Just in time for Halloween, one of my favorite stories I've ever gotten to write lands in Dark Peninsula Press's third issue of THE CELLAR DOOR (this one subtitled DARK HIGHWAYS and focused on horror out on the road), edited by Aric Sundquist, who has now edited three of my stories, including the former East Germany-set, GHOST FOREST (in CELLAR DOOR #1) and the Arkansas-to-Brooklyn, livestock veterinarian takes revenge tale, KILLER OF HOGS (in VIOLENT VIXENS, an anthology of grindhouse horror - the story would go on to be long-listed by Ellen Datlow for best horror short story of the year that year!).

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As always, Aric has assembled a murderer's row of talented authors for this anthology. Their tales include:

S.A.L.E. by Darren Todd
LAST FREQUENCY by Mary Rajotte
TWELVE MILES, TWO HOURS by Scotty Milder (I think this is my fifth or sixth TOC I've shared with Milder?!)
LIGHTS OUT, EVERYTHING OFF by Christi Nogle
PURGATORY'S PARADISE by Scott McCloskey
UNWANTED by S.R. Miller
THE FIELD TRIP by Matt Neil Hill
RIDERS ON THE STORM by Charlotte Vale

and then my MASTER OF THE HOUSE, pulling up the rear.

MASTER OF THE HOUSE is, well, about a lot of things but starts off with a small road crew laying a new stretch of highway in the desert between Barstow and Victorville, California in the late 1950s to replace worn out sections of Route 66 and make good on Eisenhower's promise of a national interstate highway system. It's kind of a story about who we were then and what we've become today. I'll leave it at that.

Anyway, I don't have a release date for a next story so this'll be it for me for a while. Happy Halloween and enjoy MASTER OF THE HOUSE!