Publication Day is finally here for "Shadowy Natures," the anthology from Dark Ink Books, which is a division of AM Ink Publishing. You have many choices on where to pick up a copy--you can go to: aminkpublising.com, or darkinkbooks.com, or of course, amazon.com A paperback copy can be yours for $14.99, and an ebook copy for $9.99. Additionally, as I mentioned in a previous blog post, you can get 10% off the paperback price by using my personal discount code, which is: Stansfield10 Although note that to get this discount you need to order from the Am Ink publishing website.
Below you'll find a list of the 21 authors featured in this anthology, along with their story titles. And the editor of "Shadowy Natures" once again was Rebecca Rowland.
1) Lee Rozelle--"Mandibular Fixation"
2) C.W. Blackwell--"Drifter"
3) Thomas Vaughn--"Taking Out the Garbage"
4) Scotty Milder--"Seven Days of Dog Walking"
5) Joseph Rubas--"In Control"
6) KC Grifant--"Maternal Bond"
7) James Edward O'Brien--"Ring Rock"
8) Elin Olausson--"Uncle"
9) Andrew Punzo--"In a Mother's Eye"
10) K.N. Johnson--"Accessory"
11) Barrie Darke--"The Wolf Gang"
12) Thomas Kearnes--"His Death Brings No Respite"
13) Jeremy Billingsley--"My Father's Home"
14) Louis Stephenson--"Itch"
15) Bryan Miller--"Hear Skull Heart"
16) Liam Hogan--"Cuckoo"
17) Paul Stansfield--"Lemonade"
18) Hollee Nelson--"Roger"
19) Matthew R. Davis--"Walking on Knives"
20) Rudy Kremberg--"Christmas Shopper"
21) Christine Delia--"Like Abigail Winchell"
With its twenty-one stories of serial killers and sociopaths, fixations and fetishes, breakdowns and bad decisions crafted by authors as diverse as their writing styles, Shadowy Natures leads fans of psychological horror down dark and treacherous roads to destinations they will be too unsettled to leave.
Under the tutelage of a charismatic caretaker, a young boy learns that the rules don’t apply to “exceptional” people; under the blinders of parental love, a parent considers the after-effects of his daughter’s criminal exoneration. One suburban dad finds himself inexplicably drawn to something he spies while walking the family pet, and another discovers buried compulsions awakened by his daughter’s dental deformity. Sorting through a deceased relative’s belongings, a family stumbles upon a horrific treasure, as a drifter with a dark secret wanders the Old West. While a military officer spends his days delivering despair, a procrastinator is consumed by guilt after making a deadly mistake, and a businessman stumbles upon a bizarre family photo gallery. Postpartum paranoia and isolation threaten one mother’s sanity until an outside threat pushes her over the edge while another mother picks at her son’s psychological scabs until he scrambles for release. Urban blight bears down on a convenience store owner; a middle-aged man takes a terminally ill acquaintance captive to avenge his lover’s death; a depressed suburban housewife makes a strange new friend, and a neglected teen finds solace and inspiration in a vicious classmate’s company. When her brother moves back into the family home, a woman becomes consumed by what he leaves behind; when a man disappears, his sister considers the warning signs he may have been leaving since childhood. One couple abandons urban life for the isolating wilderness while another plays a dangerous game, hoping to rekindle their relationship. While one son revisits the scene of his father’s horrific crime spree, another returns home to ponder his family’s well-hidden secret.
From unique twists on traditional terror tropes to fresh frights found in the most innocuous of places, these tales will surprise and unnerve even the most veteran horror fans. Featuring brand new fiction from Jeremy Billingsley, C.W. Blackwell, Barrie Darke, Matthew R. Davis, Christina Delia, KC Grifant, Liam Hogan, K.N. Johnson, Thomas Kearnes, Rudy Kremberg, Scotty Milder, Bryan Miller, Hollee Nelson, Elin Olausson, James Edward O’Brien, Andrew Punzo, Lee Rozelle, Joseph Rubas, Paul Stansfield, Louis Stephenson, and Thomas Vaughn.
Finally, if you'd like to read some reviews from readers, you can head on over to Goodreads, and punch the book's title into the search bar. You'll see that the readers' impressions have been quite good. (Goodreads allows reviews before the book has been released, usually from review sites that receive advance copies.) And I'm confident that the reviews that will be appearing on Amazon, and other sites, will be laudatory as well. And I would ask any readers here to post reviews, or ratings on any or all of these websites, too. It really helps us out.
So do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of a great psychological horror anthology ASAP!
(On a practical note, I posted this on Thursday, instead of my usual Saturday posting date, due to "Shadowy Natures" coming out today. My next regular post will be up two Saturdays from now, on September 19th.)
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