Exquisite Death, an online repository focused on dark fiction and extreme music, has accepted my short story, “Knot the Noose,” to appear in their August installment. “Providing an online resource for authors and musicians,” says the project’s navigators, “Exquisite Death aims to bring a voice to the voiceless for dark fiction and music.”
“Knot the Noose” is a swift, free read—spare a minute or two, and check out Exquisite Death.
Heads up, readers of horror and the weird: Now available via Hippocampus Press, the Spring, 2024 issue of Dead Reckonings. Edited by Alex Houstoun and Michael J. Abolafia, there’s a ton of coverage in this installment, including reviews on the works of Brian Evenson (None of You Shall Be Spared), Allison V. Harding (“The Underbody”), Clemente Palma (Malevolent Tales and Malignant Stories), and my colleague David Peak provides insight into Simon Strantzas’s Only the Living are Lost.
My contribution is a review of Adam Golaski’s latest short-story collection, Stone Gods (No Press). “Adam Golaski’s Stone Gods is a subversive distillation of literary dexterity and allegory,” I stated near its release, “both personal and universal. By the time we notice one of life’s anomalies, readers will find that Golaski has already captured it, placed it under a cerebral bell jar, and altered his specimen into something both instructive and alchemically unconventional.”
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