While Sacrum Umbra showed us the darkness of our own shadow, and In Ventre Tuo the guts of our inner monster, The Lesser Apocrypha is still another beast altogether. Meant to gather together the stranger stories, it contains some of the more surreal and ephemeral stories, the ones that just are without much rhyme or reason. Stories like an odd moment in the park, the strange child who won't stop haunting you, an alien invasion that gets very personal, an AI born of a lolcat, monsters in the woods, and a spell gone terribly wrong.
A longtime fan of horror and fantasy, Ms. Lyons writes character-driven novels that, while influenced by the dark and gothic, can also be heavily laced with fantasy, romance, history, and magic. Amanda M. Lyons has lived her whole life in rural Ohio, where she lives with her long term partner and two children. She is the author of Night is Falling, the Shades of Midnight gothic vampire series, the apocalyptic Other Dangers series, Sacrum Umbra: The Gothic Stories of Amanda M. Lyons, In Ventre Tuo: Tales of Madness and Gore, The Lesser Apocrypha, Haint Blue, Ally Laughtner and the Pickled Pumpkinmen, and The Hungry Season: Three Stories for Hungry Hearts. She is also a co-author of Feral Hearts and a contributing author to several anthologies.
Look for titles like Vast Ocean/Vast Sea, Jodie, and others in the coming future.