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Suffering the Other
The latest benefit anthology from Dim Shores, Suffering the Other, which includes my story “Crawling Out of Black Sun,” is now available for preorder.
Here’s the full lineup (reprints are indicated with **):
Kurt Fawver – The KnowQuest AI Chatbot Answers All Your Questions About Britemol C
A. J. Sharpe – Sore Thumb
Marigold Rowell – Salt Blossoms
A.C. Wise – Sea Wives
Cheyenne Shaffer – Ursula the Powe
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Corpsepaint
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2018
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The World Below
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2022
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The Spectacle of the Void
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2014
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The River Through the Trees
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2013
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Eyes in the Dust
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2016
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Eyes in the Dust and Other Stories
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Glowing in the Dark
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2012
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The Destruction Loops
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2010
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Museum of Fucked
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2009
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Surface Tension
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2009
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3 editions
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David’s Recent Updates
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Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse:
"This was surprisingly engaging, emotional, and compulsively plot-driven. I've found other Carson texts occasionally too knotty and the first 20 pages made it seem like this was more of the same. But the importance of the set-up soon becomes clear and"
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HORROR or HEAVEN:
Group Read Suggestions - July - INDIE Theme
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“There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.”
― Fugue State
― Fugue State
“Memories die as soon as they are plucked from their surroundings, they burst, lose color, lose suppleness, stiffen like corpses. All that remains are shells with translucent edges. Half-erased brain platelets are a slippery terrain, deceptive. One’s mental archive is locked, it languishes in the dark. The past is riddled with holes, souvenirs can’t help here. Everything must be thrown away. Everything. And perhaps everyone as well.”
― Belladonna
― Belladonna
“I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme, and having once abandoned these familiar ways of thinking about fiction, totality of vision or structure was really all that remained.”
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A group for fans of literary horror. We will be discussing all things horrible and literary but especially those horrible volumes that either aspire t ...more