“We Are a Little Hotel” – A Short Story by Ai Jiang
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Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Richard Thomas on Stephen Graham Jones
Here are at Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author, I’m always thrilled whenever a new conversation opens up exciting firsts for myself and you, dear readers. Somehow, some way, this seems to happen with every column though! This month’s conversation is no exception…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Laird Barron on Roger Zelazny
Barron is an expat Alaskan and the author of several books including The Imago Sequence and Other Stories, Swift to Chase, and Not a Speck of Light. Currently, he lives in the Rondout Valley of New York State…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Hailey Piper on Carmen Maria Machado
Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, All the Hearts You Eat, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of horror. She’s also the author of…
“After the Fall” – A Short Story by Barry Charman
The carcass fell without warning. A series of frenzied thunderstorms had unfurled abruptly across the sky one morning, followed by blunt stabs of tortured lightning; but there was no true hint of what was to come. The skies had suddenly cleared, and then it had simply tumbled down…
“The Art of What You Want” – A Short Story by Nat Cassidy
The businessman and the doctor sit in the doctor’s private office deep in the bowels of the massive new medical complex. “Holeeeeeeeeeee shit,” the businessman says. He’s barely in his forties, but comfort and success have kept the years from his face, making him look more like the homecoming king he once was than the adult he currently is…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Maxwell I. Gold on Dante
And now for something…slightly different. Speculative literature comes in many varieties. Questions of “what if?”, “what was that?”, and “how could this be?” are posed and answered across varying mediums and forms…
I’m Just a (Freddy) Girl – A Nightmare on Elm Street 40th Anniversary Retrospective by Hailey Piper
Forty years ago, Craven introduced the world to Freddy Krueger with the original A Nightmare on Elm Street. You probably know the gist of it, whether you’ve seen it or not. Freddy Krueger (played by now-horror legend Robert Englund)…
Beyond the Tower – A Short Story by J.R. Andrews
The first person I ever told was my father. I was only a child, but I knew he wouldn’t understand. “No one has the same dream every night, sweetheart,” he assured me. Then, after playfully pinching my nose, he added, “They come and go like the bedtime books we get from the library. New replaces the old. You’ll see.”…
Parker Family Memories – A Short Story by Sarah Fannon
Callie’s face is bright pink with baby cheeks and cake. Aunt Trina leans down to leave a sloppy kiss on the top of her head as she carries two glasses of wine, one white and one red. They are both for her because she likes to switch back and forth between the flavors…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Nat Cassidy on William Shakespeare
Well, someone had to do it eventually. Some author featured in this column Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author had to go and pick one of the biggest (if not THE biggest names in literature) as the author they wanted to chat with me about at length. But who would be mad enough to do such a thing?
“A Pretty Parcel for a Pretty Price” – A Short Story by A.R. Frederiksen
The parcel is wrapped like a gift, but I know better. It sits on my doorstep, with my name on it, and I want to kick it. A parcel means only one thing these days…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: L. Marie Wood on Ira Levin
L. Marie Wood is a Golden Stake Award- and two-time Bookfest Award-winning, Ignyte Award and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated author. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, a Rhysling nominated poet, and accomplished essayist. She is also the Vice President of the Horror Writers Association, founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English/Creative Writing professor, and a horror scholar…
“The Chair in the Basement” – A Short Story by Kathleen Palm
I’m going back. The car bounces and skids on the long, forgotten road. The dim light from the radio creeps over the worn gray seats of my worn gray car. Static crackles and spits from the speakers, the noise mimicking the constant din in my head, like a station in my mind that keeps searching for what’s missing. But I know what’s missing…
Your Favorite Author’s Favorite Author: Stephen Graham Jones on Philip K. Dick
This month, it was my absolute pleasure to speak with author Stephen Graham Jones. He’s the New York Times bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections…