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  • The Vampire Party

    The Vampire Party

    I realize this is coming up a bit late (about a month) but it takes a lot to recover from a vampire party. Especially one as fun as the Vampire Hunters : An Incomplete Record of Personal Accounts Release Celebration at Vampa : Vampire and Paranormal Museum. Special Thanks to Ed Crimi and Megan Flanagan Read more

  • Cover Teaser for Spec Pub’s YULE

    River Eno is finally getting her passion project, a collection of stories of magik and mythology for the pagan holiday of Yule. This small collection is going to be absolutely gorgeous with stories, spells and symbols packed into its pages and it will be available for the holidays. Read more

  • Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jean Jentilet

    Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jean Jentilet

    I grew up very close to an infamous cry baby bridge. Nearly every urban legend we had where I grew up involved the bridge somehow. A lot of the feelings that I had about that bridge as a child made it into my story, especially the way it seemed to have two distinct natures.  Read more

  • Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Cat Voleur

    Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Cat Voleur

    I’ve always been interested in local legends, and had heard of these bridges in the US all my life. Last year, when doing urban legend research for a different project, I found out how close I had grown up to one of the Cry Baby Bridges, and after a brief visit I felt compelled to… Read more

  • Get Ready for Beach Shorts, by Editor Susan Tulio

    Get Ready for Beach Shorts, by Editor Susan Tulio

    As spring turns to summer and the temperatures warm, many of us start to build our summer reading collection. Read more

  • A Different Kind of Horrible

    A Different Kind of Horrible

    I have been so furious that I have wanted to scream, so I did, and I asked other authors to scream with me. The result is Incubate and it is awful in the most powerful and beautiful way. It is due to be born in early December so that you can go into the new… Read more

  • The Dancing Plague has arrived

    The Dancing Plague has arrived

    The Fourth Collection of Utter Speculation and the debut book for Speculation Publications drops today and it is gorgeous. Nine stories from nine authors from all over the world, with masterful musings and terrific twists on what caused the dancing mania of 1518. This is one you do not want to miss. Pick up your Read more

  • Feature: David L. Updike, Author of “Shake, Rattle and Roll” in THE DANCING PLAGUE

    I must admit I am a fan of David L. Updike’s work. I was lucky to get the chance to critique his award winning story “The Feral Wives” in a workshop, and co-edited SHOCKING VERBS, LAWLESS NOUNS which included two of his very unsettling stories. For this reason, I did not recognize “Shake, Rattle and Read more

  • Author Feature: Allison Thurman, author of “Searching for the Perfect Beat” in THE DANCING PLAGUE: A COLLECTION OF UTTER SPECULATION

    One of the things that make the dancing mania so intriguing is that it calls to a sense of longing that is familiar to music lovers. “Searching for the Perfect Beat” captures this sense with the story of Avoye. Author Allison Thurman knows her way around a story, being a book reviewer as well. In Read more

  • A woman walks on the side of the road… Our third collection of utter speculation, revealed

    A woman walks on the side of the road… Our third collection of utter speculation, revealed

    the Ghostly Hitchhiker. The Phantom Prom Date. The Woman in White. She may accept a ride, but she disappears before she ever reaches her destination. #utterspeculation #Indiebook Read more