Cover of Darkness January 2012
Contents
Short Stories
J. S. Watts: Children Of The Water
Donald Jacob Uitvlugt: Crapgod
Philip Roberts: Of The Past
Spencer Koelle: Bittersweet Memories
Kara Hartz: In The Eye Of The Beholder
Nicholas Conley: Square-Shaped Mind
Lee Clark Zumpe: Late For Dinner
Ross: Dead City
Pat R. Steiner: Original Skin
Richard Tanswell: Click
Donald McCarthy: For Those Who Need Pain
Flash Fiction
G. A. Scheinoha: Characters Unwelcome
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Bargain
Poems
Marcie Lynn Tentchoff: Voices
Brock Marie Moore: hag's errand
William Markly O'Neal: Delusions On The Rocks
Suzanne Sykora: The Enemy
G. A. Scheinoha: Don't Knock On Coffin Lids
Nicole Early: That House At The End Of Carver Street
WC Roberts: Overlooked
Features
Lee Clark Zumpe Reviews: Movie: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
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Bedtime Stories for the Apocalypse by Joel Arnold
Got your nightlight on?
A man journeys with a pregnant stranger, while unseen aliens deal out punishment from above.
A phone call in the middle of the night reminds someone of a chilling mission.
A priests skin oozes a healing elixir.
Are your blankets pulled up tight?
A self-absorbed husband monitors the end of his existence over the Internet.
A teenager digs through a deep crust of waste and bone to win his freedom.
A school field trip reveals a disturbing method for protecting our children.
Are all your doors locked?
If so, then perhaps youre ready for Joel Arnolds Bedtime Stories for the Apocalypse.
Joel Arnold is the real deal. He elicits a subtle element of terror and justice through his writing, delivered without a heavy hand. His exceptional imagery effects readers in a way that leaves them chilled and disturbed; causing the kind of behavior that will have friends asking "what's bothering you," for days afterwards. D.L. Russell, editor of Strange, Weird & Wonderful Magazine.
TOC:
Shiners
Mr. Blue
Padre Sapo
Narcissus in Links
Branding Day
Night of the Cold Caller
Burrow
Harvey's Favorite Color
Working Class Hero Worship
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Blood Sampler: Subtle Sips & Spicy Shots by David Lee Summers and Lee Clark Zumpe
Two of the finest minds in the genres have amalgamated their imaginations to come up with some of the rockinest and rollinest vampire flash fiction this side of Bucharest. David Lee ["Yes, we have no sferatu"] Summers, of Tales of the Talisman and Heirs of the New Earth fame, and Lee Clark ["So that's Buffy"] Zumpe, mild-mannered reporter for a daily metro-Floridian newspaper, take you on a journey through the short stuff. With detailed illustrations by Caroline O'Neal, who also did the cover art, Blood Sampler is a must-read even if you don't care for the suckers.
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The Book of Tentacles edited by Scott Virtes and Edward Cox
It's been over a year in the making, but finally The Book of Tentacles is reaching out for us from the depths of the minds of various writers. It's a perfect bound trade paperback, and if it has something to do with tentacles, it's in here: science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Yes, there are Cthulhu stories. Yes, there's interspecies romance [between writer and squid, for one]. Yes, there are suckers, graspers, vermicelli, carapaces, and strange adventures on land and in water. Come see what Scott Virtes and Edward Cox have assembled for your reading enjoyment.
INTRO by Scott Virtes
"A Ladys Quick Reference Note on the Tentacle" Miss Camille Alexa
"Call of the Bailiff" Matthew Bey
"Professor Hilliards Electric Lantern" Robert J. Santa
"Lab Assistant" Marge Simon
"A Quiet Neighborhood" Laura J. Underwood
"In the Octopuss Garden" James S. Dorr
"Drosera" Joshua Gage
"The Temple of Squoad" Steve Goble
"A Ferrylouper at Stenness" Christopher M. Cevasco
"Cascade" Cathy Buburuz
"Hideki and the Giant Squid" Mark Lee Pearson
"Mishmash: From the Case File of DragonEye, PI" Karina Fabian
INTERLUDE: Weird Art by Scott Virtes
"Long and black in the middle of the night" Sharon Bray.
"Low Life" Clinton Lawrence
"P6 is Burning" Scott Virtes
"Slightly Pudgy Writer Seeks Foreign Entanglement" Tyree Campbell
"What Did She Know of Love" Terrie Leigh Relf
"Taking Root" Rob Brooks
"Sucker Punch" Mark Onspaugh
"The Little Sea Maid" Kendall Evans & Stephen M. Wilson
"One Big Drinker" Billy Wong
"To See" Jim Ehmann
"Mr Octopus Hands" Brian Rosenburger
"Dead Wait" Carl Hose
"Jar of Peaches" Terry Hickman
"The Mantle of Power" Matt Betts
"Blood Amber" Keyan Bowes
"Ink and Shadows" Kali Black
"Azure Doom" William Blake Vogel III
"The Anemone Garden" David C. Kopaska-Merkel
"The Signal" Aurelio Rico Lopez III
OUTRO by Edward Cox
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Celeraine by David McGillveray
Celeraine, published in trade paperback format by Sam's Dot Publishing, consists of three interplanetary science fiction stories by British author David McGillveray. Each story presents a specific problem that humanity might expect to encounter as it moves among the stars one day.
In "The Grieving," the Kellie colony has failed and the Whaskera are dead. Lammas must find out why, and why the woman he loved has been lost in space and time.
In "Celeraine," people get the governments they deserve, but the Somnambulist, a repository of Earth history, can give the Azou Home so much more. But if they don't want it, will Earth force it on them?
In "Ryme's Garden," an alien life form takes over the vegetation, and the birds have not returned. It's time to get out the half-track lawndogs. But is Ryme ready for the changes?
CELERAINE is an E-ride into three interplanetary worlds you won't forget.
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Christina's World by Marge B. Simon
Christina's World by Marge B. Simon is a themed sequence of speculative short stories inspired by Andrew Wyeth's painting of the same title. Here's what Mary Turzillo had to say about it:
If youre unfamiliar with the fiction of Marge Simon, youre in for a treat with Christinas World. And if youre already a fan of her poetry and flash fiction, youll be delighted with this new experiment in narrative, where individual linked stories build to their own resolution, and yet form a brilliantly fulfilling story arc.
Christinas World recalls classic Bradbury and Murakami with a touch of Norman Rockwells homespun wisdom and Tim Burtons weirdness thrown in; an unfurling of sweet homey narrative, dreamlike yet compellingly realistic in intensity.
And her illustrations are much more than frosting on the cake. This book is a gem youll read and reread.
~ Mary Turzillo, Your Cat & Other Space Aliens
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Cover of Darkness May 2009 edited by Tyree Campbell
stories
Gail Gray: Fire in Mica
Elizabeth Donald: Weathergirl
Philip S. Meckley: Drained
David Wright: Murder on the Martian Express
Jennifer Crow: Bones of Contention
Jason D. Wittman: The Horror in Celluloid
S. Alan Fox: Technology Bites
Dev Jarrett: Fallen Angel
Cathy Buburuz: Tin Lizzie
Ferrel D. Moore: Counter Creatures
Angeline Hawkes: The Ananias Syndrome
S. L. Bickley: The Cavern of the Yeth Mai
Sam S. Kepfield: Harvest Moon
Val D. Conder: There's Hope
poems
David C. Kopaska-Merkel: Ghost Lakes
Thor Gunnells: Lying Beneath
s.c. virtes: dream engine
Natalie Williams: Whore in a Crypt
Shelly Bryant: Night Falls
Thor Gunnells: A Son's Wish
Aurelio Rico Lopez III: Stone, Blood, and Mortar
illustrations for "Tin Lizzie" by Rafal Hrynkiewicz
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Cover of Darkness Nov. 2009 edited by Tyree Campbell
Cover of Darkness is a digest of dark urban fantasy and horror stories, interspersed with poems here and there. You won't find a lot of intestines, gall bladders, blood buckets, or pineal glands, just good dark spooky stuff. Come get a copy.
stories:
Linda L. Donahue: The Bone Church
Ferrel D. Moore: Ricci's Last Night
Michelle D. Sonnier: Gathering Luck
Tyree Campbell: Generation Gap
Julie Serroul: Letters to Mom
Cathy Buburuz: Trailer Trash in Cinderella's Palace
Lawrence R. Dagstine: Zombie Mountain
David R. Sullivan: The Pharaoh Witch
poems:
Hillary Bartholomew: Trees Walk In The Rain
Holly Day: New Growth
Jene Erick Beardsley: Things That Go Bump In The Night
Thomas P. Feeny: Ounce of Prevention
Miguel de Leon: Dark Song
Hillary Bartholomew: All Hallows Eve
Stephen J. Williams: Priscilla
Vanessa Watters: The Puritan
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Cover of Darkness November 2010 edited by Tyree Campbell
featured story
Michelle D. Sonnier: The Washer at the Laundromat
stories
John Bushore: The Fu Dog
Jimmy Gillentine: 15 Minute Break
Tyree Campbell: Devotional
Phillip Roberts: A Settlement of Assets
Deborah Walker: Spirits of the Great Death
J. David Bell: The Burning of Sarah Post
Lee Clark Zumpe: When Shadows Scream
C. R. Campbell: Jump In
Dev Jarrett: Reality Check
Tony-Paul de Vissage: Shadow's Crossing
Margaret Karmazin: Nyctophobia
Richard Farnsworth: The Sacrifices of Automated Tabulation
featured poem
Lee Clark Zumpe: Delville Wood
poems
Marina Lee Sable: The Wild Hunt
G. A. Scheinoha: Afterlife
G. O. Clark: Rubbing
Susan Sanders: Horror Zone
Peter Layton: Telephone
articles
Nyx: Mystere by Tyree Campbell, reviewed by Edward Cox
illustrations
Beth L. Campbell: Shaman
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Cover of Darkness May 2011
Cover of Darkness is a triannual digest of dark fantasy and horror--you know, the kind of material you read with all the lights on, glancing over your shoulders as you turn the pages. Mind your heart medicine . . .
Stories
Marc Colten: Critters
Elizabeth Kuelbs: Tastings
Ferrel D. Moore: Death's Door
J. E. Deegan: Do Not Read
Kyle Heger: The Drop Off
Jennifer Solomon: The Most Beautiful Zombie In The World
Julie Travis: The World Beneath
Sabrina West: Silver in their Hair
Kurt Bachard: The Nightmare Jaunt
Novelette
William Markly O'Neal: Sensory Desolation
Poems
K. S. Hardy: Cast Iron Stove
Richard H. Fay: What Greets Me At The End
Christopher Hivner: Wrapped In Silk
James T. Coon: Lovecraft, Their Muse
Mike Schoenberg: Churchill's Shadow
Marina Lee Sable: Night Service In The Ruins
Megan R. Engelhardt: The Ballad Of The Lost
Dick Bowler: Dread Equine
Derek Keast: Creep
Todd Hanks: The Skeleton Of A Cowboy
Ned Pendergast: Escape
Jacqueline West: Escaping The Dawn
Illustrations
Richard H. Fay: What Greets Me At The End
Flash Fiction
Lauren McBride: Salamander Soldiers
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Cover of Darkness October 2011
This digest features a novelette, "Tiny Doorways," by Ralph Robert Moore, plus short stories by Rachel V. Olivier, Ann Gimpel, Tyree Campbell, Mark Onspaugh, David C. Pinnt, and many more. Also included is Lee Clark Zumpe's review of the movie Season of the Witch. If you like the spooky dark stuff, Cover of Darkness is for you!
Contents
Short Stories
Rachel V. Olivier: The Man In The Hat
Jason Andrew: Moonlight In Scarlet
David C. Pinnt: The Lunker
Damian Newton: Without Sin
Tyree Campbell: Slots
Bill Finnegan: Reciprocity
Thom Olausson: Salvation
Ree Young: The Bean Nighe
Erich William Bergmeier: End Of Transmission
Jamie Lackey: Lullabye To Loneliness
Ann Gimpel: Through A Glass Darkly
Mark Onspaugh: Quality Care
Christine Lucas: Consumption
Novelette
Ralph Robert Moore: Tiny Doorways
Flash Fiction
Walt Socha: Around Midnight
Poems
Tatiana Morand: Danse Macabre
Brian Rosenberger: Aftermath
Thom Olausson: Origin Of Evil
Shirley Valencia: Night Harvesting
Christina Sng: Zombie Apocalypse
Thom Olausson: A Prayer for the Dead
Features
Lee Clark Zumpe Reviews: Movie: Season of the Witch
Edward Cox Reviews: The Spectrum Collection
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The Drabbler #5
The theme is The Three Moons, and Terrie Relf edited it. Illustrations by 7ARS.
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Drabbler #9
The Dark Side of the Moon
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Drabbler 10
Haunted Spaceports
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Drabbler 11
SETI received a broadcast, and this is what it said...
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Drabbler 14
This is the 14th installment, the best of the 14th contest, the theme for which was "When Genetic Experiments Go Bad." As always, the interpretation of the theme was left to the writers. Come see what they did. And check out the cover by Scott Virtes.
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