themes. From romance to western, comedy to sci-fi, vampires are taking over the shelves. They’re invading the gates of Hell, bodies of water, Appalachia and suburbia. They could show up anywhere, for anyone, any time at all. The refreshingly unexpected is what made it so much fun to turn each page.

refreshing variety of fright is always nice. Many of the stories are intelligent and thoughtprovoking while still fun to read. Every tale has a such a different personality, subject matter and tone it feels like a giant family reunion: thirteen brothers and sisters with their own lives, spread across the nation yet united by family ties. This family reunion, with no bickering or drama, is fantastic. Readers might want to look for a little extra light to brighten the corners when they walk away, though.

erhaps it was a by-product of ebook formatting, but there were a few rough patches that were mildly distracting. Beyond that, A Dark World of Spirits and Fey is without doubt an ethereal journey worth taking.

nyone who likes to put down a story only to have it creep up on them later, laugh aloud, or look at familiar things in a new light will get a thrill from Wrapped In Red, and it is a must read for children of the night everywhere.

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