Former apartment neighbors Mike Thorn and Yosh Des bonded over their shared commitment to creative expression and a mutual interest in industrial and electronic music. For their first collaboration, Mike recorded a reading of his short story "Entropy Major" (included in his latest collection,
Peel Back and See ), and Josh composed immersive soundscape accompaniment.
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I love Bill Landis, and I want you to love him, too.
I never met Bill, never corresponded with him, never shook his hand and felt his palm against my own and knew him as a living, breathing man; but he is more alive to me, has had more impact on my life, his presence hangs over me and guides me more profoundly than people I have known and worked alongside for years. Even in his absence he has been a mentor, an inspiration, a cautionary tale and a guiding force through my life; and now,...
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The Terror of Knowing
What This World Is About
Thanks to Nightworms for letting me say a few words about Let Me Out I’ve Had Enough , my first published collection of shorts. Most of these stories are published here for the first time. The few which have been published before have been given some nips and tucks and a bit more shine.
Inside you’ll find dark works with speculative elements. A couple of stories could be labeled sci-fi, most that would be labeled horror. Despite their differences,...
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Introduction
Music plays an integral role in my creative process, almost as integral as the role it plays in my memories. Set in an environment modeled partially after the suburbs of my own youth, my debut novel Shelter for the Damned echoes feelings from the bands and artists who carried me through periods of adolescent angst (Alice Cooper, Korn, Rob Zombie, David Bowie, and The Cure, among others).
I have curated two playlists that aim to capture the novel’s spirit, one with vocals and one without. The former playlist includes songs recorded...
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A word from Andrew Fowlow @TheBookDad
"Mark Allen Gunnells has been one of my favorite people in the horror community to follow over the last year. He is a selfless advocate for women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ authors and works hard to amplify underrepresented voices in the genre. The horror community is a better place because of kind-hearted, twisted minds like him. He is the accomplished writer behind several shocking short stories that are available in an array of horror anthologies including the Halldark Holidays collection edited by
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