short stories
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Spec Pub Kickstarter – LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD by TT Madden
It’s a hard time to publish indie but Spec Pub is running our second ever kickstarter to fund our second novella of utter speculation. This book is fun, weird, deep and, I think, rather important. LOADING…THE MACHINE CHILD is written by a frequent contributor to Spec Pub, TT Madden. Read more
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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
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Join us for a Vampire Weekend! VAMPIRE hUNTERS release celebration at Vampa museum
VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS is our biggest anthology yet and so it only makes sense for us to throw the biggest release party we’ve ever attempted. With the help of the very cool people at Vampa: Vampire and Paranormal Museum in Doylestown we are vamping out for a whole day, with… Read more
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Vampire Hunters is out Tuesday, July 22
VAMPIRE HUNTERS: AN INCOMPLETE RECORD OF PERSONAL ACCOUNTS is out Tuesday, July 22. A family secret. A calling passed down through generations. The Record Keepers. A reclusive old man writes to his niece, passing on a legacy of wealth and responsibility. “Vampire are real and so are those who hunt them. We collect and keep… Read more
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Reading In Doylestown on March 7
I will be reading an excerpt from one of my upcoming books at this event, next Thursday. If you’re in the area, stop by and join us. Read more
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“Cellar Door” now available to read for free
The Bucks County Short Fiction Contest has posted my short story, “Cellar Door,” to download. Read more
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Yule Cover Reveal!!!!
This book is coming together fast. ARC copies are going out today and we hope to have the book available the week after Thanksgiving. So without any further fuss… We’d love to know what you think and if you want to stay in the loop about releases, sales, events and calls for submission, sign up Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Dori Lumpkin
It isn’t really a surprise to me that this legend is so especially pervasive. I think that it makes a lot of sense that we want to explain something tragic or traumatic with the supernatural. Grief is handled in so many different and interesting ways, and the creation of urban legends like the cry baby… Read more
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Cry Baby Bridge Author Interview: Jeff Provine
In my folklore research, I’ve come across some twenty different bridges in Oklahoma all claiming to be “the real” Cry Baby Bridge. One of them, which inspired my story, is the “Ghost Boy Bridge” Read more
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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
LC W. Allingham 