It feels so odd to call a horror story hopeful, but I feel it fits Victoria Nations story well, especially as it starts out with so many important statements. It speaks loud about acceptance and community, about loving people for who they are — in full — and about how words have power. It speaksContinue reading “Meet The Author: Victoria Nations”
Tag Archives: indie author
Meet The Author: Sumiko Saulson
Sumiko Saulson‘s poem is a dark, sensual, earthy poem that flows so magnificently and brings up such gorgeous visuals. The horror creeps up on you, like mushrooms sprouting from the ground after a storm, it’s haunting in such a breathtaking way. I couldn’t pick a favorite part, but here’s a magnificent quote from the poem:Continue reading “Meet The Author: Sumiko Saulson”
Meet The Author: R.E. Carr
R.E. Carr’s story Buttons is a ride! The author herself says the goal was to take the least frightening mushroom and corrupt it to a level where people will learn to fear it, and in my opinion she very much met that goal! Never again will I be able to order a dish with buttonContinue reading “Meet The Author: R.E. Carr”
Meet The Author: Sara Tantlinger
Sara Tantlinger brings us a hauntingly beautiful dance of a poem, spinning a tale of tragedy and control. The imagery her words invoke is almost ethereal, and is exactly what you want in prose. They’ve traded in bloody toes, but I know if I slice, just a little, on the pale rosy top how theyContinue reading “Meet The Author: Sara Tantlinger”
Meet The Author: Jo Kaplan
Jo Kaplan’s story hit so hard this year. With everything going on with our schools here in America, this story shone a harsh, truthful light on a dark, decaying problem. I loved that this contained so much emotion. It didn’t feel preachy, it felt balanced and truly added to the story in a way thatContinue reading “Meet The Author: Jo Kaplan”
Meet The Author: Jamie Lackey
Author Jamie Lackey’s story, Swamp Fever, hit me to my core. I think anyone who grew up in a family that felt trapped, in a family that had one member trapping them specifically will feel themselves in this story, and the message it brings… it’s a horror story, it truly is, but it has aContinue reading “Meet The Author: Jamie Lackey”
Meet The Author: Lee Murray
Lee Murray’s incredible poem adds itself splendidly to our anthology of sporror. Her talent to make words flow, to have every line make such an impact makes it clear why she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature, particularly speculative literature. Let’s see what she has toContinue reading “Meet The Author: Lee Murray”
Meet The Author: L. Marie Wood
This story starts out gripping and the draw just never stops! Beginning in a dark funeral home, this story amps up the tension as you discover the lead character isn’t there as a mourner, or someone making plans for the ever-after of themselves or someone they care about… Oh no… they are there to seeContinue reading “Meet The Author: L. Marie Wood”
Meet The Author: Rob Grimoire
Rob’s story is perfection in this anthology. It’s like they were made for each other, he is a master of sporror in this! Fire races across the mycelium, each electrical charge stimulating my hyphae and this one eye becomes twenty thousand. Cordyceps Angelus by Rob Grimoire, featured in Dark Spores by Crone Girls Press. QContinue reading “Meet The Author: Rob Grimoire”
Meet The Author: Daniel Roop
A young girl is lead to believe she’s a healer because of an old superstition that impacted her mother. I’d never heard this superstition before, that a woman who never knew her father would become a healer, but I admit it truly intrigued me right from the get go… as did the fact the individualContinue reading “Meet The Author: Daniel Roop”
Crone Girls Press 