"The Pit", "Puppies for Sale", "Bruises", "Under the Bridge", "Thumbin'", "Something Profound", "The Whittling", "Creak!", "Angels of Mercy", "Angels of Grief", "Skins", "The Banana Man", "Dead Dogs", "Trunk Story", "Nature Walk", "The Dog Park", "B-Side", "Lost Dog", "Periphery", "Post Mortem", "The Stagnant Ponds", "Thirty-Two Scenes from a Dead Hooker's Mouth", "Lump", and "The Golden Door".
Kurt Newton sold his first story, "The Promise of the Sea," in 1993. Since then he's had over 400 poems and 250 short stories published in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies and webzines in the U.S., Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Germany and Poland. To date, he has received sixteen honorable mentions from the editors of The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror, and has been seven times nominated for the Rhysling Award for his poetry.
Among his favorite authors are Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Flannery O'Conner, Harlan Ellison, J.G. Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates, John Shirley, Lucius Shepard, Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Conlon and Paul Tremblay.
I absolutely loved this collection of short stories. I’ve never read this author before but I will certainly read more of their work, this book reminded me of scary stories to tell in the dark but for grownups! I’m an avid horror reader and I love a good short story collection to cleans the brain between huge tombs and Bruises hit the spot.