NOT YOUR AVERAGE BOOK OF CHILLERS
From body parts gone missing to body parts inexplicably arriving, from parasitic children to dead grammas, Waiting for October is filled with the harvest of four tantalizingly twisted imaginations.
This volume, including an introduction by editor Bill Breedlove, was released at the World Horror Convention in Toronto in March 2007. The stories “Buried A Man I Hated There” and “Crystal Carla” were both on the recommended reading list for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award Ballot.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
BILL BREEDLOVE:
Introduction
JEFF STRAND:
Gramma’s Corpse
Bad Candy House
Here’s What Happened
ADAM PEPPER:
The Admirer
Buried A Man I Hated There
Old Maid Syndrome
SARAH PINBOROUGH:
Express Delivery
The Fear
Crystal Carla
JEFFREY THOMAS:
The Hosts
Adoration
Star est Control
I doubt I’ll read a stronger horror-themed collection this year than WAITING FOR OCTOBER, the genre-busting follow-up to Dark Arts Books’ 2006 anthology CANDY ON THE DUMPSTER. Like that publication, WAITING FOR OCTOBER features four authors each contributing three stories... the book’s magic is in its incredibly wide-ranging, always unpredictable contents. Those who say there’s nothing new in the horror story universe need to read this book!
Nick Cato
…a fine showcase of each author’s talent, with varied entries featuring elements of horror, scifi and humor... i.e. you won’t be bored for a second. Dark Arts Books goes 2 for 2.
Playing more at times like exercises in surrealism than straight-forward horror, WAITING FOR OCTOBER is meant to embody the literary equivalent of “the quaint sampler candy box” and offers readers a nibble of the work of an assortment of dark scribes. On the strength of Pepper’s “Buried a Man I Hated There” and Thomas’ “Adoration” alone, WAITING FOR OCTOBER is worth a few post-holiday calories.
Product Details
BN ID: 2940013885509
Publisher: Dark Arts Books
Publication date: 12/23/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 152
Sales rank: 391,255
File size: 1 MB
Meet the Author
JEFF STRAND is the creator of Andrew Mayhem, whose demented adventures appear in the novels Graverobbers Wanted (No Experience Necessary), Single White Psychopath Seeks Same, Casket For Sale (Only Used Once), and also in the hitman anthology These Guns For Hire. His other novels include the giantkillerantsonarampage extravaganza Mandibles, the feelgood zombie novel The Sinister Mr. Corpse, and his first “serious” novel Pressure, which Publishers Weekly and other fine critics said did not suck at all. He’s also responsible for a trio of comedy novels where nobody gets dismembered: Out of Whack, Elrod McBugle on the Loose, and How to Rescue a Dead Princess. His short story collection Gleefully Macabre Tales is coming soon. Or, depending when you’re reading this, is already out. Or, depending on his career trajectory, has just been canceled by the publisher in a momentary fit of rational thought. You can visit his Seriously Whacked website at www.jeffstrand.com, and you’d be plumb foolish not to.
ADAM PEPPER’s debut novel, Memoria received rave reviews from Cemetery Dance, Chronicle and Chizine. He’s drawn praise from genre veterans F. Paul Wilson, Thomas Monteleone and Tom Piccirilli for his unique brand of dark fiction. His short stories have appeared in Scars, Decadence and Best of Horrorfind, Vol. 2. Adam heads up the New York City chapter of the Horror Writers Association. Learn more about Adam at www.adampepper.com.
SARAH PINBOROUGH lives in Milton Keynes, England and is the author of four novels, The Hidden, The Reckoning, Breeding Ground and The Taken. She is currently working on a TV screenplay, two novels and a novella and has short stories coming out during 2007 in anthologies from Carrol and Graf and Cemetery Dance. You can find out more about Sarah’s work at her website www.sarahpinborough.com or at www.myspace.com/sarahpinborough.
JEFFREY THOMAS is the author of the novels Deadstock, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers, Letters From Hades, Boneland, The Sea of Flesh and Ash (with Scott Thomas), Everybody Scream! and Monstrocity, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. His collections include Punktown, Doomsdays, Unholy Dimensions, AAAIIIEEE!!! and Thirteen Specimens. He has appeared in many anthologies including The Year’s Best Horror Stories. His official web site is www.jeffreyethomas.com.
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